Timothée Chalamet Rides the Worm
On this week’s show, the panel returns to Arrakis! First up, the trio reviews Dune: Part Two, the (as the title suggests) second part of Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 science f...
6 Mar 202453min
J.Lo’s This Is… What Now?
On this week’s show, the panel is first joined by Wesley Morris, New York Times’ critic at large, to dissect This Is Me… Now: A Love Story, Jennifer Lopez’s bizarre, nutty, yet utterly delicious self-...
28 Feb 202459min
Mr. & Mrs. Smith: Remarried
On this week’s show, the panel begins by dissecting Mr. & Mrs. Smith, the episodic remake of Brangelina’s 2005 espionage film. The Prime Video series stars Donald Glover and Maya Erskine as the titula...
21 Feb 202451min
We’re Saving Our Own Lives
On this week’s show, the panel returns to 1985 and reviews The Greatest Night in Pop, Netflix’s star-studded documentary about how “We Are the World” (a charity single performed by USA for Africa, a s...
14 Feb 202445min
Why Zone of Interest Is Dividing Critics
On this week’s show, Extreme Friends of the Pod and co-authors of The World Only Spins Forward, Isaac Butler and Dan Kois, fill in for Dana Stevens and Julia Turner. The hosts begin by dissecting The ...
7 Feb 202452min
Life and Art, from FT Weekend: Comfort Watch: Something’s Gotta Give (2003)
From our friends at Life and Art, a culture podcast of the Financial Times:This week, we return to an old comfort classic: the 2003 Nancy Meyers romcom Something’s Gotta Give, starring Diane Keaton an...
2 Feb 202428min
American Fiction, Oscar Contender?
On this week’s show, Slate culture writer Nadira Goffe and Sam Sanders, host of Vibe Check fill in for Dana Stevens and Julia Turner. The hosts begin with a subversively brilliant Oscar contender, Ame...
31 Jan 202452min
True Detective’s Coldest Case Yet
On this week’s show, Jamelle Bouie (Opinion columnist at The New York Times) sits in for Julia Turner. The hosts first begin with a trip to Ennis, a fictional Alaskan town at the heart of True Detecti...
24 Jan 202452min
