[Back to the Mountains] Designing Women S4 E4 Re-Sugar: Deliver Us from Deliverance

Designing Women gave us about fifty-’leven Deliverance references, and then, in season 4, they basically did their own sitcom version. This left us no choice but to finally talk about it. 

One of us watched it begrudgingly (70s pacing is tough for a modern movie viewer), and then we met to talk about movie trivia, themes, and the enduring impact on the South. It’s a thing, y’all. 

Dig into some of Salina’s sources:

James Dickey - New Georgia Encyclopedia 

How masterly horror Deliverance set a controversial trend - BBC Culture

Revisiting Deliverance: The Sunbelt South, the 1970s Masculinity Crisis, and the Emergence of the Redneck Nightmare Genre  

Deliverance at 50: a violent battle between urban and rural America

How we made Deliverance 

Mountain Men: An Oral History of Deliverance - Atlanta Magazine 

An Oral History of 'Deliverance'

Come on y’all, let’s get into it! 

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