Breakfast All Day Podcast 6/26/20
Oh how we longed for “Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga” to be great; sadly, the only thing great about it is the running time, which is over two hours. It has some amusing moments in its celebration of international musical kitsch, though, as Matt, Alonso and I discuss this week on Breakfast All Day. We also review the disappointing political satire “Irresistible” and the family-friendly action comedy “My Spy,” which is the last screening a lot of us critics attended before COVID-19 shut down the world. As always, we begin with Coronavirus news, including the decision to move Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” yet again. And over at our Patreon, we recap the first two episodes of the teen dramedy series “Love, Victor” on Hulu. You’re welcome in advance for getting “Volcano Man” stuck in your head. Listen and enjoy.
If you want to know how Jon Stewart’s “Irresistible” could go so wrong I give you his 2010 “Rally to Restore Sanity” event. I attended it and, while it had its moments, it was mostly bland.
t the time Fox was totally over the top. And the Tea Party was new and the press took far too long to figure out that it was mostly a “movement” that was manufactured by big bucks conservatives to serve their ends and not Tea Party supporters. But, rather than being sharp and pointed, the event was bland and even handed.
Stewart did a great job of highlighting the insanity of the right wing on his show. But that sort of thing was completely absent from the rally. If “sane and sensible” was going to get the job done then the GOP would have already imploded by the time the Rally took place.
And we have all been forced to live through what’s happened since 2010. It was definitely a missed opportunity. And the person who engineered the miss was Stewart. I dearly love the man but he has a giant blind spot.