Not only is this Veronica & Eli’s final episode, it’s also our fourth annual Cruisemas show—join us as we revisit Paul Thomas Anderson's blank check big swing Magnolia and reflect a bit on the end of an era 🥹
While he wrote Magnolia, P.T. Anderson started to cry. And then he realized what he needed to do.
Magnolia is messy, grandiose, ostentatious, overambitious, and overwhelming—or, in the words of its auteur “it’s too fucking long...it’s all just too fucking ‘too.’” It also happens to be my favorite film.
When I think about Magnolia, I first think about the cosmic improbability of the relationships featured therein.