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Episode 61: Part One of Seeking Guidance for THE COUNSELOR

Episode 61: Part One of Seeking Guidance for THE COUNSELOR16 Dec 20251 h 07 min

Send us Fan Mail Full disclosure time here on the READING MCCARTHY podcast. When Ridley Scott’s film The Counselor arrived in theaters with its very own shiny McCarthy screenplay, I was underwhelmed. We’d been waiting for over half a decade for The Passenger and had no idea we’d be almost another ten years waiting for that project (and of course we had no concept of Stella Maris at the time). I found interesting elements in the film but didn’t think it held together. But people sm...