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| The Prisoner | 14 Aug 2024 | 02:01:25 | |
Episode 299. We are not numbers! We are free podcasters!! Our topic this episode is the 1967 British sci-fi mystery show The Prisoner. After suddenly resigning from his intelligence bureau, a spy known only as Number 6 is kidnapped and imprisoned in the eerily idyllic Village, where he's challenged with bizarre mind games until he gives up whatever terrible secret made him resign. We discuss the rotating cast of actors playing the Village's leader Number 2, the killer bubble, the mod coastal fashion aesthetic, a truly strange series finale for the ages, the show's place in TV history and its continuing influence, and who we would want to see in the oft-rumored Christopher Nolan adaptation. Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | 31 Jul 2024 | 01:33:18 | |
Episode 298. French cinema month concludes with the 1964 musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. It's the 1950s in a quaint French town, and young Genvieve is despondent over her boyfriend being sent off to war, and coming to terms with marrying a more sensible man whom she should love but doesn't. We talk about how the movie is sung through in its entirety and defies common musical structure, the vibrant color palette, why Genvieve's mom doesn't just marry the suitor herself if she adores him so much, and how we wish the movie was more about the industry specifics of umbrella design. Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| Us | 27 Mar 2024 | 01:25:41 | |
Episode 289. We're discussing Jordan Peele's 2019 horror film Us, about a family whose beach house is invaded by horrifying dopplegangers of themselves, after the mother survived an encounter with one of them when she was younger. We discuss the puzzling origin of these doubles and the unnerving abruptness of the movie's ending, dream logic, liminal spaces, and buff nerds. Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| Thor: Goddess of Thunder | 20 Apr 2022 | 01:40:19 | |
Episode 201. We read the first two volumes of Jason Aaron's Thor comics featuring the Goddess of Thunder! After Thor becomes unworthy of Mjolnir, he bestows his name and heroic legacy to the mysterious masked woman whom the hammer chooses as its next wielder. Our new Thor deals with the threats posed by dark elves and the Roxxon corporation, while trying to hide her identity as Jane Foster. Jane is honored by her new powers, even as they take a terrible toll on her health. Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| Review | 13 Apr 2022 | 01:41:03 | |
Episode 200. It's our 200th episode! Finally, we really learn about the concept of reviewing things from the 2014 scripted comedy series Review. Forrest MacNeil hosts a show where he reviews life experiences based on audience requests, and he has a sworn duty to embody each assignment to the fullest and provide a rating of 1-5 stars, regardless of the damage this may cause him and his loved ones. Forrest reviews stealing, eating 15 pancakes, getting divorced, eating 30 pancakes, going to space, starting a cult, and spending the night in a haunted house, all with unintended consequences that tear his family apart and force him to the brink of death while he insists the show must go on. Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| Sitcom Special: Community & Arrested Development | 10 Apr 2022 | 01:20:01 | |
Episode 199. We’re doing another sitcom trade, where we make each other watch shows we love that the other person has barely seen. Kyle brings us the pilot of Community and the episodes “Contemporary American Poultry” and “Remedial Chaos Theory.” Melissa brings us the pilot of Arrested Development and the episodes “Staff Infection” and “Good Grief.” We discuss faking your own death, chicken strips, 2003 time capsules, and variations on sitcom structures. Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| Godzilla (1954) | 23 Mar 2022 | 01:32:12 | |
Episode 198. We watched the original Godzilla movie from 1954! When fishing boats are destroyed off the coast of a small Japanese island, the authorities search for answers while the older locals recall legend of a mythical sea beast. An ancient creature now affected by dangerous radiation, Godzilla emerges and begins to attack Tokyo. As the citizens evacuate in a panic, scientists struggle with the moral quandary of killing a truly unique being and if their weapon against him will become a weapon that other countries use for war. Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| Black Swan | 16 Mar 2022 | 01:32:59 | |
Episode 197. We watched Darren Aronofsky's 2010 psychological thriller Black Swan. When ballet dancer Nina is cast in the prestigious role of the swan queen in Swan Lake, she's determined to make this a perfect performance. She begins cracking under the pressure of the rehearsals, her overbearing mother, and confusing attractions and rivalries within her dance troupe. As she struggles with performing the darker half of the role, she starts to see glimpses of her own dark other half. Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| Batman: Court of Owls | 09 Mar 2022 | 01:28:40 | |
