MOVIE REVIEW & SHOW NOTES
The Photograph (2020)
Show Notes & Highlights
Episode Rundown
Front Half / Episode Segments
- Act 1: The Photo That Opens The Door
- Act 2: Parallel Lives, Parallel Problems
- Act 3: Choosing What To Carry Forward
Movie / Episode Basics
Summary:
After her mother's death, Mae discovers a photograph and a series of unanswered questions about her family's history. Her search for answers brings her together with journalist Michael Block, sparking a romance while two generations of love stories unfold in parallel.
Act / Segment Breakdown
- Act 1: The hosts discuss Issa Rae's performance, the film's premise, and the lack of chemistry between the leads.
- Act 2: Focus shifts to the dual timelines, comparisons to Love Jones, the soundtrack, and the film's incomplete character arcs.
- Act 3: Discussion centers on letters, family secrets, inherited memories, and why the film never fully delivers on its emotional potential.
Episode Highlights
Best Question: Should Michael have pursued a serious relationship with Mae while actively preparing to take a job in another country?
Jordan Insight: The movie contains the ingredients for a meaningful story about Black motherhood, ambition, generational wounds, and family legacy, but never fully commits to developing any of those ideas.
Darius Insight: The film feels like two separate movies stitched together. The flashbacks and present-day romance rarely connect in a meaningful way, leaving both storylines underdeveloped.
Best Debate: Was this a genuine romance, or was it simply a less compelling attempt to recreate the magic of Love Jones for a newer generation?
Major Themes
- Family legacy
- Motherhood
- Generational trauma
- Ambition versus relationships
- Memory and grief
- Love across generations
- Identity and self-discovery
Full Episode Transcript
Jordan: I think maybe the movie would have worked if she had just casted Jay Ellis.
Darius: I don't think there's any there.
Jordan: I think Lakey's a good actor. It's just, you know.
Darius: This plot was 3 pages long, you know.
Jordan: That script is like literally had to have been like 10 pages.
Darius: It could have literally just been boy met girl conflict the end.
Jordan: Yeah. Boy met girl conflict, Kendrick concert credits.
Darius: It's stupid.
Jordan: Welcome back to Out the Trunk Pile with Jordan and Darius. This is our movie review segment. We're the podcast where two friends started talking in a bar and never stopped. I'm Jordy. My name is Jordy B Riding on all socials.
Darius: I'm Darius SDS. I love the area on all socials.
Jordan: And today we're going to be talking about the photograph, a 2020 rom-drom written and directed by Stella, Stella Maggie, starring LaKeith Stanfield, Shante Adams, Issa Rae, Ilan Noel, Rob Morgan, Lorel Howery, Courtney B. Vance, and Chelsea Peretti. This movie takes place after a famous photographer's mother, a famous photographer dies. Her daughter discovers a hidden photograph and answers Now, in unanswered questions about her family's past, her search connects her with Michael Block, a journalist following the same story, as both navigate grief, ambition, and the possibility of love across generations. Tell us to you for act one.
Darius: Act one, the photo that opens the door, May inherits a photograph and letters that complicate how she sees her late mother. Michael's reporting brings him into May's orbit, creating a quiet spark built on curiosity and shared loneliness. Fun fact, this is the last movie I saw before COVID. And so it came out February 2020. That was the last movie. Well, not probably the last movie I saw in the movie theater. And so it was. We'll get to that later. While it's not the best movie, it does hold a place in my heart, for lack of a better word, in that it was from the before times, if you will. So right, right. What you got for act one?
Jordan: This movie is. Cool. It's got a good story, really good premise. Beautiful gowns. Beautiful gowns. But no, but all seriousness, one thing I love about this movie is getting to see Issa Rae play an adult character. Because her character, Insecure, is like fun and we love Issa D, but she can be, you know, almost cartoonish at points. So it was really nice to see her play like a mature, somewhat self-assured woman. on screen, especially on the big screen, too. I like when TV stars try to transition into other projects. Also, we need more black love stories that are not completely marred by trauma and abuse and addiction and all that stuff. So that's one thing I do love about this movie.
