In this week’s episode we discuss Mortal Kombat, Archenemy, Invincible, Shadow and Bone, Sweet Home, Line of Duty, Jujitsu, Stowaway, Love and Monsters, Inside No. 9, Dexter, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, Yasuke, House of the Dragon, The Addams Family, Rosemary’s Baby, and Sylvester McCoy!
The Breakdown:
- Brett gives his verdict on Mortal Kombat and Archenemy (part of Adam Egypt Mortimer’s Vortex trilogy)
- Damian and Brett continue to battle it out over whether Invincible is worth watching
- Shadow and Bone gets the Damian and Paul review treatment
- Damian recommends Korean monster drama Sweet Home
- We ask the question, What’s better, dubbing or subtitles?
- Brett and Damian continue to rebuff Paul’s attempts to discuss Line of Duty
- Paul gives us the low down on Jujitsu, Stowaway, The One, and Love and Monsters
- We conclude that we should never trust the trending section on Netflix
In The Drop Zone
- We look Inside No. 9 are shocked and ashamed to hear that Paul has never seen it or heard of it!
- Its clear that we cant comment on the return of Dexter as none of us have watched it.
- The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It turns out to be on everyone’s list
- Only Brett is excited about Yasuke
News Item
- Mortal Kombat has landed and so far has made 51.1m dollars
- With HBO officially announcing the cast for GoT prequal “House of the Dragon”, a geek fight breaks out between Paul and Brett
- Brett seems to be the only one interested in Addams Family spin off Show Wednesday
- The news that a new version of Rosemary’s Baby is on its way sends us down a rabbit hole about why Hollywood is obsessed with remakes.
- Finally, with Britbox now being available as an add on to Amazon Prime we discuss the fabulous performance of Sylvester McCoy as Dr Who.
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