March 30, 2026
Sydney Sweeney's Housemaid Explained: Domestic Violence, Class & Women Betraying Women
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What happens when your dream job becomes a nightmare—and when social media stops working for creators?
Just Blane and Coco dive into Sydney Sweeney's chilling performance in "Housemaid" (2025), where desperation meets manipulation in a psychological game of survival. Millie needs this job. Nina needs an accomplice. Andrew needs control. This thriller unpacks power dynamics, domestic violence, and the "witch's wound"—women betraying versus supporting each other.
But first: why did social media break in 2024? Content creator Kevin James Thornton went viral explaining how algorithms shifted, attention spans shrank to five seconds, and AI flooded feeds with noise. The conversation explores why long-form podcasts like Parallel Frequencies are becoming refuge zones for people tired of dopamine scrolling.
From the "bear vs. man" debate to Cecilia's haunting "juice is a privilege" line, this episode connects entertainment analysis with cultural truth-telling. If you've ever ignored red flags because the opportunity looked too good, this one's for you.
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Transcript
Just Blane (00:00)
It is parallel frequencies with just Blaine, Coco and all the freqs out there. What's up freqs? What's up, Coco? How are you?
Courtney Pearl (00:07)
Hi, I'm not in my cave today. It's spring break for the kids, so nothing is normal this week. We're just plopping ourselves down right here and this is where we're gonna record the show today.
Just Blane (00:09)
I see it.
What is it? Spring break? A little spring break action? Yeah. Yeah. No rule. That's going on around my house too. And you know, my, my, my kid stays awake longer than we do. So it's like, man, come on buddy. Like we can't hang with you. He's only six. I can't hang with him anymore. You know, so it's a little bit wild. What'd you do this weekend? What'd you guys do to kick off the spring break weekend?
Courtney Pearl (00:19)
Yep. Yep. No rules. All the rules go out the window.
my gosh, so I was invited by some of the Live Daybreak people. This is the community that we live in. They were like, hey, we're doing this Easter, I keep calling it the Easter Hibbity Hop. I think it was called like the Easter Trail Hop. I was like, whatever they called it that they do for the residents. It's super fun and it's so crazy busy. Everybody in the neighborhood wants to be at this thing. They sell out reserved tickets for it, wristbands for it, like.
Just Blane (00:57)
Trigger, trigger.
Yeah
Courtney Pearl (01:13)
Bam, it's so crowded, there's markets, there was a magician. They asked me to come and do ⁓ a kid's drum circle. Got my drum here. So I was doing storytelling and drumming. I got all decked out in my Easter dress, my spring flowers, all the things. You know what I didn't wear though? I didn't wear sunscreen. Yeah, yeah. ⁓ I'm wearing silk.
Just Blane (01:37)
Oh, look at the how burnt you are. Oh, oh man.
Courtney Pearl (01:43)
to bed right now. It's a pretty nasty gnarly sunburn. So UV rays are definitely out and shining in Utah right now where the sun's. Yeah.
Just Blane (01:52)
my gosh. Where
are our skin experts at to take care of Coco and to rate her? Okay. Okay.
Courtney Pearl (01:58)
I have a dermatology appointment later this week, so sorry. Everybody,
apologies before the freqs come at me with like, you gotta take care of that, you gotta do the sunscreen. Go, I know, I know, I know. I was just out there for like three and a half hours drumming and dancing and you know, just wasn't time to stop and apply that sunscreen. That was my bad. I feel really, really stupid.
Just Blane (02:23)
Well, I guess I got lucky then because I went out there, I didn't have wristbands, but I did go out there trying to hustle some and I couldn't get any wristbands, so we didn't go. We didn't make it to our own community's trail hop, but we did go to Holly, the Festival of Colors, Festival of Love. I don't know if you've ever done this.
Courtney Pearl (02:34)
Yeah.
I have always wanted
to do that. I was so burned out from the other thing that I didn't get out to the festival of colors. It's my favorite. I've always wanted to do that. How was that?
Just Blane (02:52)
So much fun,
so much fun. Nothing but love. ⁓ It was incredible and spiritual. It's a spiritual, you know, it's spiritual roots and all that kind of stuff. But the kids went, they loved it. They understood why we were there. The festival of love, everybody taking the color chalk and being nice. And you you touch somebody to transfer. And I thought it was incredible. I thought it was beautiful. We got pictures, you know.
Courtney Pearl (03:01)
Mm-hmm.
Ugh.
Just Blane (03:23)
I'll probably put some up on social media or something. I like the before and after photos, because those are the great ones, because everybody wears white. You come in looking clean, you leave and you are covered. Of course, Lindsay, Lindsay being a germaphobe and clean freak that she is, she had changed her clothes for all of us in the car. We were, you know, basically hazmat suits and it was the whole works, but it was great.
Courtney Pearl (03:34)
Get him. Blast civic color.
Yeah, you
gotta be prepared, sure.
Just Blane (03:51)
I'll probably put some social media. Is there anybody out there on social media that you follow that's like not a normal person or, well, I nobody's normal, but you know what I mean, like not one that you would normally talk about.
Courtney Pearl (04:05)
yeah, yeah, we've all got our like person that we follow, started following just for fun. Like somebody that just you watch their content and it's just to cheer you up and make you feel good. It kind of gets us addicted to social media. ⁓ I found this guy years ago, ⁓ freqs are gonna know who this is because even if you don't recognize the name, I'm sure you recognize some of the content and the taglines and the ⁓ catchphrases, ⁓ Kevin James Thornton.
Just Blane (04:13)
Yeah
Courtney Pearl (04:34)
He's the guy that does the auto tune. It was the 90s or Shamala Hamala. ⁓ He does comedy. He's traveling now. He does all of this stuff. In fact, I was watching a video that he did and I'd really like to bring this up for freqs because I really want to hear what you guys think about this. He did a longer video on social media. He did on Facebook, I think, where he's like, listen, this is going to be a longer video. You guys are probably like half of you are probably not even going to watch it.
Just Blane (04:40)
⁓ yeah, yeah, yeah.
Courtney Pearl (05:04)
But he started telling about how social media has changed so much that those who are like content creators and who went viral and, you know, clearly he has what? 804,000 followers. He's he's a pretty popular guy. But he said all the people who do that kind of stuff, influencers, content creators, they noticed that things were changing around 2024, that something shifted. It was just like.
Just Blane (05:20)
Yeah.
Courtney Pearl (05:31)
All of a sudden, he was like opening up a store and then ⁓ you have everybody coming into your store and your store is really popular and you feel all that love. And then all of a sudden, someone took the front doors away from your store. It's kind of what it felt like. He goes, everybody just kind of noticed something. The algorithms all changed on social media. And he said, the way that the algorithms work is if you don't catch people's attention on your videos in like five seconds.
Just Blane (05:32)
Hmm.
Okay.
Courtney Pearl (06:01)
you're not going to get seen and your videos can't really be longer than 60 seconds or they're not going to get, you know, put out there. And he's like, this is really kind of changing the way we consume information and communicate with each other. And he's like, we don't like it. I mean, it's not ideal for like sharing deeper things or like really connecting with people.
And he thinks that social media is going to start to change quite a bit coming in the future because people are going to get fired. Like people are going to get like tired of the addiction to scrolling. You know, and I want to hear from the freqs. I want to hear what you guys think because it feels like, yeah, we just kind of are like, nope, nope, nope. If we're not like caught in or bought into a video within like five seconds, we're just scrolling past. We're just going quick.
And it started to make me really think about how podcasting, what we do right here on Parallel Frequencies, is gonna become what people are really seeking. They want more of like, let's get into the meaningful discussions more than just being quick dopamine fixes as we're scrolling. What do you think?
Just Blane (07:08)
Yeah!
