Best Supporting Podcast

We are kicking off a month of Pedro Almodóvar with his 1988 classic "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown." Almodóvar regulars Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Maria Barranco, Julieta Serrano, Rossy de Palma, Kiti Mánver, Guillermo Montesinos and Chus Lampreave all show to up for a farcical, melodramatic and totally compelling story of scorned lovers, spiked gazpacho, hot sex with Shiite terro...

The Spanish musical "La Llamada" aka "Holy Camp!" may sound bonkers on paper: a teenage girl at a summer camp run by nuns has visions of God singing Whitney Houston songs to her. Meanwhile her best friend is in love with Best Supporting Sister Milagros, the camp chef is their drug dealer, and the new Mother Superior is one hell of a dancer. Call it an act of God, but it all makes for an incredibly...

It may have been a box office dud no one was really asking for, but this sequel to "Terms of Endearment" has its merits, especially if you watched parts of it on TV as a child. Shirley MacLaine returns to her Oscar-winning role as Aurora, and is joined by "Happy Days" alum Marion Ross as her plucky long-time maid, whose burgeoning love story with Best Supporting Ben Johnson gives us some Golden Gl...

Cher, get in here! This week we are queening out on the queens of "Clueless." Though to be honest, A LOT of those queens were the men in this movie. That being said, Alicia Silverstone is giving us major butterflies and there's no denying Brittany Murphy as the true BSA. Snaps to Elisa Donovan, Breckin Meyer, the ageless Paul Rudd, a trio of tragic teachers and of course...Queen Dan. We discover t...

Few things feel as perfectly 90's as "The First Wives Club," and we couldn't love it more. In a world of answering machines and bulky coats and sweeping Marc Shaiman scores is an all-star cast of ladies, and this week we're ranking our Top 5 BSA's, including a down in the dumps Debra Monk, Bette Midler at her most Joy Behar, Sarah Jessica Scene Stealer, Dame Maggie Smith's face journeys, and of co...

The Oscar race may have become slightly predictable by the night of the awards, but the award show itself, as the world knows, was anything but. So of course we've got to talk a little bit about The Slap, but more importantly, Best Supporting Lupita. And speaking of supporting, Lady Gaga and Yuh-Jung Youn were Best Supporting Angels, and Liza's matter of fact announcement of this year's Best Pictu...

Better late than never, we're finally talking about "Belfast" and it was worth the wait! Ciarán Hinds is giving Queen Troy Kotsur a run for his Oscar in the Best Supporting Actor category, while Judi is a bit of a surprise nomination who still packs a wallop in a few choice moments. Caitriona Balfe with that roar and that window acting and that Bus Scene joins the ranks of Ann Dowd for Best Suppor...

We're bringing our Patreon-only Aftershow back to the main feed this week! Just when you thought we were done queening out on Real Housewives of New York, we are taking it one step further and casting some of our favorite actresses to play Ramona Singer, Bethenny Frankel, Sonja Morgan, LuAnn de Lesseps and more! Plus we'll check in on our Best Supporting Assignments and swoon over our BSA's of the...

It may not be prestige television, but when it comes to big BSA energy on TV, few shows have delivered as consistently as the Real Housewives of New York City. It's become a recent obsession for both of us, so we're finally breaking down the best, the worst and everyone in between of RHONY! Joining us is Jen from the YouTube channel Real Housewives Recaps, who brings her expertise and love for the...

After much discussion and maligning, we are no longer just blindly hating on "Being the Ricardos" but trying to find what's to love in the 2+ hour glimpse into what is apparently the scariest week in the lives of Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, and the cast and crew of "I Love Lucy." It amounts to a lot of Nicole as Carol Radziwill as Lucy futzing with the flowers and moving the piano bench. The real hi...

Princess Diana is having the weirdest Christmas ever in "Spencer," with pearls in her soup, Anne Boleyn haunting her in the halls and only the encouragement of a potentially imaginary best friend Maggie, played by BSA Sally Hawkins, to keep her going till Boxing Day. It's definitely very different from the 9 or 10 biopics that already exist about the Princess of Wales, and honestly, thank god. Kri...

No this isn't another RHONY episode (insert Ramona laugh), we're finally covering "The Lost Daughter"! This year's multiple Oscar nominee includes a BSA nod to Jessie Buckley (not to be confused with Jessie Mueller) as the younger self of Queen Olivia Colman, who is serving up some perfect ice cream cone acting while on the holiday from hell (or at least some kind of purgatory) in Greece. We also...

The Oscar nominations were announced this week and as usual there were surprises, disappointments and of course glaring omissions in our humblest of opinions. We dive into all four acting categories, and then give some love to the recent BAFTA nominations, especially when it comes to names like Ann Dowd, Mike Faist and Ruth Negga on the list. We're bringing the Patreon aftershow to the main feed t...

