Podcast

Season Four Preview

Guess who’s back with a brand new podcast! Cecily and A.Ron get the feed started and the party rocking by discussing the upcoming season of American Horror Story: Freakshow, strong female roles, diversity, and finally ask if American Horror Story is the most feminist show on television?

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Diary of the Dead Review

In the first podcast release for our “Month of the Dead”, I sit down with Eric from The Walker Stalkers podcast to review George Romero’s 5th entry into his “of the dead” series, Diary of the Dead.  We talk about the characters, the plot, our favorite scenes / zombie kills and analyze the social commentary…

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504 – Cuanto

Jim and A.Ron cover the mid-point of Boardwalk Empire, episode 504, “Cuanto”.  We ponder the ultimate fate of Nucky, if the Commodore and Sheriff Hammer are playing good cop / bad cop with Lil’ Nucky’s soul, if Capone is playing possum about knowledge of Jimmy Darmondy, and consider the many charms of drunken Margaret. If…

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Netflix, True Detective, On The Run Tour, The House I Live In

This week we talk about Netflix’s ew Spoiler Vault, True Detective Season Two news, Jay Z and Beyonce’s HBO On The Run concert, and The House I Live In.

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Season One Wrap Up

Jim and A.Ron sign off the Breaking Bad airwaves until sometime in November 2014, but we have a few things to say before we do. We talk about Breaking Bad’s relationship to Fargo, a listener calls BS on giving Walt a pass on his “authentic” decision making, and we do a deep dive on Hank and Walt’s relationship as we play a little bit of “what if” in the spoiler section.

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503 – “What Jesus Said”

Welcome back to The Speakeasy, where we consider episode 503 of Boardwalk Empire, “What Jesus Said.”  Jim and A.Ron talk about the surfeit of “boys” and “uckys” in Boardwalk, smooth dialog, the sad state of Nucky’s nightclub in the hands of Mickey Doyle, Joe Kennedy’s teetotaling, childhood sweethearts, the return of Marge, and theorize on…

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107 – A No-Rough-Stuff-Type Deal

Jim and A.Ron finish season one of Breaking Bad with the finale, “A No-Rough-Stuff-Type Deal”. We talk about the sweetness of forbidden fruits, the insanity of Marie, Jr’s perviness, and Breaking Bad’s first Walt-Jesse heist. All this, tons of your great feedback, and a robust spoiler section.

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Z Nation, The Knick, The Bridge

Jim and A.Ron talk about SyFy’s new Z Nation, Doomsday Preppers, Wicked Tuna, and A.Ron catches up Jim on what he’s been missing on The Knick and The Bridge.

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Quills (2000)

Special thanks to Karolina Ljungström, who decided to have us take on one of her favorite films, “Quills”.  “Quills” was released in 2000, and was directed by Phillip Kaufman, and starred Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine, and Stephen Moyer.  It is a period piece loosely set around the last years of the Marquis de Sade as he languishes in a French asylum for the insane. The film has Jim and A.Ron pondering the role of art in society, how the life choices and artist makes influences how we feel about art, and how madness and genius are related.

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111 – Season One Wrap Up

Hey there and welcome to the final podcast for Season One of HBO’s The Leftovers!  Jim and A.Ron talk at length about the differences between the book and the TV show, consider tons of listener feedback, look ahead to the next season, and much more. Interesting article on Vulture discussing with Tom Perrotta (author of…

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