Things We Missed 2023

0:13 Hey, I'm Derek. And I'm Noah, and you're listening to A Bite Of, where we take our current favorite pop culture obsession and enjoy it 1 Nibble at a time wee Woo Hoo. OK, we're back. It's been like a week. It's a long time, it's we went from August to September. It was a lot was happening. We went to fall. I'm we've been drinking pumpkin spice things. So today we thought it would be fun. We're riding high on the caffeine train, right? You know how you know we said we were going to do different types of episodes. This one's different, yeah.

0:55 Quite different. We're growing, we're changing. And that's OK. Yeah, that's just a natural thing in life. So the nature of our podcast, we used to do seasons where it was just that thing and that's all what we would talk about. Then we branched away from seasons and we're doing interpretive dancing, just feeling what you're saying. And now we thought, because we still don't cover everything that we watch and love because we're covering other things. We thought it'd be fun to talk about the things that we missed, the movies and TV shows that we missed. Yeah. And we wanted to share what we thought about these things because we enjoyed a lot of other things other than, you know, Secret Invasion. Hey, I like how that's the one that you call out. Well, no, we did heart stopper, which we love, obviously. That you're going to throw that in that kind of no, no, no, no, no.

1:51 Yeah, we've we've covered quite a bit. And, you know, Last of Us. Oh my God, ghosted. Well, you know, you can't keep adding the ones where we gave like one star. Why not? That's what we covered. Yeah, it was entertaining, I hope. So normally when we first thought about this idea, we were going to also throw in like maybe video games and like books, but because somebody is on the Stonewall Award committee. Can't talk about any of the books that he's reading? It's a secret. You'll know in January of next year. Yeah, it's two years that he can't talk about any of the books, so that's fun. But we're also swimming in gay books.

2:34 So many gay books. L, GB, TQIA, Plus literally all of them. Yeah, it's pretty fantastic. Yeah, it is great and I get to read the ones that I want to read exactly. So. We're going to talk about the the movies and shows that we enjoyed. It's not going to be, you know, the best of the best because maybe we didn't watch it or maybe we didn't like it, right? Listen, we're allowed to not like things. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But these are the ones that we both very much enjoyed. And then we have separately, personal picks, ones that, you know, Derek didn't watch what I did and I love. Or vice versa, yeah. Have to preface all of this because we're talking about movies and TV SAG writer strike still going on. There's so much that is just keeps developing with it that I just, I hate all of those greedy, cool executives. It's just insane.

3:33 They're like we're going to fight hard for this. It's like you could have stopped it that day. Yeah, like they're just playing games at this point. It's insane. So down below in the show notes, if you're watching this. On YouTube, Whenever this does release to the public on YouTube, it's also down there. So information, donation, all that great stuff, But you know, should we get into it? Yeah, we don't want to do any of the. You know, fine, give it. Give us some stars. There you go. We have a page you're on where this video is released 1st, and you know that's where we're at. That's it. Cool. All right, very good.

4:15 So let us officially take a bite of the things we missed in 2023 so far and heavy spoiler alerts. In case you didn't see any of these things, I'm sure we'll be giving away major plot points and things. Yeah, yeah, major plot points. But you know, we have quite a few things to cover. So buckle up folks. It's a three hour show of a bite of. I don't think I could do that. I don't think so either. There's melt in this room anyway. There are some podcasts that can do like 4 hours on a single 30 minute episode. And I'm like, I no, we have a very good track record of like if we're covering a 30 minute episode, our episodes are 30 minutes. And then if it's an hour, it's an hour. Yeah. Yeah. So I don't know what this is going to be because we have like 6 or 8 properties that we're going to be talking about. Should we just time ourselves at each one? We only have two minutes to talk about. That's it.

5:03 It's an 18 minute episode. That's it. All right, ready and go. The First things first is we're going to be talking about the movie theater camp that came out in July of this year. Now, as I've said in the past on the podcast, I was a theater minor in collage and was a theater kid growing up my entire life. So this was like watching my friends and I on screen. I So knowing your friend group and then watching this movie, I was like, oh. This is, this is you guys. It's so funny to see that because I wasn't in theater at all. I had friends that were in it, and my mom did a lot of theater stuff in school. So I was around it and I got the references.