I got some theories on this, I do. ⁓ Well, first of all, it's the short attention span that we've got these days. And it's because there is an information overload coming at us. And it is, you do have to get us within two, three seconds or we're on to the next thing because you can find something better that fast. That's one of them. That's one of the big, big reasons. This is the scary reason though. I believe in Kevin James Thornton, he said about 2024.
Courtney Pearl (07:20)
Yeah.
Yeah.
Just Blane (07:47)
What else happened about 2024 that would have changed the way we do things? AI.
Courtney Pearl (07:56)
Yeah.
Just Blane (07:57)
Now this is where it's going to get scary because AI is going to be cranking out so much content so fast that it's almost going to feel like time is changing on its own because us as humans can't comprehend that information coming at us that fast. So yes, we do want to find where to go. I could see places like X, Facebook, TikTok even, Instagram. I could see these kinds of places going away because there's too much there.
That's what I am trying to build with Ride the Wave Media. I am the CEO of Ride the Wave Media. I don't know if I've ever said that right here on parallel frequencies, but what my main job is for you is for me to go curate and find the best content, the real content to go watch. It might be some AI stuff, but at least it had a purpose. It was curated by somebody here at the network, by HumanBeat.
Courtney Pearl (08:28)
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Mm.
Just Blane (08:56)
So I think that's a lot of what goes into it is he said 2024 and I'm making the correlation that AI could be a culprit here and making the social media that we know go away.
Courtney Pearl (09:12)
Yeah, that's very possible. I think from what I understand about energy, and I understand that, I understand people and energy and how it works, is that I think people will start to get tired of like, ugh, just the scrolling and the mindless and the like over consumption of just, I don't know, like crap. Like we don't even know what, we're not even processing what we're consuming because it's just like scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll.
Just Blane (09:14)
And we're making our own communities.
Courtney Pearl (09:40)
But I think people are gonna start to feel like, I'm tired of it. I wanna connect with people. I wanna connect on a deeper level. I wanna know, you know, and so like discussions and meetings in person and I think podcasting, I think things like this, like people wanting to go deeper, not just 30 second videos, but like, let's talk for 30 minutes and let's like really get into a subject and talk about it. I think that he's right. I think there's gonna become that pendulum shift back.
Just Blane (09:58)
Yeah.
Courtney Pearl (10:09)
to where we want really more meaningful things. That's what I think.
Just Blane (10:12)
Yep. And that's why
I personally, myself, I am trying to build a network, a community for people who want to come find real stuff and not have to filter out all the BS. Let me get to my, ⁓ person that, that I follow, cause we're to do a fun follow of the day. And this one's probably no surprise to a lot of people because from a big boy days here, this is Natalia at Hey Natalia.
I got to tell you, one of the most talented people I've worked with, one of the most energetic, but also I have the utmost jealousy of Natalia at the moment because she is the Dodger girl and she used go to all the Dodger games. And you know me, you see me with a hat. I'm a huge Dodger fan. Actually lots of feedback, positive and negative on the hat. And right now, Coco, watch this.
Courtney Pearl (10:58)
Yep.
Sure.
Just Blane (11:11)
I'm going to do something crazy. I'm going to get a new hat. I've changed hats. Okay. And Natalia would love this because my new hat ⁓ is just the new championship Dodger version of the hat for back to back champions. She's been at all these games and I'm telling you, one of my most favorite people ever to work with. And I couldn't be more jealous though. I got to get to some games this year.
Natalia, maybe I can come out there and meet Natalia and go to a game and have fun because look at this picture right here. I mean, look at this.
I can't even, look at that. I'm jealous of this.
Courtney Pearl (11:50)
my gosh, she's out there living her best life.
Just Blane (11:52)
She's the end host.
Yeah. She gets to wave the flag. She gets to get down on the, I'm jealous. This is making me mad. Natalia, stop. Just stop. No, I love, I love Natalia. And like I said, one of the most, yeah, best people I've ever worked with. But yeah, that's my fun follow of the day before we get to our movie Monday.
Courtney Pearl (12:06)
⁓
Yeah.
Just Blane (12:15)
which movie Monday today for me, I loved it. This one hit me. It came out of nowhere. A lot of times we talk about these horror movies and they got these big monsters and scary jump scares and all this stuff. And the one we're talking about today, the monster is really the people with the keys to your house. We're talking about House Made, the House Made, 2025, Sidney Sweeney, Amanda Seyfried. Oh my God, this one really did.
take me by surprise. Because it really starts off as this movie where a girl's trying to get a job. Sure, help her run the house, try to keep things tidy, don't ask too many questions, take care of the kid, get her where she needs to be and where she needs to be home. No big deal, right? But you get this feeling that something ain't right.
And what did you think when you're watching the beginning of this movie, Coco? Because it is very normal. Am I right?
Courtney Pearl (13:11)
Yeah, it's interesting the the ⁓ I have a lot to say about some of the symbolism behind like what's going on with these characters in this movie. But you've got themes like class differences. I mean, it shows quite early on that. Well, and you find out a little bit more of the details later that Sydney Sweeney's character ⁓ Millie is ⁓ she was at the school that she was at on a scholarship like
She had a different experience than the people who were there, the rich kids, know, somebody's rich kid son, someone on a trust fund that got to be in this school, things like that. So you get some of the difference there. You get the difference between the help and the socialites, the ladies and the the higher class. As she was being interviewed in the beginning of the movie, I kept thinking about
Just Blane (13:52)
Yeah.
Courtney Pearl (14:09)
Nina, Amanda Seyfried's character Nina, you find out later that she's not someone who came from wealth either, from her background, foster kid that kind of made her way through college and on scholarships and things like that too. But that as she's interviewing her, I'm thinking to myself, back in the good old days, I don't know what good old days we're even talking about, but let's just, I don't know, England.
some century ago, middle class really was being able to afford help around the house, being able to afford a housemaid, a nanny to help with the kids, even if the mom most often was not working, was not pulling income or pulling in a job. But that was like considered middle class. And then we think about nowadays,
⁓ Most of whatever middle class, if there even is a middle class, what that would look like is if there is a state home mom, she's still trying to find ways to bring in income. She's still doing all of the housework and all of the kid stuff and all that on her own without being able to afford help. And that was my first thought when she's interviewing Millie as a housemaid is I was like, must be nice.
Just Blane (15:20)
Yeah.
Right?
Courtney Pearl (15:29)
I mean, I know that's not really the premise of the movie, but that was my first thought. So I'm gonna say that first.
Just Blane (15:34)
I mean, I, yeah, I get that. I get that. And I do have to say this too, because you've got to pay attention to the environments people invite you into. Because you can go ahead and attest to this, energy don't lie. Even when the people do, the energy does not. And this whole story, the house made with Millie coming into Nina's world, it is...
Courtney Pearl (15:46)
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Just Blane (16:02)
Basically, it's a master class in how to ignore red flags until they start redecorating your reality. And that's what happens in the movie. Have you ever walked into a situation where everything looked perfect, but your spirit, and I know you feel this more than you, but your spirit says, nah, something's off. That was what I got from the very beginning of the movie. And I know I'm walking into that, but yeah, I thought that.
Courtney Pearl (16:21)
Yeah.
Yikes.
ignoring the red flags was, ⁓ know, Millie was desperate for this job. And I think that you can, you could say, ⁓ man, you know, when it comes to a relationship or when it comes to employment or when it comes to any of these kinds of situations that somebody is stupid if they ignore red flags or, know, like you should have seen this coming. You saw this going on and you felt this energy when you walked in.
Just Blane (16:34)
Yeah!
Courtney Pearl (16:54)
And we can judge all we want, but when someone's in a position like Millie was in, you do whatever you gotta do. And you can feel that in the beginning of the movie. mean, obviously the themes and everything shifts and changes by the middle of the movie, but in the beginning, you're like, yeah, I could see myself doing the same thing Millie was doing. You keep your head down, you do what you gotta do. Her parole person is like, listen, just keep this job.
