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00:00 - Introduction

05:10 - RRR

17:58 - Subscriber letters

22:23 - Spiderhead

37:00 - New York magazine story

47:15 - Subscriber letters

49:28 - Break My Soul by Beyoncé

55:14 - Under the Banner of Heaven

Talking about a New York magazine story on a teenager who was cancelled.

Abhinandan: It's a conspiracy. 

Nainika: This is a conspiracy against you?

Abhinandan: Wasting my week.

Nainika: But then what do I plan to achieve through it?

Abhinandan: Just, you guys are sadists, all of you. Jude, you, and Rajyasree.

Nainika: So you think the world is stacked against you? 

Abhinandan: I’m Diego*! 

Abhinandan and Nainika burst out laughing.

This and a whole lot of stuff awful and awesome as Abbas Momin and Nainika Singh Rathore review the films RRR and Spiderhead; web series Under the Banner of Heaven; Beyonce’s Break My Soul single from her upcoming album Renaissance.

* The 17-year-old protagonist of the New York magazine story. 

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00:00 - Introduction

02:42 - Ms Marvel

16:59 - Jayeshbhai Jordaar

28:33 - Stranger Things Season 4

31:48 - Hustle

41:03 - Irma Vep

51:36 - Drake’s new album

Talking about the Happy Madison Productions film Hustle:

Abbas: It’s such a boring movie, dude!

Nainika: What is wrong with you?

Abbas: I fell asleep while watching it. I’ll come to it…Anyway!

Nainika: Abbas, do you have Covid? 

Abbas: No, why?

Nainika: Because you have no taste.

Jude: Ooh, burn!!! 

This and a whole lot of stuff awful and awesome as Abbas Momin and Nainika Singh Rathore review the films Ms Marvel, Hustle and Jayeshbhai Jordaar; the web series Irma Vep and season 4 of Stranger Things; and Drake’s new music album Honestly, Nevermind. 

PS: Drake will be horrified if he listens to this episode. Tune in to figure out why.

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00:00 - Introduction

01:36 - Subscriber letters

03:16 - Spaces bedsheet ad

07:42 - Jurassic World Dominion

23:17 - Subscriber letters

25:09 - My Daughter Joined a Cult

43:20 - Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey

47:08 - Wild Stone ad

49:17 - Subscriber letters

While talking about the docu-series My Daughter Joined a Cult:

Abhinandan: No cult is complete without a white woman...slightly unhinged...

Rajyasree: Damn unhinged, ya.

Abhinandan: And her name is Sarah Landry, which is like News-landry.. 

Rajyasree: Maybe you should get her on?

Abhinandan: So I was like, bloody hell! It was a sign.

Rajyasree: You’d make a good baba. Baba Nikku Singh!

Abhinandan sings his baba theme song, Rajyasree bursts out laughing.

This and a whole lot of stuff awful and awesome as Abhinandan Sekhri and Rajyasree Sen review the film Jurassic World Dominion; docu-series My Daughter Joined a Cult  and Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey; and commercials for Spaces and Wild Stone. 

Song: Nasha

PS: The hosts contemplate starting a cult and Abhinandan wants to be a leader.

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00:00 - Introduction

05:21 - Layer'r Shot ad controversy

10:01 - Gaslit

24:56 - Subscriber letters

30:03 - Akshay Kumar on history

34:23 - Jungle Cry

44:52 - Subscriber letters

51:19 - Depp-Heard trial

Rajyasree spots a typo in Abhinandan’s notes:

Rajyasree: You’ve just written things incorrectly. Amber Heard as H-E-R-D, that’s not her surname!

Abhinandan: H-E-A-R-D, Heard?

Rajyasree: Heard, yes.

Abhinandan: Oh, I was having a herd mentality!

Abhinandan and Rajyasree burst out laughing.

This and a whole lot of stuff awful and awesome as Abhinandan Sekhri and Rajyasree Sen review the film Jungle Cry; web series Gaslit; the Layer’r Shot ad controversy; Akshay Kumar’s controversial comments on history books; and the Depp-Heard trial.

PS. A fly is the third co-host of this episode.

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00:00 - Introduction

01:47 - Subscriber letters

04:33 - Top Gun: Maverick

17:52 - Fresh

24:30 - Abhinandan reviews The Great Indian Kitchen

27:44 - Trailer of Dhaakad

31:54 - Subscriber letters

36:33 - Various topics

While reviewing the film Top Gun: Maverick, Abhinandan goes through his notes:

Abhinandan: Makes you realise yet again what an amazing time the ‘80s was. When cool was genuinely cool.

Rajyasree: This also you wrote while watching the film?

Abhinandan: Yeah. I take notes, I don't just try to wing it. I come prepared. 

