Why Is Amy in the Bath?

• *Bonus* An Interview with David Magee

  Hey Tub Gang! If you tuned in to Episode 2, you got a taste of our interview with David Magee, the screenwriter for the 2008 film Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, aka Amy's first bathtub performance. Here's our longer chat with David. He explains, among other things, how to write a scene in which kids are pulled into a magical realm through the bathtub in such a way that it doesn't look like they're being drowned. Enjoy! "Why Is Amy in the Bath?" is produced by Grab Bag Collab and Because It's True Productions. For bonus content, like extended interviews, chats about film and bathing, and "Bathtub After Dark" specials, become a subscriber: www.patreon.com/GrabBagCollab. To talk tubs with us, email [email protected]. Follow our Substack at becauseitstrue.substack.com, where we talk more about our research. For our curated lists of tub films, find us at letterboxd.com/amybathpod.

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• 7: Episode 7: Happiness Is a Warm Tub

  Our investigation culminates with us settling once more into the bathtub, which has the best view of the end of the world.  We finally talk to an actress who’s done a tub scene: Autumn Reeser, whose experience in a time-loop movie woke her up to the time loop she was living in her real life.  Then, a quick shower over a sea of fog and we’re ready at last to face the everyday apocalypse we’ve been afraid to confront for more than three years: Why, on this earth or any other, is Amy in the bath?  A sublime question for a sublimating age. News clips from CNN’s 1993 report on “Internet,” ABC7 News on loneliness, The Atlantic on sex, and Fox Business on birth rates. "Why Is Amy in the Bath?" is produced by Grab Bag Collab and Because It's True Productions. For bonus content, like extended interviews, chats about film and bathing, and "Bathtub After Dark" specials, become a subscriber: www.patreon.com/GrabBagCollab.   To talk tubs with us, email [email protected]. Follow our Substack at becauseitstrue.substack.com, where we talk more about our research. For our curated lists of tub films, find us at letterboxd.com/amybathpod.

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• 6: Episode 6: The 2025 Oscars Are All Wet

  The whole reason we put out Why Is Amy in the Bath? now is that we thought Amy Adams might get her Oscar at long last — for Nightbitch. We suspected this year would be important. (We were right.) And, at long last, we now know how the 2025 Academy Awards turned out. But so does everybody, so who cares, right?  Ah, but we’re the only ones who know what those winners & losers really mean to the long history of the Oscars, and what-all that has to do with questions of race, class, and various bodies of water. How is Anora actually a very traditional and classic Hollywood story? What do prison hose-downs say about who our culture thinks really “deserve” bathing scenes? How come Nightbitch got snubbed when The Substance nearly won? Why in the hell are shower scenes on the rise as bathtub scenes seem to be swirling down the drain? And, perhaps most importantly: What do this year’s Oscar winners tell us about the Century of Bathing?  A lot, it turns out. Like, maybe a Bathing Singularity really is upon us.  So grab a piña colada, get on that mechanical bull, and let’s get into the only Oscars recap that actually matters. "Why Is Amy in the Bath?" is produced by Grab Bag Collab and Because It's True Productions. For bonus content, like extended interviews, chats about film and bathing, and "Bathtub After Dark" specials, become a subscriber: www.patreon.com/GrabBagCollab.   To talk tubs with us, email [email protected]. Follow our Substack at becauseitstrue.substack.com, where we talk more about our research. For our curated lists of tub films, find us at letterboxd.com/amybathpod.

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• 5: Episode 5: Irish Spring for the Drowning Girl

  In which Gabby reveals that her own bathing saga is much, much older than this one investigative series. In which Brandon embraces the mystical power of Holistic Journalism. In which the both of them try to figure out why this is the Century of Bathing by looking into wellness, and Goop, and home improvement shows. In which a chance meeting on a rooftop leads to a stunning revelation about the secret purpose of shower fixtures, and what that means for all those drowning girls who don’t want the help of any Brads. In which we ask: Who wants us in the tub? And for what purpose? "Why Is Amy in the Bath?" is produced by Grab Bag Collab and Because It's True Productions. For bonus content, like extended interviews, chats about film and bathing, and "Bathtub After Dark" specials, become a subscriber: www.patreon.com/GrabBagCollab.   To talk tubs with us, email [email protected]. Follow our Substack at becauseitstrue.substack.com, where we talk more about our research. For our curated lists of tub films, find us at letterboxd.com/amybathpod.

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• 4: Episode 4: Heartbreak Feels Good in a Place Like This

  In which Gabby & Brandon find themselves embroiled in an imitation game. Following Amy Adams’ career through the Century of Tubs, we find ourselves face to face with the bathing scenes of the modern traumatized woman of the psychological thriller, and one of the authors responsible for rejuvenating the genre: Gillian Flynn, she of Gone Girl and Sharp Objects. Unfortunately, there’s another podcast stalking ours, and its focus is another 21st-Century Bathing Queen: Nicole Kidman. In this episode, an exploration of profitable trauma and all its imitators, all devoured by the endless hunger of streaming giants that just may want to turn a certain podcast into a TV docu-series. But is it the pod you’re thinking of? News clips from CNBC International Live, The Wall Street Journal/Good Morning America, and BBC News.   "Why Is Amy in the Bath?" is produced by Grab Bag Collab and Because It's True Productions. For bonus content, like extended interviews, chats about film and bathing, and "Bathtub After Dark" specials, become a subscriber: www.patreon.com/GrabBagCollab.   To talk tubs with us, email [email protected]. Follow our Substack at becauseitstrue.substack.com, where we talk more about our research. For our curated lists of tub films, find us at letterboxd.com/amybathpod.

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