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Madam Narf vs The Rogue Scrunt - Lady in the Water: Media Club Plus S02E05
🕑 Added 2025-10-16 02:12:52 +0000 UTCWelcome to Media Club Plus: a podcast about diving into the media that interests us and the stories that excite us. This season we're watching a selection of M Night Shyamalan movies.
This episode we watched Lady in the Water and next time we'll be back with The Happening. Also Check out the Patreon next week for a watchalong of The Last Airbender with special guest Austin Walker.
Lady in the Water, more like Lady OUT OF the Water! Bryce Dallas Howard is back and she's hanging out with Paul Giamatti who, as Cleaveland Heep, is a former doctor who retreats into superintendency after suffering a deep personal loss. Bryce Dallas Howard, Story, is a Narf: a kind of mystical water-dweller whose ancient pact with humanity was broken by our violence and greed. But the Narfs are returning to try to bring enlightenment to humanity. None of that really is in the movie, which mostly features running around an apartment building trying to figure out how to get the Narf home via eagle. It's a weird one!
Featuring Keith Carberry (@KeithJCarberry, @KeithJCarberry), Sylvi Bullet (@SYLVIBULLET), Ali Acampora (@Ali-online), Arthur Martinez-Tebbel (@amtebbel) and Janine Hawkins in her Media Club Plus debut.
Produced by Keith Carberry
Music by Jack de Quidt (available at notquitereal.bandcamp.com)
Cover Art by by Annie Johnston-Glick (@dancynrew) anniejg.com
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Comments
mostlylegible
Pausing my listen to say I don't know if it's an intentional move, but I weirdly enjoy noticing the ever-extending length of podcast before anyone says the actual name of the movie (this time pretty sure it's just over 14.5 minutes, at the start of Ali's summary). Podcast yappers 4eva 💜
Jumungous
I remember reading once that Shyamalan came up with a whole theoretical framework for how the education system should operate, and if that's not a red flag, I don't know what is. At least David Lynch's work is incoherent on purpose.
