It's My Screen Time Too

We review Paramount’s big screen take on everyone’s favorite big red dog, Clifford. We have some digressions about The Martian, Apollo 13, and the Berenstain Bears, but rest assured that Katie continues to be a curmudgeon, and Deborah continues to be the kindhearted soul we know her to be. In Screen Time in the News, we discuss an opinion piece by Jessica Grose about the value of watching so-called inappropriate movies with our kids.

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On paper, Amazon's preschool music show should be a five star prospect for us, but it's a kids· show on Amazon Prime, so we'll bet you can see where this is going. Does the birdie trio of Do, Re, and Mi have us tapping our toes to the beat or tapping our toes while impatiently waiting for the end? In Screen Time In the News, we discuss a Scary Mommy article that includes quotes by actual psychologists encouraging us not to freak out so much about screen time. Katie's favorite!

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Our watch list has once again grown unwieldy, so join us for a spooky lightning round of new Halloween shows and movies: Addams Family 2; A Tale Dark and Grimm; Lego Star Wars Terrifying Tales; and Ghostwriter. Plus, a discussion of whether holidays make us want to send our screen time limits to the nearest graveyard.

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We’re joined in this episode by Sarah Gage of the Coco and Dalts podcast to review Doogie Kamealoha, M.D. on Disney Plus. Does the gender flipped cast and exotic location set it apart from its predecessor, Doogie Howser, M.D.? In Screen Time in the News, we question a Forbes article that claims increased screen time can actually help kids make friends.

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Katie only has one question during our review of Amazon Prime’s new Cinderella musical starring Camila Cabello: Why? In Screen Time In the News, Deborah marvels over China’s new law limiting children’s screen time to only one hour on the weekends.

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We take some time to ponder a unified theory of quality for family movies and TV before jumping into our review of Paw Patrol: The Movie. Big questions tackled include: Where are the girl pups? Does Chase really need to be the main character? And where do the Fast & Furious and Real Housewives franchises fit into all of this?

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We join Dwayne the Rock Johnson and Emily Blunt on a cruise down the Amazon to discuss whether Disney’s latest attempt to base a successful film franchise on an existing theme park attraction holds water. In Screen Time in the News, Katie uses the release of Spidey and His Amazing Friends as cover to continue her rant against Marvel’s storytelling tentacles reaching into every corner of our lives, and we forgive ourselves for forgetting about the movies based on Mattel’s American Girl dolls in last episode’s segment.

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In our review of Disney Plus’ new series Monsters At Work, we discuss whether we really need a workplace comedy for kids and whether a secret friendly monster sneaking into a kid’s room at night is creepier than a scary one. Deborah is overwhelmed by her return to bookstores, and Katie is underwhelmed by her return to theaters to see Black Widow. In Screen Time In The News, we are honestly shocked at our enthusiasm for an upcoming slate of Mattel movies, and our gritty HBO reboot casting involves method acting.

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Author and second time guest Amy Padden takes us through her family movie night strategy of discussing problematic content from old movies in the moment, and we try to follow her example as we review Mel Brooks’ parody classic: Spaceballs. Katie unearths a not totally unexpected love of goofy sight gags and Deborah wonders whether Mel Brooks wasn’t predicting our current climate crisis. We argue over Zach Galifinakis and chat about Kenny’s latest obsession, Rainbow Rangers, and why Captain Planet is due for a reboot.

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We indulge in our well documented love of John Cho in our review of Netflix’s Wish Dragon, an Aladdin story set in modern China, with a small detour to praise Pixar’s latest, Luca. In Screen Time in the News, we discuss an Insider article praising increased representation of LGBTQ characters in children’s shows while bemoaning the presence of paywalls that keep these representations from low income kids and families.

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