This fortnight, due mostly to Nick’s holiday schedule, the podcast goes back to catch up on some earlier media – specifically Peacemaker Tries Hard! from DC Comics and the Netflix movie Spaceman.
But first, Nick’s also listened to new album All Hell from Los Campesinos!, while Alastair’s seen recent movie triptych Kinds of Kindness from auteur filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos.
After all that, they settle down to bring about peace through extreme violence and poo-eating with Peacemaker Tries Hard! (15:24) He really does try very hard.
Last of all, it’s Spaceman (26:19), a movie about Adam Sandler in space talking to a giant spider that dropped earlier this year. Sounds like it’s either going to be genius or a total misfire.
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An all-animation special this fortnight, as Nick and Alastair look at Scavengers Reign and Inside Out 2.
And finally, they return to more familiar territory with Inside Out 2 (30:35), as the personified emotions face the nightmarish scernario of their human host entering puberty.
This fortnight, Nick and Alastair feel the otherworldly presences of the Doctor himself in Doctor Who, plus a big citycrushing lizard in Godzilla Minus One.
Last of all, they return to last year’s movies with Godzilla Minus One (39:57), now that the media gods finally see fit to make it available to mere UK citizens. Did it warrant all that praise? Just how serious and chinstroking is it? (Full spoilers here as well, be aware.)
New cinematic universes sprout like weeds this fortnight, as Nick and Alastair cover Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and Dead Boy Detectives, a new Sandman-adjacent Netflix show.
Finally, they investigate Dead Boy Detectives (33:20), and Nick is right on hand to compare it to a BBC fantasy series from the late 2000s.
This fortnight, Nick and Alastair cover two big adaptations – millennial nostalgia event X-Men ’97 and post-apocalyptic game-based series Fallout.
Last of all, neither Nick nor Alastair has ever played the games, but they’re going to review Fallout (27:28) nonetheless.
This fortnight, an exercise in extreme contrast with thoughtful historical drama Shogun and cartoonish high school comedy Bottoms.
Last of all, it’s Bottoms (
This fortnight, Nick and Alastair confront the hideous present-future in Civil War, then retreat into a cosy fantastical past with Renegade Nell.
Lastly, the whimsical fantasy of Renegade Nell (34:48) leaves Nick to reminisce about his good old days as a TV reviewer. Hopefully at some point he’ll remember to review the show.
Nick and Alastair make a mockery of their podcast name this fortnight, tackling two releases where the violence is definitely not moderate – Invincible season 2 and Monkey Man.
Lastly, it’s Monkey Man (
The podcast is firmly back on Nick’s superhero territory this fortnight, with the second season of power-based sitcom Extraordinary and the first two issues of the new Ultimate Spider-Man series from Marvel Comics.
A big fortnight for Alastair, with his annual Oscar-predictions audio extravaganza and the new Dune movie, plus bonus piracy with the return of Our Flag Means Death.
And it’s a similar question for cult favourite pirate romcom Our Flag Means Death season 2 (36:52, ending spoilers from 43:34) as they return to follow up their acclaimed first season and… quickly get cancelled. Dammit.
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