talking head

It’s not exactly a clever term, but then again, most of the turns of phrases that drop like rotten apples from the slack jaws of far-right talking heads aren’t stickers.

As one talking head in the documentary notes, multiple perspectives are necessary in any complicated conversation.

Hargitay doesn’t flit between talking heads at warp speed to feed the viewer information, or overly rely on archival footage and old photos to make the film feel like a glorified Wikipedia deep dive.

Barbara had so many seasons to her life and so many things she was interested in, so we wanted to make sure there wasn’t too much overlap in the talking heads interviews as well.

So he knows the country well, and analyzes internal political nuances as adroitly as a CNN talking head.