Every Minute of Everything Everywhere All At Once

The bagel pulses, and every version of Evelyn feels it at once. We watch them in rapid succession staring directly into the camera — from the IRS, from Hong Kong, from a robotics factory with a red eye, from a winter street where she appears to be the cold itself, from a scene near the end of the film with blood in her mouth looking genuinely monstrous — before landing at Gong Gong's party, where...

Jobu finishes telling Evelyn that right is a tiny box invented by people who are afraid, and the film cuts to a memory: Joy introducing Becky to Gong Gong, the same scene from the start of the movie, except Evelyn's face looks different this time, softer, more apologetic. Back in the temple, Evelyn insists she still knows who she is, that her life was happy. Jobu, instead of looking triumphant, lo...

Evelyn is marched the length of the Bagel Temple, a real downtown Los Angeles building that used to be a working Catholic cathedral, past rows of white-robed acolytes including one very recognizable face standing just behind her shoulder the whole time. Jobu hands her a Dr. Seuss-style picture book titled, in a nice bit of self-reference, Everything Everywhere All at Once, with the line "I am your...

Evelyn asks Jobu a real question — not an accusation dressed as a question, but an actual "why" with no predetermined answer waiting — and Jobu responds by inviting her to sit on the crack of the couch. They fall through. They land in the Alpha Winnebago, where Evelyn is a talking urn coughing on her own ashes, a retired Alpha Waymond is doing the crossword, and the big revelation is this: the Alp...

Everything in This MinuteIn minute 91 of Everything Everywhere All at Once, Jobu tells Evelyn "you're like me" and invites a punch — which Evelyn throws, badly — triggering a strobe-lit freeze and a rapid montage of mother-daughter interactions: braiding hair, strangling each other, playing chess, riding a tandem bicycle, and doing something that might be Thriller. They both end up holding their n...

Jobu is in the building — and she's smiling with a smile that is definitely not Joy's. From the laundromat, she drags Evelyn through a bamboo forest Wuxia standoff, a black-and-white prison corridor, a fully animated crayon universe where a stab wound erupts in candy, and finally a park where piñata versions of both of them hang from a tree until a blindfolded kid ends the minute. The funniest con...

Part Two of Everything Everywhere All at Once begins here, and it sneaks up on you. Evelyn sits at her dining room table, holds up that receipt with the big black circle, and splits the screen cleanly in two — placing it in both piles at once. Warm piano kicks in, title cards appear, and then a buzzer cuts everything off: the Chinese choir has arrived, and right behind them is Joy. Before we get t...

Hot Dog Deirdre is alone in the frame, back to the camera, crumpling to her knees as Evelyn makes her escape — and she doesn't even get her own shot for it. Then we're in a rain-soaked Hong Kong alley where Foxy Waymond catches a stumbling, multiverse-fried Evelyn and drapes his coat over her while she murmurs about her clay pot leaking. She pinches her temples like a bargain-bin psychic, ricochet...

Everything in This MinuteIn minute 87 of Everything Everywhere All at Once, Opera Evelyn collapses onstage and Gong Gong rushes to help, calling her name in Cantonese. She gets up on her own and pushes past him, exiting stage left. We get a final shot from behind the ornamental archway—a clear circle—with Evelyn leaving the circle and leaving Gong Gong alone on stage. We follow Evelyn into the Tep...

In minute 86 of Everything Everywhere All at Once, Jobu finishes singing "somewhere out there in all that noise." Waymond shakes Evelyn calling for help as the camera pulls up and away. Title card: "THE END." It fades. Next card: "written and directed by Daniels." Then "produced by Alexander Wong, Evelyn Quan." Cards retreat—no, WE'RE retreating from a movie screen. We see the theater audience. Tw...

Jobu appears slow-clapping villain-style saying "how impressive" in fluent Mandarin (unlike Joy's broken Chinese). New punk magical-girl outfit: ghost buns, goth makeup, candy hearts, fluffy black leather, spiked collar, giant laser gun as cane. Evelyn declares "I'm reaching my full potential" in terrible boxing stance (fingers wrong, totally disconnected from kung fu). Screen cracks showing distr...

Evelyn smiles at Alpha Waymond but he starts coughing, falling into her arms. Cut to Alpha Winnebago wreckage—Audrey and Peter dead holding hands. Alpha Waymond clutches Evelyn's urn as light floods in. Jobu appears in amoeba outfit (green tiger-striped spikes, feathery puffballs, bug-eye goggles). Single androgynous voice announces her arrival like reversed lullaby. She staggers-swaggers forward....

SWAT guy attacks, Evelyn deflects and pinky-punches him skyward with the Super Smash Brothers KO sound. He crashes back as Evelyn adds a ground-slam finisher. We dolly out revealing destroyed atrium carnage—flickering emergency lights mimicking fires, dust settling everywhere. Waymond catches collapsing Evelyn as she mutters "it's gonna be so hard to explain this." He removes his glasses—Alpha Way...

