We're Worried, Darling | Guilty Pleasures Ep. 78 

It bugged me A LOT that Olivia marketed this movie as “female pleasure” but NONE OF IT WAS CONSENSUAL?? Like, if you’re trapped against your will and dont know whats going on then you cannot consent?? So all of the sex scenes that were hot and fun were made extremely uncomfy?? Which would have been fine (because thats the point) except she didnt market it that way?

“I can’t really figure out the metaphor but do you think she feels suffocated?” 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I feel like the most implausible thing about the movie was a 1960’s husband who wanted to go down on his wife that much

"With this fuckin spine?" had me on the floor

i really had beef with how they used acne/skin texture to make harry “ugly.” it was giving fat suit energy, like this actor can’t carry the persona we need so let’s just change his physical presentation to reflect what society views as unattractive when in reality these are just very neutral body characteristics some people happen to have. rubbed me the wrong way

Bless Kelsey for giving this movie so many props lmao good thing she has long arms cause she was REACHING

A fan asked Olivia what the red plane was at Harry MSG n15 and she said “omg it’s so complicated” and basically ignored the question entirely

I love how everyone in the internet collectively laughed when Harry yelled FUCK

I would’ve liked if when the neighbor jumped off the roof, that Flo’s character would’ve gone back into the mindset of a surgeon and acted to save her, instead of them just dragging her away. Like as a way for her to recall her life before.. yknow? And then everyone gaslighting her about how traumatic it must of been and her just feeling something familiar in the moment.

My issue is that it implies that only “greasy, ugly” men can be incels but “normal” men can be as well and I think would be more realistic if he was normal or good looking had a perfectly good life but still wasn’t happy as we see and wanted more so resorts to the VR work

I loved when Harry said “I’m worried, darling” truly one of the movies of all time, like a go-to-the-theater movie

"do you rub your eyebrows in there?" "BETTER HELP."

Keith's comment on the movie summed up my feelings "Yes, he was right, it was a movie"

literally the script reading from Zach was so much more intense than what the movie was described as..a missed opportunity

“White feminism the movie” RUINED me Fjfhdh

I got SO annoyed when Jack’s character ignored the huge dinner Alice made to have sex with her on the dining table lol

as much as i love harry i can’t bring myself to watch this movie so i’m considering this the official review

I want an entire episode discussing who is the hottest Chris

“the way this movie says WELL I RAN OUT OF PAGES IN THE SCRIPT SO HERE ARE SOME VISUALS” thank yooooou garrick i feel so seen, in the review i posted on my channel i just couldn’t get over how much of this freaking movie was simply VIBES instead of anything concrete like a plot or an ending…! sigh this episode was such a delight, good to have you all back!

I saw this film in theaters, and what Garrick said is true -- when the movie ended there was a palpable murmur in the theater of everyone looking around and whispering... uhhhhhhhh what? It made absolutely no sense but blabbering to friends about how dumb it was is fun as heck.

Kelsey's takes are very white feminist rooted...like I love you girl, but as a PoC woman I did not connect to this movie at all and agree with Garrick and Zach. We don't have to like this movie just because a woman made it - Olivia tried so hard to be deep but all of it was frazzled and the pace made no sense. This movie was not good - it's entertaining, but I certainly do not conflate that with being "good". There are more cons than pros.

@38:40 “If this movie was an hour, I would’ve been like ‘oh, sick.’” Hit the nail on the head. This would’ve been a great black mirror episode (if they also cut out the confusing bits that they never bothered to explain, like Gemma Chan’s character stabbing Chris Pine lol).

In regards to Gemma Chan looking like an AI & being the epitome of inhuman perfection, it's interesting cause she actually plays an AI in a British TV show called Humans.

Kelseys whole part of talking about the earth quakes making us all think she had the answer had ne crying😂😂😂

the original script was SO much better and i feel like they changed it just because ppl saw the twist coming but even still it would've been less messy if they hadn't forced whatever it was they THOUGHT they could do

My biggest question is what happens when she wakes up strapped to that bed, muscles weak from inactivity, alone next to her dead ex? I would have loved get clarity on that.