Birthday girl's choice continues this week, this time with Nick's pick of "The Light in the Piazza," featured on PBS Live at Lincoln Center and currently either lurking the internet or residing in the Google Drives of devoted musical theatre folks. We queen out on the refreshingly classic score, Victoria Clark's North Carolina accent, the rocky past in casting Clara, and the overall Glass Menageri...

*Apologies for the slightly wonky audio this week!* As is tradition on the Best Supporting Podcast, it's birthday girl's choice this week and Colin has quite arbitrarily picked the retirement community comedy "Queen Bees." But honestly, what a pleasant birthday surprise! Ellen Burstyn is bringing the same mopey, warbley, lived in energy of her "Pieces of a Woman" BSA performance to this, and her c...

2021 was a year chockfull of Best Supporting Moms, and this week we're queening out on Queen Oracene, Venus and Serena Williams' mother as portrayed by Aunjanue Ellis in "King Richard." Will Smith has our vote for Best Actor as the tirelessly stubborn and determined Richard Williams, and we're excited to see Ellis enter the incredibly competitive BSA race. We discuss the big kitchen scene, the com...

2021 was a big year for the Best Supporting Podcast! From the Housewives to the White House to the White Lotus and even a rock in the middle of the ocean, this week we’re looking back on our favorite episodes, performances, shows and movies from the last 52 weeks! Best Supporting Patreon: www.patreon.com/bsapod Email: thebsapod@gmail.com Twitter: @bsapod Colin Drucker Twitter: @colindrucker Instag...

Rebecca Hall's "Passing" feels like an overlooked gem on the shelves of Netflix, though Ruth Negga's mesmerizing performance as Claire, a black woman passing for white in 1920's New York, is making some shortlists for BSA this year. But why isn't Tessa Thompson knocking Nicole Kidman's goosey Lucy out of the Best Actress race? Andre Holland, Bill Camp and a potentially typecast Alexander Skarsgard...

Much to our surprise and delight, "The Power of the Dog" has more in common with "Brokeback Mountain" and "The Bad Seed" than that Netflix thumbnail would ever let on! Kirsten Dunst deserves all of the Oscar buzz surrounding her performance as the wilting Rose, with Kodi Smit-McPhee playing the original Demon Twink and Benedict Cumberbatch as the epitome of literal toxic masculinity. To say nothin...

We are feeling pretty, witty and gay this week as we queen out on Stephen Spielberg's remake of "West Side Story," featuring not only the return of legend Rita Moreno as Valentina, but Ariana DeBose more than filling her shoes as Anita. We're also swooning for Bernardo (and Chino behind those glasses!), to say nothing of Mike Faist's movie-stealing Riff. We discuss the gritty edges of this version...

This week on The Best Supporting Aftershow we are diving headfirst into the second half of season two of PEN15. But not before taking a quick stop at Sheetz and yet another RHONY Roundup! Nick finally listened to The Demise of Mrs. Baylock and Colin is positively smitten with Only Murders in the Building. In our BSA of the Week segment, Nick suggests a Robin de Jesus / Andrew Garfield #friendshipg...

The scariest non-horror movie you'll see all year, Stephen Karam's brilliant adaptation and direction of his Tony winning play "The Humans" arrived on Showtime to seemingly no deserved fanfare. The cast of six, including Beanie Feldstein, Richard Jenkins, Amy Schumer, Stephen Yeun and Queen June Squibb, works together through a symphony of micro-aggressions and private meltdowns, but it's Jayne Ho...

This week on The Best Supporting Aftershow we are continuing our pumpkin pie for breakfast post-Thanksgiving wrap up! Nick has failed yet again to complete his extra credit for his Best Supporting Assignment from last week while Colin received top marks for Insecure and Adele’s new album. In our BSA of the Week segment Nick can’t get enough of Martin Short’s campy goodness in Only Murders in the B...

Let's call it a Thanksgiving hangover! A little behind the scenes confusion means this week is a meal of sides with no main, an extended aftershow to let the holidays digest a bit. We catch up on our respective Thanksgivings, updates on our individual RHONY journeys, some new podcasts and audiobooks currently in our ears and the possibilities a milk frother can bring into your life. Email: thebsap...

This week on the Best supporting podcast Nick and Colin catch up and discuss the most important question of all : what's on your Thanksgiving plate? In our Best Supporting Assignment segment, Nick receives an Incomplete and Colin breaks down the complex persona of Ramona Singer. In our BSA of the week segment, Nick welcomes Adele's new album with open arms and Colin breaks down the perfect Egg San...