5:46 But knowing you guys, I'm like this. This is what shaped you. Absolutely. And so we never went to theater camp, but what we did was that we were in shows throughout our entire elementary school career. And then when we got into our later years of high school and in college, we went back to our elementary school and we helped run those shows. And so just just seeing how these characters talk to the kids and how seriously they take it, it definitely felt like a reflection and laughing at it because, you know, we're like, they're not hitting the choreo, you know, I mean, while they're like 10 years old, we're like Boxtep Grapevine 5678, you know, So it's when you're in it, it's very serious. And that's what this felt like. I mean, so with theater camp, there's are sort of two main characters here, Amos and Rebecca, Diane, which is the best theater name that has ever existed.

6:36 And they work at this theater camp every summer. They've been going their entire lives, unfortunately, Joan, the leader of this camp, who's played by Amy Sedaris, which was, you know, the perfect way to open this movie. I honestly didn't realize she was in it. I didn't know. Either at all. Until she was in it and I was like, oh, this is going to be great. Yeah, like unfortunately, if you aren't Amy Sedaris Fan, the whole thing is that the character ends up having a medical emergency and is in a coma. So her like TikTok star son is trying to run the camp. He has no idea what he's doing and then all of the Ch of people are there also trying to run it, putting on the shows. I call those types of people bro fluencers. Bro fluencers.

7:17 That's perfect. Because that's how he is this, this movie is really good because it's a mockumentary style movie and when they get those right, they're great. And I think we actually have one other mockumentary on this list, funny enough. But it it was so funny because you have these adults, adults talking to these actual kid actors and kids in the movie just however they want. They're just like flat out telling them like you suck. And it's just so funny to see the, you know, it's like, oh, I would expect that them talking like that to adults. But I guess maybe they do talk to kids like well, listen, if you're trying to get a kid to find the emotional core of the 45 year old woman that they're playing, you have to be telling them what they need. To do my favorite part of this movie is when the two main characters they're it's the first day of camp and they're going to announce that year's play. Either it's a musical or whatever, or it's a straight play and.

8:21 They like go through some of the other plays that they've done. It's like the longest introduction ever. And it's so, so funny. Ben Platt was actually really funny. In this we won't talk about Dear Evan Hansen, but that was a misstep. This one? And what I love is that Molly Gordon, who plays Rebecca, Diane, Not only did she write it, but she also directed it. Fantastic. Yeah. And so I love seeing her have literally those 3 roles and making this come to life. And as a pair, they played really well off of each other. Yeah. And throughout the film we actually see them as children performing together. It's so sweet. It's so sweet. So they actually have that connection and grew up together so you could see when people are friends in real life and are having fun. You could see that on screen and you see that in theater camp. Yeah, I loved all of the instructors and the different personalities that they had.

9:14 But you know, like the dance instructor, the person that does the costumes, and it's just you see these little vignettes? Of them and how what their classes or their instructions are like, they're just so it's so funny. It's so quick. The movie is a crisp, like ninetyish minutes. It's perfect and it's so quick. It's so funny. And I mean, I don't know, I'm kind of bummed that it didn't get like a super wide release like when we went to go see it. I believe it was on the weekend. It was a Sunday morning or Saturday morning. And we were the only people in the theaters. Literally the there was two other people that came in, but they worked at the movie theater and they were doing their 15 and they like came and sat in the theater and they got out.

9:58 But you know that part I was like, oh, this movie is actually good. Like people should see this. I'm hoping whenever it's like on video, on demand or like a wider release where people can see it, more people do. It's going to be a cult classic, I think. Yeah, I think so. It definitely has that like, drop dead gorgeous feeling. To it. Oh my God. And that's one of the things that I love about this is that I feel like we haven't had comedies recently. You know what I mean? Like everything is a dramedy or it's action or whatever. Like a completely different thing. This is a comedy which I've been missing. Like, you know, good comedy. Good comedy, right. We had like bridesmaids, we had sisters, we had, you know, we had those types of films. But we haven't had that in a really long time, especially in theaters.

