***This OSP of The Favourite has a Spoiler Section***

Intro / What’s an OSP? - Top of the Show

Non-Spoiler Review of The Favourite

Cast & Crew & Thomas the Tank Engine - 2:19

Production Notes & Why Churchill should get a writing credit - 9:18

Movie Specs - 17:48

An Excellent Premise & Our Expectations or lack thereof - 24:46

Production Values - 28:13

Performances & Script Thoughts - 36:16

Watch or Don’t - 37:24

Oscars Lens - 42:28

Spoiler Warning Dance Music - 44:53

SPOILER - FILLED REVIEW

Plot Overview/Starting at the End - 46:55

Best Scenes - 54:43

Worst Scene - 56:42

(Who Sarah Really Is - 57:22)

More Bests - 58:29

Final Thoughts & Grades - 1:07:41

Outro/ Social Media / Words of Wisdom - 1:10:15

From the critical reception to the precursors to the film itself, the Favourite feels like one of the most Oscar-y movies of the year and one of the safest bets come nomination time. Perhaps that’s why this was one of the easier and smoothest recording sessions in our history. Or maybe we just took our cue from great screenplay of The Favourite. In any case, we thoroughly enjoyed this conversation about one of the year’s best.

Our non-spoiler review covers a lot of ground as we offer filmographies of Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, and Olivia Coleman, who all seem to be contenders. Then we dive into our reviews of the production values, which if they aren’t yet contenders, we think they probably should be. There’s also a ton of history to analyze both in terms of the production notes and the production process as Yorgos Lanthimos distinguishes himself from his previous films to deliver perhaps his most palatable, if not most polished film to date.

The spoiler section kicks off with an awkward joke, as they tend to do. Then we dive into many of our best scenes, the one we shared as our worst, and of course, we break down the final scenes. Now if you’re keeping score at home, we actually failed to mention one of our Best Scenes of the Year that we mentioned on Wednesday’s halfisode. So go back and enjoy that discussion as we kick ourselves now. But it just goes to show you how many great scenes we wanted to talk about in the episode.

It’s our 30th Oscars Sprint Profile on the year, and do go back to our massive catalog in order to plan your next movie night, or nights as you prepare to bone up on all your Oscar contenders before Hollywood’s big night now less than two months away. We also have a ton of preview episodes and award season updates and primers, not the least of which, we bring to you on a weekly basis with our new variety show MMOW.

Although we love everything Oscar related, our podcast does enjoy taking a detour whenever the mood strikes. We cover plenty of blockbusters in our Movie Event series as well as some of our favorite movie series like the MCU, Mission Impossibles, Conjuring films, Halloween Franchise, and we just finished reviewing 3 of our beloved childhood Christmas films this past month as we led you through the holidays by way of memory lane.

Bottom Line: we’re having a ton of fun, and we thank you for listening. Let us know what you think of this movie or any of the many others. We’re Mike, Mike, and Oscar on Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Gmail. We’re at MMandOscar on Twitter, and our show is available wherever you may listen to podcasts. When reality sucks, watch movies with us!