---
title: "Episode #449 \u2013 The Electric State"
url: "https:\/\/www.flophousepodcast.com\/2025\/04\/episode-449-the-electric-state\/"
date: "2025-04-12T10:00:00+00:00"
episode_number: 449
movie: "The Electric State"
guests: "Dan McCoy, Elliott Kalan, Stuart Wellington"
---

# Episode #449 – The Electric State

What’s the deal with Netflix’s [The Electric State](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7766378/)? Well, for one thing we know that IT’S ELECTRIC… boogie woogie woogie. But also, it’s a movie arguing for the primacy of real-life connection that feels utterly algorithmically designed, what with its Chris Pratts and Millies Bobby Brown and cute robot pals, and it cost… _$320 million??_ That can’t be right. There must be a smudge on these accounting sheets. Anyway, we talk about it!

  
![](https://www.flophousepodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/The_Electric_State_poster.jpg)

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 [Wikipedia page for The Electric State](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Electric_State_(film))

 Recommended in this episode:

 Dan: [The Rule of Jenny Pen](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6874690/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_the%2520rule%2520of%2520) (2024)

 Stu: [Morvern Callar (2002)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0300214/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3_tt_3_nm_5_in_0_q_morve)

 Elliott: [The Clock (2010)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2008009/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_5_tt_7_nm_1_in_0_q_the%2520clock)

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