Aubrey Plaza – The Toy Department

In Episode 446, Madden and Kolsky briefly discuss Derek’s homework apology before (angrily) diving right into:

The widely acclaimed Best Picture nominee The Secret Agent (1:10) and how neither of our hosts can figure out why that acclaim exists…
Richard Linklater’s new film Blue Moon (12:45), which was abjectly hated by one of our hosts and marginally appreciated for its good qualities by the other…
Ethan Coen’s 2025 film Honey Don’t (21:10) and how it simply doesn’t rise to the standard of the work he’s done with his brother…
The new Netflix series How to Get to Heaven from Belfast (31:05) and how Northern Irish murder mystery capers apparently appeal more to one host than the other…
Homework for next week (37:30), including: the Oscar-nominated films Marty Supreme and If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, the Tracy Morgan show The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins on NBC/Peacock, and the Scrubs reboot on ABC/Hulu…

In Episode 320, Madden and Kolsky rush into things (because Madden has places to be!) so it’s right off the bat with:

The latest from The Challenge: Ride or Dies (1:15) where there was some TERRIBLE daily challenge strategy and some really interesting bigger game strategy to break down, plus the MVP and Burn of the week…
The Netflix film The Good Nurse (26:20) and how well it is executed… but also whether it’s worth the misery it induces…
The Stranger, also a film on Netflix (33:50), and how it is ALSO deeply depressing and largely a miserable time, though perhaps not quite as well-executed as The Good Nurse…
The return of HBO’s White Lotus (35:35) for a season two that has an awful lot of potential after an opening episode that’s heavy on set-up…
The BBC series Inside Man (39:40), which is available on Netflix, only four episodes long, and pretty excellent after two of them…
Homework for next Friday (41:10), including: the new sitcom Blockbuster on Netflix, the film Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (available FREE on The Roku Channel), the movie Causeway on Apple TV+, and OF COURSE the next episode of The Challenge: Ride or Dies…

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