Indiscretion of an American Podcast: 201-202, 1158, 1135

About this episode

This episode explores themes of tragedy and forbidden love through the lens of several films, highlighting their impact and significance.

Tragedy, forbidden love, twisted masculinity, and old-fashioned down-and-dirty deep south detective drama dovetail delectably in this unskippable episode of Always See Everything. The rest have been pretty disposable but this one you're REALLY not gonna want to miss. Jane Campion has to chill with these good ass movies...she could do us a favor and miss even once...but no such luck...The real Power of the Dog is to prevent an elderly man from killing himself <3 Denzel <3 (Intro - 00:00:00) Indiscretion of an American Wife - (00:03:30) Umberto D. - (00:33:12) The Power of the Dog - (00:55:28) Devil in a Blue Dress - (01:26:31) Rankings - (01:43:14) Sean's Latest Ranking⁠⁠----https://letterboxd.com/dogmomjp/list/ase-season-3-seans-ranking/ Anthony's Latest Ranking⁠⁠----https://letterboxd.com/anthony_reviews/list/always-see-everything-season-3-ranked/ Always See Everything is an AnthonyReviews film podcast. For movie reviews and more, you can go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠AnthonyReviews.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or check us out on⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠,⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.Edited by Tyler Frazier. Original Artwork by ⁠⁠⁠Ana Habrych⁠⁠⁠.

People in this episode

Hosts: Anthony, Sean

Topics covered

• tragedy
• forbidden love
• twisted masculinity
• detective drama
• film analysis

Keywords

• Indiscretion of an American Wife
• Umberto D.
• The Power of the Dog
• Devil in a Blue Dress
• film podcast

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Always See Everything, AnthonyReviews

Books & works: Indiscretion of an American Wife, Umberto D., The Power of the Dog, Devil in a Blue Dress

More episodes of Always See Everything - A Criterion Movie Podcast

• Always Scale Everything · April 21, 2026 · 1h 8m
• Santa Succession: 226-227, 1250 · March 2, 2026 · 1h 18m
• Halloween in January - 225, 223, 1156 · January 26, 2026 · 1h 25m
• Diary of a Wimpy Podcast: 219, 222, 853 · January 5, 2026 · 1h 24m
• ASE Christmas Special 2025 - Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer · December 24, 2025 · 1h 4m
• Attack of the Swiftoids: 215, 218, 1111 · November 17, 2025 · 1h 18m