Que Seurat, Seurat

Update: 2025-08-20

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Episode 55: Que Seurat, Seurat
This week’s prompts: Chair, Pews, 1886

Lauren debates pest control theology. Neal is mid-migraine and back pain. Business as usual. From pointillist pixels to loincloths and jungle epics, this episode stretches across art history and ‘80s Hollywood with wildly different (but equally nerdy) results.

First, Lauren goes deep into Georges Seurat’s Models (1886), a painting-within-a-painting that doubles as a defiant response to critics. You’ll learn why Seurat’s figures were accused of looking like mannequins, how his dots anticipated both Cubism and CMYK printing, and why Ferris Bueller’s Day Off accidentally made him a household name. Along the way: nudes, parasols, Seurat’s tragic early death, and the tech-meets-art debate that still rages today (yes, even about AI).

Then, Neal swings vine-first into Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984), the “highbrow Tarzan” you didn’t know existed. From Robert Towne’s 170-page opus (with a wild Hollywood fact about credit) to Rick Baker’s painstaking ape suits, this is Tarzan like you’ve never seen him—part Merchant Ivory, part monkey business. And one sensual dinner scene that will change how you think about soup forever.

PLUS:
🎨 Why Seurat might be the unwitting godfather of Photoshop
🐒 Glenn Close’s first Tarzan role (and not the one you’re thinking of)
🖼️ Photography, AI, and the “is it art?” debate that never dies
🍲 Tarzan’s orgasmic soup etiquette
📚 The Curated by Chance Book Club has officially launched—Lauren picks the first read September 1st.

Next week’s prompts: 2002, Butter, Fedora

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