Just Blane (16:59)
Yeah.
Courtney Pearl (17:20)
You don't want to go back to prison. You're going to be there another five years to finish off your sentence if you lose this job or if you can't, you know, pull it together, I guess. And so you're just like, OK, I will just do whatever I have to do, even if it means bowing down to these extreme temper tantrums that this house is showing. You're like, just got to power through. Just got to do what I got to do. And
Just Blane (17:44)
Yeah, yeah.
Courtney Pearl (17:49)
to rely on the male or the masculine character in the house, Andrew, as like maybe this is the protector, maybe this is the person who's gonna see me through this, because he seems to be very charming, he seems to really ⁓ be interacting with Millie, like he might be on my side a little bit, maybe he's my one.
Just Blane (17:52)
Mmm.
Courtney Pearl (18:15)
Prince Charming with all the Cinderella themes we have going on here. He's the one Prince Charming that's gonna get me through this. I just have to deal with evil stepmother type character. If he's there, I can handle it, right?
Just Blane (18:27)
Yeah, and let's talk about Sydney Sweeney and her performance here because it all comes back to her and she's playing this character, Millie, and you feel like she's thinking three thoughts at once, the entire movie. One for survival, one for manipulation, and one that she doesn't even understand yet. And that's a dangerous, very dangerous thing in a story like this. And I think that she...
Courtney Pearl (18:38)
Mm-hmm.
Just Blane (18:56)
Look, I love Signe Sweeney and I know she had a bunch of controversy and I still don't understand all that, but I look at her as the movie star that she is and I thought she crushed it in this movie playing the role of Millie. We saw her in, what was the movie we saw her in? That we broke, The Witch? Was she in that? No. She's in something we did at one point. I can't remember what it was.
Courtney Pearl (19:10)
Mm-hmm.
No.
Yeah, I'm gonna have to check that out. I'm like.
Just Blane (19:24)
But her performance really helps make the house made what it is and it helps it, the whole movie hit different. It's not just a thriller. It's about the power dynamics behind politeness, hiding behind it really, because that's what's going on here. And what did you think about Sidney Sweeney overall in this?
Courtney Pearl (19:39)
Mm-hmm.
I loved the layers of this character, Millie. I think she played that really well. The only time that I felt like, oh, this feels like a bit of a leap is that the, and I understand the movie had to move the plot along a little bit faster from the book. I didn't read the book, but this is based on Frieda McFadden's book. It came out in 2022, but I was,
Just Blane (20:05)
the minute.
Courtney Pearl (20:12)
I'm aware of the fact that I think in the book they built it up a little bit longer. They took a little bit longer with the relationship between Millie and Andrew and how that ended up being what it was. But it felt like from survival and from being threatened by Nina's character and being like, you stay away from my husband and it looks real sus when she's caught with him alone in certain situations in the house in the beginning.
Just Blane (20:20)
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Courtney Pearl (20:41)
And maybe this is just my own interpretation of how I would have handled it in that situation. I'm putting myself in Millie's shoes in those situations. I would be like, I am gonna do everything I can to convince Nina that there is nothing, nothing going on between me and Andrew. Like, that would be my survival strategy. But for her to be kind of quick to accept that... ⁓
Just Blane (20:57)
Yeah.
Courtney Pearl (21:07)
invitation from Andrew to go like, yeah, we can go like spend a weekend together or whatever it was. It was kind of a little bit like, that felt a little quick, I guess, in my, that was my only moment where I was like, I don't see this happening. But that's just me.
Just Blane (21:13)
Yes!
Wrong.
Even in that moment
though, you kind of can see why Millie went. I mean, if you look at it overall, that's her boss basically saying, hey, go with me on this trip. And it's weird. She got put into a weird situation. This whole movie is a weird situation. It's not an average situation. It's not your average movie in general. It's not your creaky floorboard, ghost in the attic situation.
Courtney Pearl (21:40)
Yeah.
Yeah.
Just Blane (21:55)
This
is a psychological chess game where everybody's smiling while they move your pieces around. And then halfway through the movie, you realize you're not even playing the same game.
Courtney Pearl (22:05)
Yeah, unfortunately, as weird of a situation as it feels like, and obviously the situation of ⁓ as we get further into the movie, little bit more than halfway into the movie and we start to realize there's a shift here. Things are not what they seemed. And Amanda's character, Nina, ⁓ is actually manipulating this whole thing. That a lot of it was a performance to get.
⁓ Millie into a position where Millie would become the protector or Millie would become the ⁓ vigilante. But unfortunately, this weird situation that you're talking about is actually a much more common situation than we would like to see in our culture, which is domestic violence, right? We're talking about like this whole situation of like the ⁓
Just Blane (22:39)
Yeah.
Mmm. Mmm.
Courtney Pearl (22:59)
the instinct that we have as women and maybe because we are conditioned from birth to be aware of this condition, which is be wary of men being just a little bit on the lookout for any sign that we are in danger. And Andrew just happened to be really good at playing the part of the charming saintly
Just Blane (23:09)
Mm-hmm.
Courtney Pearl (23:28)
husband, ⁓ know, boyfriend type to make everyone else around him believe and I guess he learned it from his mother like we find out at the end like this was learned behavior, but he was so good at it. It made it nearly impossible for Nina to get out of this situation any other way. She was absolutely trapped and and I mean again this it reminded me of ⁓
Just Blane (23:29)
Yeah.
Yes.
Courtney Pearl (23:55)
shoot, what was that series? Big Little Lies, Nicole Kidman was in. Again, about domestic violence, it's like everybody thought they were the perfect couple. On the outside, it all looks great and wonderful and they're rich and they're beautiful and they're so in love and what's really going on behind the scenes is much more tragic and much more terrifying and actual people's horrific realities and that's something that I think that it's great for this movie to at least give some... ⁓
notice to. So what I'm trying to say, give some notice to this kind of situation because there were scenes in this movie when Andrew started getting mad when he was locked in the attic. think it was when he got it all turned around on him. Yay, Millie. We're like, hey, she's not the monster here. She's the vigilante. She's the hero. We're all rooting for her. ⁓ Super awesome when she starts breaking the dishes too. Like one of my favorite parts. But when he started getting mad and he's pounding at the door, I felt myself
Just Blane (24:25)
Yeah? Yeah?
Yeah.
Courtney Pearl (24:53)
physically getting scared. Like, angry men? That is a horrible, realistic reality for a lot of people.
Just Blane (24:56)
Yeah!
I mean,
do you remember the social media question, the big question, the viral question that went around not long ago? And it was, would you rather be trapped in the woods with a bear or a man? And everybody was like, bear. Yeah, I get that. would have been, I would have been, I would have been team bear too. But you know what? This right here leads into what the overall theme of this movie is.
Courtney Pearl (25:16)
Absolutely. I was on Team Bear. Yeah, I don't mind saying that.
Just Blane (25:29)
And I wanna know how many of our freqs out there this has happened to, where you stayed in the situation too long because the opportunity was too good, the money was right. The outside world was looking at you and saying, you're lucky to be there. Meanwhile, your inner voice is pacing around like a caged animal. When have you been there? I've been there. I'm not gonna name which jobs, but.
Courtney Pearl (25:46)
Yeah.
Just Blane (25:55)
Because those people are watching, I know those people see this and in the entertainment industry, that's a lot of those jobs. It is people in situations that look amazing, but on the inside, their soul is dying or it's pacing around like a lion in a cage, you know? And that really taps into this fear of being trapped in a good situation that is actually bad for you. What do you?
Courtney Pearl (26:14)
Yeah.
Just Blane (26:23)
I don't know, not everybody can do what Millie did. It doesn't all come to that.
Courtney Pearl (26:26)
No, I don't know if I have
the strength or the ⁓ or even the cleverness. The way that she was able to see the situation from so many angles that she could be like, I don't know, I'm going to get myself out of this. I would dare say most of us don't have it. We aren't strong enough or we aren't. But again, that was the whole point. Nina picked her for that. Nina knew her past and knew if anyone's going to do it, she's going to be the one who can plunge the knife straight into his neck.