10:44 So it was nice seeing something that literally made me laugh out loud. Yeah, I think the only other movie. This year, or in recent memory, I could obviously be wrong. There's so much. No hard feelings. Was really a good Jennifer Lawrence? Yes, we just watched it. We just watched it. That one was a good comedy because it was absurd, right? And it's just like those movies where they go. Real out of their way. It was just kind of camp it up. Yeah, it was like a raunchy comedy. Yeah, in a way. We're not talking about it today, but no hard feelings. Full frontal. Jennifer Lawrence on the beach beating the Shadow of. People, but that was one of the greatest scenes I've seen in a movie in a long time. This isn't on our list because we try to get things that were a little more in the year. Not super super recent, but that movie you should watch it like it is.

11:35 It's not like super bad level of like raunchiness or whatever, but this is like, I feel like more adulty. Yes, raunchiness. But seeing Jennifer Lawrence just fully nude? Like suplexing people on the beach? I was is that Katniss training the whole? I was like, is she? She is? Yes. OK. I couldn't believe it. I was like, holy smokes. But anyway, there's no naked people in theater camp as far as I can remember, and there's just funny things throughout it. There's the main storyline between Amos and Rebecca Diane, but we also have Ayo Adebri in this kind of like 2023 breakout star. She's not in it enough, I agreed. She's very much a minor character.

12:16 She's someone who lied on her resume, who has absolutely no idea what she's doing at the theater camp. I love that on her resume she put literally every like she's proficient or. Expert on everything. And so when they're like, asking her, can you do this, she's like, yeah, yeah, totally. And then they're like, OK, I'm here to teach you stage fight, stage combat. So what is that to you? She's asking the kids and they're like, huh? It's so good. I feel like maybe this was filmed like right before she got like super big. So it was one of those things where she should have probably been in it more. But I'm glad that she got the time she does now. She's Emmy nominated. Yeah.

12:56 So of course. Big time. The bear. The bear, Yeah, she's fantastic in the bear. Yeah, highly recommend this movie. I highly recommend it too. I actually can't wait to watch it again. It just made my heart so happy. It was so ridiculous, but very It had its little heartfelt moments through. It of course also great singing. It's ridiculous what you're singing about. I mean, they're obviously incredibly talented. Well, we saw literal videos of them as children performing. They've been preparing this for their whole life, 100%. All right. So next thing that we missed and I feel like this is kind of a bigger one for our podcast because when we started this, really the only things that were getting released were Marvel things, especially during the the pandemic.

13:42 And so we covered a lot of that stuff. Starting this Galaxy Three, we didn't cover just cuz stuff was happening and we missed it in theaters surprise. But we finally watched it and I got to say fantastic that I think it was really good as like a send off or like a complete trilogy for these characters and James Gunn. It was more heartfelt and emotional than I. Would have even remotely thought a Guardians of the Galaxy movie would be because of what we got before it was, you know, I it's so good. Yes, I really enjoyed it.

14:23 I think when it ended, what I said to know was well, that was disturbing. So I do want to give a little bit of a trigger warning for people watching this. I am an animal lover, so if you are sensitive to animal testing, animal cruelty, animal death, this has all three of those things, right? Those scenes were very hard for me to watch because the characters were so well done, so beautiful, so sweet. The voice work was, yes, phenomenal. It really punched me in the gut, right. And which it's supposed to do because we have Rocket, who is tough, who's no nonsense, but we're learning where he came from. And he was this beautiful little creature.

15:04 So tiny. So tiny, but that was exploited and saw the evils of the world. And that was a little hard for me to take. But overall, the movie's fantastic. I have to admit. Noah and I watched. I watched Midsomar for the first time this summer. I found this more disturbing than midsomar. To be fair, you did watch the director's cut, so there was a lot more like extended scenes of crying and walking. So, like, you know, it's a little different, but. I do agree. Like, I like Mitzomar for the atmosphere and like beautiful. Beautiful movie. This one was much more disturbing and it's, I think it's so interesting to think about how, you know we can get so attached to these like CGI characters. But I think it goes to show the writing and like the situations and everything.

