{"id":866,"date":"2022-04-08T11:19:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T18:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kolsky.info\/toydept\/?p=866"},"modified":"2022-04-08T11:19:35","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T18:19:35","slug":"the-toy-department-episode-296","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kolsky.info\/toydept\/?p=866","title":{"rendered":"The Toy Department &#8211; Episode 296"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Episode 296, Madden and Kolsky discuss Derek&#8217;s hangover and potential parody songs about it before getting their act together to talk about:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The completely watchable but generally unimpressive Moonshot (2:50), a middle-of-the-road-to-the-moon romantic comedy that&#8217;s nothing special but not awful, though it does threaten to pigeonhole Lana Condor into a remarkably small niche&#8230; <\/li><li>The utterly awful Netflix movie The Bubble (9:20) and just how bafflingly bad it is, particularly given the often funny and definitely talented people involved&#8230; 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