Darius: People say that, and I do agree to a certain extent, but movies need conflict. And yeah, but no, I agree. There does We need more black movies with lower stakes, if you will. Yeah. So let me ask you this, man. Was everyone mailing it in this movie or was it just me?
Jordan: Yeah, I saw that I tried to trick myself when I watched it to make myself think it was a good movie because I love everybody in the movie. Yes, they mailed it in. Actually, they didn't even mail it in. They airdropped it. They sent that **** via Bluetooth.
Darius: Songs where they just emailed each other old verses.
Jordan: Yeah, that's what it felt like. There was zero chemistry between Issa and LaKeith. He's trying to be like smoldering and sexy, but he's like whispering the whole movie. She's just kind of there. This weird jazz score.
Darius: You like Kanye West? She's like, oh, but he was lit though. It's like, oh no.
Jordan: So I actually tried to Google the age of the writer and director because it felt like what 50 people, 50 year old people think 30 year old people talk about on dates. Yeah, it was like, yeah, no, I love Kendrick, but no, I love Drake. It's like.
Darius: I've never once had a Kendrick versus Drake debate on a date.
Jordan: Not on a first date. No.
Darius: It's just not. Most women just aren't into rap like that.
Jordan: Is true. And if they are, it's like. Meg and Glow and Moneybag. Yo, we're not discussing rap, you know, on our first date. Yeah, no, not at all. I don't think so. I don't think I've ever talked about rap on. No, I don't think I've ever talked about rap on a first date. No.
Darius: You know, it just feels like it was coming off the high from Insecure Lake. Lake Keith just had a few big credits. Yeah, let's go get this money right quick. Little, little, little. let's just get this bag right fast. Yeah, I think so. But this is clearly a cash grab. Like, yeah.
Jordan: I literally wrote low vibes. Like this movie is very like, in the words of Earthy Girls, low vibrational. Just.
Darius: No, like Lil Rel, there's a scene, Lil Rel and his wife and Issa and Lake Lake Keith are like preparing for a storm and they're having a glass of wine. And it's just like, it's just not.
Jordan: It's like super artificial couples double date banter.
Darius: What'd you guys do during the storm? So she winked. I said, oh no.
Jordan: Oh, he smiled. That'd mean they had sex.
Darius: It's just, you know, I don't think they, this one is making the, highlight reel when they get inducted into whatever Hall of Fame, Walk of Fame, whatever.
Jordan: Yeah, it's gonna stay on the cut room floor. they gave it not their best and it showed on the screen. It's weird because this writer, I really like some of her stuff. She wrote a, directed a really good movie I love called Everything, based on a novel. It was a pretty dope love story. So yeah, I was, yeah, I had avoided watching this movie because I was hoping that it didn't disappoint me and it did disappoint you, I'm not gonna lie.
Darius: You know, we'll get into another disappointment. In act two, do you have anything else for this one?
Jordan: I will say I did think the couple with her mom and Daniel from Insecure, I think they had great chemistry or a better chemistry. That's what I got for act one.
Darius: May and Michael grow closer while Christina's younger life unfolds alongside them. The film compares two romances shaped by timing, ambition, emotional guardedness and the fear of repeating old mistakes. That's what I wanted to get into. I hated the why it felt like I was watching two different movies. There was no interconnection between the two. There was no reason for the flashbacks.
Jordan: Not at all.
Darius: It just felt like they were padding runtime. And I don't. Yeah. It's just very disjointed.
Jordan: It's very, that's a good, that's a good way to put it.
Darius: It's not difficult to follow. It's actually very basic movie.
Jordan: It's, that's the problem. It's too easy, but it's supposed to be like some mystery and it's not.
Darius: It's like a. watching a Netflix sitcom that keeps switching to something else and I can't stop it. And it's like, yeah, It's like, can you stay on one story?
