The Help Part 1 (Feat. Joelle Monique)

Happy New Year everyone! Hopefully you are safe and well. We're starting off 2022 hot with a movie I know everyone has been waiting for, 2011's The Help. 

We had to break this into two episodes because there is way too much to talk about with this one! And joining us to break it all down is the incredibly talented Joelle Monique (AV Club, Vulture, Fake Doctors, Real Friends)  who has THOUGHTS about this movie. 

In the first half we discuss how wild it is that there's a love story between two white people in a movie supposedly about Black maids in the 60's, making Medgar Evers' death a footnote, "The Pie", and just how clueless Skeeter really is. 

You can follow everything Joelle is doing at @Joellemonique on Twitter and Instagram and listen to The Scrubs podcast Fake Doctors, Real Friends wherever you get your pods. 

Follow us @white_pod on Twitter for some behind the scenes info about The Help, and if you enjoy the show, be sure to subscribe, rate and review! And don't miss out on part 2 because the director and author of the book have some...interesting thing to say.