Marta and Madeline talk about the streaming show, The Umbrella Academy based on the comic books by Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance. Is the show sexist and anti-semitic, or maybe just a little silly? Is incest ever ok? Is being homophobic worse than killing someone? Will Marta ever convince Madeline that romance does not automatically ruin a story? Tune in for the answers to these and other important questions. As always, spoilers abound.
Works Discussed:
The Umbrella Academy (Netflix, 2019, 2020) 
Gerard Way's The Umbrella Academy (Dark Horse, 2007-2013) 
Jane Eyre (20th Century Fox, 1943) 
Meet Me in St. Louis (MGM, 1944)

Episode 1: Jane Eyre (with a side of Queen's Gambit)

Do you like books, movies, television shows, the bizarre push and pull of mother-daughter relationships? If so, this is the podcast for you. We're Marta and Madeline Block, a mother-daughter pair with lots of similar opinions and lots of opinions that ... aren't. How does encountering works of art and media 35 years apart change your opinion? Or does it? That's what we're here to find out. Fair warning, each episode is filled with spoilers.