Best Supporting Podcast

What starts as a familiar story of familial obligation, high school romance and one girl's coming of age evolves into something so much more powerful and gay gasp worthy in "CODA." Marlee Matlin and Troy Kotsur are both vying for BSA as the deaf parents of Emilia Jones's Ruby, the sole hearing member and de facto interpreter for her family, especially when it comes to running their fishing busines...

This week on the Best Supporting Aftershow Nick provides a post Kayan's 40th Birthday wrap up (Spoiler : there are plenty General Tso's shrimp to go around!) Colin is back on the Peloton, and Adele is back in our ears. In our Best Supporting Assignment Nick scolds Colin for holding out on Viv Maudlin and both hosts dissect the trope of Single white gay writers named Michael. Nick revisits an off m...

We love a short runtime, a raspy voiced mother, a Jackie Hoffman cameo and some climactic meltdown acting, and we got all that and more in "Shiva Baby." Polly Draper steals our hearts in those glasses as the classic Jewish mother with a heart of gold and sends us into a rabbit hole of 90's TV moms, bad IMDb pictures and Timothy Busfield. We also talk about extra work, the nightmarish world of open...

This week on the Best Supporting Aftershow Colin and Nick have both experienced a paradigm shift courtesy of the Real Housewives of New York. They break down the Scary Island episode and gab about their favorite moments and of course da belle of da ball, Queen Jill Zarin. We wrap things up with Best Supporting Kayan in honor of his 40th Birthday and hop on our camels. Ya habibi!

We're a couple of Peeping Toms this week, gawking at the beautiful "Rear Window." While the Hitchcock classic features the effortlessly charming Grace Kelly and the big Rhea Perlman energy of Thelma Ritter, the true star of the movie is the elaborate apartment courtyard set. We take a meaningful tangent into the topic of past lives and innate talents, we imagine this movie as a stage production, a...

We are still on a Mass high this week on The Best Supporting Aftershow as we dive head first into November! We touch base with our thoughts on The Great British Bake show, Costco, RHONY, and the genius of TikTok's Caitlin Riley. Its all about Rite and Kelly in our Best Supporting Assignments before we wrap up with our BSA's of the week where Nick spreads the word of Bel Gioioso and Colin can't get...

After much anticipation, we can finally queen out on Fran Kranz's queen-level directorial and screenwriting debut, "Mass." Despite having no notes and still "needing space," as Ann Dowd would say, we dive deep into everything from the stages of grief each character represents to the importance of Jason Isaacs' dirty tennis sneakers. There's "no Dowd about it" that Ann should and perhaps will be no...

This week on the Best Supporting Aftershow the the hosts compare notes for their spooky Halloween weekend plans, catch up on The Great British Bake off, and a few other bits that comprise their recent media diets! Its all about Rita in the Best Supporting Assignment segment and then its off to BSA of the Week where Nick gives a rave review of Kelly Clarkson's new Christmas album and Colin lets us...

The power of Christ compels us this week to discuss another mother-daughter Best Actress/Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominated horror movie, "The Exorcist"! BSP alum Ellen Burstyn is gunning for a Weston as Chris McNeil, either for her expert mom work or her jangly talking through tears. We have much to say about the nomination of Linda Blair as well as the recognition of Mercedes McCambridge fo...

This week on the Best Supporting Aftershow Colin tells us about the much anticipated second viewing of Mass followed by a live Q&A with ANN DOWD. Nick surprises Colin by revealing that he has finished Work in Progress Season 2, and both hosts discuss the joy of the current season of the Great British Bake off. In our Best Supporting Assignment segment, Nick is thoroughly creeped out by 1973's The...

Pardon the audio this episode, we had some telekinetic difficulties but it's not like we burned down the prom or anything. This week we're queening out on Oscar nominee Piper Laurie as one of horror's most monstrous mothers, Margaret White in 1976's "Carrie." (The question is even posed as to whether she should have won the Academy Award over Beatrice Straight in "Network" that year!) We also have...

This week on the Best Supporting Aftershow we talk High Tea and Kelly Clarkson's new Christmas album with a side of cancel culture. For our Best Supporting Assignments Nick is shouting out his love for Showtime's 'Work In Progress' from the rooftops while Colin enjoys the 'bakes' of the new batch of bakers on The Great British Bake Off. Mum is the word for our BSA of the Week segment until both of...

