Now Playing Podcast Presents: The Final Destination Retrospective Series

Final Destination Series Episode 6

It’s been an entire generation since the last Final Destination crushed the box office in 2011. Now, Death is back and stalking an entire family tree. Grandma survived a toppling tower in the ‘60s, and for that Death wants her… and her heirs. Can Tony Todd, in his final performance, help break the Bloodlines’ curse? Log on and join us now to find out!

Explicit: This is an uncensored podcast which may contain strong language and adult content that is not appropriate for all ages.

Final Destination Series Episode 5

Now Playing Podcast concludes its Final Destination retrospective with the fifth and newest installment in the franchise. When Sam and his coworkers narrowly escape a catastrophic bridge collapse on their way to a company retreat, they think they’ve cheated fate. But as always in this series, Death’s design is far from finished. With Tony Todd returning as the mysterious Bludworth, there may finally be clues about how Death’s plan works… and whether it can ever truly be beaten. But after five films, are audiences still invested in the mythology, or are we all just here to watch the next elaborate chain reaction of grisly demises? Arnie, Jakob, and Brock break down the thrills, the twists, and the kills as Now Playing Podcast reviews Final Destination 5.

Final Destination Series Episode 4

In 2009, horror stepped into another dimension: 3-D. While franchises everywhere scrambled to cash in on the gimmick, the Final Destination series returned with its fourth installment, bluntly titled The Final Destination.

With Final Destination 2 director David R. Ellis back behind the camera, the film opens with a catastrophic speedway crash that gives psychic Nick a vision of death’s latest design. Escaping the initial disaster is only the beginning, as Nick and his friends face a deadly chain reaction involving a car wash, a swimming pool, and even a chain-link fence. Do the over-the-top kills and 3-D spectacle breathe new life into the franchise, or is this where Death’s design finally runs out of ideas? Listen to Arnie, Stuart, and Brock’s review on Now Playing Podcast to find out!

Final Destination Series Episode 3

You could say Wendy’s senior year is a real roller coaster. Graduation looms, friendships are shifting, boyfriends are on the chopping block, and she’s having crystal-clear visions of a coaster flying off the rails. When her premonition saves a handful of classmates from a deadly ride, they think they’ve beaten fate. They haven’t, but maybe Wendy’s magic camera can help her decode Death’s design before it claims them one by one. With original director James Wong back at the controls of the nail gun and the tanning bed, does Final Destination 3 deliver another twisted thrill ride, or is the track starting to buckle? Jakob, Arnie, and Brock step back in line to find out.

Final Destination Series Episode 2

In Final Destination, you can’t cheat death; you can only delay it. Part two picks up with the previous film’s survivors still haunted by what they escaped, and Death ready to clean up loose ends. But Death can multitask, as we also have a new group of would-be victims trying to outthink a force that doesn’t play fair. With one of horror’s most infamous freeway pileups that made audiences side-eye logging trucks for years, does this follow-up sharpen the formula, or just repeat it with more blood and broken glass? Join Arnie, Jakob, and Brock as they revisit the second stop on Death’s itinerary and decide if this Destination delivers.

Final Destination Series Episode 1

After Scream rewrote the rules of teen horror, a wave of imitators hit theaters. Most crashed hard, but one survived… In Final Destination, high schooler Alex (Idle Hands’ Devon Sawa) has a premonition that his flight to Paris will explode. He and several classmates get off the plane only to discover that cheating death comes with consequences. As Tony Todd (Candyman) ominously explains, death has a design, and it doesn’t like being interrupted. With elaborate Rube Goldberg-style kill sequences and a killer you can’t punch, outrun, or unmask, the film launched a franchise built entirely on inevitability. Now our hosts get on board and revisit the one that started it all to see if this high-concept horror still delivers suspense, or if its fate was sealed from the beginning.