Episode 2: The Stepford Wives

From looking at whether a friendship can persist without further relations to how outsiders can band together, Morgan’s first choice is Frank Oz’s 2004 remake of The Stepford Wives. Big city Nicole Kidman finds new friends in Connecticut with Bette Midler and Roger Bart in an all-too perfect little town. Morgan and Erik discuss if the move from science-fiction to satire was a wise one and how the perception of thinking one is progressive had not changed much in the 30 years since the original. Just how inconsistent is the science in this troubled production and is the movie as bad as its reputation. The movie only has so much time to explore the friendship of this trio, but Morgan and Erik put more thought into it than maybe even the filmmakers did.