The Fall, the BBC crime drama starring Gillian Anderson and 50 Shades of Grey's Jamie Dornan! It's a great show, with a few unique twists. Brian and Chris are joined by Andy Shirlaw of the 4 Eyed Forecast to talk memorable serial killers, Jamie Dornan's cold acting, nightmares, and a strong feminist take on a fairly well worn format. Which we liked! And you will too.

SUPERMAN. Thanks to Netflix, Brian and Chris have finally seen THE IRON GIANT, Brad Bird's 1999, cult-favourite animated movie! It's great. There may still be tears in our eyes.

We talk about animation nostalgia, classic films of our youth, Don Bluth, The Iron Giant vs Pixar movies, and more! Also, we spend a long time discussing the state of animation, and wonder why a full-length version of something as beautiful as PAPERMAN doesn't exist. Maybe it's coming? We hope it's coming.

Plus, our critical north star FILM CRIT HULK has an idea about character and emotional arcs, and we think it might apply here. So we talk about that too.

Brian and Chris, two Decemberists fans, review the new album - WHAT A TERRIBLE WORLD, WHAT A BEAUTIFUL WORLD! It's a pleasant collection of nice enough songs. But where does it rank in The Decemberists catalogue? Is it their least 'Decemberists' album? And why can't we just have another completely inaccessible folk-prog-rock opera?

We give a song by song review of the new album, and end by talking about how we'd recommend anyone interested get into The Decemberists. It's a long pod with plenty of music chat - enjoy!

BLACK MIRROR is the techno-media-culture-paranoia anthology of our times! On this THAT THING YOU LIKE, we talk about THE NATIONAL ANTHEM, FIFTEEN MILLION MERITS, and THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF YOU for two hours - there was understandably a lot to talk about with each episode.

Topics include traditional media vs. social media, the attitudes of society's elite, our multi-screen media consumption, resistance as control/commodity, technology breeding myopia, and more! This episode definitely allowed us to dust off our liberal arts degrees, and it was a great time.

PLUS: Twenty minutes on CLASSIC TGIF TELEVISION!

It's our BEST OF 2014 AWARD SPECTACULAR! Brian and Chris celebrate and commiserate over the best and worst that the last year had to offer. We talk about Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Birdman, Agent Carter, Run the Jewels, Taylor Swift, Friendship, Godzilla, our favourite social media parody accounts, and more!

Join us in celebrating the year's best (and, importantly, the worst), and let us know your faves and hates from 2014!

THE LEGEND OF KORRA season 4 just ended, and Brian and Chris have thoughts! Really positive thoughts! We talk Korrasami, the themes of each season, how an adventure show ending on a note of compassion and empathy is noteworthy, and more! Plus, Mako is still boring, Bolin forever, and more!

THE HOBBIT movies are bad. Really bad. But, the first two are bad in the worst way - the boring way. But the third? It's the right kind of bad. The "Comedy of the Year" kind of bad. With THE HOBBIT: BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES in theatres, Brian and Chris are joined by Tolkien-enthusiast (and good friend) Tyler Heppell to talk about a movie that doesn't understand its own tone, our favourite comedy beats, and how we rate all the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings movies.

Plus, we eulogize an elk, and tell the SUPER SECRET ORIGIN OF THE GOOD+ to SHIT- REVIEW SCALE!

MACGRUBER! The best "dumb" movie of all time.  Brian and Chris spend some time gushing over one of the best / only good SNL movies, share favourite quotes, and talk about its on-point send up of 80's action movies. You think your shit don't stink? We got news for you - it does stink. It stinks like a podcast you should listen to.

No, wait. I mean, it stinks like shit.

KISS KISS, BANG BANG! It's a neo-noir charm fest! Brian and Chris talk about what makes this movie pop, how serious it's problems with women are, and then spend 30 minutes discussing how to reconcile difficult texts from past generations, particularly due to how much media makes the same damn mistakes today. It's one of our favourite podcasts ever, mainly because we struggle (as always) to really wrap our brains around some difficult stuff. Which is always the best, secretly, because that's what life's about.

So, yeah. Listen! And tell a friend! We love you.

Over the Garden Wall is an folksy, fairy-tale throwback, and an amazing, modern story at the same time. We loved it! In this episode, we talk about childhood vs adolescence, Elijah Wood and a cast of truly great voice actors, beautiful animation, Patrick McHale's sly references, and kind of just gush about how taken we are by this absolute gem of a show. Plus, five or six entirely new segments!