Ep: 79 (Yuppie Nightmares Pt. 1) Desperately Seeking Susan

Episode 79 (Yuppie Nightmares Pt 1) Alec and Derek kick off a series of cautionary tales of Yuppies in danger - particularly those that set foot in the netherworlds of The East Village or SoHo in the mid 80s. Kicking things off with Susan Seidelman’s 1985 Desperately Seeking Susan. Bored New Jersey housewife Roberta Glass (Rosanna Arquette), finds escape imagining the passionate lives of people she reads about in a series of personal ads proclaiming to be “Desperately Seeking” the titular Susan (an impossibly hip Madonna in her screen debut). While taking a trip to Battery Park hoping to encounter her lovers, Roberta tumbles outside the boundaries of her suburban existence, throwing her life and identity into chaos. Featuring a colorful supporting cast of Aidan Quinn, Laurie Metcalf, John Turturro, John Lurie, Richard Edson, Rockets Redglare, and Richard Hell, not to mention great locations like the legendary Danceteria, Seidelman merges the NY underground flair of her debut Smithereens with 1930’s screwball logic and a magical dose of Jacques Rivette, creating a film that is as much a time capsule of a thriving urban culture and the denizens that inhabit it, as it is a timeless ode to living a life less ordinary.

Three ways to support this podcast:

1. Shout us out on your social media account

2. Rate us on the podcast platform you listen to PsychotroniCast on.

3. Subscribe to our Patreon! www.patreon.com/psychotronicast