• S1 E3: What does The Return get right, or wrong, about Penelope and Odysseus?

  • Jan 31 2025
  • Length: 20 mins
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S1 E3: What does The Return get right, or wrong, about Penelope and Odysseus?

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  • Sonja and Vanessa pop some popcorn and dive into Uberto Pasolini’s 2024 film,The Return.Who gets the spotlight more, Odysseus or Penelope? In terms of power, would we rather be poem Penelope or film Penelope? Is Telemachus even a little less whiny? Does Argos the dog get his moment? And although all the gods are cut from the script, how did they convince Athena, the goddess-of-glow-ups, to be 60-year old Ralph Fiennes' personal trainer?

    Other books referenced in the episode:

    The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien

    The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson

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