Wild Pretty Things

Latest Episodes:

Suspiria (1977) + Suspiria (2018) Nov 21, 2018

Show notes

DISCLAIMER

These films are gorey and portray torture and graphic homicide. We’ll also discuss gender politics, religion, the male gaze, and other topics that listeners might find objectionable or categorize as performative wokeness.

SPOILER DETAILS

We’ll have a spoiler section where we discuss the big twists at the end of both versions. Everything else is fair game.

email: wildprettyanimals@gmail.com

instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wildprettythingspod/

Jarret: @GrrNoise on Twitter

Melissa: @mellooyellow on Twitter; mmsloter on Instagram

shownotes: https://wildprettythings.podbean.com/

http://screencrush.com/horror-trend-2018-inherited-trauma/

Britt Hayes talks about the theme of generational trauma shared by Sharp Objects, Hereditary, and The Haunting Of Hill House

https://www.indiewire.com/2018/11/the-lighthouse-physically-demanding-robert-pattinson-punched-robert-eggers-1202018441/

Podcast Reco-friend-ations: Heroes Of Noise, Storm Of Spoilers, The Shadow Trap, The Offive (a podcast for people still watching The Office)

@debitexpenses’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/debitexpenses/status/1059133655421878272?s=09

Sharp Objects

M: https://armchairexpertpod.com/pods/kathryn-hahn

https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/backtalk-haunting-horror

J: https://unladylike.co/

http://waywardsistersanthology.com/

http://neversleepsnetwork.com/series/speech-bubble/

Follow-up: American Horror Story and Marcella

Stream Argento’s Suspiria for free:

https://tubitv.com/movies/326260/suspiria

The "Three Mothers" trilogy, consisting of Suspiria (1977), Inferno (1980) and The Mother of Tears (2007).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspiria_de_Profundis

Mater Lachrymarum, Our Lady of Tears; Mater Suspiriorum, Our Lady of Sighs; and Mater Tenebrarum, Our Lady of Darkness.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/23788/23788-h/23788-h.htm#Page_1

“Rebellion which is the sin of witchcraft is more pardonable in His sight than speechifying resignation, listening with complacency to its own self-conquests.”

https://www.bartleby.com/27/22.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pina_Bausch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Hill_(film)

52:00 Spoilers:

Dazed interview with Tilda Swinton

https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2018/11/04/sunday-reads-suspiria-psychoanalyzing-luca-guadagninos-rapturous-rebirth-of

songs:

New Arcades - Find A Way

https://newretrowave.bandcamp.com/album/newretrowave-presents-equinox-ep

Jessie Frye & Timecop 1983 - Faded Memory

https://jessiefryemusic.bandcamp.com/track/faded-memory-ft-timecop1983

Breaking Glass - A cappella (David Bowie cover) | Sara Lescano Antonelli

https://youtu.be/mOZOO8JJ38A

IT (2017), starring Sophia Lillis from Sharp Objects Nov 03, 2018

Show notes

DISCLAIMER: This film and our coverage of it addresses adolescent homicide, abuse, and sexuality.

SPOILER DETAILS: We’ll spoil all of this movie. Mild Sharp Objects and Stranger Things spoilers at the very end of the episode.

email: wildprettyanimals@gmail.com

instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wildprettythingspod/

Jarret: @GrrNoise on Twitter

Melissa: @mellooyellow on Twitter; mmsloter on Instagram

shownotes: https://wildprettythings.podbean.com/

American Horror Story follow up

Sharp Objects

John Green’s Looking for Alaska (Hulu) Casting
Netflix’s The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
How Did This Get Made episode 192 (Striptease)
https://www.the-wing.com/ via NPR’s Marketplace
Mr. Robot

0:21:00 IT

The Feminine Hormone Monster from Big Mouth:

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/919805368812875776/x44joouh_400x400.jpg

songs:

Jordan Pippen Rodman - Gloom

https://jordanpippenrodman.bandcamp.com/

Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town

Cults - Kix (The Motels cover)

https://www.turntablekitchen.com/2018/07/sounds-delicious-cults-cover-the-motels-self-titled-debut/

American Horror Story: Coven + Image Comics’ Black Magick Oct 18, 2018

Show notes

This episode we’re covering two witchy topics: American Horror Story: Coven (Season 3, 2013 - 2014), starring Sarah Paulson, Taissa Farmiga, Frances Conroy, Gabourey Sidibe, Emma Roberts, Kathy Bates, Jessica Lange, Angela Bassett AND Image Comics’ Black Magick by Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott.

