117.5 – TV Twosomes

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02/17/25 • -1 min

Valentine’s Day may be several days behind us, but we’ve never been too slavishly faithful to how calendars work before and dammit we’re not about to start now. Celebrate love in all of its forms (albeit mostly romantic) as Leigh, Brendan, and Chris talk about their favorite television pairings and why they work. This also prompts a lot of talk about the perils of the oft-used “will they, won’t they” trope and The Mentalist, apparently. Anyway, don’t worry, with February out of the picture for our next episode we’ll be talking about a movie that couldn’t construct a romantic subplot even if it had seven seasons to suss things out.

Previous Episode

117 – Three to Tango

What better way to prepare for Valentine’s Day than by watching a romantic comedy that has aged like a fine milk? Join Leigh, Brendan, and Chris as they view 1999’s Three to Tango, a stale piece of dated cinematic nonsense covering all of our favorite 1990s hallmarks- television actors from your favorite prime time programming, neurotic straight men being mistaken for being neurotic gay men, questionable aesthetics, and the neo-swing music revival. How could any of this go wrong? Well, I mean... it’s pretty obvious. Just look at all of those descriptors. How could any of this go right? Well, that’s a trickier question, and one we try to answer successfully by the time the episode ends! And as always, we got a cocktail too to make this all mildly less tiresome.

Next Episode

118 – Who Is Cletis Tout?

It’s always an interesting choice when a movie’s title is a question- indeed, the unspoken contract entered into is “at some point, this question will be answered and the answer will be relevant.” But what happens when your movie title poses a question that is both largely irrelevant and not even really a question that matters? Well, you’d end up with 2001’s Who Is Cletis Tout?, a clumsy half-assed attempt at merging post-modern cinema, pseudo-noir, Tarantino-esque trademarks, and Tim Allen. Listen in as Leigh, Brendan, and Chris attempt to focus on the issues at play here, such as “What the hell is this convoluted plotting doing here?” and “Why is Tim Allen here?” and “Did Richard Dreyfuss get paid by the word?” It’s a real mess, friends, and we’re all glad to have some smokey cocktail goodness to wash down the scene where Tim Allen goes on a weird patriotic rant to a gang in a subway station.