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Welcome back people, to yet another fantastic episode of the Talkin' TV podcast!!!! We're about to get started with the next in a long line of events that we've done for the channel, and boy, have we done a lot. In this year, our second season alone, we have moved to Youtube, recapped ranked and reviewed every movie in the MCU, started our TV recap show and collaborated with more guests than we can count. And now, we're about to beging SHOCK-tober, in which we on several of our fellow Youtuber's channels will be watching a horror movie each weekend, and will be wrapping up at the end of the month by watching the classic 1978 "Halloween" on Halloween. And we're kicking this month off with another John Carpenter movie, to me his magnum opus, The Thing.  We weren't originally going to discuss this movie this week, but Chris had never seen it, so I figured now would be as good a time as any to discuss it. John Carpenter is an interesting filmmaker, and has become a bit of a cult head in a way, helping to write some absolute classics. But with this film, I would say he achieves something that precious few filmmakers have, in that he crafts a slasher movie with an actually menacing foe, and actually relateable batch of characters and a setting that only raises the tension with each passing minute. In this episode, Chris & Dom discuss how the setting helps to add to the film's overall sense of dread, how the creature actually operates and how that causes the cast of characters to unravel and come apart, and mostly how this film works primarily because all the right steps are taken at every level to make this a good story above all else. It all works in service, to me, to make this the greatest horror film ever made.  It's all covered here, only on Talkin' TV!!!

Welcome back people, to yet another fantastic episode of the Talkin' TV podcast!!!! We had a little bit more of a casual week this week as far as content went, and do to our own busy schedules, we decided to give you guys some unexpectedly early TV content: just a fun, fresh TV conversation.  That's right, we covered a lot of TV here on the channel this year, we're honestly still just amazed and happy to be doing this. So we're here today to recap some, or rather all of the TV shows we saw together, as well as some we saw on the side as well. It's a bit of a recap from previous episodes, but we feel we're able to incorporate new thoughts we have on these properties. It's all in service of our top 10 list of favorite TV shows at the end of the year.  It's all covered here, only on Talkin' TV!!!

Welcome back people, to yet another fantastic episode of the Talkin' TV podcast!!!! As you guys know, we have been covering a lot of TV on this channel. More than we ever thought we would. But we've got a special episode today, for a lot of different reasons. This episode harkens back to one of the first episodes we did when we started the podcast last year. For a show whose debut season last summer made both of our top 10 favorite TV shows of 2019 lists respectively. The show is constantly seeking to push the boundaries of what superhero media encompasses. We were worried we weren't getting it back this year like so many other shows who's dates were moved due to COVID. But then we got the news that this show actually finished its production before the quarantine occurred. And now it's back. And we're here to review it. This is our podcast covering the first three episodes of the sophomore effort of Amazon's The Boys.  Once again following rogue-CIA agent Billy Butcher as him & his titular Boys, comprised of Hughie Campbell, Frenchie, Mother's Milk & Kimiko aka the Female, contend with their superhero adversaries as well as being outlaws on the run now, along with a whole host of new threats! A new addition to the seven who might secretly be a resurrected Nazi experiment? Exploding heads! Exploding whales! Mushroom trips that involve talking gills? It's all apart of the fun and the insanity of this show, and it's only some of the many topics covered by Dom & Chris in this episode. But besides all the insanity, they also talked about what's to come in the remaining 5 episodes of the show, as well as what it represents for the superhero landscape and just the world in general, as this show covers a variety of different themes, from the #metoo culture to god complexes to pressure within the athletic leagues to PTSD and a whole host of other things.  It's all covered here, only on Talkin' TV!!!

Welcome back people, to yet another fantastic episode of the Talkin' TV podcast!!!! As you guys know, we have been covering a lot of TV on this channel. More than we ever thought we would. However, after my many times of bullying Chris into watching shows that I liked for the podcast, he finally got me back with oneof his. And I have to say, it surprised the hell out of me. Ladies and Gentlemen, the same week that theaters around here re-open, I give you, our 50th overall podcast episode, Cobra Kai!!!!!  Cobra Kai is a direct sequel to the Karate Kid trilogy released between 1984 & 1989. Following both Johnny Lawrence and Daniel LaRusso after their apparently fate-deciding match in 1984, as they both make decisions that impact themselves via the sport they both love so much, to the point where it affects those closest to them. It's a different yet unique feel. It's got a lot of nostalgia, but it make have accidentally stumbled onto something smart on the way there. It features some corny moments, but it has its themes and charm as well. It is Cobra Kai. Strike First, Strike Hard, No Mercy.  All of this and more on Talkin' TV!!!