DISCLAIMER: Topics covered in this episode include extreme violence, homicide, occult practices, religion as mythology, sexuality, feminism, and other issues that some listeners might find objectionable.

Also, there was an issue with Melissa’s audio that made it noticeably worse in this episode. Apologies!

SPOILER DETAILS: We’ll be spoiling all of season 3 of AHS (Coven) and volume 1 (“Awakening”) of Black Magick, which includes issues 1 - 5.

email: wildprettyanimals@gmail.com

Jarret: @GrrNoise on Twitter

Melissa: @mellooyellow on Twitter; mmsloter on Instagram

shownotes: https://wildprettythings.podbean.com/

We’re on Instagram now! wildprettythingspod

https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/8xjdma/sharp-objects-composer-alexandra-streliski-explains-her-new-album

INSCAPE is out now.

Feature on Adora’s house in CA: https://www.countryliving.com/life/entertainment/a22639459/sharp-objects-house-location/

Some of the SO props have been sold, as posted by some Reddit users:

https://i.redd.it/wlx63cest0s11.jpg

https://www.reddit.com/r/sharpobjects/comments/9mhutn/definitely_excited_to_sip_a_drink_crellin_style/

https://www.reddit.com/r/sharpobjects/comments/9odzm9/all_my_amma_clothes/

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

https://www.netflix.com/title/80223989

Sharp Objects

Emily Ratajkowski instagram post.

Lady No Brow webstore and art

Dear Prudence podcast via Slate

Upcoming Episodes

OCTOBER
- (10/31/18) IT (2017), featuring Sophia Lillis (HBO)
NOVEMBER
- (11/21/18) Widows (2018), directed by Steve McQueen, written by Steve McQueen and Gillian Flynn

American Horror Story: Coven (Season 3)

Chelsea Wolfe makeup: https://ritueldefille.com/collections/chelsea-wolfe-x-rituel-de-fille

Witch Hunt Podcast

Black Magick: Awakening, Part I (#1-5)

http://www.vulture.com/2018/05/black-magick-is-the-witchy-comic-you-need-to-read.html

http://shadowtrap.libsyn.com/'

songs:

Chelsea Wolfe: Survive (Earthquaker Presents Version), Demons

https://chelseawolfe.bandcamp.com/

Bishop Briggs: White Flag

Witches Past: Haxan and The Witch Oct 04, 2018

Show notes

Witches PAST: This episode we’re covering (and spoiling) two films: 2015’s The Witch & 1922’s Haxan.

DISCLAIMER

Topics in the this episode include infanticide, adolescent sexuality, occult ritual and mythology, and other topics that some listeners might find objectionable.

Contact

email: wildprettyanimals@gmail.com

Jarret: @GrrNoise on Twitter; grr_noise on Instagram

Melissa: @mellooyellow on Twitter; mmsloter on Instagram

shownotes: https://wildprettythings.podbean.com/

Sharp Objects

@evanrachelwood

https://twitter.com/ChelseaQuintal/status/1045882168239693824

A Simple Favor

Marcella (BBC & Netflix)

Bitch Media’s Backtalk Podcast, by Amy Lam & Dahlia Balcazar

Main topic 1 - Haxan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malleus_Maleficarum

53:00 Main topic 2 - The Witch

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/browbeat/2016/02/26/goats_and_the_devil_origins_black_phillip_in_the_witch_isn_t_alone/goat2_1.gif.CROP.original-original.gif

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/02/26/goats_and_the_devil_origins_black_phillip_in_the_witch_isn_t_alone.html