Her just wanting her life back was enough. Just wanting your life is enough. She was a successful surgeon. She had a life. Wanting that is enough, especially when someone else decides for you that you can't have it.

I'm happy seeing them laughing and smiling again

Margaret's son who disappeared had a red plane, and Margaret was seen holding that plane multiple times. I think the plane was supposed be Alice's mind questioning her world in the form of Margaret's red plane. Also explains why it disappeared because it was only in her mind.

“Did he go down on her? He doesn’t •stop• going down on her. He’s goin’ nomnomnomnomnom.”

Olivia really said “what if the Stepford Wives was in a computer and bad?”

the original script feels a lot like shutter island with the is he actually crazy or not and that would’ve been so gooddddd

What if a yt woman tried to write get out?” Is literally exactly what I was thinking after that twist, ngl esp since they cut out like all of Margaret’s plot. a couple points tho: we actually do know that the men are the only ones not trapped there bc they “go to work” every day and that’s the only way any of them get to leave the simulation; the movie is actually 2 hrs long and the entire middle hour goes from around either Alice seeing the plane crash or seeing Margaret “fall” all the way to the end of the dinner party show down/w Chris Pine and literally NOTHING is revealed that entire time including when Alice steals Margaret’s medical file and every single thing is redacted!!! Like wtf was even the point of that scene if she wasn’t going to find out any information?!??? Also, the way the guys felt about slapping a greasy wig, glasses and some acne on Harry Styles and calling him ugly is the same way women feel about every single makeover movie lmao like they literally put Sandra Bullock, Anne Hathaway, Emma Stone, etc in baggy clothes, glasses, and a frizzy/curly wig (which is a little racist ngl) and pretend no one would ever be attracted to them. It’s laughable but not really bc it’s actually infuriating. Lastly, The incel aspect of this movie actually was very vindicating for me, esp bc the male lead(s) *were* these attractive, charismatic ppl bc too many ppl think incels are just ugly guys. The fact that in the real world Harry Styles’ character started out as his simulation self for the most part until he lost his job and started feeling emasculated at which point he started being shitty & gross really points out that *Every Man* who thinks he’s entitled to a woman is an incel. And I actually like that part of the movie. The fact that it barely spent any time on the most horrific elements of the plot, pretended to be a mystery despite not knowing *how* to mystery and was too horrific to not be a horror movie, and the outright refusal to focus on either of the WOC despite their plot lines being the most interesting parts of the film really brought the whole thing down for me.

I think the fact that we knew Alice was not crazy and was not imagining things made us empathize with her frustration when being gaslighted

I'm here for friendship time! Excited to be invited 😊

*This comment contains spoilers* I don’t understand how Olivia kept making a big deal of a woman having oral sex and expressing “pleasure” on screen when you learn that she was forced into that stimulation. It was a reflection of the husband’s paradise, not hers. With that context, it comes across as sexual assault….the exact OPPOSITE of empowerment.

Gemma Chan as a type of future human perfection is why she was perfect in Humans and why I’m always distracted by her presence anywhere else. But I’m okay with the distraction because she’s also a phenomenal actress.

"With this fucking spine" is apparently what I needed to live another day.

i liked this movie because it felt like a movie, you know? one of those real, filmed with cameras, movies. a movie

Another thing to bring up about the female pleasure thing is that all of the “female pleasure” we see in the movie is without their consent. So idk why Olivia said that lol.

Just happy to see Zach looking happy.

"If a white woman wrote 'Us'." 🤣🤣🤣

Nice for Zach to have a distraction.

I was just left with soo many questions after this movie. I wish they spent more time explaining the ins and outs of the twist!

Honestly, I watched this episode not having seen the movie. Mostly because I wanted to hear Garrick hate it, Kelsey love it, and Zach be confused. The fact that all three of you had different opinions, as I suspected, made me want to go to the theater once the pod finished. I DID and I'm TEAM PLEASURE on this one. Possible better titles though could have been: 1. Toxic and Fragile Masculinity: The Movie 2. Gaslight Me, Darling 3. Eat Me Out, Harry 4. Black Mirror: Not in a Good Way 5. Fast and Furious: 1950s 6. If Dahmer Hadn't Become a Serial Killer

Garrick talking about mom’s imagining this about video games was legit

I love friendship time 🥰🥰🥰

Alice was a surgical intern meaning that it was her first year as a surgeon, she worked a lot of hours, and got paid very little…

Y'all need to see both of the Stepford Wives adaptations if you haven't already. The 1975 adaptation is a cult classic. The 2004 version is 100% a guilty pleasure and also had crazy behind the scenes drama with a star studded cast: Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler, Glenn Close, the list goes on!