Just Blane (26:39)
Yeah.
Yeah.
Courtney Pearl (26:55)
and be able to get out of this. But the fact that Nina came back for her, I think says a lot. And that kind of comes to my point. My interpretation of the overall themes in this movie was not necessarily about domestic violence or about Andrew being the monster here. But to me, absolutely highlights what the actual definition of the witch wound is.
Just Blane (27:23)
Mmm.
Courtney Pearl (27:24)
And the witch wound is women betraying women and women showing up for women. Like here we have Nina who, mean, you know, for all the nuances of her situation, what was going on, she essentially was throwing Millie under the bus. And you saw how many times Millie was betrayed by women.
in the reason she went to prison in the first place was because her roommate didn't back her up when she was like, he was sexually assaulting ⁓ her roommate. And she's like, for whatever reason, she didn't back me up and I went to prison for murder. And I mean, again, during witch trials, you can look and you can see how many times, and this is actual witch trials, but it can also be any time in history. How many times was a woman accused of something? It would have been
if women had stuck together or if they hadn't named another woman as a witch, they would have survived together or they would have gone down together. But at least it was, you know, with the right, ⁓ with the ethically being like, I'm going to tell the truth. I'm going be honest. I'm going to stick up for my sister here. But in this case, we have those all of those situations where women were betraying women all over the place. Nina was betraying Millie. Millie was betraying Nina.
Just Blane (28:19)
Mmm.
Yeah.
Courtney Pearl (28:47)
All of those women talking bad about ⁓ Nina and the PTA and all of, know, she didn't fit in with the rest of them. They were like, she's a psycho. She's been put into the psych ward several times. She's being gaslit by Andrew. And then at the end, to be like, not only did Nina come back for her, but basically paid her an assassin's fee.
Just Blane (28:57)
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Courtney Pearl (29:13)
Helping her out, be like, thanks honey, thanks for ⁓ what you did for me. And I'll get you work elsewhere when there's need for it. And then you have the officer who was like, you know what? My sister dated Andrew or was engaged to Andrew before you and knew exactly what he was like and was like, we're just gonna go ahead and write this whole thing off as an accident. That heals the witch's wound when women can show up for each other.
Just Blane (29:22)
And then.
Yep.
And not only that, but what that does in the film is set up the sequel and set up this new character that Millie is about to be the housemaid and go to other places and take care of the men in this kind of way. And I love that because now they've got a series of movies. And I don't know if there's other books. Are there more books? I'm not sure. No? There could be.
Courtney Pearl (30:03)
Yeah, and I'd watch.
I'm
sure. No, I don't think there is, but yeah, I'm not sure. I'd be all right with that. I would love to see a little bit more of vigilante, that revenge, whatever it is, but someone sticking up for women in this way, ⁓ in situations that they just feel like they cannot get out of otherwise. I'm not mad about it.
Just Blane (30:11)
I can guarantee you there's gonna be a sequel to this. think it's already.
Yeah.
People are drawn to stories like this and it's not because of the house or the job or the whatever else you want to think about. It's about who holds the power inside that house in the movie. And then what happens when the power shifts. And we see a lot of that in this movie. I didn't know what I was getting into. I didn't even watch the trailer for this movie before I watched it. I just honestly, you know why I watched it Sydney Sweeney. I like looking at her. Who doesn't? She's pretty.
Courtney Pearl (30:57)
Yeah. Gorgeous. Sure.
Just Blane (30:57)
I'm just being honest. But yeah, I mean,
and then I enjoyed it. I found out I enjoyed the hell out of this movie. And I do want to see sequels and the story of Millie and being this revenge assassin, basically working with women. I think that's an awesome concept to go, run with. And yeah, this movie, this is my final thought on it. I thought it was incredible. I thought it was very telling too.
Courtney Pearl (31:05)
Mm-hmm.
Just Blane (31:26)
because we get to see a lot of this in the real life. It's ⁓ making people feel comfortable, but it's disguised and it's not really that comfortable. And it's really chaotic, but it doesn't look that way. We deal with a lot of this in real life. So I can see a lot of the parallels and the mirror reflecting us. And I do want to know though out there for the freqs, have you ever ignored the red flag because the situation was too good? How did that end up for you?
Courtney Pearl (31:41)
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mmm, yeah, it's probably a lot of stories out there.
Just Blane (31:56)
Hey Coco, what do you got? What's your...
Yeah, what's your final thoughts on the housemate?
Courtney Pearl (32:00)
Well, as I said, I'm going to stick with this is a this is a story about the witch's wound, about women supporting women or betraying women. that hopefully when we look at this, ⁓ we judge each other a little bit less, even as Nina was a horrible boss and she was so cruel and mean. When you know the real story, when you know what really was going on in her life, you start to have empathy for her and you start to understand she was doing all of it.
Just Blane (32:27)
Ahem.
Courtney Pearl (32:30)
for her daughter. She was doing all of it to survive. And even Cecilia, the daughter, I think is a fantastic look at what that really feels like or looks like because Cecilia looked like maybe potentially a little bit of a snobbish brat, know, overprivileged kid with ballet classes and juices of privilege and all that. And then it shifts when you find out the truth, you really see Cecilia in a different light. You go, Cecilia is this poor kid.
Just Blane (32:31)
Yeah.
Yeah!
Courtney Pearl (32:59)
who had no choice in the matter, and her words to Millie take on a completely different vibe when you realize she was begging for help. She was trying to kind of almost send a message to Millie, like juice is a privilege.
Just Blane (33:10)
Yeah.
Courtney Pearl (33:17)
Whose words are those? Those are Andrew's words, not Cecilia's, right? So you just go, ⁓ they're just trying to get out from under his thumb. This was just a play that they had to do. And it just takes it all in a completely different context. So judge people a little less. Maybe look into things with an open heart and an open mind. And ⁓ ladies, let's...
You know, let's be there for each other.
Just Blane (33:48)
Absolutely. You couldn't have said it better. I gotta mention Brandon Sklinar. That's who played Andrew. He was an incredible performance too. You had him crushing it and Paul Faige was the director. Can't forget them. I will watch this movie again now and look for signs and think, my gosh, cause I've only watched it once. So maybe I will go back and rewatch. Gotta remember this movie is not just about fear.
Courtney Pearl (33:55)
Yeah. ⁓ yes.
Great.
Just Blane (34:17)
It's about awareness. Listening to that quiet voice that says, look closer, ask some questions. Don't get comfortable too fast. And remember those things when you're out living your life. We love the freqs out there. We don't want the best for the freqs, always. And remember right here at Parallel Frequencies, we're not just watching movies, we're breaking them down and we're building a community to talk about them with.
So make sure you're back here, because what else do we got coming up this week, Coco?
Courtney Pearl (34:50)
This week we've got season three of Ted Lasso. Tomorrow for Tube Tuesday we are breaking down Ted Lasso one season at a time. So each week one season. Every season is just a little bit different too. So it's not, there's so much to dig in there. What else? We've got...
Just Blane (35:02)
Please.
Courtney Pearl (35:08)
Double check my schedule here.
Just Blane (35:11)
Okay, Ted Lasso, season three. I like that.
Courtney Pearl (35:14)
Season
three, Whistful Wednesday, we are gonna cover 30 Rock as a series, right? 30 Rock for, and that's kind of wrapping up kind of our theme for March, Women's History. figured since it's about the girly show, Tina Fey and all of that, we can wrap up March finishing it off there.
Just Blane (35:19)
OOOOH!
Yeah.
Courtney Pearl (35:39)
We have Trailer Park Thursday as always. We're gonna do our Freaky Friday. So reading some of your comments that you guys have brought in. So please keep the comments coming so we can talk about them on Friday. And we are gonna cover Feature Friday, The Green Night, 824.
