Merry Christmas! Our re-watch of season 2 rolls on with episode 205, “Breakage”. We discuss panic attacks, grills, machismo, maintaining “the hand” in extra-legal activities, health care politics, and just how many dudes you can expect to nail you in any given lifetime. All that, plus feedback and our patent pending spoiler section. See you next week!
This is a downer of an episode, for sure. Everyone, and I mean everyone, is being an a-hole to everyone else. Some for understandable, legitimate episodes, some for less clear reasons. Jim and A.Ron, leading experts at a-hole-ism, break it down for you as they discuss Walt’s obvious, desperate breakfasts, Skyler’s gamesmanship, Walt Jr’s Flynn’s rebellion, and Jesse bluing himself. All this, your feedback, AND a robust, over-sized spoiler section!
Heisenbuns! Windy Wendy! Badger making sweet love to a barrel of methylamine! What more do you want? Breaking Bad episode 203, “Bit By A Dead Bee” delivers. We talk about it all, including your feedback and a fairly rocking spoiler section.
Jim and A.Ron enjoy a very strong second episode of season two, “Grilled”. Tense, exciting, and in genuine Breaking Bad fashion, darkly hilarious in places, “Grilled” has the boys pumped to re-discover the rest of season two.
After our short break, we’re back with more Breaking Bad rewatch podcasts. This week it’s the premiere of season 2. Will this season hold up to our memory of it (or lack thereof)? We’ll find out – 13 weeks from now.
Hey there, A.Ron here with a very special commissioned podcast with a unique history and focus. First, thanks to Andrew Stannard for using Subbable to make this all possible, and for working with us patiently on the format of the podcast.
Andrew wanted us to talk about The Wire. The problem is, I’ve got massive plans for a Ultimate Badass Criterion Sapphire The Wire Podcast, and I didn’t want to take his money to release an inferior version. So, we compromised. We’d record a podcast about his favorite character, Omar Little, and we’d highlight two episodes that showcase a particular facet of the character, all without doing any major spoilers. I selected episode 206, “All Prologue”, and 306, “Homecoming”, to show off Omar at his best, and Omar at one of his lowest points. Along the way Jim and I gush about The Wire, why we love it, why it can be hard at times to love, why Omar is such an important character for The Wire in general and pop culture at large, and talk about our favorite moments from these two episodes. I also divulge some details about my upcoming The Wire podcast series, and why it’s taking so damn long.
A.Ron is joined this week by Pi’ilani to break down the final heavyweight episode of season two of Orange is the New Black, “We Have Manners. We’re Polite.” At times hilarious (“RUN NUNS! RUN!”) and times heart breaking (Suzanne hugging her box of UNO), we have mixed feelings, although we agree the show ends on…
A belated wrap up for Season Two of Netflix’s House of Cards, ready for your perusal. We discuss a metric ton of feedback, ponder how we want season three to go down, and talk about things we’ve learned from our marathon coverage and how that will inform our coverage of season three. Some links of interest:…
Kelly Anneken from sister cast Up Yours Downstairs joins A.Ron this week to break down the penultimate episode of season two of Orange is the New Black, “It Was The Change”. We discuss where we hide our tazers, which COs we’d f*&%/kill/marry, and talk about how we can all be better people. Kelly also has a…
Nina Perez from Project Fandom joins me again to break down episode 211 of Orange is the New Black, “Take A Break From Your Values”. It features the surprising backstory of Sister Ingalls, and raises a lot of questions about racial relations, treatment of the elderly, right to self determination, and the coexistence of nudity…