Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink the 40th annviersary of Saturday Night Live, and wonder why it was fun in the first place. They also spend a little time wondering about the 50 Shades phenomenon.
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Further reading
- The Origin of 50 Shades
- Hammer of Witches
by Shana Mlawski
- Dialectic on Wikipedia
- Notes toward a Supreme Fiction on Wikiquote
- Gilda Radner on Wikipedia
- “Lycidas” by John Milton
When you were talking about “A Will Ferrell movie” being a known entity, no matter what his specific role is, I thought of Richard Dean Anderson. As MacGuyver, and Jack O’Neill in the Stargate TV shows, he brought humor and a gruff-but-likeable personality. Being involved with Stargate for 10 years, he was able to express a whole range of emotions in that way.
I find the conversation around 50 Shades of Grey a little frustrating. Like the podcasters, I have not read it and have no real desire to engage with it and yet there’s a part of me that wants to defend it. It’s not well written and it puts forth some very problematic concepts and yet I think it’s being unduly criticized for the wrong reasons; for coming out of fanfiction, because of the physical appearance of the author, for being largely written for a female audience.