BookLovers

BookLovers: Episode 51

Episode 51: Patricia Wants to Cuddle

November 27, 2023


We found the intersection of Joseph’s conspiracy theory-addled brain and Rea & Jess’s obsession with pop culture: Patricia Wants to Cuddle. Our titular queen just wants what we all want: to love and be loved. So what if she’s a bigfoot? And so what if America’s biggest reality dating competition happens to be in Patricia’s actual backyard? If anything, that just means that she’s more likely to find what she’s looking for. The humans of The Catch land on Otters Island hoping for different kinds of success, from fame and fortune to true love with a sleazy bachelor, but what they find is a musty old bed and breakfast and a very eerie feeling of being watched in a different way than how they want to be watched. In this episode, we’re talking conspiracy theories (mostly Joseph’s), the way writers lift the curtain on behind-the-scenes moments in TV and movies, and the delight of stop-motion animation, as exemplified by Chicken Run.



Titles discussed:

  • Chicken Run, directed by Nick Park and Peter Lord
  • The Wallace & Gromit film series, created by Nick Park
  • Clash of the Titans, directed by Desmond Davis
  • Hercules, directed by Luigi Cozzi
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell
  • Missing Link, directed by Chris Butler
  • The films of Hayao Miyazaki
  • “The Red Shoes” by Hans Christian Andersen
  • Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen
  • Unreal, created by Marti Noxon and Sarah Gertrude Shapiro
  • Love Island, created by ITV Studios
  • The Ultimatum, created by Chris Coelen
  • The Patterson-Gimlin film
  • The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained by Colin Dickey

 

Titles from the RA Corner:

  • The One by Julia Argy
  • Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America’s Favorite Guilty Pleasure by Amy Kaufman
  • American Cosmic: UFOs, Religions, Technology by Diana Walsh Pasulka
  • Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
  • Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly
  • Small Game by Blair Braverman