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92: Serial Mom (with Karen Geier) (Patreon)

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2022-06-20 15:43:20
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Toronto-based writer and content strategist Karen Geier returns to the show for a discussion of John Waters and his 1994 “true crime” comedy Serial Mom, starring Kathleen Turner as a suburban Baltimore housewife who is eventually discovered to be a serial killer and becomes a tabloid sensation during her criminal trial. The remarkable thing about this film is it was released mere weeks before the O.J. Simpson murders and Waters strangely anticipated the cultural issues brought up by this case: the American obsession with crime and celebrity.

Karen and I discuss the film and some adjacent current topics including Cancel Culture, the moral panic over Trans Rights and Drag Queen Story Time, the legacy of the O.J. trial, and the popularity of True Crime podcasts and documentaries.

Follow Karen Geier on Twitter and check out her podcast On Belief. She also has a Patreon!

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Jesper Ohlsson

...mentioned renting a VHS copy of "Serial Mom" without knowing who John waters (or any directors, really) was as 12 or 13-year old on another patreon a week or two ago, and how delightful it was to experience it without any kind of context for concepts like "camp". I just remember having a feeling of "....this isn't how movies usually go. This woman isn't being a good movie mom, and she's not punished for it". As "stumbled-upon-John-Waters-movies-as-a-child" goes, it was probably the most ideal. I don't think the VHS cover was too outrageous, so I probably picked it earnestly expecting to get a solidly middle-of-the-road comedy. VHS clerks of the 90's weren't - at least in my country, Sweden - particularly studious about sorting movies by genre, so you got some fun "not-kid-friendly-but-queer-kid-friendly surprises like that. I think Joe Dante's "The burbs" was a similar experience, though I think that one was actually sorted in the "thriller" section, so good on you, old skeezy, leathery, chain-smoking VHS renter of my hometown for erring on the side of caution on that one. Cheers; love.

Caga tio

I think Karen Geier is off a bit on the the speculative John Waters she gives a benefit of the doubt to here. I've seen his Christmas shows the last couple of times he's come through North Carolina and during those shows he's heaped praise on Bill Maher (even doubling down when the grumbles break out) and generally painted himself in his own stories as having run-of-the-mill centrist lib tendencies. The tool of his trade has always been being contrarian which is a form of reaction. It can point in any direction and as he's aged it seems to find the more soft targets on the left at the expense of the dangerous ones on the right. He has kind of slipped into a left-punching-for-a-laugh routine lately that seems to be a byproduct of age and comfort.