The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award
Foreign-policy allegory; Yellowstone’s cost to cinema; Del Toro’s romantic reputation
In the discussion (4)
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- A hottest take ranks the crossing alongside Heat’s robbery and The Dark Knight’s truck chase; the hosts recall the chaotic Grantland period.
- A hottest take reads the film as an allegory of American foreign policy exploiting crises and desires for justice.
- Another hottest take calls Yellowstone’s success a major loss for film screenwriting, with Mike White discussed as a different film-to-TV example.
- Bill’s hottest take is that Del Toro’s reputation as a ladies’ man is underrecognized; purported relationships are recited as hearsay rather than independently established facts.