Episode 196. We read the Batman story Court of Owls, by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo. This was the start of Batman's New 52 storyline, and it's a great place to jump in for new readers! Gotham City has long heard of the Court of Owls, a secret elite council who controls the city through its assassin called Talon, but most people believe it's just a ghost story. Batman himself investigated it and found nothing. But when he's attacked and thrown into a mysterious underground maze, jeered on by figures in owl masks, he realizes that Gotham City has secrets that even its greatest protector could never understand. Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| Knights of Sidonia vol. 9-15 | 02 Mar 2022 | 01:49:07 | |
Episode 195. This month we finished reading the sci-fi manga series Knights of Sidonia by Tsutomu Nihei. The scientists of Sidonia are continuing to experiment with human/gauna hybrids, but they're not all as successful as Tsumugi. Tanikaze's domestic life grows with new housemates and new romantic rivalries and tensions. The pilots try to distract themselves from ongoing battles with a popularity contest, but all their bonds are at stake when a member of the Sidonia's immortal crew has a disastrous new plan to try and save humanity. Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| Brimstone Valley Mall s1 | 23 Feb 2022 | 01:34:52 | |
Episode194. We listened to season one of the audio drama podcast Brimstone Valley Mall, created by Kristen DiMercurio. It's 1999, and a group of demons are working clandestine jobs at a mundane suburban mall, inspiring shoppers to sin. They also play in a rock band! When their lead singer disappears, the rest of the band scrambles to find him before their big New Years Eve concert, where they need him to summon the intense demonic energy to incite the Y2K apocalypse. Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| The Incredible Jessica James | 16 Feb 2022 | 01:26:26 | |
Episode193. We watched the 2017 Netflix romcom The Incredible Jessica James. Jessica is a twenty something playwright in New York City, dealing with rejection from theater companies and from her ex-boyfriend. She meets Boone, who's still reeling from his own divorce. A new potential relationship, a reliable friendship, and the bonds she has with the students in her theater workshop help Jessica stay confident in her life's path. Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| In the Mood for Love | 09 Feb 2022 | 01:31:03 | |
Episode 192. We watched In the Mood for Love, a Chinese film from the year 2000. In 1960s Hong Kong, two couples move in next to each other in a crowded apartment building. One husband soon leaves for an extended business trip, and one wife goes to care for a sick mother. The remaining Mr. Chow and Mrs. Chen realize that their spouses have run off to have an affair with each other. As they connect over this grief, they begin to fall in love, but refuse to start their own affair and sink to the level of their cheating spouses. Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| Weathering With You | 13 Mar 2024 | 01:23:12 | |
Episode 288. Friend of the show and master of electricity Ignacio Rojas joins us to talk about Weathering With You, a 2019 anime movie from director Makoto Shinkai. 15-year-old Hodaka runs away from home to start a new life in Tokyo, where he meets Hina, another teenager working to support herself and her kid brother. Hina is secretly a "sunshine girl" who can summon the sun and banish clouds, which the two use to earn money during an intensely rainy season, but the power could cost Hina her life. We discuss how this compares to Shinkai's earlier film Your Name, the accurate Tokyo settings down to a real McDonald's, themes of finding your own happiness on an alternate path in life, and your "senpai" being a 10-year-old with two girlfriends. Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| Knights of Sidonia vol. 1-8 | 02 Feb 2022 | 01:25:03 | |
Episode 191. For this monthly special, we read volumes 1-8 of the sci-fi manga Knights of Sidonia by Tsutomu Nihei, and next month we'll conclude the series with volumes 9-15. Nagate Tanikaze has lived his entire life alone in the depths of a massive spaceship, experiencing the world through his grandfather's stories and old training simulators. When he ventures out into the rest of the ship, he's taken into the pilot program, controlling a Garde mech to fight the mysterious shape-shifting aliens known as the Guana. Tanikaze proves himself as a pilot as he awkwardly adapts to the strange new community around him. Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| Landscapers | 26 Jan 2022 | 01:10:12 | |
Episode 190. We watched the new HBO Max miniseries Landscapers, a creative dramatization of a true crime story from England. Fifteen years ago, Susan and Christopher Edwards buried the bodies of Susan's parents in their garden and told everyone they moved away. Now that their secret is out, the couple is separated and put through intense interrogation to determine if this was a murder for money, or a painful act of desperation to escape an abusive past. Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| The Power of the Dog | 19 Jan 2022 | 01:33:35 | |
