It was discussed as part of a conversation about Guy Branum's cultural upbringing and how it influenced him. It was also analyzed in the context of its potential racialized interpretations, and its lack of enduring relevance was noted.
And so the two I will particularly say are Arsenic and Old Lace. Okay. And Bell Book and Cantal.
— Episode: "Drag Mother" (w/ Guy Branum)
Episode: "Drag Mother" (w/ Guy Branum)
It was discussed as part of a conversation about Guy Branum's cultural upbringing and how it influenced him. It was also analyzed in the context of its potential racialized interpretations, and its lack of enduring relevance was noted.
And so the two I will particularly say are Arsenic and Old Lace. Okay. And Bell Book and Cantal.
It's a Cary Grant movie, right? Who was the woman? He was going to love the premise, nobody.
This guy lives in Brooklyn and he goes to take his new bride to meet his two aunts. And his two aunts are serial murderers. They are putting poison. They get older bachelors who they think are sad and then they like believe that they are humanely euthanizing them.
And then they have his brother who believes he is Teddy Roosevelt bury them in the basement.
No I was actually thinking about it today because the original play was read as sort of like a commentary on the tension between America wanting to be so libertine and our dark history and I was sort of like what is a racialized Arsenic and Old Lace?