All things TV
John and Al meet at the pork store to share muted appreciation for THE MANY SAINTS OF NEWARK and a renewed passion for the grandaddy of prestige TV anti-heroes, before pondering whether such a thing has any place in the post-Me Too/Trump/social media era.
TV SET: THE SOPRANOS In 2021 Read More »
The guys just talk about Tim Robinson’s oddball sketch show I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE for an hour. It’s fun.
TV SET – I Think You Should Leave Read More »
Joon Kim returns to talk about the tricky waters LOKI treads with aplomb, its lackluster action scenes, and finally to share a group therapy session over the anxiety that the impending deluge of Marvel content presents to those living in the flood plain.
It’s all accents, ACAB and antiheroes as the guys sit down to talk about HBO’s latest prestige murder mystery.
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The long-prophesied SnyderCut of JUSTICE LEAGUE is upon us, and the guys are not impressed. After an hour of pondering the merits of “mature” superhero stories, unfiltered artistic visions, Steppenwolf’s makeover, and the ambiguous mourning of musical Finnish fishwives, we switch to a quick recap of the WANDAVISION finale (1:04:00) and the premiere of
The Snydercut and the Winter Soldier Read More »
Joon Kim drops by to discuss the impressively Lynchian highs and bafflingly doofy lows of the first 7 episodes of WANDAVISION.
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The guys welcome their Kiwi Kompadre Ben Hansen, aka Bucho, to explain the finer points of CLONE WARS and defend the light, crowd-pleasing delights of THE MANDALORIAN from the Dark Side of Al’s incessant negativity. Subtopics include video gamification of TV, justic for Pedro Pascal’s skull, a thirst for villains, and the truly daunting mass
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John and Al talk up the latest, messiest season of FX’s shockingly great “adaptation” of the Coen Brothers’ crime classic, before doing a quicker, Boba Fett-centric check up on The Mandalorian
TV SET: Fargo Season 4 plus some pre-finale thoughts on The Mandalorian Read More »
Finally, two white guys talk about LOVECRAFT COUNTRY. The main focus is in how it disappointed in the scares department, which leads to more general discussion of horror and how hard it is to do it in the TV format.
TV SET – Lovecraft Country and the Challenge of Horror on TV Read More »
John and Al look at the finale season, assess what went wrong, what made people mad, and compare it to the other Epic Saga finales of 2019.
Game Of Thrones, pt 2 – Endings Read More »
