Pearl is a Technicolor Nightmare - Xenomania 94

This week on Xenomania, we return to Ti West’s X trilogy for Pearl, the story of a young woman desperate to escape the farm, become a star, and outrun the suffocating life closing in around her.

We talk Mia Goth’s incredible performance, Pearl’s Technicolor nightmare aesthetic, the Wizard of Oz influence, the scarecrow, the audition, the dinner-table tension, Pearl’s mental decline, and the unforgettable ending. Along the way, we detour into awards-season strategy, movie theater candy, Slash or Stash, Rotten Tomatoes reactions, final scores, and Ryan’s Top 5 Alfred Hitchcock films.

Pearl wants to be loved. Pearl wants to be famous. Pearl wants to leave the farm.

Pearl is not okay.

This is Pearl. This is Xenomania. And we are stars.