IDMB Episode 210 - Ma

Ma is neither great nor terrible, though its quality would certainly lean more towards the latter if not for the casting of and rewriting for Octavia Spencer, whose portrayal of a character not written to be African-American lends a subtext of tokenism and how victimization perpetuates victimization.

After a discussion of the film, some news on the direction of the podcast for the remainder of the year (SPOILERS: it's horror).