Jordan: It'd be like, it almost felt like if you, like say you got like paid for the ad free version, but then ads kept coming up. That's what it felt like. Cause like, so I almost wonder if they wrote the script and one story was supposed to be the primary story. either the flashback or the current time. I can't figure out which one it was. And then they got some sort of notes. And then they were like, okay, let me flesh this out. Because we got half of both. Like we didn't really get a full fleshed out love story on either side.
Darius: Well, spoiler alert for act three, but I think that the writers thought the reveal of her being his daughter would just matter a lot. And it just didn't.
Jordan: It was clear as day the whole time.
Darius: It was telegraphed from a mile away. It was the only reason they would be telling us the story. There's no other reason for us to see these flashbacks.
Jordan: Correct.
Darius: And I'm not really sure what Michael Blocker was there reporting on. That wasn't really fleshed out. It's just, it's nothing.
Jordan: They didn't finish anything. It's like, it's like they took like a bunch of voice notes, put them together and said, here's a script.
Darius: Which is wild, it's damn near 2 hours, which is long for a rom-com.
Jordan: That's what's confusing because I like I've tried to write notes. I have like 7 lines.
Darius: I had this one. It's an expensive *** soundtrack. Soundtrack.
Jordan: Yeah, Ari Lennox.
Darius: Yeah, we got, there's Al Green, I think in here. Al Green.
Jordan: Yeah.
Darius: He's litigates. You're not using his **** unless you cut a check. So.
Jordan: Okay, he's still alive.
Darius: Yeah, he's with us. He's 80.
Jordan: Oh, ****. Okay.
Darius: But Al Green is notorious for he want his brain. I mean, he'll let you use it, but you coming up off from duckets. Yeah. He snatched, what is it, Griselda?
Jordan: Oh, yeah, yeah.
Darius: They interloped something of his and he let him run it up because it was super popular and he came back and snatched all of it. So that's what they do now is they don't they won't pull it. They'll let you run it up.
Jordan: They'll **** you with the royalties.
Darius: And then it gets to a point was like, do you really want to pull your most popular song right now? Because, yeah, you may not get royalties on to perform it. and so you got no choice but to cut the check and then yeah.
Jordan: That's what uh that's what Sting did with uh blue face um for Lucid Dreams.
Darius: Like blue face the pimp rapper dude.
Jordan: No I'm sorry not blue face I'm sorry young blue my bad.
Darius: Oh yeah I was like um blue face.
Jordan: Yeah no no no no no no young blue my bad ****** him up **** that up yeah um so yeah soundtrack is pretty good um **** lost my share of thought was about to say okay so.
Darius: Go ahead.
Jordan: No, go ahead.
Darius: No, I was trying to save you while you thought.
Jordan: Okay, cool. My question is, it just me or did this movie want to be Love Jones really, really bad?
Darius: I have right here. It's a Love Jones rip off. It's very much they tried to do a little millennial Love Jones. Yeah. Except. I mean, you just can't compare the sex appeal of Neil Long and Lorenz Tate.
Jordan: Correct.
Darius: Issa Rae like Keith Stanfield, like, especially in the nineties, like, you know, like Lorenz Tate is an extremely handsome man. You know, Nia Long is an all time beautiful one.
Jordan: All time. Like her face literally like it's generational.
Darius: Yeah, it just lights up the screen and then you put them together in a movie that's mostly about nothing and like, that's enough. And they tried that they thought they could be enough. And while I think Issa is very beautiful, she's not. sex symbol, Nia Long. Yeah. there's just not a carnal reaction when you see her. She feels like, see Nia Long.
Jordan: She feels like a friend to you, to me.
Darius: No, I'm not saying I wouldn't date her.
Jordan: She's a beautiful woman. I'm saying like, just what I like the energy I get from her on screen. It's like very like I root for her because she feels like a friend.
