We review A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood with Kate from Ignorance Was Bliss. She’s a psychologist with a wealth of experience & expertise, we asked her to explain the human mind to us, and she accomplishes that impossible task & much more by also sharing some of her story. NONSPOILER SECTION: Production Profile (Cast/Crew/Specs) - :55 Oscars Lens - 5:38 INTRODUCING GUEST REVIEWER KATE FROM IWB! - 9:45 Expectations - 11:40 Production Values - 13:38 Performances: Tom Hanks - 20:33 Matthew Rhys - 23:00 Ensemble - 28:10 Script Thoughts - 32:27 Spectrum Talking - 39:34 Watch or Not? - 43:50 SPOILER WARNING DANCE PARTY - 44:08 SPOILER-FILLED REVIEW: Mental Health Themes + Accuracy - 45:28 (Lowlights Worked In) Lowlights/Issues Cont’d - 55:05 Best Scenes - 1:04:25 FINAL GRADES - 1:17:11 Your Homework/PLEASE LEAVE US 5*’S - 1:21:48 What’s Next From MMO/Words of Wisdom - 1:23:05 Kate from Ignorance Was Bliss joined us for this review of A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood, and we could not have booked a better guest. Kate is a forensic psychologist, former crisis clinician, and she’s a wife & mother. Her podcast is both an outreach to those in need of help and an outlet for her guests to tell their stories. She is a living example of the tagline for her show, “trying to figure out how we become who we are,” and she applies her wealth of professional expertise and experience to the IWB pod and lucky for us, to this review. Please make sure to seek her out on the Himalya Podcast App for early access and bonus features. The Ignorance Was Bliss podcast is also available on Apple Podcasts, Podbean, Stitcher, and just about everywhere you can listen. Do add her show to your regular listening. You’ll be glad you did. This Oscars Sprint Profile movie review of A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood does fit our normal cadence of a non-spoiler section first. Here, we give you a brief production profile to lead things off, followed by an Oscar Lens discussing the awards season chances for Hanks, Heller, Rhys, and company. Then we give you non-spoiler reviews of the production values, performances, and script that leads into a discussion on the state of modern psychology. Our chat continues to delve into the workings of this plot in our spoiler section, and again, Kate adds a ton of expertise to this review. Here, we discuss how & why Fred Rogers formed a synthesis between a faith based ministry and effective psychological methodology. Kate also blessed our discussion further by sharing some of her personal experience with us and how this movie hit home for her. Kate is amazing, and we cannot recommend her show enough. If you enjoyed this episode, this synthesis between our two podcasts, do please leave us both some 5 star ratings on Apple Podcasts. Just click on our icons in your app, scroll down a few seconds, and please click those fifth stars. Finally, do feel free to chat with us on social media about anything we discussed in this or any episode. We’re at MMandOscar on Twitter, and we are on Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Gmail. You can subscribe / rate / review / like / share / & listen to us on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Google Play, Tune In, Spotify, and just about wherever you listen to podcasts. When reality sucks, keep watching movies with us. We’re Mike, Mike, & Oscar!