BONUS: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
We watched the movie before Riverdale has a chance to ruin it…
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CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of sexual relationships with a minor, trauma, sexual abuse, physical and emotional abuse, transphobia and transmisogyny, drag, medical abuse and malpractice.
This week, Angel, the creator of Finding Atlas (To Have and to Hold), joins us for a crossover with Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?! to watch and review the 2001 film version of Hedwig and the Angry Inch before Riverdale comes back this week for their Hedwig musical episode. We’re getting very nervous about how Riverdale is going to handle this, given their track history visiting gratuitous, awful trauma on their queer characters. Because Hedwig is a complicated story about queerness, trauma, love, pain, and redemption, and with a singular vision of its creator, John Cameron Mitchell. It’s an outstanding film that’s both firmly rooted in the time it was made while also being incredibly universal and poignant. In fact, it’s probably the best rock opera ever produced, and we don’t say that lightly. So before Riverdale takes a crack at it, go watch the film and listen to our review of an amazing, profound, and extremely fun film in The Doghouse!
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Interstitial music taken from "Make Up" from the compilation album Kamelot by Distortions. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license. To hear the song or get more information about the artist, visit the song page at Jamendo.
Excerpts taken from the film Hedwig and the Angry Inch, copyright 2001 New Line Productions, Inc. All rights reserved.
Excerpts taken from “Angry Inch” and “Wig in a Box” from the original motion picture soundtrack of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, with music and lyrics by Stephen Trask, and performed by John Cameron Mitchell, Miriam Shor, Perry James, Ted Liscinski, Stephen Trask, and Bob Mould. Copyright 2001 Hybrid Recordings.
