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Need a laugh in these trying times? 'One of Them Days' is the comedy for you
19 Feb 2025
Keke Palmer and SZA play two down on their luck friends who run into a series of hilarious unfortunate events in One of Them Days. Host Brittany Luse and IBAM producer Corey Antonio Rose joined NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour to discuss how this raunchy affair pulls off a story about friendship, unreasonable landlords, and gentrification.Support public media and receive ad-free listening & bonus. Join NPR+ today.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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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. So y'all probably already know this, but here are two of my favorite things in the whole world. One, I love to go to the movies. And two, I love to talk about movies. So, wow, lucky me.
NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour not only asked me to come on their show and talk about SZA and Keke Palmer's new movie, One of Them Days, they even got me tickets to go see it in theaters. Ah, I love you guys. Pop Culture Happy Hour's Stephen Thompson and Aisha Harris team up with me and my producer, Cory Antonio Rose, for an IBAM and Pop Culture Happy Hour collab.
to tell you why this new movie that gets into gentrification, young black womanhood, and the legacy of black comedy is an 85% success. And just so we're all on the same playing field, Stephen is going to give us all a synopsis of this film.
So, One of Them Days stars Kiki Palmer as a highly driven waitress named Drew. She's getting ready to interview for a promotion that would let her manage her own diner franchise. But it's the first of the month, and the rent is due, and it wasn't the wisest decision to delegate the rent drop-off to Drew's roommate and best friend Alyssa. She's a free-spirited visual artist played by SZA.
Alyssa has made the even less wise decision to delegate the rent drop-off to her no-good boyfriend, and you start to see where this is going. The rent money's gone, eviction is looming, and matters only spiral from there.
Soon enough, they're dealing with shady payday lenders, a neighborhood bully, and a visit to the blood bank where the first sign of trouble is the presence of Abbott Elementary's wonderful Janelle James. One of Them Days is in theaters now. Brittany, what did you think of One of Them Days?
I had fun. I had fun. I feel like the film advertised itself as like a fun, silly movie, and it was a fun, silly movie. I was charmed by SZA. She had a very warm on-screen presence that I was really surprised by, pleasantly surprised by. I had never really known her to act, so I didn't know what to expect. This is her first film role.
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