Ep1161: Are We Good? (2025) - Movie Review
It's "Podception Day" at Kicking the Seat, as two podcasters podcast about a podcasting pioneer!
Steven Feinartz's documentary, Are We Good?, follows curmudgeonly comic Marc Maron through his early days on the standup scene, his battles with addiction, divorce, and losing the love of his life--all of which he has chronicled for nearly 16 years on his wildly influential show, "WTF with Marc Maron".
The podcast is best known for getting high-profile guests (Barack Obama, Paul McCartney, Robin Williams) to open up while sitting in Maron's suburban California garage, but Feinartz digs deeper into his subject's own stories to paint a fuller picture of a guy whose relationship to fame is...complicated.
In this spoilerific and (not surprisingly) divided discussion, Ian and David look for the good in Are We Good?, and come out the other side with more questions than answers--chief of which is, "Will non-Maron fans put up with his whining and narcissism for more than ten minutes?"
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Show Links
Watch the Are We Good? (2025) trailer.
Read David's written review of Are We Good? at Keeping Reel.
Plus! Listen to Ian and David's other recent (and very raucous) reviews of:
Spinal Tap 2 / Megadoc (2025)
Being Maria / Last Tango in Paris (2025 / 1972)
The Unholy Trinity (2025)
Magazine Dreams (2025)
A Real Pain (2025)
Rebel Ridge (2024)
Duchess (2024)
