A celebratory, joke-heavy discussion of Wild Things as an impossibly watchable late-90s erotic thriller: sleazy, campy, twisty, and shaped by a now-vanished mainstream appetite for sex on screen. The panel praises its cast, setting, twists, and self-aware trashiness while also noting plot absurdities and a few logic gaps.
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favorableJohn McNaughtonBill Simmons: Described as knowing exactly what kind of movie he was making and defending the theatrical cut over the extended one. About 1:04
