Metropolitan (1990), Barcelona (1994), and The Last Days of Disco (1998)

The sixth episode of the Grey Album Podcast – an audio companion to the newsletter that takes a free-wheeling look at pop culture.

This episode we discuss Whit Stillman’s ‘Doomed Bourgeois in Love Trilogy’, three comedies of manners that portray the professional and romantic travails of upper-middle-class young people. Metropolitan (1990) takes place in the world of debutante balls, Barcelona (1994) follows two American expats in Spain at the end of the Cold War and The Last Days of Disco (1998) covers the disco scene of the early 1980s.

Featuring:

• The Decline of the West

• Neocon Romcoms

• ‘The Tapas Putsch’

• The difference between a jacket, blazer, and sportscoat

• The seething hatred of Anglo cuisine

• Knock off KFCs

• Why Boomers hate wet shaving

and much, much, more!