The Watchers Watch Some Kind of Wonderful

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.

This week, Jodie helped Andrea cross the last remaining movie off her John Hughes list with the 1987 teen highschool romance, Some Kind of Wonderful. The two talk about the ways in which this movie is a gender-swapped Pretty in Pink and why it wasn’t easy to root for Watts and Keith OR Keith and Amanda to end up together. They discuss all of the gender stuff in this movie, and there’s a lot of it. More importantly than all of that though, they talk about the movie’s incredibly lovable punk, Duncan. And they discover that there are two kinds of people in this world, those of us who love the Molly Ringwald half of Hughes’ ouvre and those of us who are really just here for John Candy. 

From the episode:

“The Art of Perception: Some Kind of Wonderful” 

Gender Spiral’s recent interview with our fav, Liv Hewson

Next week, we’ve got another 1987 movie set in a high school. Strap on your skates, and do your best to outrun the mob because we’re watching Andrea’s pick, Jon Cryer and Keith Coogan’s Hiding Out. You can watch it in a few different places.

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Thanks to Kitzy (@heykitzy) for the use of our theme song, "No Book Club."