Episode 17: Moneyball, Winning Time & the Smashing Machine

Episode 20: For Your Consideration, Schitt's Creek & Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Send a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2404674/open_sms] This week on What Have I Missed? This week on What Have I Missed?, we’re looking at the remarkable career of Catherine O’Hara - how she shaped characters, controlled tone and made strangeness feel both funny and deeply human. We begin with For Your Consideration, a quietly uncomfortable satire about fame, perception and the fragile line between being seen and being misunderstood. Then Schitt’s Creek, where an initially difficult family slowly become better versions of themselves and O’Hara’s Moira Rose anchors an ensemble that turns broad comedy into something unexpectedly tender. And finally Beetlejuice Beetlejuice - a full-throttle return to Tim Burton’s heightened world, where theatricality is the point and O’Hara’s precision keeps the chaos in check. Three very different worlds.  Three very different registers.  One performer who always knew exactly how to pitch the moment. What does it really mean to commit - to a character, to a tone, to a world? Available now on Apple Podcasts & Spotify. Let’s get into it.

Episode 19: Copland, His & Hers & the Rip

Send a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2404674/open_sms] This week on What Have I Missed?, we’re looking at systems - how they’re built, who they protect and what happens when staying inside them starts to cost more than stepping away. We begin with Cop Land [chatgpt://generic-entity?number=0], a quiet, heavy study of authority, silence and the price of finally speaking up when everyone else would rather you didn’t. Then His & Hers [chatgpt://generic-entity?number=1], where truth becomes a matter of perspective, credibility is unevenly distributed and the real power lies in who gets believed. And finally The Rip [chatgpt://generic-entity?number=2] - a muscular crime thriller about loyalty, obligation and the way systems keep people moving long after the decisions stop making sense. Three stories. Three systems. One question: What happens when the structures meant to hold everything together start demanding more than they give back? Available now on Apple Podcasts & Spotify. Let’s get into it.

Episode 18: Grey Gardens, Sharp Objects & Die My Love

Send a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2404674/open_sms] This week, What Have I Missed? looks at containment from three very different angles - how it forms, how it’s inherited and how it finally erupts. Grey Gardens traps its subjects in a decaying house and a shared mythology, where love, resentment and denial become impossible to separate. Sharp Objects turns a homecoming into a psychological excavation, exposing how trauma is passed down, buried and quietly weaponised. And Die, My Love shows intimacy curdling under pressure - desire, rage and instability colliding until there’s no safe place left to stand. Three stories. One pressure. What happens when the place you’re meant to feel safest becomes the thing that breaks you? Let’s get into it.

Episode 17: Moneyball, Winning Time & the Smashing Machine

Send a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2404674/open_sms] This week, What Have I Missed? looks at success from three very different angles - how it’s built, how it’s sold and who ends up carrying the weight of it. Moneyball [chatgpt://generic-entity?number=0] rewrites the rules through systems and efficiency, challenging tradition in the quietest way possible. Winning Time [chatgpt://generic-entity?number=1] turns victory into spectacle, where image, power and performance matter as much as the result. And The Smashing Machine [chatgpt://generic-entity?number=2] strips everything back to the body — endurance, damage and the cost of being valued for how much you can take. Three stories. One pressure. What happens when success demands more than it gives back? Let’s get into it.

Episode 16: Gosford Park, The Mortician & Knives Out Wake Up Dead Man

Send a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2404674/open_sms] This week, we’re spending time in worlds where truth doesn’t arrive politely, it slips in through the cracks. From the brittle manners and quiet cruelties of Gosford Park. To the slow, devastating unravelling of The Mortician. To the cool precision of Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man - where Benoit Blanc returns to peel back another carefully-constructed façade… Three stories. Three very different worlds. One thread running through them all: what happens when the mask finally slips  and the truth refuses to stay buried. This is What Have I Missed?