Just Blane (35:53)
Ooh, I like
that. I like that. All right. So we got a stacked week right here. Make sure you follow us, subscribe at Parallel Frequencies Daily on YouTube. Go to RodTheWave.media. You can find all of our shows right there, but that's gonna wrap it up right here for Parallel Frequencies. I'm Just Blaine. That's Coco. You are the freqs at home and we'll see you on the other side.
Courtney Pearl (36:15)
See tomorrow.
It is parallel frequencies with just Blaine, Coco and all the freqs out there. What's up freqs? What's up, Coco? How are you?
Courtney Pearl (00:07)
Hi, I'm not in my cave today. It's spring break for the kids, so nothing is normal this week. We're just plopping ourselves down right here and this is where we're gonna record the show today.
Just Blane (00:09)
I see it.
What is it? Spring break? A little spring break action? Yeah. Yeah. No rule. That's going on around my house too. And you know, my, my, my kid stays awake longer than we do. So it's like, man, come on buddy. Like we can't hang with you. He's only six. I can't hang with him anymore. You know, so it's a little bit wild. What'd you do this weekend? What'd you guys do to kick off the spring break weekend?
Courtney Pearl (00:19)
Yep. Yep. No rules. All the rules go out the window.
my gosh, so I was invited by some of the Live Daybreak people. This is the community that we live in. They were like, hey, we're doing this Easter, I keep calling it the Easter Hibbity Hop. I think it was called like the Easter Trail Hop. I was like, whatever they called it that they do for the residents. It's super fun and it's so crazy busy. Everybody in the neighborhood wants to be at this thing. They sell out reserved tickets for it, wristbands for it, like.
Just Blane (00:57)
Trigger, trigger.
Yeah
Courtney Pearl (01:13)
Bam, it's so crowded, there's markets, there was a magician. They asked me to come and do ⁓ a kid's drum circle. Got my drum here. So I was doing storytelling and drumming. I got all decked out in my Easter dress, my spring flowers, all the things. You know what I didn't wear though? I didn't wear sunscreen. Yeah, yeah. ⁓ I'm wearing silk.
Just Blane (01:37)
Oh, look at the how burnt you are. Oh, oh man.
Courtney Pearl (01:43)
to bed right now. It's a pretty nasty gnarly sunburn. So UV rays are definitely out and shining in Utah right now where the sun's. Yeah.
Just Blane (01:52)
my gosh. Where
are our skin experts at to take care of Coco and to rate her? Okay. Okay.
Courtney Pearl (01:58)
I have a dermatology appointment later this week, so sorry. Everybody,
apologies before the freqs come at me with like, you gotta take care of that, you gotta do the sunscreen. Go, I know, I know, I know. I was just out there for like three and a half hours drumming and dancing and you know, just wasn't time to stop and apply that sunscreen. That was my bad. I feel really, really stupid.
Just Blane (02:23)
Well, I guess I got lucky then because I went out there, I didn't have wristbands, but I did go out there trying to hustle some and I couldn't get any wristbands, so we didn't go. We didn't make it to our own community's trail hop, but we did go to Holly, the Festival of Colors, Festival of Love. I don't know if you've ever done this.
Courtney Pearl (02:34)
Yeah.
I have always wanted
to do that. I was so burned out from the other thing that I didn't get out to the festival of colors. It's my favorite. I've always wanted to do that. How was that?
Just Blane (02:52)
So much fun,
so much fun. Nothing but love. ⁓ It was incredible and spiritual. It's a spiritual, you know, it's spiritual roots and all that kind of stuff. But the kids went, they loved it. They understood why we were there. The festival of love, everybody taking the color chalk and being nice. And you you touch somebody to transfer. And I thought it was incredible. I thought it was beautiful. We got pictures, you know.
Courtney Pearl (03:01)
Mm-hmm.
Ugh.
Just Blane (03:23)
I'll probably put some up on social media or something. I like the before and after photos, because those are the great ones, because everybody wears white. You come in looking clean, you leave and you are covered. Of course, Lindsay, Lindsay being a germaphobe and clean freak that she is, she had changed her clothes for all of us in the car. We were, you know, basically hazmat suits and it was the whole works, but it was great.
Courtney Pearl (03:34)
Get him. Blast civic color.
Yeah, you
gotta be prepared, sure.
Just Blane (03:51)
I'll probably put some social media. Is there anybody out there on social media that you follow that's like not a normal person or, well, I nobody's normal, but you know what I mean, like not one that you would normally talk about.
Courtney Pearl (04:05)
yeah, yeah, we've all got our like person that we follow, started following just for fun. Like somebody that just you watch their content and it's just to cheer you up and make you feel good. It kind of gets us addicted to social media. ⁓ I found this guy years ago, ⁓ freqs are gonna know who this is because even if you don't recognize the name, I'm sure you recognize some of the content and the taglines and the ⁓ catchphrases, ⁓ Kevin James Thornton.
Just Blane (04:13)
Yeah
Courtney Pearl (04:34)
He's the guy that does the auto tune. It was the 90s or Shamala Hamala. ⁓ He does comedy. He's traveling now. He does all of this stuff. In fact, I was watching a video that he did and I'd really like to bring this up for freqs because I really want to hear what you guys think about this. He did a longer video on social media. He did on Facebook, I think, where he's like, listen, this is going to be a longer video. You guys are probably like half of you are probably not even going to watch it.
Just Blane (04:40)
⁓ yeah, yeah, yeah.
Courtney Pearl (05:04)
But he started telling about how social media has changed so much that those who are like content creators and who went viral and, you know, clearly he has what? 804,000 followers. He's he's a pretty popular guy. But he said all the people who do that kind of stuff, influencers, content creators, they noticed that things were changing around 2024, that something shifted. It was just like.
Just Blane (05:20)
Yeah.
Courtney Pearl (05:31)
All of a sudden, he was like opening up a store and then ⁓ you have everybody coming into your store and your store is really popular and you feel all that love. And then all of a sudden, someone took the front doors away from your store. It's kind of what it felt like. He goes, everybody just kind of noticed something. The algorithms all changed on social media. And he said, the way that the algorithms work is if you don't catch people's attention on your videos in like five seconds.
Just Blane (05:32)
Hmm.
Okay.
Courtney Pearl (06:01)
you're not going to get seen and your videos can't really be longer than 60 seconds or they're not going to get, you know, put out there. And he's like, this is really kind of changing the way we consume information and communicate with each other. And he's like, we don't like it. I mean, it's not ideal for like sharing deeper things or like really connecting with people.
And he thinks that social media is going to start to change quite a bit coming in the future because people are going to get fired. Like people are going to get like tired of the addiction to scrolling. You know, and I want to hear from the freqs. I want to hear what you guys think because it feels like, yeah, we just kind of are like, nope, nope, nope. If we're not like caught in or bought into a video within like five seconds, we're just scrolling past. We're just going quick.
And it started to make me really think about how podcasting, what we do right here on Parallel Frequencies, is gonna become what people are really seeking. They want more of like, let's get into the meaningful discussions more than just being quick dopamine fixes as we're scrolling. What do you think?
Just Blane (07:08)
Yeah!
I got some theories on this, I do. ⁓ Well, first of all, it's the short attention span that we've got these days. And it's because there is an information overload coming at us. And it is, you do have to get us within two, three seconds or we're on to the next thing because you can find something better that fast. That's one of them. That's one of the big, big reasons. This is the scary reason though. I believe in Kevin James Thornton, he said about 2024.
Courtney Pearl (07:20)
Yeah.
Yeah.
Just Blane (07:47)
What else happened about 2024 that would have changed the way we do things? AI.
Courtney Pearl (07:56)
Yeah.