Francisco De Goya: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Francisco_de_Goya_y_Lucientes_-_Witches_Sabbath_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/840px-Francisco_de_Goya_y_Lucientes_-_Witches_Sabbath_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

https://www.slashfilm.com/filmcast-ep-355-the-witch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_girl

Killscreen article

The Guardian article

songs:

Jordan Pippen Rodman - Gloom

https://jordanpippenrodman.bandcamp.com/

Desire - Under Your Spell

Purity Ring - Stranger Than Earth

ASTR - Ritual

Gone Girl (2014), written by Gillian Flynn, directed by David Fincher Sep 19, 2018

Show notes

In this episode, we discuss a movie about a sociopathic woman who curates her identity for her husband, and how she reacts when he rejects her. Or something like that: GONE GIRL.

DISCLAIMER: This movie and our discussion of it includes homicide, sex, gender politics, and potentially other topics that some listeners may find upsetting.

SPOILER DETAILS: We consider the first half / first hour of Gone Girl fair game for spoiler-free discussion.

Contact

email: wildprettyanimals@gmail.com

Jarret: @GrrNoise on Twitter; grr_noise on Instagram

Melissa: @mellooyellow on Twitter; mmsloter on Instagram

shownotes: https://wildprettythings.podbean.com/

WGG

Adventures in Poor Taste

Wild Pretty Dispatches

contest post on IG: https://www.instagram.com/p/BnrAW3_lp1X/

contest tweet: https://twitter.com/GrrNoise/status/1014198238499561474

Podcast page on Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/wild-pretty-things/id1406904016?mt=2

Sharp Objects

Serena Williams: Female Anger, article by The Cut

YOU on Lifetime

Carrie on Hulu

Snot Girl from Image Comics

Main Topic: Gone Girl (2014), directed by David Fincher, starring Ben Affleck as Nick Dunne, Rosamund Pike as Amy Elliott Dunne, Neil Patrick Harris as Desi Collings, Tyler Perry as Tanner Bold, Emily Ratajkowski as Andie Fitzgerald

“The Bar” in Cape Girardeau

https://www.glamour.com/story/emily-ratajkowski-is-out-to-prove-women-can-be-serious-and-sexual-glamour-october-2016

https://www.newyorker.com/books/joshua-rothman/gone-girl-really

apparently Bleeker (“Cheeto”) the cat was actually played by two cats, Boris being the one who was so sedentary. http://ihavecat.com/2015/03/23/cat-man-monday-larry-payne-the-man-behind-the-gone-girl-cat-s/

songs:

The Otto Modest - The Killer Came Home For Dinner (KRCU version)

https://theottomodest.bandcamp.com/track/the-killer-came-home-for-dinner

Camp Cope - The Opener & Keep Growing

https://campcope.bandcamp.com/

Van She - Don’t Fear The Reaper

https://soundcloud.com/tuesdaysandthursdays/van-she-dont-fear-the-reaper

Thirteen [Holly Hunter, Evan Rachel Wood, Nikki Reed] (2003) Sep 06, 2018

Show notes

This episode we cover Thirteen (2003), directed by Catherine Hardwicke, starring Holly Hunter and Evan Rachel Wood and Nikki Reed. Other topics include Twilight, Mean Girls, Eighth Grade and Sharp Objects.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dad4-gQfhMs

Topics covered in this film and podcast episode might be triggering or upsetting to some listeners.

