Showstoppers

Gang, you know what time it is. The Oscars are back, and so are we. 

We comb through the Oscars ballot, choosing who will and should win in each category. But this ain't your daddy's Yearly Showstoppers Oscar Special. This year, the stakes are real. The host with the most correct picks on their 2022 ballot will get to select one of their favorite films for a very special episode.

Folks, it's time to talk about female social mobility in America. 

In The Gilded Age, many of TV's best actors are asked to sit still on couches and negotiate control of the evil machine. 

In inventing Anna, a total weirdo scams all of their descendants. 

It's PTA season at Showstoppers, gang.  For this very special episode, Jessy and Corey made their first official, show-sanctioned trip to a real live theater to mark the occasion. 

Join us as we discuss first loves, the liminal states of adolescence, and simply hauling ass through 1970s California. 

Are you feeling adrift in a stranger's galaxy? Would you like to come home?

Then join us, won't you, as we discuss Station Eleven. HBO Max's new limited series explores a world orphaned by a global pandemic, and how its' survivors choose and create the world they prefer. It's lighter than it sounds, gang. 

Building from Emily St. John Mandel's 2014 bestseller of the same name, Station Eleven explores themes of grief, the impact that art can have on our worldview/actions, and accidental family. It is...quite good.

At long last, we’re covering Succession. The #1 boys are back to wade into the marketplace of ideas and explore the Roy family. We dive deep, season by season, to explore story and character in Jesse Armstrong’s platinum masterpiece.

-Editor’s note: We got so caught up in story that we failed to give Sarah Snook(Siobhan Roy) her proper due. Justice for Sarah Snook, who is doing canon-worthy work as Shiv. Nothing but respect for our president.

Happy holidays, folks!

For our last episode of 2021, we wanted to take stock of the year that was. Here we cover our personal favorites from film and television, while trying to fit them into the context of this very specific, very strange year. In true 2021 fashion, we were really making this one up as we went along, and It made for a very fun, shaggy episode. 

Some mid-episode revelations lead to some hints about future episodes, so stay tuned, gumshoes!

We've come a long way, baby. For the final entry in our Favorite Films Series, Corey has selected Quentin Tarantino's 2009 magnum opus Inglourious Basterds(sic). We deep dive into the films' major themes and plot while attempting to answer, once and for all, whether business is indeed a-boomin'. 

This one is a blast, gang. We hope you love it, we thank you for listening, and we are all so very proud of you. You're our big special baby. 

Returning guest and God's Perfect Boy Chris Damen returns to help with our Top 5 Films series. We discuss Stanley Kubrick's timeless masterpiece The Shining; its cultural impact, production, and the dynamics of gender in cold-weather climates. 

We take a trip down Jessy's childhood yellow brick road with our re-watch of the Hollywood classic The Wizard of Oz! We are returning to our top 5 favorite movies of all time in this movie review.