15:50 It's just so good. I mean the high evolutionary, the worst villain the MCU has ever had top Thanos for me. I don't. There's nobody. He's the worst, absolutely. He's like pure. Pure evil. What he's doing, like Thanos, is complicated because he was evil, but he was doing it for what he felt was the greater good. The High Evolutionary is just playing Dozio path. He's just like a megalomaniac. Yeah, And So what he wants is just to basically destroy. He has no. No, he wants to. No. He wants to create the perfect being, but if it's not perfect, then he destroys it and he has no qualms of doing that. Of course not.

16:30 No. Yeah, there's a lot of scenes in it were very upsetting, especially with our furry little friends and where those stories and it was quite upsetting, but the cast as a whole and the movie as a whole. Everybody got their moment to shine, people got the send offs that they deserved, and I'm curious to see where it goes. James Gunn is no longer doing it. Supposedly he's now head of creative with DC, so whoever takes up Guardians of the Galaxy I feel like is gonna have. Quite a job on their hands. Well, it's interesting, right? So at the end of this movie, it sets up a new set of Guardians because our old Guardians have now gone off.

17:15 To do what they needed to do, right? So Mantis has gone off with her giant beasties and perfect. Yeah. And I mean just everyone, Peter, has gone back to Earth, and so everybody's just kind of in their own little pocket. But now Rocket is leading the new Which? Is so funny because I feel like they the whole thing with the movie and like before you saw everybody was like Rocket's going to die, Rocket's going to die. And it's like, well, no, he didn't, almost didn't. But now he's just the leader of the, which is nice, I feel like. Bradley Cooper is like really the only character that can keep doing the character because it's just the voice. You're right, but you don't have to see him, right, Right. It's just the voice. But I like, I like the new team. I'm excited to see where it goes. I'm hoping Marvel does this thing where it's like they have like cosmic stuff and they have like street level stuff. They have Avengers stuff.

18:05 So they're kind of separating it a little bit because we're getting a lot of characters and a lot more stuff. But I want to say this is this movie is like. Really high on my list for Marvel movies. It's just really good. It's really good. It's very good. Yeah, 100%. It's really good. It has. It has all that stuff that Marvel does so well when it's really, you know, knocking it out of the park. It has all the action. It has the clutching, your pearls, moments of will they survive, won't they survive. It has other worlds, really great effects. It just has all that. Good stuff. I want to say one of my standouts for this because in the other ones wasn't a standout for me.

18:47 Drax was great. Drax was one of my favorite parts in this movie, and I actually really liked how they handled the Peter and Gomorrah situation because at the end of the day, it's not his Gomorrah, right? And I liked that it was addressed. But man, that line where it was like, we had fun, didn't we? And it's like, yeah, we did like, no, what a, what a mindfuck of a situation to be, to have the love of your life be in front of you. But it's not actually the love of. Life she you know, Oop, she I hit the mic. I feel like she probably could have fallen in love with them again, but they're not going to give her that chance. She's gone. Yeah, she's gone. His grandpa. And she's she has another group of people that she's with.

19:29 She's not a family. Yeah, she has her own family. She's not a guardian anymore. And it sucks and it's sad for us to see, but she's happy, you know, and Peter is connecting to other people in his life that he hasn't been with in a long time. Yeah, which knew him immediately when he came out. And that was sweet. The question is though, I mean, what happens to Star Lord now? I there's been talks of like there might be a solo Star Lord movie. I mean, in the comics, this isn't something new. The Guardians team has kind of rotated, you know, there's always been like one or two stationary members from the original that stay and sometimes they go off and form their own team. So it's something that happens.

20:10 And I like that they're expanding that team. As far as Star Lord, it could be anything. Him exploring his lineage, you know, celestial stuff, whatever you know. I don't know, I think it might be a little odd if it's just like an Earth based and figuring out how the world is. Now I'm just an Avenger now, basically, yeah, I wouldn't. It's Chris Pratt. So I'm just like I've seen it before, just watch Parks and Rec. He acts the same way. He now creates a band called Mas Rap. Yeah. Oh my God, it's just Parks and Rec. It's just Parks and Rec, but he only does covers of stuff from like the 80s and 90s. Everything that's on his cassette tapes, that's what he covers. So also highly recommend. Everything on here we recommend because we chose these because we liked them, Yeah. So if you haven't watched it, which I think we're the only people that didn't watch it.