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Article from Slate: “Why the Sharp Objects Finale Felt So Unsatisfying”:

***spoilers for Sharp Objects and Big Little Lies

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email: wildprettyanimals@gmail.com

Jarret: @GrrNoise on Twitter; grr_noise on Instagram

Melissa: @mellooyellow on Twitter; mmsloter on Instagram

shownotes: https://wildprettythings.podbean.com/

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Sharp Objects

Melissa: Shameless (Showtime & Netflix) & Lady Bird (2017)

Professor Marston & the Wonder Women

https://www.instagram.com/p/BnJryo1HAUH/

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Main Topic

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0328538/

https://www.refinery29.com/2018/08/207451/thirteen-movie-cast-anniversary-evan-rachel-wood

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songs:

Jordan Pippen Rodman - Gloom

https://jordanpippenrodman.bandcamp.com/

from the Thirteen OST:

Folk Implosion - Make It With The Best

Katy Rose - Lemon & Overdrive

https://genius.com/Katy-rose-lemon-lyrics#

(The song in Mean Girls was “Overdrive”; not sure if both were written for Thirteen)

Imperial Teen - Invanka

The Like - Waiting

”Milk” (HBO’s Sharp Objects Finale Recap) Aug 29, 2018

Show notes

Contact

email: wildprettyanimals@gmail.com

Jarret: @GrrNoise on Twitter; grr_noise on Instagram

Melissa: @mellooyellow on Twitter; mmsloter on Instagram

shownotes: https://wildprettythings.podbean.com/

We have more to say about the finale of HBO’s Sharp Objects than we thought, including a huge rant that Jarret saves up for the end of the episode.

Billboard article on Susan Jacobs, Music Supervisor

correction: Castle Rock's Francis Conroy was in AHS:Coven, not Sissy Spacek.

Aubrey Plaza’s post about phone donations for Puerto Rico: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm38UfNHVqr/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=1i1dbrdf4yvpt

0:33:45 “Milk Recap”

https://news.avclub.com/theres-a-lot-going-on-in-sharp-objects-opening-credits-1828301278

A great podcast covering Derrida’s theory about forgiveness

http://philosophybites.com/2008/06/robert-roland-s.html

2:14:00 Jarret’s final rant, without book spoilers

2:33:00 Jarret’s final rant, continued with spoilers from the ending of the novel version of Sharp Objects

2:39:45 Melissa and Jarret answer Refinery 29’s questions about the finale: https://www.refinery29.com/2018/08/208368/sharp-objects-finale-unanswered-questions

https://www.theonion.com/c/a-very-fatal-murder

songs:

The Otto Modest - The Killer Came Home For Dinner

https://theottomodest.bandcamp.com/track/the-killer-came-home-for-dinner

Dresden Dolls - War Pigs & Girl Anachronism

https://dresdendolls.bandcamp.com/album/the-dresden-dolls

upcoming episodes:

SEPTEMBER
- Thirteen (2003), directed by Catherine Hardwicke, starring Holly Hunter and Evan Rachel Wood
- Gone Girl (2014), directed by David Fincher, starring Ben Affleck as Nick Dunne, Rosamund Pike as Amy Elliott Dunne, Neil Patrick Harris as Desi Collings, Tyler Perry as Tanner Bold, Emily Ratajkowski as Andie Fitzgerald
OCTOBER
- Witches!
  - The Witch or The VVitch (2015), directed by Robert Eggers
  - American Horror Story: Coven (2013 - 2014), starring Sarah Paulson, Taissa Farmiga, Frances Conroy, Gabourey Sidibe, Emma Roberts, Kathy Bates, Jessica Lange, Angela Bassett
  - Häxan (1922), by Benjamin Christensen (YOUTUBE and CRITERION COLLECTION)
  - Image Comics’ Black Magick by Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott, vol. 1
- Horror Special
  - IT (2017) (ON HBO), featuring Sophia Lillis
NOVEMBER
- Widows, written by Steve McQueen and Gillian Flynn

”Falling” (Sharp Objects Episode 7 Recap) Aug 23, 2018

Show notes

Contact

email: wildprettyanimals@gmail.com

Jarret: @GrrNoise on Twitter; grr_noise on Instagram

Melissa: @mellooyellow on Twitter; mmsloter on Instagram

shownotes: https://wildprettythings.podbean.com/

Our “Sharp Objects”

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bmwk8vMnuD-/

Incognegro

hat pin panic article, inspired by Twitter user https://twitter.com/khaleesi_britt

recap

resources on consent: https://www.nsvrc.org/publications/its-time-talk-about-consent

https://www.rainn.org/articles/what-is-consent

songs:

