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PCJ Pop #13 · Pop Culture Junkie®

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  Welcome to your PCJ Pop where we let you know what you should read, watch, listen to all
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  of the above.
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  If we don't like it, neither should you.
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  Olivia, what are you popping this week?
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  Well, Shauna, recent events have really had me thinking about a show that I watched,
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  that I really, really did love. It gets a little cookie in the end, but in the beginning,
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  it's really, really good. It's a season one and season two amazing pieces of television.
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  And this is on HBO. It is the show called The Leftovers. Have you ever seen it?
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  No, I've heard of it, but I've never seen it. Tell me about it.
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  Okay. So it is a show that is set three years after the disappearance of 2% of the global
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  human population. A group of people in a small New York community try to, like we follow
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  these characters in like a tiny little town who are trying to deal with the aftermath
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  of 2% of the population just randomly disappearing one day.
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  That's it, only 2%.
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  Yeah. And so 2% of people of the human population just disappeared. No explanation, no idea why.
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  And it is how does society actually deal with that and try to come back from it? And you
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  know, it's not necessarily like, oh, this is the rapture. This is like aliens. You have
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  no idea what happened. Yeah. And it's, and it's the story of how would people and communities
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  survive after something like that? Such a good show. It is amazing. Like it, it has
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  Justin Thoreau. It has lived Tyler in it. It has Amy Brennan. And it is created by Damon
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  Lindelof and Tom Perota. Is it a comedy? Oh, no. Oh, it's a drama. Oh, it's an HBO show.
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  It is very, very dark in it is kind of like, okay, how do people move on from, you know,
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  this moment where, you know, so given everything that has been going on recently with the, the
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  tizzy that was going on, it really was making me think of this show. And the show is really
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  quite profound. It gets a little kooky towards the end. But the first two seasons are amazing.
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  It's actually one of the first things that I saw Justin Theroux be like a leading man
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  in. Is it already finished? Yes. Thank you.
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  You can watch the entire thing. How many seasons are there? I think there are three toto.
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  I have them. Season one and two good, good watching. Then it gets a little crazy, but it
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  also has Carrie Coon in it and has Margaret Qualley. It has Ann Dowd in it. So really some,
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  I would say right before a lot of these actors blew up. They were in the show. And honestly,
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  it makes sense why they blew up because it is just such a crazy psychological drama like post-apocalyptic
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  or start making it and kind of thing. So it's very, very good.
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  I have to give this a try. You sold me this way. Yeah, I think given everything that has been
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  going on, it's the perfect. Rack to think, you know, what if that really did happen? How
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  would we move on as a society? Love it. My pop this week is one of my favorite movies of
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  all time. It's kind of one of my comfort movies that I'll put on when I don't feel like watching
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  something new. And also kind of apocalyptic. It's called Warm Bodies. So this is from 2013.
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  A terrible plague has left the planet's population divided between zombies and humans. There's an
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  unusual zombie named R who is played by Nicholas Hoult. So hot. Oh my god, he's so hot in this movie.
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  And so he forms kind of a friendship with Julie played by Teresa Palmer and rescues her.
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  And we kind of see are evolve over the course of the movie as they form this friendship. It
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  is a horror movie, a comedy, a romance. It has also, let's see here, John Malkovich, Dave
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  Franco, Rob Corddry. It has a pretty stacked cast in there. And it always just makes me,
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  I don't know. I love seeing how he changes over the course of the movie. Our is internal monologue,
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  even though he's a zombie and is walking all zombie like is just his internal monologue. So he's
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  like, come on, man, don't be a dick. Like say something normal, say something normal. And it comes
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  out as like, it's so funny and heartfelt. It's on Amazon Prime. Have you ever seen this movie,
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  Olivia? I have. Yes. And I really liked it. I think it was one of the first ones that like subverted
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  the scary zombie and made it kind of like a silaguffy. Yeah. Kind of reminds me of I zombie.
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  Even though I mean in I zombie, she is just like a walking talking human who happens to be a zombie.
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  Whereas he is a straight up zombie who kind of changes over the course of time. But yeah,
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  I'm going to go ahead and pop warm bodies this week. It is a movie that you can watch on Amazon Prime.
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  And Olivia is popping the leftovers a series that you can watch on HBO or HBO Max, whatever it's
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  called now. Whatever they're saying nowadays. And that'll do it for your PCJ Pop.