Episode 189. We watched Jane Campion's 2021 drama film The Power of the Dog. In 1920s Montana, a rancher brings home a new wife and her teenage son, much to the annoyance of his curmudgeonly brother. He taunts and intimidates these new additions to the household, until someone goes to extreme lengths to try and stop him. Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| The Matrix Franchise | 12 Jan 2022 | 02:04:09 | |
Episode 188. It's a new year, it's the future! We watched the entire Matrix series, including the new Resurrections movie, and The Animatrix anthology of short films. A man called Neo leads a dull life, finding excitement through his hacker identity, until he learns that he's been living in a simulation. He can reinvent himself, learn to take advantage of the simulation around him, and become The One, the hero destined to take down the machines that have imprisoned mankind in digital slumber so that their biological energy can be harvested for power. Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| 6 Year Anniversary Retrospective | 23 Dec 2021 | 03:11:42 | |
Kyle, Ignacio, Melissa, and Alan reflect on the movies, shows, and video games of 2021, and what we covered in our podcasts The Review Show, The Captain's Log, The Reactor Corps, and Crossplay this year! It's a night of pizza, statistics, and 2022 goals. Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| The Review Show Recap 2021 | 22 Dec 2021 | 01:11:29 | |
This is a special bonus episode looking back on the shows, movies, comics, and more that we covered this year on The Review Show. We discuss recurring narrative themes, favorite performances, dream dates, and give out the prestigious Skinboy Memorial Award for Supporting Players. Listen to Melissa's annual themed playlist here on Spotify! Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| 8-bit Christmas | 15 Dec 2021 | 01:35:14 | |
Episode 187. For our final episode of the year, we watched the new HBO Max holiday movie 8-Bit Christmas! A young girl begs her dad for a cell phone and he tells her the story of the gift he wanted most when he was her age: a Nintendo Entertainment System. The dad narrates flashbacks to 1988 illustrating the antics he and his friends got into trying to obtain an NES for Christmas, and the impact this quest had on his family. Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| Love Hard | 08 Dec 2021 | 01:17:22 | |
Episode186. We watched the new Netflix holiday-themed romcom Love Hard. Natalie is a blogger who writes about her perpetual bad luck with dating apps. When she starts talking to Josh, the first man she really likes, she flies across the country to surprise him for Christmas. The surprise is on her -- he's been using the photos of a more handsome friend to catfish her. Natlie agrees to act as Josh's girlfriend to impress his family, as long as Josh helps her win a date with the hot guy. Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| The Leftovers s3 | 01 Dec 2021 | 01:55:56 | |
Episode 185. We've finished all our Leftovers! When season three starts, it's almost the seven year anniversary of The Departure, and many people believe this is a special day that could either bring everyone back, or bring the end of the world. After the bizarre events that Kevin survived in season two, some of his friends and family now believe him to be a god. As Kevin considers his destiny, Nora discovers an experiment that could reunite her with her departed children. Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| Kiki’s Delivery Service | 24 Nov 2021 | 01:14:37 | |
Episode 184. We watched Hayao Miyazaki's 1989 film Kiki's Delivery Service. Kiki is a witch, and when all witches turn 13, they leave home to live in a new town and practice their particular magical talent for a year. Kiki decides to put her broomstick to use delivering packages, but when a series of setbacks makes her lose confidence in herself, she risks losing the ability to fly too. Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| The Human Target | 28 Feb 2024 | 01:28:06 | |
Episode 287. We read the 12-issue DC limited series The Human Target, from writer Tom King and artist Greg Smallwood. Christopher Chance is the Human Target, a secret operative you can hire to masquerade as you and take the hits from your enemies. He drinks a poison meant for Lex Luthor and has only 12 days left to live. He's determined to use this time to solve who is behind this assassination attempt, and all signs point to a member of the Justice League International. We discuss how much DC knowledge you need before reading this story, the juxtaposition of classic noir tropes with a bright mid-century art style, and comparisons to the prolific poisoning-based story The Emperor's New Groove. Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| Flashpoint | 17 Nov 2021 | 01:24:50 | |
Episode 183. We read the DC comics event from 2011, Flashpoint, from Geoff Johns and Andy Kubert. Barry Allen knows the world where he is The Flash, where his mother was murdered, where he has friends in the Justice League. He wakes up one day in a world where his mother is still alive and he never became The Flash, and the familiar faces around him are behaving very differently. He'll have to confront his nemesis to set the world back to the reality it needs, even if it means losing his mom again. Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| The Leftovers s2 | 10 Nov 2021 | 01:44:12 | |