Just Blane (07:57)
Now this is where it's going to get scary because AI is going to be cranking out so much content so fast that it's almost going to feel like time is changing on its own because us as humans can't comprehend that information coming at us that fast. So yes, we do want to find where to go. I could see places like X, Facebook, TikTok even, Instagram. I could see these kinds of places going away because there's too much there.
That's what I am trying to build with Ride the Wave Media. I am the CEO of Ride the Wave Media. I don't know if I've ever said that right here on parallel frequencies, but what my main job is for you is for me to go curate and find the best content, the real content to go watch. It might be some AI stuff, but at least it had a purpose. It was curated by somebody here at the network, by HumanBeat.
Courtney Pearl (08:28)
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Mm.
Just Blane (08:56)
So I think that's a lot of what goes into it is he said 2024 and I'm making the correlation that AI could be a culprit here and making the social media that we know go away.
Courtney Pearl (09:12)
Yeah, that's very possible. I think from what I understand about energy, and I understand that, I understand people and energy and how it works, is that I think people will start to get tired of like, ugh, just the scrolling and the mindless and the like over consumption of just, I don't know, like crap. Like we don't even know what, we're not even processing what we're consuming because it's just like scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll.
Just Blane (09:14)
And we're making our own communities.
Courtney Pearl (09:40)
But I think people are gonna start to feel like, I'm tired of it. I wanna connect with people. I wanna connect on a deeper level. I wanna know, you know, and so like discussions and meetings in person and I think podcasting, I think things like this, like people wanting to go deeper, not just 30 second videos, but like, let's talk for 30 minutes and let's like really get into a subject and talk about it. I think that he's right. I think there's gonna become that pendulum shift back.
Just Blane (09:58)
Yeah.
Courtney Pearl (10:09)
to where we want really more meaningful things. That's what I think.
Just Blane (10:12)
Yep. And that's why
I personally, myself, I am trying to build a network, a community for people who want to come find real stuff and not have to filter out all the BS. Let me get to my, ⁓ person that, that I follow, cause we're to do a fun follow of the day. And this one's probably no surprise to a lot of people because from a big boy days here, this is Natalia at Hey Natalia.
I got to tell you, one of the most talented people I've worked with, one of the most energetic, but also I have the utmost jealousy of Natalia at the moment because she is the Dodger girl and she used go to all the Dodger games. And you know me, you see me with a hat. I'm a huge Dodger fan. Actually lots of feedback, positive and negative on the hat. And right now, Coco, watch this.
Courtney Pearl (10:58)
Yep.
Sure.
Just Blane (11:11)
I'm going to do something crazy. I'm going to get a new hat. I've changed hats. Okay. And Natalia would love this because my new hat ⁓ is just the new championship Dodger version of the hat for back to back champions. She's been at all these games and I'm telling you, one of my most favorite people ever to work with. And I couldn't be more jealous though. I got to get to some games this year.
Natalia, maybe I can come out there and meet Natalia and go to a game and have fun because look at this picture right here. I mean, look at this.
I can't even, look at that. I'm jealous of this.
Courtney Pearl (11:50)
my gosh, she's out there living her best life.
Just Blane (11:52)
She's the end host.
Yeah. She gets to wave the flag. She gets to get down on the, I'm jealous. This is making me mad. Natalia, stop. Just stop. No, I love, I love Natalia. And like I said, one of the most, yeah, best people I've ever worked with. But yeah, that's my fun follow of the day before we get to our movie Monday.
Courtney Pearl (12:06)
⁓
Yeah.
Just Blane (12:15)
which movie Monday today for me, I loved it. This one hit me. It came out of nowhere. A lot of times we talk about these horror movies and they got these big monsters and scary jump scares and all this stuff. And the one we're talking about today, the monster is really the people with the keys to your house. We're talking about House Made, the House Made, 2025, Sidney Sweeney, Amanda Seyfried. Oh my God, this one really did.
take me by surprise. Because it really starts off as this movie where a girl's trying to get a job. Sure, help her run the house, try to keep things tidy, don't ask too many questions, take care of the kid, get her where she needs to be and where she needs to be home. No big deal, right? But you get this feeling that something ain't right.
And what did you think when you're watching the beginning of this movie, Coco? Because it is very normal. Am I right?
Courtney Pearl (13:11)
Yeah, it's interesting the the ⁓ I have a lot to say about some of the symbolism behind like what's going on with these characters in this movie. But you've got themes like class differences. I mean, it shows quite early on that. Well, and you find out a little bit more of the details later that Sydney Sweeney's character ⁓ Millie is ⁓ she was at the school that she was at on a scholarship like
She had a different experience than the people who were there, the rich kids, know, somebody's rich kid son, someone on a trust fund that got to be in this school, things like that. So you get some of the difference there. You get the difference between the help and the socialites, the ladies and the the higher class. As she was being interviewed in the beginning of the movie, I kept thinking about
Just Blane (13:52)
Yeah.
Courtney Pearl (14:09)
Nina, Amanda Seyfried's character Nina, you find out later that she's not someone who came from wealth either, from her background, foster kid that kind of made her way through college and on scholarships and things like that too. But that as she's interviewing her, I'm thinking to myself, back in the good old days, I don't know what good old days we're even talking about, but let's just, I don't know, England.
some century ago, middle class really was being able to afford help around the house, being able to afford a housemaid, a nanny to help with the kids, even if the mom most often was not working, was not pulling income or pulling in a job. But that was like considered middle class. And then we think about nowadays,
⁓ Most of whatever middle class, if there even is a middle class, what that would look like is if there is a state home mom, she's still trying to find ways to bring in income. She's still doing all of the housework and all of the kid stuff and all that on her own without being able to afford help. And that was my first thought when she's interviewing Millie as a housemaid is I was like, must be nice.
Just Blane (15:20)
Yeah.
Right?
Courtney Pearl (15:29)
I mean, I know that's not really the premise of the movie, but that was my first thought. So I'm gonna say that first.
Just Blane (15:34)
I mean, I, yeah, I get that. I get that. And I do have to say this too, because you've got to pay attention to the environments people invite you into. Because you can go ahead and attest to this, energy don't lie. Even when the people do, the energy does not. And this whole story, the house made with Millie coming into Nina's world, it is...
Courtney Pearl (15:46)
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Just Blane (16:02)
Basically, it's a master class in how to ignore red flags until they start redecorating your reality. And that's what happens in the movie. Have you ever walked into a situation where everything looked perfect, but your spirit, and I know you feel this more than you, but your spirit says, nah, something's off. That was what I got from the very beginning of the movie. And I know I'm walking into that, but yeah, I thought that.
Courtney Pearl (16:21)
Yeah.
Yikes.
ignoring the red flags was, ⁓ know, Millie was desperate for this job. And I think that you can, you could say, ⁓ man, you know, when it comes to a relationship or when it comes to employment or when it comes to any of these kinds of situations that somebody is stupid if they ignore red flags or, know, like you should have seen this coming. You saw this going on and you felt this energy when you walked in.
Just Blane (16:34)
Yeah!
Courtney Pearl (16:54)
And we can judge all we want, but when someone's in a position like Millie was in, you do whatever you gotta do. And you can feel that in the beginning of the movie. mean, obviously the themes and everything shifts and changes by the middle of the movie, but in the beginning, you're like, yeah, I could see myself doing the same thing Millie was doing. You keep your head down, you do what you gotta do. Her parole person is like, listen, just keep this job.
Just Blane (16:59)
Yeah.
Courtney Pearl (17:20)
You don't want to go back to prison. You're going to be there another five years to finish off your sentence if you lose this job or if you can't, you know, pull it together, I guess. And so you're just like, OK, I will just do whatever I have to do, even if it means bowing down to these extreme temper tantrums that this house is showing. You're like, just got to power through. Just got to do what I got to do. And
Just Blane (17:44)
Yeah, yeah.
