The Massive Attack Podcast

For Day 3 we go back to the anthology format, this time with an episode of The Night Gallery that originally aired in 1971, Season 2 Episode 13 "The Messiah On Mott Street".

In what really is more of a Hanukkah story than Christmas, a young Jewish boy searches for a Messiah, played by Yaphet Kotto, to help his terminally ill grandfather, played by Edward G. Robinson, in the dirty tenements of New York City.

We both really enjoyed this one, and feel it makes up for yesterday's poor choice.

Some years we find gold when we are looking for Christmas specials, however today when we watched the animated movie "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" from 2000, it wasn't one of them.

Surely an hour long movie adapted from a 3 minute novelty song from the 70's can't be all bad can it?

Can it??

This year for our 12 Days of Christmas we're looking at TV Oddities. A collection of quirky specials or episodes from years gone by.

And seeing as its also Friday the 13th, what better place to start than this delightful little story about a greedy wife bumping off her husband so she can cash in the insurance money on Christmas Eve with Tales From The Crypt Season 1 Episode 2 "...And All Through The House".

This month in our mini episode we cover some more Getting To Know You questions, this time tackling hard hitting topics such as What Makes You Angry, What Makes You Laugh, And our Proudest Achievements. 

It goes in some pretty strange tangents, and again seems like both of us need some therapy!

On the show this month we give our initial thoughts on "Borderlands 3", including Joe's issues with glitches, in games. Take the Netflix precision driving competition show "Hyperdrive" out for a spin in TV, and talk "Joker" and "Abominable" in movies.

Plus Joe gives us his review of the musical "Come From Away" and Mitch gets creative a learns how to blacksmith.