Episode 182. We're continuing our ongoing series on The Leftovers with season two, and look for our discussion on season three at the end of the month! We're introduced to Jarden, TX, the only town in the world where no one was lost to The Departure. Some people believe this place is magical, and flock to it like a holy site, disrupting the lives of its regular citizens. Kevin and his family move there for a fresh start, but when one of his new neighbors disappears, the town worries that it's an aftershock of The Departure and they're not so safe after all. Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| Suspiria (1977 & 2018) | 03 Nov 2021 | 01:40:26 | |
Episode 181. We watched the 1977 horror movie Suspiria from director Dario Argento, and its 2018 remake from director Luca Guadagnino. Both movies are stylistically and tonally very different but share the same initial plot: a young woman named Susie travels to study at a prestigious ballet academy in Germany, where she begins to suspect that the instructors are engaged in witchcraft and have sinister plans for their students. Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| Something Is Killing the Children vol. 1-2 | 27 Oct 2021 | 01:33:28 | |
Episode 180. We read the first two volumes of horror comic Something is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera. Children have been disappearing from the small town of Archer's Peak, Wisconsin, and those that have been found are reduced to gruesome corpses. Erica Slaughter comes to town because she is a monster killer, it is all she does because it must be done, and she teams up with a bewildered young survivor to try and stop the monster before it kills again. Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| Beetlejuice | 20 Oct 2021 | 01:27:50 | |
Episode179. We're covering a Halloween classic this week with Tim Burton's 1988 movie Beetlejuice. The Maitlands are a young couple living a quiet life in their small New England town, until they die. Then they have to learn the confusing bureaucracy of the afterlife and how to scare off the new owners of the house they still "live" in. They've seen ads for a man named Beetlejuice who promises to exorcise the living out of the homes of the dead, but everyone warns them to stay away from this chaotic force of nature. Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| Brand New Cherry Flavor | 13 Oct 2021 | 01:35:55 | |
Episode 178. We watched the new Netflix show Brand New Cherry Flavor, a magical revenge thriller set in early 90s Hollywood. Young filmmaker Lisa Nova is trying to get her short film made into a feature-length movie, but when a producing partner takes advantage of her and signs a movie deal without her as the director, she swears to burn his life to the ground. She contacts a mysterious witch to grant her the powers to destroy her enemy, but with serious consequences to Lisa herself. Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| Lake Mungo | 06 Oct 2021 | 01:39:32 | |
Episode 177. To kick off the spooky month of October, we watched the 2008 Australian film Lake Mungo. This mockumentary follows the Palmer family coping with the sudden death of teenage daughter Alice, and their investigation when they find photos and videos that seem to show Alice after her death. While they confront the possibility of the supernatural, the family also confronts the secrets Alice kept from them in life. Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| The Leftovers s1 | 29 Sep 2021 | 01:46:52 | |
Episode176. We're starting another ongoing series covering one show to its conclusion, starting this month with season one of the 2014 HBO drama The Leftovers. Three years ago, there was a sudden unexplained event called "the departure" where 2% of the human population disappeared into thin air. Now, the rest of humanity struggles to find answers, closure, and purpose. We follow sheriff Kevin Garvey as he deals with the dissolution of his family and the rise of a cryptic cult in his small town. Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| Looper | 22 Sep 2021 | 01:39:25 | |
Episode 175. To conclude our Shametember series, time travel nerd Kyle needed to watch Rian Johnson's 2012 film Looper. Joe works as a "looper," a hitman who only kills bodies sent back to him from criminals thirty years in the future. When his own future self arrives, Old Joe explains that the future has been taken over by a tyrannical genius and he's there to kill the child who will grow up to be this terror. Young Joe has to predict his older self's movements and protect a child who is innocent -- but still dangerous. Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| Aliens | 15 Sep 2021 | 01:28:14 | |
Episode 174. Shametember is back! This is the chance for each of us to clear a movie off the "list of shame" of things we should've seen by now. Melissa named famous sequels she hadn't watched yet after seeing the first movies in those franchises, and this week we watched Aliens! This 1986 follow up to Alien sees Ripley awakening from her Nostromo escape pod a staggering 57 years in the future. She learns that Earth has already started a colony on a planet she knows is dangerous, and the xenomorphs have started attacking its citizens. She accompanies a squad of space marines to destroy the aliens and attempt to save the colony's last survivor. Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| Moonlighting s1-2 | 14 Feb 2024 | 01:36:00 | |
