Always Be Watching

It's a loose podcast this week. Apologies in advance.

Up for discussion:

02:12 Simon Amstell: Set Free

09:13 The Amazing Johnathan Documentary

19:30 The Matrix - watching the film for the first time 20 years later

31:13 Derry Girls

We also have some broader conversational chats:

30:01 Does comedy get better upon repeat viewings - discussed are Alan Partridge and The Simpsons

39:48 The passing of voice actress Russi Taylor

It appears that the Internet Gods deemed this episode so powerful that the file was sabotaged in order to contain it. But no... it will not be stopped! Behold! Dan & Chris have TV that they must share with you all!

(Also, apologies for the limited number of people who did receive the episode initially served - it has been a trying day getting this fixed from far away from the editing machine).

01:20 Lost in London

07:35 The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

15:14 Succession

21:47 Dave Chappelle: Sticks & Stones

Dan Barrett and Chris Yates are joined in the studio again by Sydney film critic and Program Director of the SciFi Film Festival Simon Foster. They take a deep dive into the many fine things they have watched on TV this week. And 90210.

02:28 BH 90210

15:37 Andy Kaufman: My Breakfast With Blassie

24:51 Freaks

32:51 The Boys

We are joined this week by film critic Simon Foster, who is also the Program Director of the Sci-Fi Film Festival.

It's a great show this week. First we talk about the under-the-radar Netflix martial arts action show Wu Assassins. But then we move on to talk about one of the year's biggest film releases.

It's Quentin Tarantino's latest film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. The film celebrates the movies and TV shows of the late 1960s. It is also a film that has divided viewers. While a lot of film critics have adored the film, many in the audience have been left cold. The panel explore what they loved about the film and share their thoughts on some of the controversial aspects of the film and their theories about some of the murkier aspects of the movie.

Be warned: the conversation starts out fairly spoiler-safe, but they do move into conversation that reveals what happens at the end. Dan does give a spoiler warning when the time comes.

02:24 Wu Assassins

14:20 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

It is a movie-heavy episode of the Always Be Watching podcast this week. First, Dan and Chris look at the two big shows that dominated their viewing this week. But then it is a crazed hodge-podge of movies that they happened across. Classics - all of them!

Flowers [0:33]

Four Weddings and a Funeral [06:11]

Beverly Hills Cop 3 [12:45]

Miracle Mile [23:55]

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice [29:10]

Blast off with Always Be Watching this week as Dan and Chris discuss a new Netflix sci-fi space drama, delve into the alternative ballroom scene in New York with doco Paris Is Burning and TV drama Pose, then question the laughs on new comedy compile show This Week At The Comedy Cellar

Another Life - 01:20

Paris Is Burning - 07:07

Pose - 13:49

This Week at The Comedy Cellar - 21:03

It's a big show this week - Veronica Mars returned unexpectedly with its 4th season. After a multi-year hiatus and a terrible made-for-fans movie, what shape is the show in now in 2019? Dan gives his thoughts. Also, it was the 50th anniversary of the moon landing and there's an outstanding documentary that shows the mission as never seen before. Jerry Seinfeld is back with more comedians - there's cars and coffee involved with that. Dan took a look at the new Aussie drama Lambs of God and was very enthused by what he saw. And Chris talks up the new UK comedy Year of The Rabbit.

Apollo 11 - 01:02

Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee - 07:57

Veronica Mars - 17:14

Year of The Rabbit - 24:15

Lambs of God - 28:06

The premise of the podcast is simple: Dan and Chris watch a lot of TV. For years they've shared with each other their recommendations and chatted about what's been interesting on the TV. Now they've brought this idea to their podcast.

This week Dan and Chris discuss:

00:48 My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman - Season 2 of the Netflix chat show starts off with a very awkward Kanye West interview.

08:39 The Loudest Voice - A dramatic retelling of the behind the scenes drama of Fox News.

18:18 The Simpsons: season 30 - Can you believe this show is still on? Chris tries convincing a skeptical Dan that the show still has value.

28:02 Parasite - a fantastic film from South Korea

This is an incredibly loose episode with Dan released from home on painkillers and allowed to talk with Chris once again about the things they've been watching.

The podcast kicks off with some loose chat about sick-bed related viewing, but what you're really here for are the chat's about:

06:50 Spider-Man: Far From Home

13:14 Bob's Burgers

22:19 Stranger Things 3

And there are also dedicated spoiler chat segments:

28:25 Stranger Things 3

34:17 Spider-Man: Far From Home

This week's Always Be Watching pod has Dan and Chris chatting about a wonderfully eclectic range of TV shows.

There's the dark and arty Too Old To Die Young, which Dan insists is actually a "13 hour movie". Chris raves about the hipster kids cartoon Apple and Onion. Fans of Elmore Leonard might be really keen to see Carla Gugino starring in the gritty action adventure show Jett. And Chris did the thing he almost never does: he went to a cinema and saw the new Michael Hutchence documentary Mystify, which looks at the life of the INXS frontman.