Episode 8: The Gender-Blind Crucible

This week we watched the 1996 film adaptation of an Arthur Miller play, The Crucible. Our girl Wino 4Ever serves an excellent performance here (as usual), even though it's a little odd for her to have played a 17-year-old two years after she played Jo March at various ages. The 90s were an odd time for portraying teenagers onscreen. 

Hell hath no fury like a pissed-off teenager.

In the episode, we look into the obvious ties between this story and the red scare Arthur Miller was living through when he wrote the play, as well as the historical accuracy and feminist implications of the story, but we'll keep the show notes pretty pithy.

Here are a few fun Crucible-related things you should look at: 

• "25 virgins and a bunch of Sprite at the Crucible cast party" 
• The title of this episode comes from 30 Rock's "Secret Santa" (season 4, episode 8). Watch it now before Netflix destroys my life by taking the show away.