Ghosted by a Better Script?

Laura J. Burns
Laura J. Burns writes books, writes for TV, and sometimes writes TV based on books and books based on TV. She will never, however, write a poem. She’s the managing editor of The Antagonist.

This week the Antagonist Podcast discusses Ghosted, starring Chris Evans and Ana de Armas. 

Join The Antagonist Managing Editor Laura J. Burns with writers Orly Minazad, Dustin Waters, and John Brown Spiers as they dazzle you with pop culture topics.

Click to listen below or wherever you get your Podcasts.

0:11 — Introduction to this week’s show.

4:12 —  Alexander Skarsgård on Succession.

10:31 — Evil Dead Rise and the horror of motherhood.

13:29 — Star Trek: Picard season 3 finale.

17:13 — The Hot Dad from Beef and his real life art. (His name is Joseph Lee.)

19:22 — The salon song.

21:14 — Chris Evans is not Chris Pine and neither one is Miley Cyrus’s ex-husband.

25:39 — Ghosted felt like a movie that starred two very well-trained action movie stars.

28:55 — Chris Evans is too old to be playing this character.

34:30 — After the first act, the tone shifts so much that it feels like a completely different film.

40:58 — True Lies should have been the model for Ghosted.

45:01 — What is a MacGuffin?

51:51 — You should read Wigfield: The Can-Do Town That Just May Not by Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, and Paul Dinello.

56:38 — Ghosted gets 4 Laundry Baskets on The Antagonist Rating Scale.

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