20:59 I couldn't believe how long we went without seeing it. That was crazy and it was a long movie. It was. It was nice to be comfortable at home. Yeah, watching it, that that's all anybody wants. It's nice to be comfortable at home, yeah. Right and. End of my thesis. That's life. It's just nice to be comfortable at home, all right? Do you want to do this next? One, let's move on. So we are taking David Bautista from Guardians and we're now moving to knock down. Did you call him David Bautista? Yeah, I have that written down. I think it's Dave, is it? Dave, I wonder if IMDb has it as David because nobody calls him that. The list?

21:40 That was weird, right? It sounded wrong. How bizarre. Nobody calls him that. Sorry, everyone really threw us off. But continue, continue. So we went, we started at really happy comedy, then we went to a mix and now we're just going into full on horror, despair, despair. So we're going from one depressing thing to another. So we are going to knock at the Cabin, which was directed by M Night Shyamalan and is based on the novel The Cabin at the End of the World. Yes. So Noah and I both read this book. Had completely different feelings about the book. By the way, yes, there were things in the book that I thought were unforgivable. Yeah, well, OK, let's spoiler if you haven't read the book, we're probably gonna mention the book.

22:27 Yeah, so like, skip over this until the next one if you don't want. To very good point. This movie, I was very cautious about this movie one because of the director and Night Shyamalan can be very hit or mess, you know he has stuff like the Village, but he also has stuff like Avatar there, Last Airbender. We don't talk about that, you know no one should talk about that and the happening, you know, so it's. I like the happening. Stop, Marky Mark being like the trees. What? Exactly, Exactly. No, Zoe Deschanel. Like, oh, the trees. No. So you like making I like. You don't mention the 6th sense, or you don't mention signs, which are like two of the strongest signs in his catalog. Don't do signs.

23:13 Signs is amazing. I don't do signs. I know, I know. You don't like aliens? No, it's fine. I love aliens. Not those aliens. He's scared of aliens. I can watch Alien Aliens, but not. And you didn't really. And you didn't have a problem with, oh for Christ's sake, the Keke Palmer. The Nope cuz there was no aliens in it. It was just the big. That thing sucked people up and ate them. That was amazing. I loved that movie so much. We covered that on our Patreon Okay, But so knock out the cabin. It's a two dads with their daughter. When 4 strangers come. It's a home invasion. But the entire movie takes place pretty much in the living room and they have to make a choice to kill one of the three of them to save the world, right? And if they don't do it, they have to kill each other, which will bring about a plague on the earth. And if by the end of that they don't sacrifice one of themselves, the world ends.

24:10 Yes, these four people had visions. They don't know each other. They were brought together. They found each other. The Internet. Reddit. I don't know if it was Reddit, but they knew exactly where to go. They had these visions, they knew what they had to wear. And they know that if Eric and Andrew and when don't decide to kill one of them, they the four then have to kill themselves. I just said that. I know, but I was just kidding. I'm just kidding. So they have this desperation because they know that, one, they're gonna have to start killing themselves. And two, once they'll kill themselves, the world is going to end. Yeah, I feel like M Night Shyamalan really does a good job with his movies when he puts his characters in like very specific situations where it's not like super big.

24:59 You know, if you think about the movies that he did that were massive like the ones I mentioned before, they don't tend to do too well. But the ones where like you know, lady in the water or the village or anything like that, where it's like people in a specific setting, he does a very good job with those. I agree. I feel like this one, he did a good job of making sure everybody got the right amount of time they needed for you to one get an attachment to them. But also question everybody in in that room except for when, because she's an Angel. My gosh, she was just the most adorable little child. One of the other choices that he made that I really liked. I don't like hyper violence, so I don't like Saw.

25:40 I don't really love Scream and things like that. So in this, when those moments come when someone is going to basically be bludgeoned to death, it kind of happens. Just below the frame, right? I mean, I think it was fine. So we see the weapon coming down, we hear it, but we don't see it connect. And I think it added to the what is going on right here? And I I personally liked that decision. Was that not something? I think he did it well. Like there's sometimes where they do it where they just cut the black or like they don't really do the sound or like, you know, So I think he did it correctly. I think the tone of it was right. My biggest problem with the movie, I liked it. I feel like if I didn't read the book I would have liked it more. The book does of course a much better job of the you know, who's right?

