Paid in Puke S10E5: Challengers

About this episode

The episode discusses the film 'Challengers', exploring its themes of ambition, jealousy, and relationships within a tennis backdrop.

On this episode of Paid in Puke, we're all over Luca Guadagnino's 2024 frenetic sports drama, Challengers, starring Zendaya, Josh O'Connor, and Mike Faist. It's about ambition, failed dreams, jealousy, friendship, a love triangle, and also tennis! This is a perfect script brought to screen by a man who says he thinks tennis is boring. Though Amy (our resident tennis fan) finds a couple of minor tennis-related hot probs, this thing is a banger through and through. We get into all sorts of topics including whether or not Patrick and Art have feelings for each other, how Tashi's bitterness manifests in some understandable, but also unforgivable ways, the sexiness of the leads, and just what exactly happens at the end. Grab and banana and COME ON!!!

People in this episode

Host: Amy

Topics covered

• sports drama
• love triangle
• tennis
• ambition
• friendship
• jealousy

Keywords

• Challengers
• Luca Guadagnino
• Zendaya
• sports drama
• tennis
• love triangle
• ambition
• friendship

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Luca Guadagnino

Books & works: Challengers

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