Synopsis
A podcast exploring the film Annihilation one minute of screentime per episode
Episodes
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sharp-edged and ethereal and divided by great distances
06/11/2020 Duration: 13minRadek kills the bear, the bear has a name, and Ventress prepares to leave on her own, in Annihilation minute 78.
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she had it on the tip of her tongue to say
30/10/2020 Duration: 21minLena struggles with her bindings, Thorensen battles with the bear, and we get sidetracked by Ungnyeo and the Korean origin myth in #Annihilation minute 77.
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so he bent his head courteously in her direction
23/10/2020 Duration: 22minThe bear enters, and we explore behind-the-scenes details and what the bear means, in Annihilation minute 76.
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it was that horrid skull again
16/10/2020 Duration: 11minthe women hear sheppard screaming and the bear enters the house in annihilation minute 75.
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how did she exist in this portentous atmosphere
09/10/2020 Duration: 18minWe run from Penelope to alcoholism as Thorensen's last prayer comes to its end in Annihilation minute 74.
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wishing to dominate, wishing to interfere, making people do what she wished
02/10/2020 Duration: 16minThorensen continues to rant, the other three women bound and gagged, and we explore more on Penelope, on Homer being female, and what constitutes women's work. Annihilation minute 73.
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whispering in her ear, 'women can't paint, women can't write...'
25/09/2020 Duration: 22minLena, Radek, and Ventress tied to chairs and gagged. Women silenced. Annihilation minute 72.
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she knew it was poetry from the rhythm and the ring of exaltation and melancholy in his voice
18/09/2020 Duration: 05minEchoes of Daniel, echoes of Kane, as Thorensen lashes out in her moment of pain. Annihilation minute 71.
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he went to the heart of things
11/09/2020 Duration: 17minMore DNA poetry and Orpheus begins to blend with Odysseus as Daniel challenges Lena regarding their affair in Annihilation minute 70.
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at the other end of the table her husband
04/09/2020 Duration: 25minLena examines her own blood, and we examine modern manipulation of DNA before finding Lena in bed with Daniel in Annihilation minute 69.
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then there it was, suddenly entire shaped in her hands
28/08/2020 Duration: 16minSettling into a familiar house, Thorensen sees something in her own hands and Lena starts a secret examination in Annihilation minute 68.
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with its shiny walls and its confusion
21/08/2020 Duration: 13minThe remaining women enter a familiar, but strangely different, house, in Annihilation minute 67.
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here she was, she reflected, feeling life rather sinister again
14/08/2020 Duration: 12minRadek figures out what is happening in the shimmer, but neither Lena nor Thorensen are happy about it, in Annihilation minute 66.
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she could see her now, stooping over her flowers
07/08/2020 Duration: 18minThorensen fumes, Lena examines a topiary child, Radek begins to figure things out, and we get sidetracked by Swamp Thing, in Annihilation minute 65.
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what power could now prevent the fertility, the insensibility of nature?
31/07/2020 Duration: 09minLena wonders if something is wrong with Thorensen and the four remaining women arrive at Ville Perdu in Annihilation minute 64.
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and such vast spaces lay between them
24/07/2020 Duration: 11minLena looks at Sheppard's body then returns to the other women in Annihilation minute 63.
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but into what sanctuary had one penetrated?
17/07/2020 Duration: 16minThe strange deer run away and we delve into the story of Actaeon and Diana before Lena finds Sheppard's body in Annihilation minute 62.
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the still space that lies about the heart of things
19/06/2020 Duration: 21minLena separates from the other women to see if Sheppard is still alive, she finds a deer, and we look at Pokemon, Baron Munchausen, and Pere David's Deer, in Annihilation minute 61.
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like a pair of boots that has been soaked and gone dry
12/06/2020 Duration: 15minBack within the Shimmer, Ventress leads the way through the forest and they come upon a boot, in Annihilation minute 60.
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as they turned by the cross roads
05/06/2020 Duration: 08minLena convinces Thorensen and Radek to keep going, and we flash forward to Lena in the interrogation room, in Annihilation minute 59.