Don’t Worry, Darling (2022) w/ Julia Gledhill | Ep. 62

Podcast: Bang-Bang Podcast · Van and Lyle are Bang-Bang

Opublikowano: 2026-03-15

Van and Lyle are joined by Julia Gledhill (of The Un-Diplomatic Podcast and Stimson Center fame) to revisit Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry, Darling, a film dismissed by many critics as a glossy pastiche but better understood as a deliberate medley of American ideological fantasies. Set in the manicured desert enclave of the “Victory Project,” the movie opens in Ray Charles warmth before sliding into rigid choreography: Men drive off in unison, women clean in unison, then glide into ballet formation as their instructor intones, “There is beauty in symmetry… we move as one.” The aesthetic excess isn’t a...