The Review Show

The Whatnauts Grand Prix 10

We're celebrating 10 years of The Whatnauts with an end of the year "grand prix" because you can call anything a grand prix, there's no rules stopping you! Two people talking about pizza can be a grand prix!! Kyle sees a chicken. Melissa sees a big glove. Between the two of us, we've seen Tenet 3.5 times and Interstellar 1 time and we're going to try to understand both. We also give out the yearly Review Show superlatives, recap the F1 season finale and the Game of the Year awards, imagine a Scrabble game that takes up your whole house, and talk about cow cinema.Click here to watch a video of this episode. (00:00) - Intro (00:04) - Welcome and banter (05:01) - Cinema corner (51:33) - Review Show awards and superlatives (01:39:11) - Episode 300 again (02:03:20) - Melissa's BIG news (02:20:31) - Formula 1 corner (02:36:11) - Pop culture lightning round (02:43:10) - Detour to The Game Awards (02:52:40) - Last bit of the pop culture lightning round (02:55:16) - Outro Reply on Bluesky ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The Review Show Awards: Superlatives & Top 10s

Episode 332. This is our final episode of The Review Show (we'll still be doing the same thing next year under a newly formatted feed) and we're looking back on over 300 episodes with lists! Lots and lots of lists! We talk about our favorite movies, shows, comics, and audio dramas, biggest surprises, best villains, opening credits, needledrops, robots, stunts, and celebrities playing themselves. We talk about "small weirds," obscure streaming shows that seemingly no one has ever watched except us, a sexy pinup calendar of The Tick, a talking motorcycle, and what if Netflix spent their entire budget on just one new season of Mindhunter.Click here to watch a video of this episode. (00:00) - Intro (00:04) - Welcome and banter (02:14) - What are we drinking tonight? (04:00) - Episode 300 again (05:48) - Let the lists begin! (02:16:18) - A few extra shout outs (02:24:44) - Shout out to Melissa (02:26:29) - Final reminders (02:27:45) - Outro Reply on Bluesky ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The Americans s6

Episode 331. In our final regular episode of The Review Show, we talk about the haunting final season of The Americans. Philip has left espionage behind to focus on the legitimate family business to disastrous results, Elizabeth is in over her head with more demanding assignments, and Stan is finally realizing the spies he's been looking for may be his own neighbors. We discuss the pattern of broken connections between fathers and sons, Elizabeth's art studies restoring a missing part of her humanity, if any characters actually make it out of this show with a positive future, and whether we'd want to see a sequel series following the Jennings family years later.Click here to watch a video of this episode. (00:00) - Intro (00:04) - Welcome and banter (01:55) - Non-spoiler thoughts on The Americans s6 (10:14) - Housekeeping (17:26) - Spoilers for The Americans s6 (01:27:07) - Review Show Bingo (01:30:14) - Recommendations (01:35:29) - What we are discussing next episode (01:37:52) - Outro Reply on Bluesky ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The Americans s5

Episode 330. Season 5 of The Americans sees Philip and Elizabeth juggling multiple cover stories, while Paige willingly turns towards espionage and Henry tries to stand on his own -- at the worst time possible. We discuss the great tragic comedy of Henry turning out to be the ideal American boy while his parents weren't looking, the wildcard Mischa storyline, the wedding, if anyone could ever truly love Stan without it being suspicious, and we have an argument about how many sets of pajamas Elizabeth owns. (00:00) - Intro (00:04) - Welcome and banter (03:49) - Non-spoiler thoughts on The Americans s5 (16:45) - Housekeeping (23:10) - Spoilers for The Americans s4 (01:44:14) - Review Show Bingo (01:45:34) - Recommendations (01:46:27) - What we are discussing next episode (01:46:45) - Outro ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The Americans s4

Episode 329. We're back to our ongoing coverage of The Americans, talking about season 4. Philip and Elizabeth have to make choices that will devastate the lives of their unwitting informants, while Paige struggles under the pressure of keeping her pastor from revealing the family's secrets. We theorize about what the show will do with Henry and how he'll finally learn about his family's double lives, dignity for Martha, sudden and random deaths, how the show uses '80s pop culture sparingly and carefully, and past storylines coming back with unforeseen consequences.Click here to watch a video of this episode. (00:00) - Intro (00:04) - Welcome and banter (02:04) - Non-spoiler thoughts on The Americans s4 (08:59) - Housekeeping (14:50) - Spoilers for The Americans s4 (01:27:46) - Review Show Bingo (01:30:04) - What we are discussing next episode (01:30:22) - Outro Reply on Bluesky ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★