Two monster films. Two directors. One 200-year-old story that refuses to stop being necessary.

Just Blane and Coco go deep on Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein and Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride — two films that arrived simultaneously and couldn't be more different in their questions. Del Toro asks: why was I brought into existence? Gyllenhaal asks: why was I brought into existence for you? That single word carries the weight of the entire episode.

The conversation covers Jesse Buckley's career-defining performance, Christian Bale's quietly subversive Frankenstein, and the 1,000-year-old Welsh myth of Blodeuwedd — a woman made of flowers for someone else's benefit who refused that purpose and became the villain for it. Coco maps that myth onto the Bride, onto the Barbie movie, onto a lineage of women who owne ...