Welcome back people, to yet another fantastic episode of the Talkin' TV podcast!!!! So I said last week on my Avatar episodes top 10 that it would be the last bit of Avatar content on the channel. I lied. No was Korra going to get the same type of treatment as Avatar? Most certainly not. But that factor into the discussion we had today.  The thing is that when the Legend of Korra premiered on Nickelodeon in 2012, fans were almost ready to hate it. Avatar: The Last Airbender is a beloved show, to say the least, we only spent the better part of a month and a half talking about it. But then in comes Korra, which besides being a sequel, also showed that it was taking a drastic left turn when it came to the tonal direction. NOT TO MENTION, let's just say the internet is not always the biggest fan when the protagonist is a strong female character.  But the thing about the Legend of Korra is that it is a much different type of show. The creators of both shows, Michael Dante DiMartino & Brian Konietzko, understood that for this story to work, it had to remind audiences that this was still the same world, but that it had changed, and if there's one thing I've learned, it's that people HATE change in the things they love, even though it has to happen in order for new ideas to work. And so, today, with guest co-host Andrew Gyomai of the Talkin' Podcast with Chris and Andrew, we sat down to discuss the sequel series to Avatar, and how it may have been a sequel that no one wanted, but it was also the sequel we deserved. All of this and more on Talkin' TV!!!

Calling all Supes! Calling all Supes! Is that what they call them? I just realized that the people who get powers in this don't have the nicknames! Every person with powers in all these different alternative anti-superhero properties now all have nicknames, but they don't give the addicts in this movie any names! Very strange!  Anyways, on today's episode of Talkin' TV, Chris & I sit down to discuss, as stated above, the latest installment in what I'm going to call the anti-superhero movement that we've been seeing in the last year and a half. Ever since Avengers: Endgame, we've been seeing property after property that seems to want to deconstruct out love of superheroes as part of pop culture and history, most of the time to the point where it makes us wonder what it is that's so special about superheroes in the first place!!! From The Boys to Joker to Watchmen to The Umbrella Academy and more, the current pop culture landscape seems to be doing everything opposite what Marvel was doing. And now we have the latest part of that rhetoric, Project Power.  Project Power is directed by Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman, the infamous catfish people who directed 2016's "Nerve," and written by Mattson Tomlin, who is penning the new Batman script starring Robert Pattinson. It stars Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt & Dominique Fishback and takes place in a world, specifically New Orleans, in which pills capable of giving superpowers to people for only five minutes exist. The movie takes an interesting approach, treating the idea of having superpowers like a drug rather than a gift that most people believe it to be. And Chris and I went to town on this one, as we both certainly had our opinions.  Does the film actually capitalize on its insanely original premise or does it simply devolve into cliched storytelling, character tropes we've seen before and poor filmmaking? Find out on today's episode of Talkin' TV!!!

What's up, guys! We've got another excellent episode for you guys! This is an episode that we've been wanting to do for a long time. Yes, another one that we've wanted to do since Chris & I met. We're both tremendous fans of animation and are constantly looking for other sources outside the traditional safe space of the Disney animated movies. So today, we invited on yet another guest in order to tackle Chris' favorite non-Disney animation studio, and a rising star in my book, that of Studio Ghibli, specifically their most famous movie, Spirited Away!  Spirited Away was released in Japan in 2001, and in the United States in 2002. It is the only non-American produced animated film to ever win the Academy Award for Animated Feature. It follows a little girl named Chihiro who stumbles onto a mysterious amusement park with her parents and discovers that it's a hidden bathhouse for spirits, and must find her parents when they are taken from her and turned into pigs. We talked a lot with Jimbob about the different metaphors that are hidden beneath this film's many, many layers, as well as how this seemed to draw interesting plot structure to a lot of 80's dark fantasies. And of course, the man, the myth, the legend himself, Hayao Miyazaki, the co-founder of Studio Ghibli & director himself.  All of that and more on today's episode of Talkin' TV!!!

What's up guys! We're back with yet another episode of our fantastic podcast! So, I think it's safe to say that the Transformers franchise has had a very long, very rocky history, thanks to a certain someone's take on the live action film series. But Netflix in their never-ending struggle to give us content that we can consume and then forget about, have unintentionally given us another gem, in the form of the latest Transformers series! In a loose adaptation of the "War for Cybertron" video game series, Chapter 1: Siege marks the beginning of a new chapter in the Transformers saga!  We cover our own personal relationship with the franchise, where we both started, some niches within the franchise that show that there is more than meets the eye with what these robots can actually be. Is Beast Wars actually the best Transformers series made? Or is it the most recent CG animated show, Transformers: Prime? We also have a brief segment where we discuss all the ridiculous things that happened in the Michael Bay movies, and so on! But most importantly, we talked about this show. How staggering the animation is, how surprisingly mature it is and how it differs itself from previous iterations as well as showing what the franchise's future capabilities are!  All of that and more on today's episode of Talkin' TV!!!