The Watchers Watch Hiding Out

Yellowjackets might be taking a break, but The Watchers doesn't quit. Jodie and Andrea are using the off-season break to share the movies that made them the kind of people who were destined to be obsessed with a show like Yellowjackets.

It’s time to strap on your skates, trade your five hundred dollar jacket in for an old bum’s trenchcoat, and, for the love of god, please don’t date a highschooler. Andrea made Jodie watch the 1987 generation squeeze flick, Hiding Out, and they are both struggling with that fact. Hiding Out is a mostly pleasant, sometimes funny movie that gives Jon Cryer the chance to be sort of charming, but it also asks you to root 29-year-old Andrew’s relationship with his 17-year-old classmate, Ryan (played by the delightful Annabeth Gish). It’s complicated. We’re conflicted. We also talk a lot about Jersey, a little about roller skating, and Andrea uncovers something deep in her psyche that, honestly, she’s still dealing with right now as she writes these episode notes.

For next week, Jodie picked the movie she has been most wanting to cover since we started covering movies on The Watchers, 1990’s Pump Up the Volume. It’s a coming-of-age high school comedy-drama starring Christian Slater and featuring an incredible soundtrack. You can’t stream this one on any of the regular services (probably because of that incredible soundtrack), BUT you can watch it for free in two different places. Pick whichever suits your preference.

• In a seamless, 20 part playlist on Youtube
• In full, through the Internet Archive

Here’s the article Jodie recommended: Inside The Rink, the Iconic Roller Skating Hot Spot That Ruled North Jersey in the ’80s and ’90s by Amy Kuperinsky

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