S06E05: Far From Heaven

Welcome to MASTADQ: Mark And Sarah Talk About Dennis Quaid! Mark Blankenship slid into the guest chair (not a euphemism) to discuss Far From Heaven, the line between melodrama and tragedy, and how Todd Haynes's 2002 homage to Douglas Sirk and "women's pictures" lets the paintings that are Cathy and Frank Whitaker become real. Sarah revisits a ten-year-old review that wasn't fair to Quaid's performance; Jeb files his ratings from his score-poisoning sickbed (and unearths another DQ-blocking runner); and we all wonder how to rate a performance that won awards, but isn't very Quaidy. Take a break from sourcing the Whitakers' living-room furniture and listen to an all-new Quaid In Full.

Overall score: 7
QQQ score: 8.33
Days since a lost Kuffs accident: 112

SHOW NOTES

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• Get EVEN MORE Qontent (...sorry) at our Patreon page
• "Hey, was that the Dan Cassino sound drop from Extra Hot Great?" 'Twas.
• Stephen Hunter's review in WaPo
• We'll have what Manohla Dargis was having
• Ebert's review
• SDB's from 2012
• Mark Blankenship at Primetimer and on Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs