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“Update: I’m updating my previous review to add that I recently decided to listen to this podcast again because I wanted to hear a review for “Don’t Worry Darling”… and man, Dana is still a truly obnoxious host. Most of the review went okay until the very end where she asked her guest, “…don’t you agree with me that this movie isn’t very good…” or something to that affect. She says it, not as an invitation to agree, but as an assumption that they do agree, a foregone conclusion. As I wrote down below, if you want someone’s opinion on something, you don’t need to lead them or ask how much their opinion is in line with yours. Feel free to state that YOU don’t like it. But don’t lead someone to the notion that the correct answer is to agree with you, or make them have answer in a way that first untangles them from your implication that they should agree with you, before they can express what they actually think. They should have the freedom to simply start the sentence saying what they actually think. Tl;dr, different movie, same obnoxiousness. As you can see, this is a sharp pet peeve of mine; haven’t experienced it in any other instance but this podcast. Previous review: I don’t really use the word ‘obnoxious’ very often, yet it describes something I keep experiencing with this podcast. I think the host is Dana; in the past two podcast episodes I’ve listened to, “Borat Subsequent Film“ and “Promising Young Woman,” Dana often uses a lot of words to express disappointment in the films basically not being what she expected. As though the film should’ve consulted with her first somehow. I tried to not be annoyed by this and keep listening, because it seems like this podcast gives relatively thorough reasoning behind their statements, but it really boils down to the movies not going in the direction she expected or not meeting her expectations, and how the movies are lacking because of it. The directors and creative teams made the movie they wanted to make, with the message they wanted to send. For “Promising Young Woman” to not end on a hopeful enough note for Dana... for her to say that she expected a lot more humor from Borat, and that when she watched it, she sat down specifically expecting to laugh a lot and yet it didn’t make her laugh out loud... for her to then say to her co-host Sam, “so you’re on the same page as me, it wasn’t laugh out loud funny as you expected...” Her while vibe is very “my opinion is right, and I’m also leading the witness to think as I do.” Kudos to Sam for his tactful and non-placating response. I stopped the episode right as I was listening to that moment and wrote this review.”
De Vanna 7654 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/04/22
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