For our premiere episode, we LARP as tourists in Little Italy and review Pieces of a Woman. Kornel Mundruczo directs and Kata Weber writes this grief-stricken drama starring Vanessa Kirby, Shia LaBeouf, and Ellen Burstyn. We discuss the buzzed-about 24-minute long take, allegory vs. ambiguity, the pitfalls of art as art therapy, and a too-happy ending.

Also: a carafe of pisswater, Italian erasure, a menacing denizen, date bars as pastries, [redacted] Jackson, Amazon yoga blankets, Nicole Kidman casting a stone, on the nose vs. tongue in cheek, and God's Bob Evans.