Wow I am so Happy that Zach is just as enraged about all the plot wholes and the bad script as I was.

Aye, my boyfriend and I went to see this and we both loved it. He looked at me during the first thirty minutes and said, “You trapped me into seeing a romance.” then by the end he’s going, “That movie was pretty great.”

I always watched try guys videos but try pods are actually more enjoyble to me suddenly. Very comforting fr some reason, wish I had such conversations if I had friends.

Kelsey FIGHTIN FOR HER LIFE over this movie

Did anyone else see the twist coming a mile away? After one trailer I could see where they were going. If you've heard of Stepford Wives it's not hard to fit together what they're doing.

This movie is a Twitter bio that’s tried to cram as many dog whistle words in as it can. As a woman who hasn’t seen the movie- the most unbelievable part for me is an incel going down on a woman, never mind voraciously. This was a great podcast, really enjoyed listening to you all. And as a fellow full time sick bitch, I related to zacks “with this neck?” on a spiritual level

The movie suddenly got better after Zach started reading the original script. 😂

I'd love to see one where you talk about Bros. Maybe Eugene would come back for that one. That movie didn't get enough respect.

"I don't HAVE the internet!" NOT EVEN A MINUTE IN AND IM HOLLERING

"do you rub your eyebrows in there?" "yeah" *cuts to betterhelp ad*

I'm thankful the scandal brought me to this podcast that has a lot of my favourite online people that I never knew existed.

i appreciated this a lot cause once the movie actually came out i havent heard a single person actually talk about the movie itself/ also so glad we are back to out regularly scheduled friendship time.

Kelsey is trying wayy too hard to defend this movie like sis just say it was bad and gooo 😭😂 We all know it was

I JUST ABOUT DIED LAUGHING WITH THE TIMING OF THE BETTER HELP AD AHAHAHAAAAA LIKE “you’re definitely gonna need therapy after THAT conversation”

So happy Zach is back and Garrick is back in person!

Hearing the ending to the original script makes me want to watch Shutter Island. Like was Leo's character actually insane or was he being convinced that he was insane??? They should have stuck with the original script 🤔 because even having it be open ended is more interesting than being like "yes,she was definitely in a simulation"

i’m using this video as a replacement for going to theaters and watching the movie

K: "Doou rub your eyebrows in it??" G: "Yea." **cut to sponsorship** amazing.

I think I’ve officially soaked up all the don’t worry darling drama now, and on the way found 3 new podcast to listen to! 🎉🎉

This makes me think Kelsey would watch anything

I read a review saying "Harry Styles was as good as he needed to be." THE SHADE

I’m glad Kelsey was there to defend her pov. Everything she said is exactly what i felt!! A pleasure for sure

I’m surprised that they didn’t cover the score in this movie because I feel like while this movie definitely had its guilts, the music in the back helped a lot during a lot of those tense scenes and that the score itself was a pleasure.

Thanks for this! For therapy, I have to do 1 hour for myself and my art. Hearing you guys while I filled some pages on my sketchbook was AMAZING! Have a great week!

Loved Kelsey breaking out into Rent 😂

Once I heard “this is friendship time” I was all in! We all need some quality Zach friendship time.

My main problem with this movie is that it was marketed as female empowerment and female pleasure... when the whole plot twist was about women being held captive and being literally sexually abused/rap3d. ALSO how the movie made it seem how incels are "ugly" "undesirable" guys when a majority of them fit into the standard of "normal/atractive male". So many abusers don't look "scary" or "greasy"

A friend of mine said the red planes were like the red lights moving across her eyes.