The Otto Modest - The Killer Came Home For Dinner

https://theottomodest.bandcamp.com/track/the-killer-came-home-for-dinner

Rasputina - Sweet Water Kill (The Ocean Song) & Leech Wife

Jefferson Fox - The Urge https://jeffersonfox.bandcamp.com/album/animule

Upcoming episodes

SEPTEMBER
- Thirteen (2003), directed by Catherine Hardwicke, starring Holly Hunter and Evan Rachel Wood
- Gone Girl (2014), directed by David Fincher, starring Ben Affleck as Nick Dunne, Rosamund Pike as Amy Elliott Dunne, Neil Patrick Harris as Desi Collings, Tyler Perry as Tanner Bold, Emily Ratajkowski as Andie Fitzgerald
OCTOBER
- The Witch or The VVitch (2015), directed by Robert Eggers
- American Horror Story: Coven (2013 - 2014), starring Sarah Paulson, Taissa Farmiga, Frances Conroy, Gabourey Sidibe, Emma Roberts, Kathy Bates, Jessica Lange, Angela Bassett
- Häxan (1922) by Benjamin Christensen (YOUTUBE and CRITERION COLLECTION)
- Image Comics’ Black Magick by Greg Rucka, Nicola Scott, vol. 1
- IT (2017) (ON HBO)
- Witches!

”Cherry” (Sharp Objects Episode 6 Recap) Aug 14, 2018

Show notes

“Cherry” Recap

Originally uploaded the wrong episode. Sorry!

Contact

email: wildprettyanimals@gmail.com

Jarret: @GrrNoise on Twitter; grr_noise on Instagram

Melissa: @mellooyellow on Twitter; mmsloter on Instagram

shownotes: https://wildprettythings.podbean.com/

Wind Gap Gazette

Still Watching

Watchers on the Couch

Heroes of Noise

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason%E2%80%93Dixon_line#Symbolism

Recap

Dance and Angela by JEAN-PHI GONCLAVES

https://www.discogs.com/Billy-Maxteds-Manhattan-Jazz-Band-Satin-Doll/release/2391815

Correction/clarification: Jarret implies that Eileen (Barbara Eve Harris) has never spoken on the show, which of course she has. She’s just always silent in the scenes with Camille on the phone, and hasn’t had any on screen lines in a few episodes.

songs:

The Otto Modest - The Killer Came Home For Dinner

https://theottomodest.bandcamp.com/track/the-killer-came-home-for-dinner

The Tender Fruit - The Light Between Us

https://thetenderfruit.bandcamp.com/track/light-between-us

”Closer” (Sharp Objects Episode 5 Recap) Aug 08, 2018

Show notes

Jarret gets on his Ivory soap box about colonization, minority erasure, and not touching women’s tattoos. Melissa tolerates all this and actually notices some interesting details about the latest episode of Sharp Objects, “Closer.” This one’s problematic, so we talk about The Great Gatsby and Harry Potter instead. Not kidding, sort of.

Disclaimer

Wild, Pretty Things is a podcast for adults, about a TV series for adults. Content may include adolescent homicide, emotional and sexual abuse, self harm, harsh language, and other elements that might upset or offend some listeners. Wild, Pretty Things is not affiliated with HBO, Blumhouse, Entertainment One, or Gillian Flynn in any way.

Contact

email: wildprettyanimals@gmail.com

Jarret: @GrrNoise on Twitter; grr_noise on Instagram

Melissa: @mellooyellow on Twitter; mmsloter on Instagram

Wind Gap Gazette

Marissa’s Instagram (rose photos)

Correction: Kings I & II is not part of the Torah. Jarret’s mistake.

Future plans (in order): Thirteen (late August, early September); Gone Girl (movie); Dark Places (movie for sure, probably the book, too)

Recap

SPOILERS FOR FUTURE EPISODES in the Paste Article about “Closer” and racial politics

“Ebony & Ivory” is Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder. Wrong again, Jarret!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZtiJN6yiik