Ho ho ho! Merry Christmas, the season is upon us (to a limited pandemical extent) and we're reviewing the Lego Star Wars Holiday Special (12:19), with some bonus spoilerific chat about that Mandalorian finale and the many recent spin-off announcements (19:45), and Euphoria: Trouble Don't Last Always (37:02), a bonus semi-festive episode of the troubled teen drama.
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This fortnight, it's time to reach out and touch the Star Wars zeitgeist with The Mandalorian (13:36), then dive into the buzzy world of indie comics with Redfork (25:28), plus some other TKO comics earlier on.
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This fortnight, we cover Pegg/Frost ghost-hunting horror-comedy Truth Seekers (10:52) and Netflix Greek mythology anime Blood of Zeus (23:29).
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This fortnight, we top and tail the telly, with the opening 4 episodes of Star Trek: Discovery season 3 (9:07) and the second half of The Boys season 2 (26:21, with total spoilers).
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This fortnight, Nick & Alastair renew their Aaron Sorkin sorktificates with The Trial of the Chicago Seven (11:44, ending spoilers from 27:34), then make a token nod to Halloween with Lovecraft Country (31:25).
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This fortnight, it's time to talk about the devil all the time, and also The Devil All The Time on Netflix (12:47), followed by the first issue of Department of Truth from Image Comics (24:13).
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This fortnight, it's back to work at the Netflix coalface with Enola Holmes (10:28) and Teenage Bounty Hunters (23:50, with mid-way twist spoilers from 36:44 and full-bodied ending ones from 40:15).
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Another fortnight, another streaming television festival, with the first half of The Boys season 2 (10:26), plus the entire of Biohackers season 1 on Netflix (28:14).
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This fortnight, we're back on our all-Netflix diet with Project Power (13:26) and Transformers: War For Cybertron (29:50).
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We're back on the streaming TV hard this week, with The Umbrella Academy season 2 (11:07) and Muppets Now (33:20).
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This fortnight, we dig into the past with some recommendations - Alastair's brought classic kid-killing movie Battle Royale (13:52), while Nick's zooming in on contemplative spy comic Zero (29:36).
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This episode, we take our long awaited journey into Netflix loopy scifi show Dark (13:28), starting with some general chat with broad season 1-2 spoilers and then (at around 27:09) veering into hardcore season 3 ending details. You have been warned.
And then we top it off with a little look at new Netflix comics-adapted action movie The Old Guard (43:15).
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This fortnight, Nick & Alastair cover Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods (14:21) and the first two issues of madcap comic series The Ludocrats (32:11). Try as they might, there is not much underlying theme here.
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This fortnight, we focus on the growth industry of TV shows based on popular movies, with the new Snowpiercer series (12:37, some mild implied spoilers towards the end) and second season of What We Do In The Shadows (24:49).
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This fortnight, Nick and Alastair take off with Netflix's Space Force (12:30) and then venture into the woods of Image Comics' Family Tree (29:14).
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This fortnight, Nick and Alastair can't move for action heroes having their grizzled hearts melted by cute kids. First, it's baby Yoda in Star Wars: The Mandalorian (10:40) and then Chris Hemsworth in Netflix action extravaganza Extraction (24:15).
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This fortnight, we take a break from Netflix with reviews of lofty scifi show Devs (15:27, with a few spoilers throughout, though we somehow don't ruin the ending) and new crime comic Friday (34:40) from PanelSyndicate.com.
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All Netflix all the time this fortnight, as we watch animated video game adaptation Castlevania (13:07) written by Warren Ellis, then viral smash hit cat murder documentary Tiger King (26:48).
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This fortnight, we catch up on The Good Place's final season (14:51) which aired while we were on hiatus, and then descend into the more recent Netflix movie The Platform (35:58), with spoilers for both, including ending details for latter from about 46:18.
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Back with our first actually-current episode, we catch up on Doctor Who series 12 (15:21, with finale spoilers from 29:43) and Better Call Saul season 5 (39:03).
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In the second of our two backlogged hiatus episodes, we flash back to the heady days of February - specifically, critical darling Parasite (12:14) and superhero funfest Birds of Prey (27:57).
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We're back! Nothing happened in our absence, right?
Cool. Well, time for our supertopical 2019 review episode! Starting off with a review of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, then moving to our thoughts on the year in TV (11:42) and top 5 favourite shows (27:41), then the same combination for film: a chat (53:25), then a chart (61:05).
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