A Simple Podcast

Well moms. We've done it. We've reached the ending of A Simple Podcast, having successfully canonized the 2018 Paul Feig film A Simple Favor, and Alanna, Christina, and Jordan wanted to go big with the finale. You've heard "The Kendrick of It All," now enjoy "The Blakethrough," in which we turn our attention to the role of Emily, the work of Blake Lively, and how the star profile of the actress herself informed the creation and interpretation of this mommy noir icon. Lucky for everyone, your faithful co-hosts and Simple stanship color guards have a very special guest on hand to tease out the best possible analysis. Enjoy, moms!

As A Simple Podcast enters the final stretch with its character study episodes, Alanna, Christina, and Jordan are joined by writer and culture critic Margaret H. Willison for a textual and meta-textual close read of Anna Kendrick the actress, Anna Kendrick the persona, and how both of those figures operate within Stephanie inA Simple Favor. We also pay our respects to the under-appreciated classification of Anxiety Bi, talk about operating within the limits of acceptable female power in Hollywood, and reflect on the canonically queer wonder of a teen Kendrick singing "Ladies Who Lunch" inCamp.

Hi, moms! As A Simple Podcast moves into its final episodes, co-hosts Alanna Bennett, Christina Tucker, and Jordan Crucchiola are joined by special guest Anna Borges to discuss all things queer aboutA Simple Favor— along with any other movie that was consequential to their gay feelings as tweens. If you love messy bisexuals shouting about soccer being canonically lesbian, head canoning asexual love stories, and respectful thirsting with a  side of internalized shame, then A Simple Podcast's Great Queer Catharsis is the episode you've been waiting for.

Continuing their improbable run of getting behind the scenes access to (almost) all thingsA Simple Favor, Alanna, Christina and Jordan spend this episode of A Simple Podcast talking to screenwriter Jessica Sharzer. She tells us about Blake Lively's heroic role in gettingthat paintinginto Emily's house, her desire to see more shades of female intimacy in film, and of course, her process in bringing brotherfucker to life.

Oh hi again, moms! You've heard Alanna, Christina, and Jordan go long on the costumes ofA Simple Favorbefore, but now you can go behind the Simplescenes with them as they talk about men's suiting and neoprene tank tops with the movie's costume designer, Renée Ehrlich Kalfus. Get the story behind all the film's power looks, and find out about the crucial costume you didn't see on screen.