One Battle After Another: PTA's Dystopian Family Dramedy

In their first episode, Mia and Joe dive into One Battle After Another, PTA’s most political and provocative film yet. From ensemble performances to fetish, class shame, and state power, they explore why this film unsettles—and why that matters. Much buzzed about as 2026’s Best Picture winner (having already nabbed that Golden Globe prize), it’s a rollicking modern fable in three arresting acts, featuring a dynamite cast and a whole wacky range of ideas. Beneath the PR campaign, the director’s legacy and the star studding, does it have something substantive to say? And what does it show us about the world we live in today?