(S2, E4) McConaughey, Baby! Alright, Alright, Alright

On this week’s episode of Pop Culture Boner we’re exploring the rise and fall and potential rise again of Matthew McConaughey. We love to give actors a second chance, sometimes even a third. So what was it about the McConaissance that whipped us up into such a frenzy? Roguish charm, very small arms or something else?

You can find some references here:

• Rachel Syme (2014, The New Yorker) - The McConaissance

• Charles Bramesco (2019, Vox) - The McConaissance is back on-aissance

• Thomas C. Curtis (2020, Medium) - A People’s History of the McConaissance

• Dazed and Confused (1993)

• Mark McKenna (2019, Celebrity Studies, 10:4) - Sylvester Stallone and the economics of the ageing film

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You can download the full transcript here.