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It is time now to check out what is hot and what is not on our screens, big and small. I'm joined in studio by RTU Guide film editor Michael Doherty and pop culture journalist and podcaster Fionnuala Jones. You're both very, very welcome. Hi. Michael, I might start with you. Lola Petticrew, our very own Lola Petticrew, is starring as a serial killer in a new dark thriller.
Yeah, this is really interesting because it's actually it's based on if you might have seen Bob Ravelson's movie Black Widow. And back then, it was like 1987. It was very simple. It was a serial killer and she was a gold digger and she was a bad person and she killed people. This is in a post Me Too era. And it's very interesting that the character played by Lola is somebody who's she's killing.
What new dark thriller stars Lola Petticrew and how does Furious update the Black Widow trope?
She's killing people. She's killing blokes, which is killing toxic blokes, bad blokes. And what's interesting is that the FBI agent played by Emmy Rossum, who's after her, has just come out of a really bad experience with a toxic bloke. So there's a certain amount of empathy there. She wants to stop her. She wants to catch her. But there's a link between the two. It's a bit like a Killing Eve thing as well that's going on.
Yeah, it's called Furious. It's on Disney+. It sounds intense.
It is intense and it goes on like it's eight episodes and it's quite, it is very dark. But I think that's the whole point of it. I mean, as we know from Disney, I mean, Disney in the past was always a fluffy bunny and fairies and all that. But actually now Disney has some hard-hitting series and this is one. And great to see Lola Pettigrew. You mentioned our Lola Pettigrew, wonderful Belfast actress who has, she's done great work in recent years. Like Trespassers was terrific. Say Nothing was terrific. She's one of our top stars. I remember seeing her and dating Amber and thinking, yeah, keep an eye out for her.
How does Furious explore post‑MeToo themes and the FBI agent's empathy for the killer?
And she is doing really well.
I'm looking forward to seeing that. Another Big Bang Theory spin-off, Fionnuala, taking us somewhere a little bit lighter. Yeah. Stuart Feels to Save the Universe.
Yeah, this is on HBO. And as you mentioned, it's the third Big Bang Theory spin-off, if people can believe that. So they spun off with young Sheldon, which followed one of the main characters, one of the main lads in the gang as a young child. And then George and Mandy's first marriage is kind of a direct sequel to that. this is completely different and you know what I was kind of ready to be allergic to it because I fell off Big Bang Theory I was kind of stuck with it for a couple of seasons but the humour just kind of got to grate on me after a little while this coming from Chuck Lorre who obviously did Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men it's a very specific type of sitcom Could it get any loopier?
Could it get any loopier? It does with this, because as I said, I was kind of ready to roll my eyes. I kind of was a little bit charmed by this, I have to be honest. So follow Stuart, who ran the comic book store in the original series, right? But it is a bit mental in the sense that the clue's kind of in the title. It's a bit post-apocalyptic. Basically, two of the lads in the original series, Sheldon and Leonard, have built this multiverse device. It's caused havoc. Stuart is the only one that can fix it, apparently. Stuart from the future comes to tell him, you need to do it. If you're familiar with him in the series, he's a bit of a, you know, like he's not a great protagonist in the sense that he's like not confident, he lacks confidence, stuff like that.
There's blood and guts in this, there's gore, but it's the same kind of Big Bang Theory humour. But it's kind of an interesting take on the post-apocalyptic world of it all.
this charmed you Fionnuala Michael yesterday we had Alan Gilson and John Walsh in talking to us about their feature length documentary The Irish Question it's an extraordinary piece of work It really is I was listening to it it was a very interesting interview with the two lads what's interesting as well is when you think of The Irish Question I always think
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:39
2
What new dark thriller stars Lola Petticrew and how does Furious update the Black Widow trope?
0:39–1:31
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How does Furious explore post‑MeToo themes and the FBI agent's empathy for the killer?
1:31–5:29
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What is Stuart Saves the Universe and how does this Big Bang Theory spin‑off reinvent the character?
5:29–8:13
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How does Stuart Feels to Save the Universe mix post‑apocalyptic gore with Big Bang Theory humour?
8:13–9:42
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What does the new documentary The Irish Question examine about modern Ireland and Brexit?
9:42–9:49