Culture Gabfest - Can The Acolyte Redeem Star Wars on TV?
Slate Culture Feed12 Juni 2024

Culture Gabfest - Can The Acolyte Redeem Star Wars on TV?

On this week’s show, Dan Kois (writer at Slate and author of Hampton Heights: One Harrowing Night in the Most Haunted Neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) fills in for Dana Stevens. The hosts begin by exploring the latest addition to the Star Wars canon, The Acolyte, created by Leslye Headland (Russian Doll). Amandla Sternberg and Lee Jung-jae lead the who-dunnit mystery, and while there is a lot to admire about the show’s visuals and depiction of the Master Jedi, The Acolyte often sags under the baggage of the vast Star Wars mythology and suffers from fundamental pacing problems. Then, the three tackle Godzilla Minus One, a genius and emotionally rich parable about wounded masculinity and the national trauma felt in a post-WWII Japan. The kaiju film, released at the end of last year, won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in 2023, and immediately shot to No. 1 on Netflix when it hit the streaming service last week. Finally, the panel is joined by Dan Charnas (author of Dilla Time and The Big Payback) to discuss Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” and his very sharply framed piece for Slate, “The Musical History Lesson Buried Beneath the Song of the Summer.”


In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, the panel tackles: children’s birthday parties. To plan, or not to plan, that is the question!


Email us at culturefest@slate.com.


We’re taking Summer Strut submissions! Send your strutty-est songs to culturefest@slate.com.


Endorsements:


Dan: The quick-witted, joke-packed pleasures of Girls5eva season 3.


Julia: (1) Ambition Monster: A Memoir by Jennifer Romolini; (2) Dan Charna’s playlist, “The Genre With No Name.”


Stephen: (1) Who wrote this song?; (2) Abdullah Ibrahim’s "Solotude."


Podcast production by Kevin Bendis. Production assistance by Kat Hong.


Hosts:

Dan Kois, Julia Turner, Stephen Metcalf

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