Episode 96. We're back with another episode of our ongoing monthly series covering The Venture Bros, now discussing seasons 3 and 4. Newlyweds The Monarch and Dr. Mrs. The Monarch are learning to be a successful criminal couple as she encourages him to pick a different arch nemesis. The Venture family find themselves under attack from new villains rising to fill the gap The Monarch has left in their lives. Dean is still harboring a crush on Triana, and Hank makes his first normal teenage friend in a surly local boy named Dermott, who may be already have ties to the family. Meanwhile, Phantom Limb still lurks in the shadows, plotting his revenge.

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Episode 95. This week, Ignacio from Crossplay joins Kyle and Melissa to discuss the 2016 anime film Your Name. Taki and Mitsuha are a teenage boy and girl leading different lives in different parts of Japan, with no idea that the other person exists. They find themselves experiencing vivid dreams of living another life and discover that these dreams are real -- they've been switching bodies at random! The two leave notes to get to know each other and figure out this strange connection they've established. But when the connection is severed, the two go on an incredible heart-wrenching journey to find each other again and meet in person for the first time.

Episode 94. This week we watched Wes Anderson's 2012 feature Moonrise Kingdom. It's 1965 in a small island town off the eastern US coast. Sam and Suzy are two troubled youths who fall in love through pen pal letters and decide to run away together, prepared with little more than Sam's scouting knowledge of the island. But they're being pursued by every adult they know, plus Sam's entire scout troop, armed with the same tracking skills. This island is preparing itself for the storm of the century, figuratively and literally.

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Episode 93. This week we read the first two volumes of Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez's comic Locke & Key, soon to be a Netflix series! After their father is brutally murdered in a home invasion, the Locke kids move across the country back to his childhood home, a sprawling New England mansion known as Keyhouse. They're dealing with loss, fear, reinventing themselves for a new life, and now, magic. Keyhouse is full of mysterious keys that open portals to fantastic abilities, but the kids don't know where they came from or how they work. Why does their father's murderer want these keys? Who is the cryptic spirit down the well that calls to them about the keys? Why was their father so insistent that this house would keep them safe if it seems full of dangers?

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Episode 92. We're starting something new on The Review Show! We're going to watch a longer series through to completion, covering part of it one episode a month. This month, it's seasons one and two of the Adult Swim cartoon The Venture Bros. Dr. Rusty Venture, former boy adventurer, hasn't grown up into the same dazzling super-scientist that his father was. Struggling with upholding the legacy, he drags his sheltered teen twins Hank and Dean around the world in a series of sci-fi misadventures, under the watch of aggressive family bodyguard Brock Samson. The family encounters foes of all kinds, including butterfly-themed villain The Monarch. He has sworn himself as Rusty's arch-enemy for unknown reasons, even when his partner Dr. Girlfriend tries to convince him he can do better. Join us next month when we discuss seasons three and four!

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Episode 91. This week we watched the 2019 horror-comedy Ready or Not. Grace is marrying into a board game dynasty, and her new in-laws have a tradition when someone joins the family: on the wedding night, the whole family gathers at the mansion to play a game together. Grace picks the wrong game. She's going to hide, they're going to seek, but she discovers that they plan to kill her once they find her.

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Episode 90. We read the first two volumes of The Death-Defying Doctor Mirage from Valiant Comics. Shan Fong-Mirage can speak to the dead, but she can't speak to her late husband Hwen. She's desolate and going through the motions of her life as a paranormal investigator, taking whatever jobs will give her the money to keep her and Hwen's home just as it was when he was alive. Her latest gig seems sketchy, but a mysterious spirit hints that she may able to find Hwen if she travels into the underworld to fulfill the wishes of this new client.

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Episode 89. We used our winter break to watch the entire BBC series Sherlock, a contemporary take on the classic Sherlock Holmes mystery stories. Dr. John Watson is a returning solider trying to find his footing in London again, unsure if what he really wants is a quiet life or a new kind of exciting battle to wage. Sherlock Holmes is a private investigator and deductive genius who can't sympathize with people as well as he can read them for clues. Together they're roommates, best friends, and partners in crime-solving, often trying to live through life-threatening cases that hit too close to home.

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It's our 4th birthday! Wow. It feels like it's been forever. Whether you have stuck around with us since the beginning, or are a new listener, thank you so much. We could not do any of this without you. Melissa and Kyle have been chugging along, Mick and Ignacio have joined the crew, and we even started a new show, Crossplay. Here's to four more years!

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Episode 88. For our final episode of 2019, we went with the holiday-themed comic The Last Christmas, by Deadpool writers Brian Posehn and Gerry Duggan. In a post-apocalyptic world where he hasn't worked in years, Santa has lost faith in himself, but there's still one little kid out there who believes in him. Santa tries to resurrect his giving spirit and stop a band of marauders and zombie mutants from ruining this kid's Christmas. It's an irreverent action movie spoof with plenty of jokes and a little sparkle of heart!

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