Don't Think Twice (with Sophie Long) - Actual Improv On Screen?!
THE ARC'S TAKE
We bring on an actual Chicago improviser to argue that "Don't Think Twice" gets the community right and the improv itself completely wrong — and end up debating whether the film's jealous, unsupportive troupe is a realistic portrait of ambition or just a group chat full of people who need therapy.
EPISODE SUMMARY
This week on The Arc, Sophie Long joins the crew from Sydney by way of Chicago improv school to talk about Mike Birbiglia's "Don't Think Twice" — a movie about a scrappy improv troupe that fractures the moment one member gets cast on a Saturday-Night-Live-style show…
The skinny
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