Kyle, Ignacio, Melissa, and Alan reflect on the movies, shows, and video games of 2021, and what we covered in our podcasts The Review Show, The Captain's Log, The Reactor Corps, and Crossplay this year! It's a night of pizza, statistics, and 2022 goals.

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This is a special bonus episode looking back on the shows, movies, comics, and more that we covered this year on The Review Show. We discuss recurring narrative themes, favorite performances, dream dates, and give out the prestigious Skinboy Memorial Award for Supporting Players.

Listen to Melissa's annual themed playlist here on Spotify!

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Episode 187. For our final episode of the year, we watched the new HBO Max holiday movie 8-Bit Christmas! A young girl begs her dad for a cell phone and he tells her the story of the gift he wanted most when he was her age: a Nintendo Entertainment System. The dad narrates flashbacks to 1988 illustrating the antics he and his friends got into trying to obtain an NES for Christmas, and the impact this quest had on his family.

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Episode186. We watched the new Netflix holiday-themed romcom Love Hard. Natalie is a blogger who writes about her perpetual bad luck with dating apps. When she starts talking to Josh, the first man she really likes, she flies across the country to surprise him for Christmas. The surprise is on her -- he's been using the photos of a more handsome friend to catfish her. Natlie agrees to act as Josh's girlfriend to impress his family, as long as Josh helps her win a date with the hot guy.

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Episode 185. We've finished all our Leftovers! When season three starts, it's almost the seven year anniversary of The Departure, and many people believe this is a special day that could either bring everyone back, or bring the end of the world. After the bizarre events that Kevin survived in season two, some of his friends and family now believe him to be a god. As Kevin considers his destiny, Nora discovers an experiment that could reunite her with her departed children.

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Episode 184. We watched Hayao Miyazaki's 1989 film Kiki's Delivery Service. Kiki is a witch, and when all witches turn 13, they leave home to live in a new town and practice their particular magical talent for a year. Kiki decides to put her broomstick to use delivering packages, but when a series of setbacks makes her lose confidence in herself, she risks losing the ability to fly too.

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Episode 183. We read the DC comics event from 2011, Flashpoint, from Geoff Johns and Andy Kubert. Barry Allen knows the world where he is The Flash, where his mother was murdered, where he has friends in the Justice League. He wakes up one day in a world where his mother is still alive and he never became The Flash, and the familiar faces around him are behaving very differently. He'll have to confront his nemesis to set the world back to the reality it needs, even if it means losing his mom again.

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Episode 182. We're continuing our ongoing series on The Leftovers with season two, and look for our discussion on season three at the end of the month! We're introduced to Jarden, TX, the only town in the world where no one was lost to The Departure. Some people believe this place is magical, and flock to it like a holy site, disrupting the lives of its regular citizens. Kevin and his family move there for a fresh start, but when one of his new neighbors disappears, the town worries that it's an aftershock of The Departure and they're not so safe after all.

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Episode 181. We watched the 1977 horror movie Suspiria from director Dario Argento, and its 2018 remake from director Luca Guadagnino. Both movies are stylistically and tonally very different but share the same initial plot: a young woman named Susie travels to study at a prestigious ballet academy in Germany, where she begins to suspect that the instructors are engaged in witchcraft and have sinister plans for their students.

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Episode 180. We read the first two volumes of horror comic Something is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera. Children have been disappearing from the small town of Archer's Peak, Wisconsin, and those that have been found are reduced to gruesome corpses. Erica Slaughter comes to town because she is a monster killer, it is all she does because it must be done, and she teams up with a bewildered young survivor to try and stop the monster before it kills again.

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