So much has already been said about Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" and its impact on the horror genre and American cinema in general, but its worth also mentioning that Janet Leigh was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as the ill-fated Marion Crane. While she's best known for her shower scene, the conversation over sandwiches with Anthony Perkins' perfectly played Norman, the...

This week on the Best Supporting Aftershow we are coming down from the excitement of the 1st Annual Westons! Nick gives us a lower back and AC update, and Colin gives his official review of Moulin Rouge! on Broadway (Spoiler alert : he hated it). In our BSA of the Week segment Colin regales us with the behind the scenes joy of the Best Supporting Production meeting for the Westons followed by Nick...

To celebrate both our second podcast birthday and our 100th episode this week, we're having an imaginary awards show named after character actress Celia Weston! The Westons are a hall of fame, looking back over the last 99 episodes, of categories like best supporting sisters, best cigarette acting, best talking through tears and more. We also hand out the first ever Rita Moreno Award for Excellenc...

Our first ever Best Supporting Guest, Mark of Instagram's @dublin_zoetrope and host of "Oh Shut Up," joins us this week to discuss not only Anne Archer's BSA nomination as the beleaguered Beth Gallagher in 1987's "Fatal Attraction," but of course the Academy's eternal bridesmaid, Glenn Close, in perhaps her best well-known nominated performance. We discuss the origins of Mark's appreciation for Gl...

This week on the Best Supporting Aftershow we have a whole smorgasbord of topics to discuss! First, we journey into a deep conversation about career paths followed by our Best Supporting assignments. We wrap it up with our BSA's of the week where Nick bows down to the immense talent of Novympia in her masterful Ina Garten Parody. Colin then expresses his gratitude for the three ring circus that is...

The 2021 Emmys resulted in a number of wins we both had our fingers and toes crossed for--most notably Julianne Nicholson, Jean Smart, Kate Winslet and Michaela Cole. So there's much to celebrate, but also much to dissect this week. A round-up of this year's winners leads eventually to our own takes on #EmmysSoWhite and why, for example, neither of us even watch shows like Insecure. Seth Rogen in...

This week on the Best Supporting Aftershow we get a lower back follow up from Nick, a discussion on restaurant experiences in the mid 90's, and much more! In our BSA of the Week segment, Nick discovers a new Aldi gem and can't get enough of jamie's homemade Pistachio Whoopie Pies. Colin takes us home with a healthy reminder that Vine did it first and did it best.

The relatively recent critical/commercial titan of Broadway, "Come From Away," has come to AppleTV+ in a filmed stage production ala "Hamilton." While the true story of a small Canadian town in Newfoundland taking in 7,000 diverted airline passengers on 9/11 is lovely, the show itself had one of us hoping to be diverted from ever watching it again. While we do get, eventually, to a list of BSA's a...

This week on the Best Supporting Aftershow we discuss lower back pain, New York City in your 30's, and Colin's new candles! We compare notes after our first Best Supporting Assignment and then move on to our BSA of the Week segment where Nick channels his inner gaymer and Colin spreads the good news of season 2 of Work in Progress!

Only in 1977 could you end up at the bottom of the ocean in a luxury airplane (with wall to wall brown carpeting) among the likes of Olivia de Havilland, Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Christopher Lee, Kathleen Quinlan, and that indomitable good time gal herself, Brenda Vaccaro. This week we're diving to the depths of 70's disaster films to discuss the BSA's among this all-star cast of underwater actress...

This week on The Best Supporting Aftershow we are talking about what we're listening to, watching, and queen out on the teaser trailer for Mass. After we introduce a new segment of The Best Supporting Aftershow, we dive into our BSAs of the week! Nick doles out some belated Birthday wishes, recommends a 90's Kids Instagram account, and gives a shout to to Amanda, Don, and Walter Kuchinski for stop...

It's Best Supporting Animation this week as we queen out on this much anticipated Season 2 episode of PEN15. Ana and Maya are just as awkward and endearing in this Mike Judge-style animated adventure in Florida with Ana's dad Curtis featuring love, danger, new friends, old wounds, very expensive ginger ale and one unfortunate caricature. This naturally brings up a lot of opinions on hotel breakfas...

This week on the Best Supporting Aftershow we are talking about The Pattern, more early 90's video store nostalgia, and a belated queening out on The White Lotus theme song. In our BSA of the Week segment, Nick recommends a recent Alright Mary triumph and a buffalo mac and cheese flatbread that will knock your socks off. Colin is happy to report that "Brenda Vaccaro is having a Good Time" just in...