Brittany Luce

So I needed some big brains to tease this out.

With me,

are NPR arts critic Bob Mondello and New York Magazine film critic Alison Wilmore.

Bob, Alison, are your brains ready to discuss this?

Are you ready to dissect this?

Yeah, I'll never be ready.

Okay, well, we should just jump right in then.

Hello, hello.

I'm Brittany Luce, and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR, a show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident.

I will say that the word that came up for me when watching the Melania doc was shiny.

Like her hair was very shiny.

Everything had the sheen of like Lisa Vanderpump's house.

Everything feels very glossy and soft focused in a way that's very flattering.

And that is the overall impression that I got from this entire affair.

Which, you know, is not exactly the thing I think that comes to mind when people think about documentary and kind of this unvarnished, you know, perspective on someone's life or a certain event.

Yes.

Yeah.

Alison, you chose the word airless.

What scene really captures why that word fits for you?

It reminded me of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.