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S4E21: The Usual Suspects

🕑 Added 2025-08-23 08:39:40 +0000 UTC

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JoeNotCharles

Catching up on older episodes, so I'm late to suggest this: given how much trouble you had figuring out what his deal is, Kaufmann Star for "Kobayashi"?

Jazz Fox-Canning

Two weeks late bc I did stop until I watched the film for myself BUT on the topic of the homosexual themes: if we assume the crew were real, I'd like to make an argument that Fenster and McManus were textually gay. Mostly small things, like Fenster saying in the police lockup he had a finger up his ass and making jokes about seeing someone else's dad. But also McManus' very sentimental insistence that they bury Fenster with their own hands, that Fenster was "his partner for five years" (probably not how that word was intended in the nineties, but it colors my reading nonetheless), the fact that to my knowledge he was the only one who didn't crack a gay joke at Fenster OR push back about the "honeymoon in California." That being said, I don't think this is impactful on the SCUM score, and might even complicate it if the read-as-textual gay guys are the foppish one and the guy in a racist hat.

Brynn Hansen

It’s actually pretty easy to get gender affirming care in Utah if you live in the Salt Lake area.

Hovis

Random thought, could Glengarry Glen Ross be a heist movie?

puppygirl

"this is a movie you can get spoiled for you" yes, indeed, by this very podcast! see, s2 ep 2.5 winter kills

Tariq Moustapha

He didn't expect the Hungarian crew member to survive, but as he says "You think a guy like that comes this close to getting fingered and sticks his head out? ... After that, my guess is you'll never hear from him again."

Henry O'Brien

So something i don't quite get is that Keyser Soze orchestrated this entire elaborate plot in order to assassinate the one guy in the world who knew his face. And then at the end he gets away, but now there's a whole police station who knows what he looks like. So it doesn't seem like he's really gained anything out of all of this.

Strike3

It's not really a mark of quality if you get low or high points. I belive Goldfinger was their favorite Connery and it scored the highest

Kat W

kevin spacey got the dracula flow haircut in this

Ineloquent Reverie

1:11:20 excuse me Nova are you the Hayes Code now. You’re giving a movie thumbs downs because it showed the bad guy triumphant. Continued listening. Jesus h fuck Abigail straight up tried to take points off because you’re supposed to enjoy the action in this crime movie. I am starting to think that perhaps the scum system is not all that scientific, and may be, in fact, a borderline value-neutral joke number that pertains little if at all to a film’s quality.