We do a non-spoiler review of Bad Education, reveal our HBO Film Top 5 Lists, and preview the upcoming mega streaming service, HBO Max. We add to our Quarantine Collection playlist by debating what awards Hugh Jackman may win.

What Is This Show? - Top of Show

THE BAD EDUCATION NONSPOILER REVIEW

Production Profile - 2:10

Plot Premise/Expectations - 4:00

(And Movie-Starved Mikes 🍔)

💯Final Grades - 5:42

Performances + Production Values - 7:23

📗Script Thoughts - 9:42

Oscars/Emmys Lens - 11:08

MMO’S TOP 5 HBO ORIGINAL MOVIES:

Parameters - 15:40

5s - 16:27

4s - 18:51

3s - 21:23

2s - 24:50

1s - 26:50

PREVIEWING HBO MAX:

The Day 1 and Eventual Content Library - 30:47

(And The Max Plan of Attack and What It Means For You)

New/Rebooted Forthcoming Content - 37:08

(Including news + updates on Gossip Girl, Searching Party, DC’s Doom Patrol, etc)

💰🤑💲The Price/Streaming Wars’ Tipping Point - 44:04

Your Homework/LEAVE US 5 *’S - 48:20

What’s Next From MMO/Words of Wisdom - 49:02

We got a terrific new HBO movie this past weekend. So it was time to add an HBO show to our Quarantine Collection playlist. We hope you continue to stay home, stay safe, and stay entertained. If we can help, then do go back to previous episodes to hear our thoughts on Netflix offerings with shows on Tiger King, Crip Camp & Lost Girls. We also reviewed Hulu’s Big Time Adolescence, Amazon Prime’s Blow The Man Down, and Apple TV+’s The Banker.

In this episode, we lead with a non-spoiler review of Bad Education, where we gush over the great performances by Hugh Jackman, Allison Janney, Ray Romano, & Geraldine Viswanathan, and we debate what awards the film could & should win. Then we countdown our HBO Original Movie Top 5 Lists, where guilty pleasures, historical obsessions, & sleep habits factor into our listmaking criteria. Finally, we end with a massive overview of the upcoming HBO Max streaming service, where we highlight their incoming library & upcoming content.

If the Oscars change their eligibility requirements, should HBO shift their awards campaign for this film? How does Bad Education compare to other HBO originals? And what should you get excited for on HBO Max next May? We break it all down and prove once and for all, it’s not TV. It’s HBO.

As always, we wanna hear your thoughts on anything we covered in this episode. What did you think of Bad Education? What’s your all time HBO Top 5? And will you be purchasing HBO Max? We’re at MMandOscar on Twitter, and we are on Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Gmail. You can subscribe / rate / review / like / share / & listen to us on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Google Play, Tune In, Spotify, and just about wherever you might listen. We’re Mike, Mike, & Oscar, and we’re making awards season year round, without the stuffiness. Thanks for listening.