Tag: trutalk

In this newly recorded bonus episode, we dive into a film called EDtv which came out in 1999, one year after The Truman Show. While on its face EDtv might seem similar, there are a lot of things that make it VERY different. Chief among them, it’s sense of humour… It’s also based on a…

In this extra-long last episode we dive into a huge list of deleted scene trivia, easter eggs, hidden details, and background on some more specific moments of the film. This includes discussion of the amazing soundtrack as well as a couple of errors in the film that bug me. This one is a serious info…

In this episode we get to the real reason we’re here and the thought that inspired this whole series… A discussion of how my interpretation of the Truman Show’s narrative has changed over the years I’ve been a fan, culminating in a pretty bonkers theory. I’ll uhh… I’ll see myself out now.

In this longer episode I do a bit of a deep dive into the main characters in The Truman Show, their histories, their motivations, and their relationship to Truman himself. This pulls together years of enjoyment watching and thinking about the movie as well as research into early scripts and deleted scenes.

In the third episode I expand on the film’s religious symbolism, which is pretty darn strong, and talk about how people see Truman as either Jesus or Adam from the Bible…

In this second episode I discuss what The Truman Show has to say about parents, children, and growing up. It leads to a lot of open questions…

During lockdown I crossed a project off my bucket list, a film nerd podcast all about my favourite film, The Truman Show (1998) directed by Peter Wier. In this first episode I open with discussion of how Truman unintentionally embodies a modern-day influencer, and how I think The Truman Show ended up being the perfect…