Best Supporting Podcast

We’re changing up our regularly scheduled programming to bring the Aftershow from Patreon to the main feed this week! And we go deep this episode—-as the seasons change, so do the seasons of our lives. But then we’ve got a game, Best Supporting Assignments and of course, BSA of the Week! Susie Bannion baby, whaddya got? Join us for The Best Supporting Aftershow, the complete season 1 recap of "SMA...

It’s Sequel September and we’re kicking things off with a staple from both our childhoods, the potentially superior Grumpier Old Men! Ann-Margret gets at least one of the best lines in the movie in an otherwise very supporting role, Sophia Loren takes our breath away as Spaghetti Regetti’s cousin Maria, Best Supporting Burgess shines in those outtakes, and it’s not a 90s comedy without a sweeping...

We’re winding down Family Movie Month with the definitively PG-13 talking baby movie that kicked off a trilogy, “Look Who’s Talking”! Kirstie Alley and John Travolta have chemistry for days, and Olympia Dukakis was born to play Long Island mom Rosie. (But have you seen her as the lesbian cowgirl?) We also get Twink Caplan as work bestie Rona, Abe Vigoda’s eyebrows, Bruce Willis riffing in a sound...

Family Movie Month continues with three men, a British baby mama, a charming little lady and one hell of a BSA in 1990’s “Three Men and a Little Lady”! Tom Selleck and Steve Guttenberg have us hot under the collars of our purple turtlenecks, we’re fascinated by Nancy Travis’s career and we can not say enough good things about Fiona Shaw as Elspeth Lomax, who zips away in a sidecar with this movie...

Family Movie Month takes us to the basement of the Alamo and back in Pee-wee’s Big Adventure! The comedic genius of Paul Reubens is on full display here but we also get Elizabeth Daily as Dottie, Diane Salinger’s au revoiring Simone, a swoonworthy Judd Omen as Mickey, Jan Hooks teaching us to say “adobe” as tour guide Tina and Danny Elfman’s iconic best supporting score. Tell ‘em Large Marge sent...

Family Movie Month kicks off this week with a gaggle of familiar faces and a wagon full of nostalgia in 1993’s truly delightful “Dennis the Menace”! John Hughes’s script elevates the story from its comic strip roots, and the cast includes Walter Matthau at the beginning of his Grandpa Comedy era, a truly menacing Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson navigating the perils of being a working mom, highly...

Jamie Lee continues to be all of us and outdo all of us, this time with a guaranteed guest actress Emmy nomination next year for her role as Hurricane Donna Berzatto in Season 2 of “The Bear.” The 6th episode, “Fishes,” compress the nearly three hours of epic family dysfunction of “August: Osage County” into a white hot 65 minutes of Christmastime terror. We also get Sarah Paulson getting high and...

Romantic Comedy Month continues with an under-celebrated gem starring an under-celebrated gem, its 2005’s “The Wedding Date”! While this is quickly becoming a Debra Messing stan podcast, we save the last dance for Best Supporting Amy Adams as the classic Sister Getting Married, but with the volume turned up. Jack Davenport’s back as a sweet little goose, Sara Parrish is in a category of her own, H...

Romantic Comedy Month continues with 1993’s undeniably creepy “Sleepless in Seattle.” We may be lacking a bit of that spark for this movie, but to no fault of the impeccable cast, including Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks, Bill Pullman, Rosie O’Donnell, Rob Reiner, Victor Garber and of course Best Supporting Rita Wilson with that monologue. To say nothing of the dulcet tones of Caroline Aaron! That being said...

We’re taking Romantic Comedy month to the streets of San Francisco by way of HBO, for “Looking: the Movie”! Not the series but a series epilogue, conclusion and continuation of the quaint and chaotic lives of Patrick, Dom, Augustin, Richie and of course, Lauren Weedman's Best Supporting Doris! We’re all ears for Russell Tovey’s Kevin and swoon for a pre-White Lotus Murray Bartlett, but consider th...

We’re kicking off Romantic Comedy Month with the gold standard from 1989, “When Harry Met Sally.” Meg Ryan is an under appreciated icon of her time and Billy Crystal is a babe with a beard and a book. But more importantly we get the brilliance of Carrie Fisher, elevating the classic best friend role of Marie with pitch perfect delivery of the best lines in the movie. We have much to say about how...

Hold onto your butts, clever girls, we’re revisiting the 1993 modern classic, “Jurassic Park”! Gay icon, Oscar winner and all around queen Laura Dern runs away with our favorite moments in the movie, and may be 30 years ahead of her time as a fashion plate. She is joined by Best Supporting Jeff Goldblum, Sam Neill’s curmudgeonly paleontologist with a heart of gold, a squealing Wayne Knight, Bob Pe...

