Interesting but flawed
There’s an important tale to be told here and the series manages it for the most part but the host sprinkles their biases too unashamedly throughout (the nauseating fellating of the mediocre writer Drew McWeeny, and the weird and unnecessarily hostile and unconnected rants regarding some film makers whiles praising other equally middling talents). Ultimately, it does hit more than it misses but I feel it could have been much better and am not inclined to listen to anything else the host does from here.
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