The Hauntology of Heathers

cold pizza party

Matthew from Liquid Flannel joins us to talk Heathers and its preemptively-cancelled TV reboot. We talk first about the movie, with its critique of the shiny, happy, John Hughes-style movies of the Reagan era, and how its politics translated across multiple Republican administrations, resonating with disaffected suburban kids like Ljubica in each of those dark times. Then, we talk about the show that should have never been made. A show so violent and bad they won't air it in the United States of America. Where is the line between bad-watchable (Lifetime movies) and bad-unwatchable (Hallmark movies)? Matthew talks about the show's disdain for its audience and characters, and Ljubica presents a theory on the show's unwatchability coming down to its deeply hauntological project. This is a behemoth-sized episode with three people who are certainly the world's foremost experts on the Heathers TV show, having finished it, so please listen, learn, and enjoy! Linkz: Cuck Philosophy's vid on Hauntology-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSvUqhZcbVg The Liquid Flannel Podcast- https://twitter.com/liquid_flannel https://soundcloud.com/user-947004816 Our Ep (referenced in show): https://soundcloud.com/user-947004816/liquid-ping-pong-pizza-feat-cold-pizza-party-episode-101 Riding out to New Order's Temptation 87