Emily Yoshida

1 sketch, 5 claims, and 6 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

Blank Check — Patreon: The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) (guest)

Wrote her UCLA essay on The Ice Storm and loves Annihilation; fixated on cold, sound, and depression on screen. Has real gripes: the curled-up Weaver shot, and underplayed child deaths. A sucker for Ricci and Wood.

Stances

  • Ice Storm is Annihilation (the ice storm is the Shimmer)
  • Dislikes underplayed child death on film
  • Questions the movie's impulse to punish Weaver's character

Humor: Earnest and self-aware, gets laughs from naming her own obsessions.

In their words

  • “So now I'm, I'm, I'm riding the, the ice storm is annihilation chip” (0:10:11)
  • “This is my other gripe with the film.” (1:31:26)

Their shows' recurring bits

Running bits, not opinions; a critic read aloud is cited, not present.

Their claims

Showing 1–5 of 5 claims.

  1. theme (theme): The Ice Storm → Annihilation. Emily says her teenage Ice Storm essay and her recent Annihilation essay reach the same conclusion.
    “So now I'm, I'm, I'm riding the, the ice storm is annihilation chip”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:10:11 · Emily Yoshida (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): The Ice Storm → Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice. Emily watched Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice as a companion piece to The Ice Storm.
    “this relates to another movie I watched kind of as a companion piece to Ice Storm”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:26:19 · Emily Yoshida (0.75 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Kevin Kline → A Fish Called Wanda. The one Kevin Kline film Emily knew before this was A Fish Called Wanda.
    “I like Kevin Klein because I loved a fish called Wanda.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:32:28 · Emily Yoshida (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. craft (craft): The Ice Storm → Annihilation. Emily reads the ice storm as the Shimmer: you go in or you go out, and Mikey goes in.
    “if you think about, if you think about the ice store being the shimmer.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:23:48 · Emily Yoshida (0.85 sure it was them)
  5. craft (craft): The Ice Storm → Annihilation. Mikey's look of wonder at his death is likened to Natalie Portman's at the end of Annihilation.
    “much like Natalie Portman at the end of annihilation.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:26:04 · Emily Yoshida (0.50 sure it was them)

Their fun items

Showing 1–6 of 6 fun items.

  1. fun, about Emily Yoshida: Her UCLA re-application essay on The Ice Storm helped her get in, and she found its climax matched a recent Annihilation essay.
    “I wrote a an essay, my critical essay to, for my 2nd shot, getting into the UCLA school film and television”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:08:56 · Emily Yoshida (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about The Ice Storm: Most of the ice was plastic or gel; hairspray was used for frosting; they shot it in spring.
    “most of when you see ice in the film, it's like plastic or when it's wet, it's gel.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:12:00 · Emily Yoshida (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Christina Ricci: A 17 magazine blurb promised a hot on-screen smooching scene.
    “I was like, they have a hot on-screen smooching scene and I was like, oh my god, this is going to be the biggest thing in the world.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:17:12 · Emily Yoshida (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about The Ice Storm: A film-ratings chart in a magazine described the Ice Storm's genitalia scene.
    “They said 2 children show each other, go into a bathroom and show each other their genitalia.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:34:02 · Emily Yoshida (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Christina Ricci: Hosts wish Ricci a second win.
    “I just wish she'd have like a 2nd win.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:08:58 · Emily Yoshida (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Ang Lee: Preface to his screenplay: ice reads as water that freezes.
    “When I think of the ice storm, I think 1st of water and rain, how it falls everywhere, seeps into everything”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:32:26 · Emily Yoshida (0.70 sure it was them)