Rajyasree: You’re not a wingman!

Abhinandan and Rajyasree burst out laughing.

This and a whole lot of stuff awful and awesome as Abhinandan Sekhri and Rajyasree Sen review the films Top Gun: Maverick and Fresh; the movie trailer of Dhaakad; the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard defamation trial; and the killing of Punjabi pop star Sidhu Moose Wala. 

Bonus: Abhinandan reviews The Great Indian Kitchen to cover for episode 205.

Song: Same Beef

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While reviewing Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness:

Abbas: This is the third iteration of it [the Multiverse] to be watched. We watched it in Loki, the last Spider-Man film, and now this. And I still don’t know what exactly the Multiverse is...

Nainika: Loki? Which Loki movie?

Abbas: Not the movie, the TV show Loki.

Nainika: Does it also have Tom Hiddleston in it?

Abbas: Yes?!

Nainika: Tom Hiddleston did a whole TV show with Marvel?

Abbas: A whole TV show, yes!

Nainika: Okay, I guess.

Abbas: I would give anything to listen to the fanboys pulling their hair out right now. 

Abbas and Nainika burst out laughing.

This and a whole lot of other stuff awful and awesome as Abbas Momin and Nainika Rathore review the films Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers; web series Love, Death & Robots; Santigold's new song; and the Balenciaga fashion show.

PS: The hosts get carried away and talk about death, particularly a poem Abbas wrote about it. Tune in to find out more!

Timecodes

00:00 - Introduction, subscriber letters

03:02 - Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

21:19 - Love, Death & Robots 

38:24 - Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers  

50:32 - Balenciaga fashion show

58:02 - Santigold song

References

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Oz The Great And Powerful

Loki

X-Men: Dark Phoenix

Logan

Ms Marvel

Churails

Love Death + Robots Volume 3

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers

Santigold - High Priestess

Balenciaga 2022

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00:00 - Introduction, subscriber letter

03:23 - Modern Love: Mumbai

26:45 - Subscriber letter

27:17 - The Baby

35:44 - Subscriber letter

36:38 - The Worst Person in the World

44:27 - Season 2 of The Wilds

While picking their favourite episode of Modern Love: Mumbai, Rajyasree says she cried watching one of them:

Abbas: But why did you cry? 

Rajyasree: I cried in Chennai Express also.

Abbas: Okay.

Rajyasree: I think I cried in Jurassic World also when one of the dinosaurs died. I’m a very sensitive kind of person.

Abbas and Rajyasree burst out laughing.

This and a whole lot of other stuff awful and awesome as Abbas Momin and Rajyasree Sen review the web series Modern Love: Mumbai and The Wilds Season 2 & films The Baby and The Worst Person in the World.

Tune in!

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While talking about a documentary on Marilyn Monroe:

Abhinandan: You haven’t even watched it. 

Rajyasree: Keep quiet, I know everything about Marilyn Monroe. 

Abhinandan: Your insights are just useless. They are not even insights, they are “outsights”. Go outside. 

Rajyasree: Oh God, it is so bad, I cannot even laugh. I am crying.

Abhinandan and Rajyasree burst out laughing.

This and a whole lot of other stuff awful and awesome as Abhinandan Sekhri and Rajyasree Sen review the film Thar; web series Slow Horses; documentary The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes; the new Pepsi anthem; and the Punjabi song Farming. 

Tune in!

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Timecodes

00:09 - Introduction

01:43 - The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes

11:06 - Subscriber letters

13:15 - Thar

26:40 - Slow Horses

34:57 -Pepsi Summer Anthem Ad

41:19 - Pasoori

46:49 - Farming

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00:01 - Introduction

01:17 - Moon Knight

16:42 - Apollo 10 ½ 

27:20 - Subscriber letters

33:53 - Russian Doll

48:47 - Metal Lords

In the context of Russian Doll, Jude asks the panel what they’d do if they were stuck in a time loop situation:

Abbas: Are you talking about today? If today was happening over and over again?

Nainika: Any random day.

Abbas: I’m going to say something very depressing. But I mean, don’t we all live the same day over and over again? We wake up, dress up, and we go to work and then we hate our job and we’re sitting at our cubicle like “I’m going to do something one day when my dreams come true!” But then take a train commute back to the house and just...

Nainika: Oh God, Abbas!

Abbas: Sit in front of the TV and be like...

Nainika: Awful and Awesome was supposed to be about hope. What are you doing?

Abbas and Nainika burst out laughing.

This and a whole lot of other stuff awful and awesome as Abbas Momin and Nainika Rathore review the films Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood and Metal Lords; web series Moon Knight and season 2 of Russian Doll. Tune in!

PS. The hosts time travel to their favourite TV shows and songs. Beware or you shall enter the time machine.

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