Promising Hung Men

Iris (and her fetus) join us to hit on Promising Young Woman (2020), Emerald Fennel’s bitterly funny debut feature. We talk about AI’s brain melting impact on teenagers, give kudos to the legion of fantastic actors in the film, and solve relations between men and women once and for all.    Promising Young Woman (2020) is a darkly comic thriller written and directed by Emerald Fennell, starring Carey Mulligan as Cassie, a smart but haunted woman living a double life. By day, she appears ordinary; by night, she enacts a secret plan confronting predatory men and the culture that enables them. Driven by grief and moral conviction, Cassie’s actions blur the line between justice and vengeance.