Courtney Pearl (17:49)
to rely on the male or the masculine character in the house, Andrew, as like maybe this is the protector, maybe this is the person who's gonna see me through this, because he seems to be very charming, he seems to really ⁓ be interacting with Millie, like he might be on my side a little bit, maybe he's my one.
Just Blane (17:52)
Mmm.
Courtney Pearl (18:15)
Prince Charming with all the Cinderella themes we have going on here. He's the one Prince Charming that's gonna get me through this. I just have to deal with evil stepmother type character. If he's there, I can handle it, right?
Just Blane (18:27)
Yeah, and let's talk about Sydney Sweeney and her performance here because it all comes back to her and she's playing this character, Millie, and you feel like she's thinking three thoughts at once, the entire movie. One for survival, one for manipulation, and one that she doesn't even understand yet. And that's a dangerous, very dangerous thing in a story like this. And I think that she...
Courtney Pearl (18:38)
Mm-hmm.
Just Blane (18:56)
Look, I love Signe Sweeney and I know she had a bunch of controversy and I still don't understand all that, but I look at her as the movie star that she is and I thought she crushed it in this movie playing the role of Millie. We saw her in, what was the movie we saw her in? That we broke, The Witch? Was she in that? No. She's in something we did at one point. I can't remember what it was.
Courtney Pearl (19:10)
Mm-hmm.
No.
Yeah, I'm gonna have to check that out. I'm like.
Just Blane (19:24)
But her performance really helps make the house made what it is and it helps it, the whole movie hit different. It's not just a thriller. It's about the power dynamics behind politeness, hiding behind it really, because that's what's going on here. And what did you think about Sidney Sweeney overall in this?
Courtney Pearl (19:39)
Mm-hmm.
I loved the layers of this character, Millie. I think she played that really well. The only time that I felt like, oh, this feels like a bit of a leap is that the, and I understand the movie had to move the plot along a little bit faster from the book. I didn't read the book, but this is based on Frieda McFadden's book. It came out in 2022, but I was,
Just Blane (20:05)
the minute.
Courtney Pearl (20:12)
I'm aware of the fact that I think in the book they built it up a little bit longer. They took a little bit longer with the relationship between Millie and Andrew and how that ended up being what it was. But it felt like from survival and from being threatened by Nina's character and being like, you stay away from my husband and it looks real sus when she's caught with him alone in certain situations in the house in the beginning.
Just Blane (20:20)
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Courtney Pearl (20:41)
And maybe this is just my own interpretation of how I would have handled it in that situation. I'm putting myself in Millie's shoes in those situations. I would be like, I am gonna do everything I can to convince Nina that there is nothing, nothing going on between me and Andrew. Like, that would be my survival strategy. But for her to be kind of quick to accept that... ⁓
Just Blane (20:57)
Yeah.
Courtney Pearl (21:07)
invitation from Andrew to go like, yeah, we can go like spend a weekend together or whatever it was. It was kind of a little bit like, that felt a little quick, I guess, in my, that was my only moment where I was like, I don't see this happening. But that's just me.
Just Blane (21:13)
Yes!
Wrong.
Even in that moment
though, you kind of can see why Millie went. I mean, if you look at it overall, that's her boss basically saying, hey, go with me on this trip. And it's weird. She got put into a weird situation. This whole movie is a weird situation. It's not an average situation. It's not your average movie in general. It's not your creaky floorboard, ghost in the attic situation.
Courtney Pearl (21:40)
Yeah.
Yeah.
Just Blane (21:55)
This
is a psychological chess game where everybody's smiling while they move your pieces around. And then halfway through the movie, you realize you're not even playing the same game.
Courtney Pearl (22:05)
Yeah, unfortunately, as weird of a situation as it feels like, and obviously the situation of ⁓ as we get further into the movie, little bit more than halfway into the movie and we start to realize there's a shift here. Things are not what they seemed. And Amanda's character, Nina, ⁓ is actually manipulating this whole thing. That a lot of it was a performance to get.
⁓ Millie into a position where Millie would become the protector or Millie would become the ⁓ vigilante. But unfortunately, this weird situation that you're talking about is actually a much more common situation than we would like to see in our culture, which is domestic violence, right? We're talking about like this whole situation of like the ⁓
Just Blane (22:39)
Yeah.
Mmm. Mmm.
Courtney Pearl (22:59)
the instinct that we have as women and maybe because we are conditioned from birth to be aware of this condition, which is be wary of men being just a little bit on the lookout for any sign that we are in danger. And Andrew just happened to be really good at playing the part of the charming saintly
Just Blane (23:09)
Mm-hmm.
Courtney Pearl (23:28)
husband, ⁓ know, boyfriend type to make everyone else around him believe and I guess he learned it from his mother like we find out at the end like this was learned behavior, but he was so good at it. It made it nearly impossible for Nina to get out of this situation any other way. She was absolutely trapped and and I mean again this it reminded me of ⁓
Just Blane (23:29)
Yeah.
Yes.
Courtney Pearl (23:55)
shoot, what was that series? Big Little Lies, Nicole Kidman was in. Again, about domestic violence, it's like everybody thought they were the perfect couple. On the outside, it all looks great and wonderful and they're rich and they're beautiful and they're so in love and what's really going on behind the scenes is much more tragic and much more terrifying and actual people's horrific realities and that's something that I think that it's great for this movie to at least give some... ⁓
notice to. So what I'm trying to say, give some notice to this kind of situation because there were scenes in this movie when Andrew started getting mad when he was locked in the attic. think it was when he got it all turned around on him. Yay, Millie. We're like, hey, she's not the monster here. She's the vigilante. She's the hero. We're all rooting for her. ⁓ Super awesome when she starts breaking the dishes too. Like one of my favorite parts. But when he started getting mad and he's pounding at the door, I felt myself
Just Blane (24:25)
Yeah? Yeah?
Yeah.
Courtney Pearl (24:53)
physically getting scared. Like, angry men? That is a horrible, realistic reality for a lot of people.
Just Blane (24:56)
Yeah!
I mean,
do you remember the social media question, the big question, the viral question that went around not long ago? And it was, would you rather be trapped in the woods with a bear or a man? And everybody was like, bear. Yeah, I get that. would have been, I would have been, I would have been team bear too. But you know what? This right here leads into what the overall theme of this movie is.
Courtney Pearl (25:16)
Absolutely. I was on Team Bear. Yeah, I don't mind saying that.
Just Blane (25:29)
And I wanna know how many of our freqs out there this has happened to, where you stayed in the situation too long because the opportunity was too good, the money was right. The outside world was looking at you and saying, you're lucky to be there. Meanwhile, your inner voice is pacing around like a caged animal. When have you been there? I've been there. I'm not gonna name which jobs, but.
Courtney Pearl (25:46)
Yeah.
Just Blane (25:55)
Because those people are watching, I know those people see this and in the entertainment industry, that's a lot of those jobs. It is people in situations that look amazing, but on the inside, their soul is dying or it's pacing around like a lion in a cage, you know? And that really taps into this fear of being trapped in a good situation that is actually bad for you. What do you?
Courtney Pearl (26:14)
Yeah.
Just Blane (26:23)
I don't know, not everybody can do what Millie did. It doesn't all come to that.
Courtney Pearl (26:26)
No, I don't know if I have
the strength or the ⁓ or even the cleverness. The way that she was able to see the situation from so many angles that she could be like, I don't know, I'm going to get myself out of this. I would dare say most of us don't have it. We aren't strong enough or we aren't. But again, that was the whole point. Nina picked her for that. Nina knew her past and knew if anyone's going to do it, she's going to be the one who can plunge the knife straight into his neck.
Just Blane (26:39)
Yeah.
Yeah.
Courtney Pearl (26:55)
and be able to get out of this. But the fact that Nina came back for her, I think says a lot. And that kind of comes to my point. My interpretation of the overall themes in this movie was not necessarily about domestic violence or about Andrew being the monster here. But to me, absolutely highlights what the actual definition of the witch wound is.
