Episode 145: Set It Up

Aug 22, 2018

Summary:

 

"I want more." This week Andrea and Lisa argue about whether the new Netflix original movie Set It Up is really the second coming of rom-coms. Also discussed: Busy Phillips, Sorry To Bother You and The Teacher's Pet podcast.

 

Show notes:

 

17 Plus-Size Dresses To Take You From Summer To Fall (Bust) 

 

Set It Up trailer

 

Netflix targets teens with rom coms — a genre that has faded from theatres (CBC)

 

The Plot Maker – Create A Rom Com Storyline In 5 Easy Steps (Writers Write)

 

Everyone Wants Some!! trailer

 

7 reasons Hollywood doesn’t make romantic comedies anymore (Vox)

 

Can Netflix’s Set It Up Help Revive the Romantic Comedy? (Atlantic)

 

Recommendations:

 

Andrea: The Teacher's Pet (podcast)

Lisa: Sorry To Bother You (film)

 

Music credits:

  

"Good Times" by Podington Bear

Courtesy of Free Music Archive

CC BY-NC 3.0

 

Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod

From Incompetch

CC BY 3.0

Intro bed:"OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst

Courtesy of Free Music Archive

CC BY-SA 3.0 NL

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