EP83. Sidney Sweeney Has Bad Satire: The Housemaid, The Traitors & Stranger Things on Toast

Jo and Adam ease themselves into the new year by asking some deceptively simple questions about contemporary culture. They discuss Paul Feig’s latest film The Housemaid, and try to pin down why so many viewers are describing it as satire (and what, exactly, they mean by that).

Along the way, they turn to meme culture, looking at online responses to the latest series of The Traitors and the internet’s collective processing of the final season of Stranger Things. We also get to know Toast Man better, learn what a person sounds like when they’ve just finished buttering their toast, and discover, to Jo’s horror, that Adam cannot say “cutlery”.