Darius: Yeah, she like. Yeah, Nia Long is just sexy, and that's just there's, there's cuteness and attractiveness and there's sex.
Jordan: Yes, this is very, very cute.
Darius: Right. You know, but there she's not. Yeah, anyways, to get you back to your point, this did try to be Love Jones and it did not succeed in doing so.
Jordan: Yeah, down to the ********** photography storyline.
Darius: Another half-ridden piece of string of nothing.
Jordan: That's my thing is like she's, I guess apparently she's supposed to be like, I'm not supposed to be a famous photographer. So she's like, that's what the article's about. But they didn't even do a good job of showing that because they showed like a little home video and it's like, how I'm supposed to know that means she's famous.
Darius: Well, they completely dropped Lake Keith's character as a reporter after they got him to where he needed to be. He just stopped. Yeah, I'm a reporter. Okay, cool. That's good character development. So you're here to report on the famous photographer and then he just kind of stops that one. They just use that to get him to Issa and then they just stop.
Jordan: Right, right.
Darius: Fleshing that out. So I don't really care about.
Jordan: Correct.
Darius: Then he's getting a job in London, which is like the laziest romantic trope in the world.
Jordan: And correct.
Darius: It's just a lot of empty threads.
Jordan: Yeah. And then even like it's a mysterious photo. It's a picture of a woman. The hell's serious about it. I still don't get that. I watch a movie twice. I don't understand.
Darius: You know, shout out to your dedication for watching this twice. We'll give you that. It's not bad.
Jordan: It's not bad.
Darius: Okay. This might be a northerner thing. Are you familiar with the chain restaurant Boston Market?
Jordan: Yeah, of course.
Darius: That's what it is. It's like, this is Boston Market. Love Jones is Thanksgiving dinner. You know, it's just.
Jordan: Yeah, That's a great way to put it. It's. Yeah.
Darius: Boston Market is cool.
Jordan: Yeah. Love the cream of spinach?
Darius: You left the meat in the freezer. Got to have something to eat right out to Boston Market. Little roasted. Yeah. But like Thanksgiving got love in it. You know, Thanksgiving got a little soul in it. And yeah, this is Boston Market. You know, it's not a bad movie. It's just. Just needs a little seasoning.
Jordan: Yeah, that's it. Yeah, that's a good way to put it.
Darius: The writing is also great. I don't like the. No, the. They're parallel movies. And it's funny because I was more interested in the flashbacks.
Jordan: Me too.
Darius: They hinted at the mom being a prostitute. Never went anywhere with that. They hinted.
Jordan: Her mom.
Darius: Yeah, May's the flashbacks mom. Yeah, the grandma.
Jordan: OK, yeah.
Darius: It's just a whole bunch of empty threads, for lack of a better word.
Jordan: Yeah. it doesn't really make sense. I mean, yeah, just, it's okay. So I did, okay, maybe I was thinking about it. It's like, I think, yeah, literally, because it's like, what do you say about this movie? Okay, so, but I have been thinking about it and I wonder if the movie is supposed to be more so almost like a meditation on black women's rush to each other and black motherhood and slash black womanhood and how those can flip with each other. And I think maybe they just didn't flesh it out all the way. Because like her mom had to, you know, she wanted to chase her dreams. She felt like she couldn't do that and have a relationship with **** what was his name? I can't remember. Daniel from Insecure, whatever his name was. NPC guy. NPC, NPC country guy. who was cool working on the boats. And because she was so hard to chase in her dreams, she kind of let her daughter fall by the wayside. I don't know if that's the point of the story, but they didn't do enough because like the letter, she didn't say much in the letter either. Like it was just a lot of.
Darius: Also, so you just raise a child by yourself. Like that's easier. That's the easier to chase. That doesn't make any sense. And it's just I hesitate to give movies more credit than they've earned. um maybe it is a a a reflection on you know black womanhood and black motherhood but it could just be a bad movie like I don't really think right um we might just be giving them a little bit too much credit when um there's just no there there you know so I mean I don't know it's possible but absent someone on the team explaining it to me I'm just gonna go with nah it's a bad movie you got anything else ready to?
