BONUS EPISODE: The Particular Badness of Verity [preview]

A psychological thriller about writing with three movie stars — sign me up! Let's do this! This is extremely my shit! But Verity has so much going wrong: bad writing, incoherent acting, a hesitancy to embrace the abject, a text that wishes it was Rebecca, a distractingly cool house, Dakota Johnson being Dakota Johnson.....it's quite bad. And yet, both Margaret and I agree: we had a pretty fun time at the movies. Contradictions abound.

Also discussed: the bad mother trope, favorite worst passages from the book version, the return of Josh Hartnett, a very weird understanding of book publishing, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, what Gone Girl does that Verity cannot, and naming your kid Crew.

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