On the latest episode of The Insatiable Content Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Kate Babineau to discuss Netflix's new movie "The Lost Daughter" and all things Elena Ferrante. The movie, which was directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and stars the always amazing Olivia Coleman, is based on a Ferrante work and deals with a lot of her favorite themes like how to be an independent adult woman, while also being a mother. It's a haunting film with a lot to say about sacrifice and the way our choices are always wrong, and therefore end up haunting us no matter what we do. Kate and I covered the followed:

• Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels (the My Brilliant Friend series)
• The New Yorker article "Janet Lansbury’s Gospel of Less Anxious Parenting"
• The Last Duel
• The Town
• HBO Max's dominance
• The Velvet Underground
• Mardi Gras

What if I'm living the wrong life and then die?

Ask yourself that and then live the right life and listen to this episode. It's finally here -- the second part of the Insatiable Content Podcast's top five TV shows of 2021. I'm joined by Eric Cherrie (yeah, he's a better person than me and isn't on Instagram) and we go long on all things TV, including the podcast's top show of the year (spoiler alert) Station Eleven. We cover A LOT of shows on this episode, including:

• 100 Foot Wave
• The North Water (again)
• Dave (again)
• Mare of Easttown
• The Leftovers
• Halt and Catch Fire
• Reservation Dogs (again)
• Succession (again)
• White Lotus (again)
• Station Eleven (greatest show of the year)

On the first episode of The Insatiable Content podcast in 2022, we're actually looking back at the best shows of 2021. Vincent is joined by his friend and colleague Amy Barad to discuss the Netflix series Maid, which was on both of their lists. The other shows covered on this episode include:

• Reservation Dogs
• Ted Lasso (again)
• Never Have I Ever
• His Dark Materials
• It's A Sin
• The Underground Railroad
• Hacks

We're heading off into the friscalating dusklight on this episode to discuss two new Netflix westerns, The Harder They Fall and The Power of the Dog. Jadi Mwendo joins to discuss what we liked about Idris Elba and what we didn't about Benedict Cumberbatch and their respective movies. We also share our five favorite westerns, a genre that never gets old. We cover:

• Quentin Tarantino
• High Noon
• The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
• Unforgiven
• Hell or High Water
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• Deadwood
• The Searchers
• No Country for Old Men

***Spoilers Ahead***: You say you want to watch family trauma in action? Well, you got your wish. What a finale to season 3 of HBO's seminal show Succession. The Insatiable Content Podcast welcomes friends of the pod, and fans of the show, Greg Nichols and Bob Payne, to discuss what may be the best episode of the series ever. We discuss:

• The Roy kids walking in on their parents screwing them
• Tom selling out Shiv
• Jeremy Strong's incredible acting performance
• Where the show goes from here
• Conor's very sad, very ill-fated marriage acceptance
• Greg's evolution into a stone cold killer
• Not needing a soul

We are finally back after an extended Thanksgiving break. And we're bringing the heat with my top 5 new songs of 2021. On this episode I cover:

• Taylor Swift - "All Too Well"
• A spicy take on Swift and a certain former boyfriend
• The New Constellations - "Hot Blooded"
• Bleachers - "How Dare You Want More"
• MisterWives - "The End"
• MisterWives - "Superbloom"
• Life in Pajamas - "Good 2 Yourself"
• The Succession birthday episode
• The New Yorker's recent profile of Jeremy Strong
• How the Dallas Cowboys are trash and you're a monster if you like them

We. Are. Back. With an incredible show on Wes Anderson's new movie The French Dispatch, as well as the top five Anderson movies of all time. I'm joined by my long-time friend and Washington Business Journal Editor Drew Hansen. We cover:

• Why The French Dispatch is better than you've heard and is peak Anderson.
• Are Anderson films like an NBA team with too much depth?
• The Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Hotel Chevalier
• Life Aquatic
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Rushmore
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• The truly godawful nature of Marvel movies

That's right folks, we're going meta this week on the Insatiable Content Podcast and taking on my favorite podcasts. In this episode, I cover my five favorite sports and five favorite general interest podcasts. Not to give the game away, but in the episode I cover:

• "The NBA's Ringer Podcast"
• "Pardon My Take"
• "The Bill Simmons Podcast"
• "The Ryen Rusillo Podcast"
• "The Boumani Jones Podcast"
• "Radiolab"
• "Reply All"
• "99% Invisible"
• "Citations Needed"
• "Heavyweight"
• "On the Media"
• "Terrible, Thanks for Asking"
• "The Rewatchables Podcast"

I also discuss my two favorite hate listens.

In our seminal 10th episode of the Insatiable Content Podcast, Patrick Childress joins the podcast to discuss Netflix's infamous show "Squid Game." The most popular show ever on Netflix gets put under our critical focus, as we cover the following:

• Is this show deep?
• Is this show good?
• Quentin Tarantino and violence in art
• Fantastical violence vs. realistic violence
• What games would we be good at it if we were in "Squid Game"?
• The poor hygiene of men
• New Orleans' problems with water bottle fill-up stations
• HBO's Sunday night lineup
• Boumani Jones' podcast

After a brief delay, we're back at the Insatiable Content Podcast with our first returning guest, Jadi Mwendo. We discuss the new film version of Dune, which is both in theaters right now and streaming on HBO Max. Our discussion covers:

• The visuals of Dune
• Sandstorms -- yep, sandstorms
• Why the beach sucks and is overrated
• Why you should see this movie in theaters even though it's on HBO Max
• Is this better as a movie or should it have been a TV series?
• The films Dunkirk and Gravity
• The original Dune, Blue Velvet, and Lost Highway
• Is the original Dune story worth this much attention?
• Um, there's no nice way to say this, but the worms look like a certain body part...
• Children, Halloween, and dad-ing