We’re taking the express bus to Bonkers this week with 1994’s “Speed”! Sandra Bullock’s career isn’t the only thing about to blow up as she gives a masterclass in steering wheel acting and a bonus chemistry lesson with Keanu Reeves at peak babe as our pop-quiz loving hero Jack. JAG alums Joe Morton and Beth Grant are also on board, plus a wired Dennis Hopper and our dear Louis Waters himself, Jeff...

We are kicking off Action Movie Month with a rich slice of the 90’s, True Lies! Reigning Best Supporting Actress Jamie Lee Curtis steals the show and our hearts as unassuming Helen Trasker, wife of Austrian American muscle god/government agent Harry, who gets in too deep and reveals her own inner action hero. Plus: Best Supporting Bill Paxton, a genuinely good Tom Arnold, Cassandra from Wayne’s Wo...

Let’s just say it: “The Talented Mr. Ripley” is a gay 90’s classic with an ensemble of stars. Matt Damon is admittedly great as Tom, and Gwyneth Paltrow is just lovely as Marge, but the supporting cast truly shines. Oscar nominated Jude Law as bathing beauty Dickie, Queen Philip Seymour Hoffman as terminal main character Freddie, a smashing Jack Davenport as Peter and of course, a pre-Tár Cate Bla...

It’s a flashback episode this week, and truly the pilot episode of this podcast. In April of 2019, Nick joined Colin on “In the Details” to celebrate Amy Adams in her first Oscar nominated role (for a Best Supporting Actress, of course), 2005’s “Junebug”! Along the way we have our first discussion of co-star and queen Celia Weston, we trade movie recommendations that later turned into episodes of...

We have much to say this week about 2013’s romantic comedy for middle-aged babes, “Enough Said.” Three name queen and 11 time Emmy winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s Eva navigates a budding romance with James Gandolfini’s Albert, including the most endearing interactions in a frozen yogurt shop, while forming a new friendship with Marianne, played by Nicole Holofcener muse Catherine Keener, before reali...

For the love of Annette Bening, we give Mike Mills’ “20th Century Women” a go this week! Annette gives a masterclass in cigarette acting while Greta Gerwig wins our hearts as Best Supporting Abbie, a proxy cool older cousin type to 15 year old Jamie in 1979 Santa Barbara. To say nothing of a mustachioed Billy Crudup as former hippie and current boarder William. We discuss some of our favorite squi...

We’re visiting the drop ceilings, fluorescent lights and empty coffee pots of 90s office life in 1997’s “Clockwatchers” this week. A very Muriel-esque Toni Collette is the new girl in the temp pool, making fast friends with Parker Posey, Lisa Kudrow and Alanna Ubach, all at exciting times in their film careers. We get Debra Jo Rupp doing micromanaging magic as Barbara from HR, to say nothing of Be...

Justice for Melissa! This week we’re giving some much overdue love to Jami Gertz’s award-winning performance as Bill Paxton’s woefully neglected fiancé in peril in 1996’s “Twister.” But first, we have a lot of feelings about Helen Hunt, especially her Oscar winning accent in “As Good As It Gets.” Plus: Best Supporting Aunt Meg with those obscene plates of steak and eggs, Tàr director Todd Field, P...

We’re taking a disconcertingly long journey down to Tennessee this week to count down our Top 5 BSAs of Robert Altman’s ensemble opus, “Nashville.” The nominees include Barbara Harris, Shelley Duvall, Geraldine Chaplin, Karen Black, Ronee Blakley, Ned Beatty, Lily Tomlin and even some cameos from Elliott Gould and Julie Christie. This may not have been the easiest two hours and forty minutes but i...

It’s the most perfect in-flight movie of our generation, “Crazy Rich Asians”! Speaking of which, we have a lot to say about our dreams of luxury travel at the top of the episode, as well as the banal nightmare of the airport experience, but lots of love for the familiar beats and sweeping grandeur of this ensemble romantic comedy. Plus two of the characters are named Nick and Colin! But we also ge...

Sarah Polley continues to wow us this week with her feature film debut as writer and director, 2006’s “Away From Her.” Much like “Women Talking,” it’s no easy breezy airplane movie, but sometimes you just want to be a little devastated. Oscar nominated Julie Christie glows as Fiona, whose developing Alzheimer’s renders her husband Grant a stranger and sends her into the arms of Worst Supporting Au...

We're flashing back to a different time and a different podcast this week! This is a 2018 episode of In the Details, the godmother of Best Supporting Podcast, and one of the first episodes we ever recorded together. But we waste no time queening out on actresses, particularly Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench in the modern gay classic "Notes on a Scandal." We celebrate a shared love of Philip Glass, B...

We have nothing but good things to say about Sarah Polley's Oscar winning "Women Talking." Her impeccably written screenplay is brought to life by an ensemble that includes Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Rooney Mara, Judith Ivey, and of course one of our favorite BSA's on this podcast, "Stepping Out" and "House Arrest" scene stealer Sheila McCarthy. We get a brief cameo from the indomitable Frank, a...