This fortnight, Nick and Alastair cover the new season of The Mandalorian, followed by All Against All, a new comic written by Alex Paknadel and drawn by Caspar Wijngaard. (If that Mando/Paknadel combo sounds familiar, it has come up before.)
But first, Alastair’s feeding his Dark withdrawal with new French scifi series Parallels, while Nick is back in the past again with urban fantasy comic Fallen Angel.
After all that, time to don your massive helmet and venture into the cave with The Mandalorian season 3 (12:18). Should you listen to any internet concerns you might’ve heard about this run? (Not really, no.)
Lastly, Nick and Alastair voyage into even more dangerous territory with All Against All (27:50), a new scifi miniseries from Image by Alex Paknadel, Caspar Wijngaard and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, about an alien race encountering the most dangerous species of all: yes, it’s human beings.
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Nick and Alastair enter a world of imagination this fortnight, with two separate game-based movies: Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves and, yes, Tetris.
And if that was too intense, Nick and Alastair finish up by sitting down for a nice game of Tetris (28:01).
A journey into two different dark corners of the human psyche this fortnight, as Nick and Alastair tackle The Last Of Us and Alan Partridge: Stratagem.
And then Alan awaits, as Nick and Alastair discover the faded TV star’s latest failure in Alan Partridge: Stratagem (28:01).
This fortnight, Nick and Alastair cover a popular character from much smaller screens, trying to make their way into the movies – yes, it’s Cocaine Bear. They also saw the new Luther film.
Lastly, forever-staring cop Luther returns in Luther: The Fallen Sun (24:07) on Netflix. Will glossy cinema budgets blunt Idris Elba’s edge?
This fortnight, Nick and Alastair don their capes and take flight in this all-superpowers episode, featuring Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania and Extraordinary.
Last of all, our heroes get wrecked and talk about urine with fun new Disney+ superpower sitcom Extraordinary (27:24).
It’s the episode of Alastair’s dreams this fortnight, as our heroes finally discuss two Oscar Best Picture nominees back to back – The Banshees of Inisherin, followed by Triangle of Sadness.
And last of all, Triangle of Sadness (
Nick and Alastair continue scouring the remainder of 2022 for all the best outstanding media, this fortnight covering Our Flag Means Death and Newburn.
Lastly, they also try the first volume of Newburn (
Nick and Alastair start 2023 the same way they do most years – with leftover culture from the previous one, specifically Slow Horses season 2 and Netflix movie White Noise.
After which, they go undercover into the world of Slow Horses (

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