On the 42nd episode of BEHOLD!, we highlight the best films from the 2nd half of 2021. We discuss Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s beautiful character studies in Drive My Car and Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, alongside Jane Campion’s Western psychodrama The Power of the Dog on Netflix, and Questlove’s music documentary about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival on Disney+. Plus we list our top 10 movies overall.

On the 41st episode of BEHOLD!, we spotlight the best NEW series of 2021. We discuss Peacock’s hilarious girlband sitcoms Girls5Eva and We Are Lady Parts, alongside Netflix’s devastating portrait of poverty in Maid and HBO Max’s satire of the comedy industry in Hacks. Plus we list our top 10 TV shows overall.

Intro - 00:01

Maid - 05:36

Hacks - 27:36

Girls5Eva - 42:01

We Are Lady Parts - 52:48

Top 10 Shows of 2021 (overall) - 1:02:05

Honorable mentions - 1:18:43

Outro - 1:20:33

Eternals, Last Night in Soho, Cowboy Bebop, Titane, Belle, Arcane and Hellbound are our main topics on Genre Equality #48!

Plus Hidzir reviews Big Mouth, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Saloum,, My Hero Academia: World Heroes Mission, Encanto, Lamb, Super Crooks and Dr. Brain; while Isa picks out the best from the current anime season like Heike Monotagari, Takt Op. Destiny, Ousama Ranking and more. Finally we recommend Becky Chambers’ spiritually soothing sci-fi novel A Psalm For The Wild-Built and Fábio Moon & Gabriel Bá’s Brazilian comic Daytripper.

Intro - 00:00

Eternals - 02:28

Last Night in Soho - 11:02

Titane - 18:05

Saloum - 21:31

Belle - 26:27

Hellbound - 29:34

Cowboy Bebop - 34:40

Super Crooks - 39:43

Big Mouth - 41:11

Lamb - 42:24

Encanto - 44:07

Arcane - 45:52

Dr. Brain - 52:02

Ghostbusters: Afterlife - 52:41

My Hero Academia: World Heroes Mission - 54:32

Demon Slayer - 59:30

Mushoku Tensei Jobless Reincarnation - 1:00:07

86 - 1:01:01

World Trigger - 1:03:46

Restaurant to Another World - 1:04:52

Blue Period - 1:06:49

Komi-san Can’t Communicate - 1:09:05

Faraway Paladin - 1:11:40

Takt Op. Destiny - 1:12:50

Heike Monotagari - 1:17:03

Ousama Ranking - 1:19:46

Meiruko-chan - 1:24:40

Irina: Vampire Cosmonaut - 1:25:51

My Senpai is Annoying - 1:27:17

The World's Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat - 1:28:16

Banished from the Hero's Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside - 1:28:48

Sakugan - 1:27:45

A Psalm For The Wild-Built - 1:32:36

Daytripper - 1:35:05

Outro - 1:38:13

We don’t understand why Netflix’s most popular documentaries all seem to be sensationalistic, exploitative or dishonest (Tiger King, Seaspiracy, etc.). So on the 40th episode of BEHOLD!, we thought we’d highlight some of the streamer’s best nonfiction instead - informative and  insightful documentaries like American Factory, Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, Lenox Hill and The Innocence Files.

Intro - 00:00

American Factory - 03:00

Crip Camp - 20:23

Lenox Hill - 30:47

The Innocence Files - 42:53

Outro - 58:20

On the 39th episode of BEHOLD!, we enthusiastically spotlight a few great yet obscure sitcoms that remain sadly underseen. We discuss Comedy Central’s Detroiters and The Other Two, alongside STARZ’s Party Down and HBO’s Los Espookys.

Intro - 00:00

Detroiters - 05:31

The Other Two - 17:31

Party Down - 32:25

Los Espookys - 45:06

Outro - 56:30

What We Do In The Shadows season 3, What If? and Venom: Let There Be Carnage are our main topics on Genre Equality #47!

Plus we review Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched, Halloween Kills, Maya and the Three, The Spine of Night, Antlers, Bright: Samurai Soul and Violet Evergarden: The Movie. Finally, I recommend Matt Haig’s multiversal novel The Midnight Library and Sarah’s Scribbles' adorable supernatural rom-comic Fangs.

Intro - 00:00

What We Do In The Shadows - 01:41

What If…? - 15:31

Venom: Let There Be Carnage - 28:50

Foundation - 38:25

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched - 46:01

Maya and the Three - 47:57

Violet Evergarden: The Movie - 50:29

The Spine of Night - 59:40

Antlers - 1:01:16

Halloween Kills - 1:03:25

Bright: Samurai Soul - 1:05:53

The Midnight Library - 1:11:15

Fangs - 1:14:56

Outro - 1:16:40

It’s a Halloween special on the 38th episode of BEHOLD! We highlight Southeast Asian horror by interviewing Singaporean writer and creator of the Asian Nightmares podcast, Christopher Fok. Plus we discuss the best of the region’s horror cinema in Indonesia’s Satan’s Slaves (aka Pengabdi Setan), Malaysia’s Roh and Thailand’s Shutter.

Intro - 00:00

Christopher Fok - 01:21

Satan’s Slaves - 32:05

Roh - 50:06

Shutter - 1:01:56

Outro - 1:18:31

Asian Nightmares links

Bandcamp: https://thegenreequalitychannel.bandcamp.com/.../the...

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/53VDz3ZBQsrhyhBmx4tVkj

Anchor: https://anchor.fm/asiannightmares/

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/asiannightmares

On the 37th episode of BEHOLD!, we spotlight film noir by discussing classics like Touch of Evil (1958), Sunset Boulevard (1950), The Third Man (1949) and The Maltese Falcon (1941).

Intro - 00:00

Touch of Evil - 04:31

Sunset Boulevard - 20:50

The Third Man - 34:35

The Maltese Falcon - 47:16

Outro - 57:37

Dune, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, My Hero Academia season 5, Star Wars: Visions and Midnight Mass our main topics on Genre Equality #46!

Plus we review Y: The Last Man, Doom Patrol season 3, Malignant, Candyman, Adventure Time: Distant Lands - “Wizard City” and the conclusion to Transformers: War for Cybertron. Finally Hidzir delves into Issac Asimov’s Robot / Empire / Foundation shared universe of novels and short stories.

On the 36th episode of BEHOLD!, we deep dive into the complex themes and groundbreaking impact of Frank Herbert’s six Dune novels. Plus, we discuss Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson continuations, David Lynch’s flawed film, Jodorowsky’s ambitious adaptation attempt, the cheap yet faithful SyFy miniseries, and much more.