Evelyn watches herself get chair-slammed by Gong Gong on screen while simultaneously experiencing it in the IRS. Gong Gong pulls a grenade pin saying "I'm sorry, Evelyn, we'll die together" with real emotion. Her headset warns "mind fracturing" as a fly lands nearby—she snorts it instantly without hesitation. Wong Kar Wai kung fu master teaches "even this pinky can be kung fu" as seasons pass deli...

Evelyn bounces through universes—Wong Kar Wai theater, pizza universe (holding the Beefy 2X special sign!), tax office with receipts mysteriously appearing around her. The Le brothers unite with (not quite) matching butt plug trophies in synchronized menacing poses. Evelyn takes a crane stance, they attack in flight formation, and she spins like a windmill yanking both awards free mid-air. Brian c...

Brian Le leaps spread-eagle onto James Wyatt's Auditor of the Month Award with an epic cinematic boom, his dignity preserved only by pixelation. This allows him to perform Shaolin chi-gathering moves—pointer finger pushing through invisible resistance—before they fight. Evelyn grounds herself with a foot-hop and palm-strikes Brian into an accordion fall. The minute ends with her flying through pla...

Evelyn and Andy Le lose their powers and immediately start slapping each other like kids yelling "stop it, you stop it!" Joy figures out what happened while Waymond lags behind asking "what happened?" Andy requests a new jumping pad from Alpha Gong Gong, then unzips his pants cowboy-duel-style, revealing tighty-whities as he eyes the Auditor of the Month Award. The funniest beat? Evelyn stops mid-...

Chad the teppanyaki chef winks at Evelyn, his raccoon-tail ponytail swishing with impossible liveliness. Then drumming interrupts—Andy Lee banging pipes on cubicles Warriors-style, calling her out for a gang fight. Evelyn faces him with a cake knife and wooden spoon, barely keeping up as the teppanyaki skills flicker in and out. Andy shatters her spoon, she throws a laptop, he swats it mid-leap an...

Evelyn chugs orange soda to jump into a teppanyaki chef universe, her hands slicing and spinning eggs with professional precision while her face registers total confusion. She cuts Debbie's dog leash with a wooden spoon and cake knife, sending the pup ricocheting off a cubicle. Then she spins an egg timer like a spatula trick before launching it straight at Debbie's forehead—ding. The funniest bea...

Evelyn finishes her shield-spinning fight with a mom-tired hands-on-hips pose, then shepherds Waymond and Joy toward safety like they're late for a flight. But before she can catch her breath, Debbie the dog mom attacks—swinging her dog like a medieval meteor hammer. Evelyn dodges, traps the flying pup in the fridge, and unscrews a two-liter of orange soda while staring Debbie down with crazy eyes...

Evelyn swallows a wooden frog figurine to jump verses, and Lester is very concerned about the choking hazard. She grabs a SWAT shield mid-fight and suddenly she's spinning it like a pizza sign, blocking seven attackers at once, and finishing in a Matrix-y kung fu pose! We dig into Michelle Yeoh's weapon training—how she carried the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon spear everywhere to make it an exte...

On this episode, it's not over 'til the verse-jumping lady sings! We follow Evelyn as she verse jumps into a world where she is a blind opera singer. What tragic irony that THIS is the universe where Gong Gong is looking on Evelyn with love and pride...and she can't see it! We also got another "Carmen Coincidence" moment because the lyrics of this opera song could mirror Evelyn's feelings about co...

On this episode: Why is it "put" your eye out? - Riddle me this! - What is Officer Brian doing to that lamp?! - "An orgy of stupid" - hidden hotdog - PSA: clean your sex toys - how DO you clean feathers? - DON'T google "Mickey Mouse Gas Mask" - Trigger Warning: body horror - the tragic irony that she can't se Gong Gong smiling!....and more! --- Learn more about supporting this podcast by becoming...

On this episode - Fart Proudly! - You've been a naughty Raccacconie - Emergency Foods! - No, not my butt! - Are cats domesticating US? - And never was a raccoon tale of more woe.... - You're gonna tell me Gomez Adams isn't autistic? - "Haha! You believe children are our future!" - the Trojan Horse of absurdism - The movie almost ended right here! - Where did Waymond get that cup? - "resting the ga...

On this episode - Zelda reference! - I'm really REACHING for an intro this time! - What sounds trigger you....in a good way? - Daniel Scheinert! What are YOU doing here? - Is Daniel Scheinert the Heron or the Dog? - We see a lot more of Dick Long's.....office. - bDsM - You can spit in my coffee if you want - Auditor of the Month tails - "Safe Word Smile" - ...and more! --- Learn more about support...