After seeing it opening weekend in theaters and then again on Netflix amid a swirl of wildly inconsistent reviews, we are turning into review people as we take on “You People,” the cringey interfaith, interracial romcom (cringe-com?) starring Jonah Hill, Lauren London, Eddie Murphy and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

Overall observations, questions about content choices and missed opportunities to explore faith, meaning and connection. As we cruise through a million hot takes on “You People,” keep your ears peeled for exciting tropes like “consensus-building,” “calling in vs. calling out,” “the oppression Olympics,” and “zero-sum game.”

This episode of The Bagel Report is sponsored by the Jewish Film Institute, whose WinterFest event is coming up Feb. 25-26 at the Vogue Theater in San Francisco.

Listen below or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

Listen to “You People: A Bagel Report Deep Dive” on Spreaker.

Show notes

Selected reactions to “You People”

• People Every Day podcast
• Variety
• Buzzfeed
• Tablet
• J. The Jewish News of Northern California
• JTA

Dialogue and representation organizations:

• Black-Jewish Entertainment Alliance
• Newground: A Muslim-Jewish Partnership for Change

Reactions to Farrakhan’s claims about Jews and slavery:

• Washington Post
• My Jewish Learning

Previous Bagel Reports:

• Todd Shotz interview
• Background bagels

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