26:35 Is this real? Is this not real? What is happening? I feel like in the movie there was more hand holding and like especially the end where you know the the ones that survive are just like, yeah, the world's, the world's ending. But in the book you don't know that. You still don't know that because it's more of extended And you know when does die. Unfortunately in the book, yeah, I know, I know, it's very sad, but I think it added to the book and what it was trying to say. It was more ambiguous is what I. Yes, I like the word for it. And so we had a conversation of like, I think you believe it did happen and I didn't believe it happened. I just thought that these people were just sharing some type of weird thing, but it wasn't actually true.

27:21 But you know, so I think that's the point, right? Anybody can have their own ending. I agree that the book definitely did a better job throughout the entire book of not knowing who's actually right because he would be like, Oh well, that was filmed 4 hours ago. You could have easily known that this was going to come on because you've been checking the watch and it's like moments like that where it's like, Oh yeah, I guess that is right. And it's an interesting thing as far as the storytelling because we're introduced to our family first, so we hold a place for them. Yeah. So, like, this is prerecorded. It's not. And then when these people come, you're questioning whether this is right. So you want the family to escape, but at the same time you don't want the end of the world to happen, so you're. It's very confusing.

28:10 Would you make the choice or would you just let everybody die? I think as the evidence grew, I think I would. I would make the choice. I wouldn't, right? I know you wouldn't. I'd be like, no, absolutely not. Yeah, it. Ends it ends clearly in this I am Eric and you are Andrew, right? I mean, that is just the end of it. But see, I'm going to be like I saw a vision as a very whispered in my ear. You have to kill me. Absolutely not, no, no. No, it's it's the trolley problem. I know. But see like that in the, in the book, in the movie, they did kind of do a good job of making him seem like he was coming to their side.

28:50 And I'm like this fucking guy, this guy like, oh, you're just going to believe these people killing each other in front of you. Cool. Yeah, I mean, I do. It's hard, right? I mean, no, it's not. I don't think immediately when they walk in and be like this is having me like, all right. Yeah, time for me to die. Yeah. I do think though that as this movie went on, it did seem more feasible that they were telling the truth. I think the movie it does, the movie is like because you see planes falling out of the sky, right? You do see all of that stuff that they're saying in the book. You don't necessarily see all of it. It's more of like this is happening, is it? So I do I I think the home invasion part was better in the book, but I think seeing these performances and them doing what they I did in the movie, it was great.

29:35 I think it's a great thriller. It's unique in itself. So I liked it. Yeah, I liked it too at a Bautista. Just David Bautista as I call. Yeah, I agree. I think everyone did a really good job. It's a very small ensemble cast. I think they really, I mean Rupert Grint is in it, not long. Not long, RIP First to die. But I think that everybody really took their role and chewed the scenery and lived in that and and I I liked it, I really liked it. And plus, there's something to be said of although it is violence within it, it is nice to see a horror movie where there are two gay dads as main characters.

30:20 Yeah, you you see gay people sometimes, but you don't see two adult parents that are gay, right? You you very. I don't know of any other horror movie that does have gay parents. There probably is, but. And that all that, I just like, you know, coming to a party, you know, sort of thing. It's like, no, these are these people. They are on vacation. This is what they're doing. Representation. Imagine. It matters. All right, Our next pick. We're getting close to the end here. We're getting close to the end here. Our next, our next pick I feel like is something that we, it's weird, we haven't talked about ever, ever.

31:02 I think we've very, like mentioned it a little bit because why not. And we post about it quite a bit on social media, what we do in the Shadows Season 5 and just what we do in the Shadows in general, in general. I, you know, based off of the movie Taika Waititi, they made a show of that mockumentary vampire familiar situation and expanded on it. This show, it's five seasons in, which I think is insane. It's still just as funny. It's not not funny like it used to be. I feel like in the first season there was a little more like really big laugh out loud moments because you're getting used to those characters and seeing this situation, but still they find a way to make it so funny.

