Jul 30, 2026 · 1 hr 18 min · 34 segments
Good morning! Caitlin, Jamie, and special guest Brandie Posey discuss The Truman Show (1998). And in case we don't see you, good afternoon, good evening, and good night! Here's the piece we reference…
Caitlin DuranteHost
Jamie LoftusHost
The Bechdel Test, of course, being a media metric created by our dear friend Alison Bechdel, friend of the show, best friend in real life, of course.
First appearing in her comic collection Dykes To Watch Out For, has since been kind of mainstreamified into a media metric.
The one that we use is, do two characters of a marginalized gender have names, do they speak to each other, and is their conversation about something other than a man? And ideally, it's like a narratively impactful conversation and not just throwaway dialogue.
Which brings us to today's movie, another one in, in our ... as we approach our 10-year-
... anniversary, a movie that you would think we would've covered by now, but it just never, the pieces never quite came together.
The Bechdel Test, of course, being a media metric created by our dear friend Alison Bechdel, friend of the show, best friend in real life, of course.
First appearing in her comic collection Dykes To Watch Out For, has since been kind of mainstreamified into a media metric.
The one that we use is, do two characters of a marginalized gender have names, do they speak to each other, and is their conversation about something other than a man? And ideally, it's like a narratively impactful conversation and not just throwaway dialogue.
Which brings us to today's movie, another one in, in our ... as we approach our 10-year-
... anniversary, a movie that you would think we would've covered by now, but it just never, the pieces never quite came together.
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