Brian Park
47 works across 17 episodes; mostly films.
Film
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Aftersun
The comparison Blue Heron keeps getting, though Dan admits he never saw it. Middlebrow, Wedding Misalignment
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The Big Lebowski
Offered as the vibe of Zack's outfit, then conceded to be a backhanded compliment. Middlebrow, Easy As ABC Pants
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Blue Heron
Brian's rare movie rec: a vibe film saved by a formal swerve halfway through. Middlebrow, Wedding Misalignment
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Get Out
The verdict on Dan locked out of his room in a towel with nothing. Middlebrow, Middlebrow The Podcast The Newsletter The Show
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Gladiator
The VHS he saved up for, stabbing in the dark at culture without a guide. Middlebrow, Showing Home On Main
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Hereditary
Invoked for the scene everyone means when they say a film broke the plot. Middlebrow, Who's Your Surgeon
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I Am Sam
Shorthand for the register of Melton's innocence, meant affectionately. Middlebrow, Media For Women
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May December
Where Charles Melton began carving out his himbo character acting lane. Middlebrow, Media For Women
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Memento
Brian's verdict on the wrong film entirely, offered with total confidence. Middlebrow, Media For Women
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Memories of Murder
Still the scariest film he knows, though his co-host will only grant unsettling. Middlebrow, You're In My Shower
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Memories of Murder
Listed to establish Song Kang-ho's standing before his brief golfing cameo. Middlebrow, Media For Women
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Pink Flamingos
Dan's homework assignment for a man who has seen roughly three movies. Middlebrow, Wedding Misalignment
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Project Hail Mary
Invoked to describe Dan's full grandpa core outfit, Ryan Gosling division. Middlebrow, Media For Women
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Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
Cited for the through line of imposter syndrome across an entire mythic life. Middlebrow, Wanta Fanta
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Sick of Myself
Pressed on listeners as the purest version of Borgli on what people do to be seen. Middlebrow, Newbrow.ai
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Stranger Than Fiction
Confused with the Coens on the grounds of having three words in the title. Middlebrow, Media For Women
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Uncut Gems
The vibe of scrounging hard drive money at the Atlantic Barclays Best Buy. Middlebrow, Thinks Different Thinks
Books
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All My Friends Are Dead
Peak millennial-core coffee table kitsch, remembered from the sale rack era. Middlebrow, Thinks Different Thinks
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A Court of Frost and Starlight
Read openly on the F train by a man who then got a woman's number. Middlebrow, Who's Your Surgeon
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A Court of Silver Flames
Two bookstores sold out, so Bezos got the money; performed aloud at the anniversary party. Middlebrow, Iced Matcha Latte For Zeus
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A Court of Thorns and Roses
The baseline for the subway romantasy sighting, before Brian clocks which volume the man was holding. Middlebrow, Who's Your Surgeon
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Jane Eyre
Among the classics assigned at fifteen, when SparkNotes and cigarettes came first. Middlebrow, Daddy Issues
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A Little Life
The natural next project for a director Brian accuses of trafficking in trauma porn. Middlebrow, Who's Your Surgeon
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Little Women
How a chronically sick host describes himself before the guest arrives: "I'm like Beth from Little Women." Middlebrow, Haters Gonna Hate
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ranked on the scale of how horny a man reading in public appears. Middlebrow, Who's Your Surgeon
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Pride and Prejudice
Wasted on a teenager who had other things on his mind. Middlebrow, Daddy Issues
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The book founders cite when a dance video accidentally moves them. Middlebrow, Media For Women
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Walden
What sensory overload at a reopened museum makes a man want: a pond, no perforated metal. Middlebrow, Who's Your Surgeon
Television
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Californication
Invoked to describe Dan's easy breezy Los Angeles suit, the David Duchovny of it all. Middlebrow, Easy As ABC Pants
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Crayon Shin-chan
Childhood viewing in Korean dub, and the t-shirt that would get him banned from Instagram. Middlebrow, Wedding Misalignment
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Girls
Loyalty declared since day one, offered in defense against a rolled eye. Middlebrow, Newbrow.ai
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Grey's Anatomy
One half of the podcast's central dilemma: Ellen Pompeo money or Sundance accolades. Middlebrow, Wedding Misalignment
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I Love the '90s
Credited, not ironically, for millennials knowing pop culture from before they were born. Middlebrow, Jiro Dreams Of Waves
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I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
Invoked to describe the seventies font on the guest's podcast logo. Middlebrow, Jiro Dreams Of Waves
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Industry
Brian's defense of Dunham: she directed episodes, which surely counts. Middlebrow, Media For Women
Miscellany
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Age of Content
Brian's full conversion to dance: internet loops staged until the audience begs for release. Middlebrow, Middlebrow The Podcast The Newsletter The Show
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Aquarium Drunkard
Named among the music sites that shaped a fourteen-year-old's taste, for better and worse. Middlebrow, Wedding Misalignment
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Hipster Runoff
The blog that formed a certain kind of irony poisoned New Yorker, still a secret handshake. Middlebrow, Hegelian E-boys
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Pitchfork
Filed with the other endangered music blogs in the roll call of formative reading. Middlebrow, Wedding Misalignment
Food
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Café Carmellini
Catered the champagne dinner Brian couldn't drink at, and the duck ravioli still haunts Dan. Middlebrow, Neverlane
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Diner
The tent pole that opened the floodgates of Williamsburg dining. Middlebrow, Media For Women
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Red Hook Tavern
The real destination behind Dan's suggestion that they play a little tennis first. Middlebrow, Showing Home On Main
Places
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Noma
Shorthand for the scarred forearms path into cooking, versus starting in a dorm room. Middlebrow, Lemon Juice Spray
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White Sands National Park
Swedish tourists taught him to see the desert he grew up beside. Middlebrow, Wanta Fanta
Music
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God's Plan
Rewritten as "Claude's Plan" at an AI conference; Brian saw a version of himself in it. Middlebrow, Wedding Misalignment
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Jesus, Etc.
A Letterman performance and its comment section, where millennials learn they are old. Middlebrow, Media For Women
Art
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Untitled (Go-Go Dancing Platform)
A roomful of people loitering for a dancer who may not come: maybe that's the piece. Middlebrow, Middlebrow The Podcast The Newsletter The Show