Episode 286. We watched the 1985 detective show Moonlighting, an early "dramedy" and legend in will-they-won't-they romance. After a crooked accountant steals her money, former supermodel Maddie Hayes bets everything on her one remaining business asset, a small detective agency. She teams up with the goofy but effective PI David Addison, and the two bicker and flirt while solving a variety of odd crimes. We discuss the jarring shifts from poignant drama to screwball comedy, the receptionist who answers every phone call in rhyme, David bringing Chester Cheetah energy, romantic soft focus lenses, and a standout Christmas episode. Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| Digimon: The Movie | 08 Sep 2021 | 01:58:21 | |
Episode 173. Alan and Ignacio are on the show this week to talk about The Digimon Movie. We watched the dubbed American release from the year 2000, and the three original Japanese mini-movies that were edited together to make this American version. We see the digidestined kids throughout their young lives as they encounter their first Digimon egg, try to stop a Digimon virus from destroying the internet and setting off nuclear bombs, and help an American boy whose own Digimon has turned to the dark side. Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| House of Leaves | 01 Sep 2021 | 02:07:40 | |
Episode 172. Join us for a Review Show first, as we read the prose novel House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. Photojournalist Will Navidson and his family move into a new house, and soon discover a seemingly unending dark hallway that opens up where there was no door before. Will films every step of his exploration into the house, which is eventually edited into the documentary The Navidson Record. House of Leaves is a book with an interesting structure: academic articles were written about the movie, a man named Zampano wrote a book about the movie and the articles, and a listless young man named Johnny Truant finds Zampano's notes after his death and edits the disorganized manuscript together, interjecting with his own footnotes along the way. Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| Stowaway | 25 Aug 2021 | 01:31:23 | |
Episode 171. We watched the 2021 Netflix sci-fi drama movie Stowaway. Three astronauts are on a two-year mission to Mars. They've just left Earth hours ago when a stowaway falls out of a compartment in the ship -- a launch engineer who hit his head, fell unconscious, and was accidentally sealed into the ship before takeoff. They can't turn back. A resupply ship can't reach them. It's a race against time for this team to figure out how their limited resources could possibly sustain an extra life. Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| Passenger List | 18 Aug 2021 | 01:40:09 | |
Episode 170. We listened to both seasons of the audio drama Passenger List, written and directed by John Scott Dryden and Lauren Shippen, and starring Kelly Marie Tran. It's been six months since Atlantic Flight 702 disappeared when traveling from London to New York City. The airlines declared that the missing plane was brought down by a bird strike, but college student Kaitlin Le refuses to accept this explanation. She knows her twin brother Conor is still alive and suspects that the airline and maybe even the US government is hiding something. To the detriment of everything else in her life, she's dedicated to pursuing every possible answer to find the truth. Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| Princess Jellyfish vol. 1-4 | 11 Aug 2021 | 01:42:16 | |
Episode 169. Kyle is back on the podcast with Melissa to talk about the romance manga Princess Jellyfish by Akiko Higashimura. Tsukimi is a young woman obsessed with jellyfish who lives in an apartment building only for otaku women, with no men allowed. When a friendly girl helps Tsukimi bring her very own jellyfish home from the pet store, she's intimidated by the stranger's beauty and fashion sense -- until she discovers this is a fashion-fanatic boy who loves wearing dresses. Her new friend Kuranosuke has to hide his identity from the other women of the apartment so they don't kick him out, which is the last thing he wants now that he's falling for Tsukimi. Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| Check Please! | 05 Aug 2021 | 01:28:33 | |
Episode 168. Friend of the show and brother of the co-host Jams Wilkinson is here to talk about the webcomic turned graphic novel series Check Please! by Ngozi Ukazu. Eric "Bitty" Bittle is a freshman on his university hockey team, looking to show off his figure skating skills, feed these hockey bros some real home-cooked meals, and gain the confidence to come out as gay. He finds a welcoming team, and a special connection with the captain Jack Zimmerman, who is trying to figure out his love life and his promising NHL career. Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| Maniac | 28 Jul 2021 | 01:16:19 | |