It's so good to have some normalcy! 😊

Hey fellas let's show a bit more support these days, with the engagement I mean, the guys are going through a lot in the business side of things it seems

I am very embarrased to confess that i never seen / heard this podcast before. I am so happy i listened to it, so much fun!

“You rub your eyebrows in it?” “Yeah.” Immediate ad for betterhelp. Sorry, didn’t hear the first half of that ad because I was falling out of my chair laughing.

Ill let yall know the Red Plane was supposed to be the red lasers over her eyes, i know its random but yeah

I haven’t watched this yet, but are y’all gonna do Everything Everywhere All at Once? PLEEEEEAAASSSSE

I actually find Harry being in it vs Shia makes more sense especially with the twist

I am with Garrick - just from the synopsis alone (available from similar video reviews just like this one) the story line does not make any sense. And now we know why - turns out it's more of a tampered script case instead of a half baked first script case. I mean that original script sounded great! (Though turned out Ms. Wilde and co thought they could pull Christopher Nolan level mind game...which was simply *not true* in this case 💀). Also I swear Kelsey made the movie's current story sounding more reasonable than it actually is 😅😅🙈 Anyhoo glad to hear you three again! 😺

As a straight up and down sci-fi thriller. I enjoyed it. I think it should have been evenly paced and not so rushed at the end, BUT overall its like a 6/10.

EDITORS PLS CHECK 54:13

I also liked it Kelsey! Also I thought that the ending with Gemma Chan’s character could be interpreted that she was the one who actually created the whole thing and she had Chris Pine’s character as her front man because she knew that the only way it would work is if men thought it was a man’s idea. That’s what I got out of it.

Sorry about your recent issues but glad it brought me to the podcast

One the Halloween movie note, I hope they will do the entire Halloweentown saga. That would be interesting

GP’s needs to do a movie that passes the Bechdel test but also considers feminism in a more broad sense. Especially the perspective of black women, more so than I think this movie was attempting to portray. The fact that Olivia said going down on a women is empowering… that’s weird. Like hell yeah for female pleasure but Florence’s entire character is in an non consensual relationship… that shouldn’t be bragged about… He is still doing it to her, not with her. I just wish I had more respect for this movie because I love seeing Female directors do cool shit ❤

Just wanted to say is it just me or is Kelsey absolutely glowing in this episode? Skin care please

kelsey: you rub your eyebrows in it? garrick: yeah A++

Olivia's character mentions that none of the other women knew but her

20:57 Yessss. When Alice came back from the "treatment" I was watching him like, "Jack all you need is a good shave my dawg"

Not sure if Kelsey's supposed to be blurred starting @ 54:13

From my conversations with folks around this movie it's very clear that women recognized that there was far more depth to the film than men - go off Kelsey 😂💗🔥

I always love listening to Kelsey talk, shes so funny! Props to her and Garrick for filling in to give Zach a break, they're a delight!

You know what takes way less energy than kidnapping your ex-wife, faking her death & keeping her in a VR hellscape against her will? Therapy. Just go to therapy.

no no, you guys are right. As soon as I left the theater, I ranted about the movie for 10 minutes. My friend and I decided it was a cult, Bunny agreed with her husband to live in the fantasy that her children were still alive (mimicking WandaVision), the ballet was part of the brainwashing (teaching order and repetitiveness like Black Widow), Margaret was the red flag of course, Jack obviously felt his husband dynamic off-balance because his wife wasn't giving him attention and making more money (he was 'looking out for her' to feel like he had the protector of women role), Shelley saying that it's her turn is basically a hint of the cult's reconstruction and a message that women do it better, and the point was that it was supposed to be feminism, but in contrary, it was just the scope of how women were viewed back in time. I expected Alice to burn down the whole neighborhood when she kills Jack because we saw that violent tension between her and the leader of the cult, Frank. But no. Alice runs out and takes a few seconds to even recognize what was happening (which made no sense bc her being a surgeon does not fit her freaking out the whole time). I originally thought she was gonna do something to break the system, some type of action after exiting the world. Breaking the set, running out her apartment, looking at her husband's body, or immediately contacting someone! Very unsatisfying ending. The concept was good. It was a good idea, but it was not executed well.