1X1 2 PART SIX: AUDITION **SEASON FINALE**

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Here, kiri, kiri, kiri! TGTPTU wraps Season 17 with return of former cohost Jack with his pick for a 1x1: Takashi Miike’s Tokyo extreme adaption of Ryu Murakami’s book of the same title AUDITION (1999).   

Miike’s film follows the journey of a TV producer and widower played by Japanese horror legend Ryo Ishibashi who, after nearly a decade of grieving and with the encouragement of his teenage son, decides to proverbially dive back into the dating pool with an inventive method for selecting a date: the casting couch. There he finds the love of his life, a former dancer turned aspiring actress played by model Eihi Shiina in her acting debut. After a few dates and a hotel getaway with this woman closer to his son’s age, the movie turns subjective and hallucinatory when, *** SPOILERS*** upon the TV producer unable to track down his missing girlfriend who has been untruthful about her past, he is reunited with her and she with him and his foot with a bone saw and eyes and bodies with needles after she’s administered a nerve agent. What’s real and unreal is lost as the TV producer unconscious with pain remembers or reimagines their previous dates and his sexual transgressions and/or fantasies with the aspiring actress and other women seen through the film. ***SPOILERS OVER*** And their dog dies.   

This ep, Jack gives zero facts; Ryan and Thomas swap roles and possibly bodies; and Ken reveals his fetish for feet and Billy Crystal.   

The hosts also reveal the theme for Season 18, and Season 18’s theme is revealed. (No, it’s only redundant if you don’t get the clue, meaning, the redundancy and repetition of the original statement are the clue, not to repeat ourselves like the films next season will do. Goddammit, okay. ***SPOILER*** for Season 18 we’re doing remakes.)   

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