Episode 167. Friend of the show Jacq is back to talk about Maniac, the 2018 Netflix limited series from Cary Joji Fukunaga and Patrick Somerville. Owen and Annie, two lonely New Yorkers with their own unique traumas, enroll in an experimental psychiatric drug trial. They experience hallucinations where they're living wildly different lives but they're always connected to each other, an impossible mental bond that puzzles the scientists running the trial. Can Owen and Annie learn to support each other and move past their pain together, and can these scientists stop a glitching computer from destroying all of their test subjects? Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| Folklords | 21 Jul 2021 | 01:12:21 | |
Episode 166. Guest co-captain Audrey Stolze joins Melissa for a discussion on the graphic novel Folklords, from Matt Kindt and Matt Smith. Ansel is a teenage boy living in a medieval fantasy village who sees visions of our modern urban life. He's the only person in town wearing a suit and tie and using a handmade lighter instead of a torch. All kids his age must choose a quest, and Ansel wants to find the mythic Folklords, the forces controlling his world, to learn where his visions come from and if he really fits in here. Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| Dark Season 3 | 14 Jul 2021 | 01:45:59 | |
Episode 165. We conclude our time in Winden with a discussion on the third and final season of Dark! We see an alternate timeline where Mikkel never vanished, Jonas was never born, and Martha grows to become the Adam of her world, pulling the strings and following her own plan to try to set everything right. As we learn more connections between the generations, we also discover the origin point of the time travel knot for both universes, and it'll take tremendous sacrifice to reset the town and stop the cycles from continuing. Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| Kantaro the Sweet Tooth Salaryman | 07 Jul 2021 | 01:29:34 | |
Episode 164. We watched a live-action Japanese comedy show on Netflix called Kantaro the Sweet Tooth Salaryman. Kantaro is a sales rep for a publishing company, but his true passion is sweets. He only took this job so that he could sneak away from bookstore sales calls to visit his favorite cafes in the area and blog about the desserts he eats. Can he keep this a secret when his new co-worker reads his anonymous blog and notices the pattern? Only sweet heaven knows! Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| Blue Eye Samurai | 31 Jan 2024 | 01:29:21 | |
Episode 285. We watched season one of the Netflix animated series Blue Eye Samurai. At the time when baby Mizu was born with blue eyes, all outsiders were banned from Japan and the only white men known to be in the country were heinous criminals. After growing up an outcast, Mizu is now an adult trained in the sword, determined to find and kill those men. We discuss the impressive fight choreography, the surprising amount of blood and sex, horny poetry, and characters with speech impediments. Click here to watch a video of this episode.
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| Dark season 2 | 30 Jun 2021 | 01:47:37 | |
Episode 163. We're continuing our coverage of the German time travel drama Dark, talking about season two. Jonas travels forward another cycle to 2052 Winden, decimated by an accident at the nuclear power plant, and back to 1921 Winden, where the Sic Mundus society is beginning to take hold. He teams up with the older version of himself to try and prevent the cycles from repeating, but they struggle to find the true beginning point that they need to derail, and someone close to them is trying to sabotage their entire plan. Look for our episode on season three ahead of schedule in just two weeks, so we can finish the series before Kyle goes on vacation! Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| Doctor Doom (2019) | 23 Jun 2021 | 01:24:21 | |
Episode 162. We read both volumes of the 2019 Doctor Doom comic from writer Christopher Cantwell and artist Salvador Larroca. Doctor Doom has been framed for the destruction of a moon base designed by Reed Richards, and has no choice but to turn himself in and plead innocence. As he attempts to secure his freedom and keep Latvaria safe from political turmoil and a war at its borders, he's also haunted by visions of a possible future. He sees himself with a healed face, a loving wife and children, and a utopian world that owes its peace to him. How can he possibly get to that life? Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||
| Dimension 404 | 17 Jun 2021 | 01:45:29 | |
Episode 161. We watched the 2017 Hulu original show Dimension 404, a fun sci-fi anthology of stories about technology and how it can affect our lives for better or for worse. The show covers dating apps, 3D movies, video games, surveillance cameras, and more, with protagonists dealing with loneliness, the desperation to win, or just the need to share your favorite 90s cartoon with your friends, but whenever you look up the show you can't find any proof it existed. And yes, Virginia, there is a Christmas episode! Click here to watch a video of this episode. | |||