Jordan: Actually, I just thought of this. And even the way the fact that I'll just say the grandma and their mother, they both didn't tell anybody they were sick. They both just like died young, it sounds like, or I mean, his mom maybe was in her 60s, I guess. There's no information there because there's no plot. NPCs. just like you so you mean somebody like you have a daughter who's out of state and you're sick and you didn't bother to tell her you were sick or say goodbye or anything like it just so much just didn't make sense in this movie.
Darius: It's just it's we make fun of it a lot that like there are a lot of movies where the main characters it's like as if everyone else are NPCs and The main character, when they leave the room, they just kind of freeze. But this movie, even the main characters are NPCs. Nothing is fleshed out. It's like.
Jordan: Yeah, there's not a single, like, I can't think of a single interesting thing in this movie at all.
Darius: Nothing. It's just it's just nothing. It's there. Let's get into act three. Try to land this plane, choosing what to carry forward. As May understands more about Christina, she must decide how much the past should guide her present. Michael faces his own choice about career, honesty and emotional risk. What you got for actor? Realize I burned through my act three stuff from that to you.
Jordan: Should he have left her alone knowing that he had applied for a job in another country or anything for a job in another country?
Darius: That's the other thing too. I'm not sure how much time passed.
Jordan: Yeah, right.
Darius: Or like, because you can watch this movie and come to the conclusion this was like a two weekend fling or they were together or three months, six months. I just I have no idea. And I'm not to say that I need them to put up on the screen three months later. But you need to give me some indication of what is going on here.
Jordan: Yeah.
Darius: So, I mean, I got this. If you found a secret letter, you know, like. Someone passes and that you have a key to their bank lock box and you find a letter, would you read it?
Jordan: Yeah. Um. And it's my parents or just like someone in my family's.
Darius: I don't want to put that in the universe.
Jordan: Oh, God.
Darius: You got to be somebody.
Jordan: Yeah. I think, yeah, I'd read it. I'd read it. I think for one, let's be honest here. Our ancestors did a great job of not opening up about things. And 2, I mean, they wrote the letter. I presume someone could read it. And It's important to have keepsakes of the people you love. And also like, my phone's being like memorabilia and stuff like that. Like, we do write letters and stuff like that to each other and have written letters and, keep those things because you can't replace, put a value on those, So I'd read it for sure. Or at the very least, I'd keep it.
Darius: I'd 100% read it. I'd like to say something benevolent about, you know, that's their secret. And now I read that ****.
Jordan: You want the tea.
Darius: Yeah, man. I'm not going to lie to our listeners and viewers. I'm reading that **** 1000%. Now, if they were still with us, I would honestly honor their wishes. But presumably, if I have the key,
Jordan: I'm not going to lie.
Darius: I'd probably still read it then, too. I don't know. The thing is they could find out and I wouldn't want to have that conversation. But if they're going and if I have the key to a safe a lockbox, it's really on some sort of some sort of executive of the estate or some, they've trusted me enough to give me the key to their lockbox in death.
Jordan: Right.
Darius: So I figured they want me to read what's in the ************. Like I don't.
Jordan: Yeah, right. You left it here for me for a reason.
Darius: **** it's in there. You like, so I was on a flight from LAX to Minneapolis, a red eye. circa 2011. And this lady to my right had severe fear of flying and she had a panic attack on the takeoff and the landing. Oh ****. And I took my headphones off and just coached her through it. And when we got off the plane, she wrote me like the most lovely handwritten letter on a piece of paper that was, you know, ripped off a corner of a note. And I still have that in my safe. So, and it was just like, I'm not going to go get it, but it was just amazing. Like you're so sweet and enjoy your family in Minnesota and stay warm in the cold. And, it was just that's those stuff that like you said, man, that handwritten stuff. I've never seen that lady again. I don't know her name. And she just, you know, right. I flew a lot back then and, you know, just coached her through it as she was like sweating bullets. And so, yeah, I think, I guess if I, if I kicked the bucket, someone would find that in my safe and that would be a, a window into my personality and my life. And so those things, those things do matter.
