On this Election Day’s episode, Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark), Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post), and Peter Suderman (Reason) discuss Warner Bros. baffling decision to bury Clint Eastwood’s Juror No. 2. Why deprive young fogeys like this trio of a primo legal procedural from an aging master? Then they reviewed Conclave, another movie holding well at the box office designed to appeal to precisely the same market that Eastwood’s movie would have been aimed at. Is this Vatican-set thriller worth your time? Will the ending make you laugh out loud? All that and more on this week’s episode! If you enjoyed it (or know someone who could use an Election Day distraction), please share it with a friend!
I'm glad the Bulwark has this sort of discussion, thanks Sonny keep it up
Sonny, with due respect, I know you’re a smart guy. However, talk less and let your guests talk more. I listened to the podcast but I found your incessant input, well, boorish. Oh, I’m a new subscriber, and a Catholic, and found your comments about the religion specious. If ya don’t know, don’t say. That said, I offer this in good faith and a retired-year journalist and media vet.
lol thanks for chiming in
Thanks for responding! Wish Substack had been around when I was trying to start an “Election Tech” newsletter during the aftermath of Trump’s first election. Alas, it got no traction. Kudos to all of you at the Bulwark for sustaining an ad-free media outlet. I helped launch the commercial Internet in the mid-1990s. You can blame me in part for going along with media’s corrupting addiction to advertising. I rue the day.
Juror #2 is exactly the kind of movie my wife and I would go to in a heartbeat but there are so few of these days. Depressing that they are not releasing. You can't tell me they couldnt get $35 million in theaters. WB should change their name to WTF.
Saw Conclave. Good movie. It's not a great film but was entertaining and was the kind of movie released that Juror #2 could be.
The people demand procedurals!
Well, the people demand something for a night at the theater other than Marvel films, Fast and Furious sequels and bad rom coms.