The Odyssey: Masterpiece or Miscast?

What do you do when a movie is, by nearly every professional measure, a triumph — and a significant chunk of the audience decided they hated it before the trailer even finished? That's the strange position Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey found itself in this week. Critics are calling it career-best work. A section of viewers is furious about who got cast as Helen of Troy. I get into both sides of that split, walk through what Homer's actual three-thousand-year-old story is even about, and teach you the English you need to say "this is great, and also, I get the criticism" — without flattening either half into a lie.If you want extra content and wish to support us, visit our Patreon Page.This episode is also available as a blog post disguised as an english lesson on our website.