Jordan: No, really, for real. I remember like, well, so I keep a lot of stuff like that. Like I, when I graduated high school and college, my family, they got those big card boxes where you could put the gift cards, not gift cards, but just cards and stuff, whatever. I kept all those whenever I was like, stressed or homesick or sad, I'd go back and read those to remind me like, people care about me, people are rooting for me, remember why I was there, things like that. Or even I remember my senior year yearbook, that's the only yearbook I got from high school. And I don't remember what happened, no, to this day what happened, but this girl I was cool with in class, she was like crying about something. I don't know. And but I just signed my yearbook and she did and she wrote really nice letters. She was like, I was having a really ****** day and like your smile just like helped make it a little better, and I'll never forget that, So I think handwritten stuff like that is really important because you just never know what people need, what you mean to people, even people that you don't really know very well.
Darius: Yeah, my nieces, they don't do it anymore. They grown. Hell, one of them was married with a kid. For Christmas, I would, in lieu of gifts, have them write me letters, tell me things about their life and stuff like that. And what gift you're going to get me? Like I got any video game I want. So that's actually something that I can't just go out and buy. So those are in the safe too, man. I got every Christmas card any other fellows and their kids have sent me, every birthday card I've got. I finally got people from back home to stop sending me birthday cards. It's like a stack this stick. And they finally listened to me. Like this is just, this is junk. That's crazy. The text of happy birthday accomplishes the same thing. But I kept them all though, because that stuff doesn't matter. But yeah, I got in my safe man. I got any other fellas who sent me Christmas cards with the kids, the kids pictures. The Christmas cards, the wedding invitations. I keep all that ****.
Jordan: Yeah. Save the dates. Yeah.
Darius: Yeah, man. Anything else for this movie about nothing?
Jordan: Actually, I do. Did you see that they canceled the ten year anniversary insecure tour?
Darius: They said it was scheduling. I got a feeling they looked at them ticket sales and was like, we can do this **** on the tickets.
Jordan: Somebody said they the tickets were like 300 bucks.
Darius: Look, I think I do. They said it was scheduling, right?
Jordan: Yeah.
Darius: But the tour was announced last month. So what did you book in the last?
Jordan: Yeah, that was the quickest ******* descheduling issue I've ever seen.
Darius: They hopped on a Ticketmaster saw them blue dots and was like, we cool.
Jordan: Yeah, they look crazy as hell going out there with 50 people.
Darius: What are the I love that show down. What would I? Why would I buy a ticket? What would I ask them?
Jordan: What would I ask them? I don't understand.
Darius: Are they even taking questions from the audience? Like it's just.
Jordan: Oh, good point. Good point.
Darius: What are they performing? I don't understand it. Like on tour to do what?
Jordan: I don't get it either. Yeah, I don't know, man. Tom's hard out here. You know, maybe they just thought I was going to get some money and it didn't because, you know.
Darius: I know JL is tired of doing those bad Amazon Prime movies.
Jordan: Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure he's waiting for Top Gun three.
Darius: She's where he gets like eight lines. You know, he's just got greenlit for a show about four male friends.
Jordan: Yeah, I saw that.
Darius: People are excited. And look, she's a very talented person, but I need people to understand that insecure was lightning in a bottle.
Jordan: That was probably the best thing she'll ever make. I mean, with all due respect.
Darius: It means I mean, it's not even a diss.
Jordan: Yes.
Darius: Like, you know, Martin never did Martin again. You know, Will Smith only had one Fresh Prince. Like, you typically only get one iconic sitcom. You know, yeah, Brian Cristen got to a lot of guys.
Jordan: And that's, yeah, and that's 20 years apart, or 10 years apart, you know?
