Episode 9
The School for Good and Evil (2022)
Paul Feig, known for comedies such as Bridesmaids and Ghostbusters, is turning his hand to fantasy adventure series now, as The School for Good and Evil premieres on Netflix and features Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett.
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Transcript
Now we've just got time quickly, Hannah, cuz there's a lot of, lot of new stuff out this week. And I do want to flag up a fantasy drama on Netflix called The School for Good and Evil.
The School for Good. Where the
true story behind every
great fairy tale begins, The School for good praises, the heroes, the School for evil, the villains. You're trying to tell me that Snow White and Cinderella and Jack and the Be stalk were real. Cause I'm sure. People have thought, Well, how can I do something that's a bit Harry Potter esque, but, but not quite Well, I'd say this fits the bell just briefly to give you the gist.
Two teenage best friends, Sophie and Agatha. Sophie is obsessed with princesses and particularly with the dresses they wear, uh, whereas Agatha, everyone in the village calls her a witch, but they're best mates, but then they're whisked off to this enchanted school. . Well, there were kind of two separate schools as the title suggests.
One. For good and one is fully evil. So heroes are sort of taught in one where Lawrence Fishburn plays the school master and villains goes to the other one, where Char's Theron is terrific as, um, Lady Leonara lasso. So it's quite a subversive look at sort of fairy tales and that kind of thing. Uh, I think it's really nicely done.
Kate Blanchett is the narrator. Ben Kingsley and Rob Delaney both have roles. So, um, yeah, I thought it was great. And I wonder if this is something that your, your family might enjoy. Hannah, what you reckon? Yeah, I reckon
it is. And Nino, what? Thank Kingsley was one of the first people that I ever interviewed when I came onto the journalistic circuit, and he was very, very nice.
So just for that reason alone, I'll watch it. Yeah. I, I, I, I think this is definitely one for the family actually. It's kind of two worlds really do collide in this, don't they?