Just Blane (27:23)
Mmm.
Courtney Pearl (27:24)
And the witch wound is women betraying women and women showing up for women. Like here we have Nina who, mean, you know, for all the nuances of her situation, what was going on, she essentially was throwing Millie under the bus. And you saw how many times Millie was betrayed by women.
in the reason she went to prison in the first place was because her roommate didn't back her up when she was like, he was sexually assaulting ⁓ her roommate. And she's like, for whatever reason, she didn't back me up and I went to prison for murder. And I mean, again, during witch trials, you can look and you can see how many times, and this is actual witch trials, but it can also be any time in history. How many times was a woman accused of something? It would have been
if women had stuck together or if they hadn't named another woman as a witch, they would have survived together or they would have gone down together. But at least it was, you know, with the right, ⁓ with the ethically being like, I'm going to tell the truth. I'm going be honest. I'm going to stick up for my sister here. But in this case, we have those all of those situations where women were betraying women all over the place. Nina was betraying Millie. Millie was betraying Nina.
Just Blane (28:19)
Mmm.
Yeah.
Courtney Pearl (28:47)
All of those women talking bad about ⁓ Nina and the PTA and all of, know, she didn't fit in with the rest of them. They were like, she's a psycho. She's been put into the psych ward several times. She's being gaslit by Andrew. And then at the end, to be like, not only did Nina come back for her, but basically paid her an assassin's fee.
Just Blane (28:57)
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Courtney Pearl (29:13)
Helping her out, be like, thanks honey, thanks for ⁓ what you did for me. And I'll get you work elsewhere when there's need for it. And then you have the officer who was like, you know what? My sister dated Andrew or was engaged to Andrew before you and knew exactly what he was like and was like, we're just gonna go ahead and write this whole thing off as an accident. That heals the witch's wound when women can show up for each other.
Just Blane (29:22)
And then.
Yep.
And not only that, but what that does in the film is set up the sequel and set up this new character that Millie is about to be the housemaid and go to other places and take care of the men in this kind of way. And I love that because now they've got a series of movies. And I don't know if there's other books. Are there more books? I'm not sure. No? There could be.
Courtney Pearl (30:03)
Yeah, and I'd watch.
I'm
sure. No, I don't think there is, but yeah, I'm not sure. I'd be all right with that. I would love to see a little bit more of vigilante, that revenge, whatever it is, but someone sticking up for women in this way, ⁓ in situations that they just feel like they cannot get out of otherwise. I'm not mad about it.
Just Blane (30:11)
I can guarantee you there's gonna be a sequel to this. think it's already.
Yeah.
People are drawn to stories like this and it's not because of the house or the job or the whatever else you want to think about. It's about who holds the power inside that house in the movie. And then what happens when the power shifts. And we see a lot of that in this movie. I didn't know what I was getting into. I didn't even watch the trailer for this movie before I watched it. I just honestly, you know why I watched it Sydney Sweeney. I like looking at her. Who doesn't? She's pretty.
Courtney Pearl (30:57)
Yeah. Gorgeous. Sure.
Just Blane (30:57)
I'm just being honest. But yeah, I mean,
and then I enjoyed it. I found out I enjoyed the hell out of this movie. And I do want to see sequels and the story of Millie and being this revenge assassin, basically working with women. I think that's an awesome concept to go, run with. And yeah, this movie, this is my final thought on it. I thought it was incredible. I thought it was very telling too.
Courtney Pearl (31:05)
Mm-hmm.
Just Blane (31:26)
because we get to see a lot of this in the real life. It's ⁓ making people feel comfortable, but it's disguised and it's not really that comfortable. And it's really chaotic, but it doesn't look that way. We deal with a lot of this in real life. So I can see a lot of the parallels and the mirror reflecting us. And I do want to know though out there for the freqs, have you ever ignored the red flag because the situation was too good? How did that end up for you?
Courtney Pearl (31:41)
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mmm, yeah, it's probably a lot of stories out there.
Just Blane (31:56)
Hey Coco, what do you got? What's your...
Yeah, what's your final thoughts on the housemate?
Courtney Pearl (32:00)
Well, as I said, I'm going to stick with this is a this is a story about the witch's wound, about women supporting women or betraying women. that hopefully when we look at this, ⁓ we judge each other a little bit less, even as Nina was a horrible boss and she was so cruel and mean. When you know the real story, when you know what really was going on in her life, you start to have empathy for her and you start to understand she was doing all of it.
Just Blane (32:27)
Ahem.
Courtney Pearl (32:30)
for her daughter. She was doing all of it to survive. And even Cecilia, the daughter, I think is a fantastic look at what that really feels like or looks like because Cecilia looked like maybe potentially a little bit of a snobbish brat, know, overprivileged kid with ballet classes and juices of privilege and all that. And then it shifts when you find out the truth, you really see Cecilia in a different light. You go, Cecilia is this poor kid.
Just Blane (32:31)
Yeah.
Yeah!
Courtney Pearl (32:59)
who had no choice in the matter, and her words to Millie take on a completely different vibe when you realize she was begging for help. She was trying to kind of almost send a message to Millie, like juice is a privilege.
Just Blane (33:10)
Yeah.
Courtney Pearl (33:17)
Whose words are those? Those are Andrew's words, not Cecilia's, right? So you just go, ⁓ they're just trying to get out from under his thumb. This was just a play that they had to do. And it just takes it all in a completely different context. So judge people a little less. Maybe look into things with an open heart and an open mind. And ⁓ ladies, let's...
You know, let's be there for each other.
Just Blane (33:48)
Absolutely. You couldn't have said it better. I gotta mention Brandon Sklinar. That's who played Andrew. He was an incredible performance too. You had him crushing it and Paul Faige was the director. Can't forget them. I will watch this movie again now and look for signs and think, my gosh, cause I've only watched it once. So maybe I will go back and rewatch. Gotta remember this movie is not just about fear.
Courtney Pearl (33:55)
Yeah. ⁓ yes.
Great.
Just Blane (34:17)
It's about awareness. Listening to that quiet voice that says, look closer, ask some questions. Don't get comfortable too fast. And remember those things when you're out living your life. We love the freqs out there. We don't want the best for the freqs, always. And remember right here at Parallel Frequencies, we're not just watching movies, we're breaking them down and we're building a community to talk about them with.
So make sure you're back here, because what else do we got coming up this week, Coco?
Courtney Pearl (34:50)
This week we've got season three of Ted Lasso. Tomorrow for Tube Tuesday we are breaking down Ted Lasso one season at a time. So each week one season. Every season is just a little bit different too. So it's not, there's so much to dig in there. What else? We've got...
Just Blane (35:02)
Please.
Courtney Pearl (35:08)
Double check my schedule here.
Just Blane (35:11)
Okay, Ted Lasso, season three. I like that.
Courtney Pearl (35:14)
Season
three, Whistful Wednesday, we are gonna cover 30 Rock as a series, right? 30 Rock for, and that's kind of wrapping up kind of our theme for March, Women's History. figured since it's about the girly show, Tina Fey and all of that, we can wrap up March finishing it off there.
Just Blane (35:19)
OOOOH!
Yeah.
Courtney Pearl (35:39)
We have Trailer Park Thursday as always. We're gonna do our Freaky Friday. So reading some of your comments that you guys have brought in. So please keep the comments coming so we can talk about them on Friday. And we are gonna cover Feature Friday, The Green Night, 824.
Just Blane (35:53)
Ooh, I like
that. I like that. All right. So we got a stacked week right here. Make sure you follow us, subscribe at Parallel Frequencies Daily on YouTube. Go to RodTheWave.media. You can find all of our shows right there, but that's gonna wrap it up right here for Parallel Frequencies. I'm Just Blaine. That's Coco. You are the freqs at home and we'll see you on the other side.
Courtney Pearl (36:15)
See tomorrow.