Episode 52: Taxi Driver (1976)

Cybill Sheridan is a 40-something actress living in Los Angeles. Past her prime and working in an industry that worships youth, Cybill has the remnants of her two failed marriages all around her. Her ex-husbands, stuntman Jeff and novelist Ira, are always hanging around, sometimes sleeping on the couch. Also present are her two daughters, a grandson, and Cybill’s hysterical and slightly alcoholic best friend, Maryann.

Episode 53: The Deer Hunter (1978)

The Deer Hunter (1978) depicts the horror of war, how it corrodes the soul of men when innocent soldiers are forced in to playing Russian Roulette, which is something that never actually happened in the Vietnam war, so it’s a metaphor I guess? I don’t know. You get to see Robert De Niro’s penis.