Why are people watching this?

How can I get my daughter to clean her room?

Dave and Justin discuss My Little Pony: The New Generation, the #1 show on Netflix this week. Here’s the official synopsis: Equestria's divided. But a bright-eyed hero believes Earth Ponies, Pegasi and Unicorns should be pals — and, hoof to heart, she’s determined to prove it. Dave and Justin are amazed that a magical horsey cartoon took such a hard stance against neo-fascism and the military-industrial complex. Ashley comes to grips with her horse-riding past. Sophie wonders why all children’s movies now have to have an “influencer” character. Also, one of the ponies turns into Muammar Gaddafi for some reason.

Sophie’s Synopsis: In this family friendly neoliberal allegory of racial segregation, Earth pony Sunny Starscout, an SJW with a savior complex, teams up with a bubbly unicorn, and a queer coded Pegasus princess and some other friends to defeat the fear-mongering corporation and clueless police force in order to solve racism and restore friendship and magic in equastria.

Justin’ Synopsis: You know that something has gone terribly wrong with the world when an animated children’s movie about magical ponies decides focus on fascism as its main theme. There is literally a pony that turns into Muammar f*cking Gaddafi in the third act. Everyone needs to watch this movie so that we, as a society, can acknowledge and begin to combat the existential threat of the military-industrial complex and the sustained campaigns of disinformation that have permeated our socio-political institutions at the highest level! Friendship is magic and fuck the patriarchy!

Ashley’s Synopsis: My Little Pony teaches children how not to be a Karen.

Dave’s Synopsis: Do you think that classism, racism, and xenophobia are distinctly human qualities? Do you wish you could see a horse fling slime at other horses while roller blading and singing a jaunty show tune? Welcome to the redundantly named Maritime Bay where friendship, Love, rainbows, and kindness can co-exit with propaganda, fear-mongering, and hat mobs. Join Sunny Starscout as she fights fascism and a military industrial complex based largely on hitting people with slime, and succeeds s in teaching her community that love and friendship will help some horses regain magical powers while others, seemingly deserving horses are left powerless.

Listen to Sophie’s song Lisbon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPvlgCK4PY0

Check out Marigold Studios, Sophie’s amazing design studio: www.marigoldstudio.ca

How does Gen Z cope with climate issues, stress and distress. Issues such as: what is the point if it all if the world will end in 6 years; Why aren't older people freaked about climate change and taking action?

Here’s the official Netflix synopsis for Maid: Single mother Alex turns to housecleaning to make ends meet as she escapes an abusive relationship and overcomes homelessness to create a better life for her daughter, Maddy. Ashley joins the boys to discuss traffic law and sadness. Dave regrets the time he threw Spiderman off a cliff. Justin explains why food waste is a crime against humanity. 

Justin's synopsis: Are you feeling good today? Maybe even a little happy? Life treating you well there, bud? Well, watch a few episodes of the Maid and remind yourself that you are just a few missing paycheques away from navigating a bureaucratic hellscape where a faceless welfare system could give a shit whether you live or die and you might end up scrubbing a rich lady’s toilet for ludicrously small amounts of money while Andie MacDowell feeds your toddler vodka-soaked sandwiches for lunch. It could happen to anyone.

This is the first generation of young adults to consider the climate emergency in deciding to have children. Discuss. 

Here’s the official Netflix synopsis for The Guilty: A troubled police detective assigned to 911 operator duty scrambles to save a distressed caller during a harrowing day of revelations – and reckonings. Dave and Justin both liked Jake Gyllenhaal’s excellent acting, vomiting, and held-in man crying. Justin wonders why the Scandinavians are obsessed with dead children. Dave calls 911 and speaks directly with Jake Gyllenhaal about Advil and Starbucks.

Justin's synopsis: Would you like to watch Jake Gyllenhaal talk on the phone for one and a half hours? No? What if I told you that you get to watch him cry and then vomit into a public toilet? Still no? What if I told you there was a dead baby involved. Still not sold? Your loss, sucker. Because these are all the ingredients for a compelling-ass movie!

When is it time to get your parents some help?

Dave and Justin discuss Squid Game the #1 show on Netflix this week. Here’s the official synopsis: Hundreds of cash-strapped contestants accept an invitation to compete in children's games for a tempting prize, but the stakes are deadly. Ashley joins the lads this week to explain why the protagonist of this show is in fact a good guy, and why Korean street food is da bomb. Dave finds himself dolling out life advice from a bathroom stall for people drinking nose blood. Justin really liked this show, even though the bad guys look like Teletubbies. Oh, and Justin and Ashley would totally trample Dave’s dead body if they ever got the chance to play the deadly version of Red Light/Green light IRL.

Justin's synopsis of Squid Game: Imagine a world in which the Teletubbies ran an underground gladiatorial arena where disenfranchised people and terminal cancer patients battle to the death in order to win confusingly large sums of money. It’s like bum fights for kids crossed with a technicolor version of the holocaust. Sounds awful right? Nope. It’s compelling and captivating and I don’t understand why.

Ashley wants to know if she should get a second masters degree or move on to a PhD right away. A timeless question that everyone can relate to!

Dave and Justin discuss Sex Education the #1 show on Netflix this week. Here’s the official synopsis: A teenage boy with a sex therapist mother teams up with a high school classmate to set up an underground sex therapy clinic at school. Dave and Justin have almost nothing bad to say about Sex Education. It’s good. That’s all. Although, it could’ve been improved if Dave were available to clean up the asbestos in the toilet.