e268. Fasterer and Furiouserer

Two years ago, when Monica first joined the show, we celebrated the release of the ninth Fast & Furious movie by devoting a whole episode to discussing the the cultural appeal of the Fast franchise and explaining how it made an important cultural statement about the breakdown of the distinction of high and low culture. At least, we think that’s what we talked about on that episode. The honest truth is that we intentionally didn’t go backwards and listen to that episode yet. Instead, we went and saw Fast X and assembled a whole new panel to critique this new film and the entire franchise in a different light. So, on today’s episode, Mav and Monica are joined by longtime F&F fan Anna Remus and Lindsay Mahowald (who have never seen a single entry before last week) to discuss the appeal of the franchise and its inherent queer transgressiveness and so much more. Listen and let us know what you think. Citations and Links: * Thank you to Maximilian’s thoughtForm Music for our theme * Follow Mav on Twitter: @chrismaverick * Follow Monica on Instagram: @monicamarvelous * Follow us on Twitter: @voxpopcast * Follow us on Instagram: @voxpopcast GRRRR!!! * Follow us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/voxpopcast * Subscribe to our YouTube channel * Make sure you subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify or wherever podcasts are found and please leave us a review!

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Vox Populorum is a blog and podcast devoted to pop culture criticism. We believe that the best way to understand culture is to discuss it. But we also believe that it's a lot more fun to have these conversations throwing back a couple beers at the bar rather than in a classroom. Please join our weekly round table of media critics, academics, creators, artists, professors, students and fans for an engaging discussion about movies, novels, comic books, television, video games, music or whatever else we happen to think of! Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.