“Polite Society” (2023)

Jane Austen meets ‘Get Out’ in Nida Manzoor’s “Polite Society”

Before we begin, we also wanted to share that Lakshmi will be doing a reading TOMORROW (May 18) as part of the No, YOU Tell It! reading series in Astoria, Queens! For tickets and more info, please head here! 

And now for this week’s newsletter.

If there's one thing we always need more of, it's ass-kicking South Asian teens in sparkly wedding outfits. That's why, when the “Polite Society” trailer dropped back in January, we knew we had to see it. It helped, of course, that it's written and directed by Nida Manzoor, who also created the hilarious sitcom “We Are Lady Parts”