movie adaptation controversies (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Where The Crawdads Sing, & Taylor Swift) + a new favorite movie (Everything Everywhere All At Once)

Welcome to episode 12 of our 3rd season, in which we we discuss Taylor Swift related movie adaptation controversies (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo + Where The Crawdads Sing) & how much we love the new Asian led, A24 sci-fi/action film Everything Everywhere All At Once! Which is Chris Fleming-pilled re: Sick Jan. Responding to email submitted hot takes from our listeners, we complain about The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo getting a Netflix movie adaption and our issues with it, as well as our thoughts regarding the hotly debated casting for Evelyn and Celia. In a typical fashion, Renaissance repeatedly references the Netflix series The Crown. Taylor Swift's new song on the soundtrack of Where The Crawdads Sing adaptation is getting backlash because the author is wanted in Zambia for killing people, so we are both hesitant to approach the movie and excited for new Taylor music. Finally, we joke about Reese Witherspoon being in her bag, and respond to all the bullshit surrounding Will Smith slapping Chris Rock. For the shared media portion of this episode, we watched Everything Everywhere All At Once in theaters, and BOTH of us gave it FIVE STARS ON LETTERBOXD!! Renaissance compares the multiverse intergenerational trauma mother-daughter themes to Turning Red (which Sunny hasn't seen.) Together, we shit on Marvel movies and superhero franchises, defend Everything Everywhere All At Once's campiness, compare its brilliance to Sunny's favorite movie Birds of Prey, and reference our oomfies' Letterboxd reviews. Throughout our discussion of this new movie, Sunny references Khadija’s review, and Renaissance makes the bold claim that Everything Everywhere All At Once is a combination of all our favorite pieces of media-- saving face x birds of prey x chris fleming x fleabag x turning red x what marvel wants to be. We also reference the movies Disobedience, Shiva Baby, The Batman, Joker, and Sunny namedrops the Harley Quinn DC animated show, of course. Renaissance recommends the show Gentlemen Jack, Sunny rants about queer historical romance and the need for a gay Bridgerton re: Cat Sebastian & Olivia Waithe, and recommends the lesbian literary novel Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour. Join our Patreon for 2 extra mini episodes a month (special 4/20 episode coming soon... 😝😏😳 getting high and talking shit, patrons can look forward to that!) and more bonus content.

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Two overly online nonbinary lesbian communists of color (with gaylor tendencies) spew their opinions on pop culture and media via a three part comedy variety show: first, a discussion of a listener submitted hot take. Second, analyzing a piece of media we've both consumed together. And third, recommending books/movies/TV/music/etc. to each other. Renaissance is the film stan twitter user, and Sunny is the booktuber. We think we are hilarious and have the correct opinions, and we hope you can agree! Email us at thelavendermenacepodcast@gmail.com for your hot take submissions or business stuff. Follow us on Twitter @TheLavenderPod for live updates of our unhinged ramblings and @thelavendermenacepod on Instagram and Tik Tok for more of our short form content in between episodes. We also have a Letterboxd @thelavenderpod, if you're into that sort of thing. (Of course you are- we're all gay nerds here!!) You can support us at patreon.com/thelavendermenace for bonus episodes, early access, exclusive content, and merch, but we truly appreciate all of our listeners and love engaging with y'all on any level. Much lesbian love and solidarity!