4: Episode 4: Heartbreak Feels Good in a Place Like This

In which Gabby & Brandon find themselves embroiled in an imitation game. Following Amy Adams’ career through the Century of Tubs, we find ourselves face to face with the bathing scenes of the modern traumatized woman of the psychological thriller, and one of the authors responsible for rejuvenating the genre: Gillian Flynn, she of Gone Girl and Sharp Objects.

Unfortunately, there’s another podcast stalking ours, and its focus is another 21st-Century Bathing Queen: Nicole Kidman. In this episode, an exploration of profitable trauma and all its imitators, all devoured by the endless hunger of streaming giants that just may want to turn a certain podcast into a TV docu-series. But is it the pod you’re thinking of?

News clips from CNBC International Live, The Wall Street Journal/Good Morning America, and BBC News.

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