Darius: If it goes, if it goes down that that's the only notable work she ever does, that she's still a legend.
Jordan: You're still a legend for that, yes.
Darius: It's lightning in a bottle. It's perfectly casted. It's perfectly written. It's perfectly timed. I think if it comes out after COVID, it's different. And some things are time capsule and they're lightning in a bottle and people need to, obviously she's going to keep working. I don't think she's 40 years old, but temper expectations because nothing will ever be that good again. I mean, it's highly unlikely.
Jordan: And I think you got to be okay with that because even if you let's say whatever you do does 70% of that, that's still ******* going to be that's still going to be incredible. You know what I mean? I remember when I watched an interview of Daniel Radcliffe when he was doing press for like the last Harry Potter movie and Ellen DeGeneres, she asked him, she was like, how do you feel about knowing that you're never going to have this level of success or whatever for a project like this again. And he's like, neither will anyone else. He's like, no one else is going to have this either. I don't know. It's fine.
Darius: There's a calm in knowing this is as good as it's ever going to get.
Jordan: Yeah.
Darius: You know, yeah, it's just if you accept that in the moment and you don't chase that high, obviously you keep working. But, you know, I. It's neat. People need to be okay with maybe if insecure is the best it ever gets, and so maybe that's just our show. Like our parents had friends in Seinfeld and that's fine.
Jordan: Yeah.
Darius: You know.
Jordan: Yeah, I agree. I think so too.
Darius: Cause if you, I guess our parents would have had to live in single and Martin.
Jordan: But you get what I mean. Yeah. I agree. Cause like even now, if you like, that's the beauty of like streaming is like any, actor from any show I've loved over the last like 30 years, they still to this day say because of streaming kids discover, new teenagers discover it every year. So there are kids now who come up, like, I think, I can't remember who it was from which show, but one of the long running sitcoms from like the 90s and 2000s. And they were like, kids come up to me now and go like, hey, you look just like that character from that show. Are you her mom? Just like, you know, the show came out before they were born.
Darius: You don't know what aging is.
Jordan: Right. So, and that's going to be okay because they're going to be teenagers, young black kids in 20 years, 10 years. who are going to find that show on HBO Max or whatever streaming service is done at the time. And they're going to watch Loki Happy and it's going to change their life.
Darius: If I may throw Netflix and them bone, I was rewatching. I mean, I'm always rewatching like Jamie Foxx show just picking random episodes. And it is what jumps out is just how low the stakes are in each episode. And I say this to say, bring back some whimsy in these shows. These shows are too heavy. You know, there's an episode of Jamie Fox where Uncle Junior is trying to fix the electricity and he gets shocked and he loses his memory and it's just 22 minutes of **** **** and it's amazing yeah it's okay like sitcoms the whole point is the absurdity if people get too caught up and making sure the continuity is right and there's a it's okay just like they're supposed to be dumb let them be silly.
Jordan: So yeah I agree all right man what do you rate this thing fun I love Issa Rae. She's a legend. And because of that, I'm going to give this movie 2 stars.
Darius: I'm going to go 2.5. It's not a good movie. It is a perfectly mediocre movie. You know what? This is a good movie. When you got people over you to put something on the TV, that kills some time and ain't no games on. So you just throw this movie on. There's no cursing, there's no nudity. You can just throw this on and it works as perfect empty background noise.
Jordan: Yeah, that's true. When I was stranded in Charlotte, because of a madman with a gun, I just watched the movie and it was great.
Darius: Just a point of clarification. The issue was in Greensboro. He was not under any sort of danger.
Jordan: Oh yeah, no, sorry. Yeah, no, yeah.
Darius: And so it just messed up his travel chain. But no, 2.5, Issa, keep working hard. Can't knock them all out of the park.
Jordan: Can't win them all.
Darius: No.
Jordan: And we're rooting for you.
Darius: All right. Thanks for listening. My name is Darius. That's Deez I love the area on all socials.
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