31:49 And I love these care. I love these vampires. The vampires, they as characters, as we've gone through these years with them, they themselves just keep getting more and more ridiculous and I'm here for that. I want to see them become bigger and funnier and do more ridiculous things. And if you think about it, the these vampires, I mean, have been around for hundreds of years and they still are just fools. In our current world, they still dress in their garb. That is the they can't let it. Go It's so funny that they just still look like Victorian. Yes, why? And I just think that this cast is so strong, so, so good, so good. Who who is your favorite vampire or character? Doesn't have to be a vampire.

32:39 I feel like as time has gone on, it's changed, OK, I think at the base of it. Nadja will always be my favorite but really Nandor has had his moments. But I think that Laszlo, in this season especially, really shown he's he's my all time favorite. My low is my all time favorite. I love him because he's just so ridiculous. I feel like he's also a mystery most of the time. But I I just love him. I love the way he says things. Oh, yes, New York City. Well, I think that Matt Berry has been making a lot of really good choices, and that's one of them. How he says things, how he just presents himself. I also love just within them, the like, sexual fluidity. It's kind of like when you've been alive for centuries. There is no gay straight by Pan.

33:37 You just are. I just. I also love with them. How? Into it. Both of them are like, he'll say something like, yeah, me and Nando are like, typically whack each other off and not just like. I did that yesterday. It's like, it's so funny. I mean, I love all of them. I think the only thing with this season, so season five, one of the biggest things is Guillermo, whatever you want to call him, got bit by Derek because we all know, yeah, that's Derek. We all know that he's been asking Nandor forever. Since he was what, like 13?

34:18 He turned into a vampire. He still didn't. Over that course of the time we find out he has Van Helsing blood. He gets bit by Derek. This whole season is very Laslo heavy because Laszlo and Guillermo are trying to figure out why he's stuck in this like vampire limbo and it made for some great episodes and I one of my favorite episodes is the hybrids. Yes, this little like animal hybrids that yeah, the frog that looked just like it's so it's so good. I did feel like the the solution or the resolution with that, when Nandor does finally find out that he'd let somebody else turn him into, yeah, was like it was dealt with very quickly.

35:04 It was dealt with very quickly and there it's interesting that what this whole series has been leading to, right sort of happened at the end of last season and for Guillermo I should say for for Guillermo's character and now has been resolved, resolved and undone. So now what's next for Guillermo? I don't know. I think. I think that's the interesting part. I do like that they gave him the choice of, like, do you want to be a vampire or do you want to be a human? And I like that Mandor was the one to ask him that. And he's like, I want to be a human. So it's actually, where does it leave him? Because for so long he wanted to be a vampire. He became a vampire hunter before he became a vampire. And then he's like, you know what? I don't think I could kill people. I could kill vampires.

35:50 I can't kill people in his blood. It's it's in his blood. Guillermo de la Cruz I do wish one thing I was missing from this one was a little bit more gay. Gay is in where gay, Gay is There was hot, Gay is hot. There was the Pride Parade, there was, and I loved that a lot. But like, Guillermo was not involved in that. At all. He was just in the float at the end, remember? He's like holding a sign that says gay guy or something. That was great. I did love that, like credits seem where they're all like, partying so good. But I felt like in the last season we kind of got more of like. We had a we had a romantic interest. We had him coming out to his family, yeah. And now, this season, it was really nothing.

36:31 I'm not saying it needed to be a big focus, but it was like, oh OK, more gay. Fine. Gay is in. Gay is in. Gay is hot. Lazlo says it. He told us. I also think this season we got a lot more of not think it happened. We got a lot more of the guide with Christian Shaw. I love her too and I'm really happy to see. So 30 Rock is one of my favorite shows, but unfortunately when Kristen Shaw came in it, it was like they had jumped the shark. The character of Hazel was just awful. So it scares me when they bring her into a property a little late. It's like Nope, the series is going to. Yeah, here we go. Oh no, we're going to have another 30 Rock. But they're doing such a great job with the guide. And she is, I mean. I I think she wormed her way into our hearts with Louise and Bob's Burgers, so now she's just a welcome addition. Louise is one of my favorite characters in television history, so I automatically love her. I think in this one she found a way to like make a character that we kind of know already more interesting, if that makes sense.

37:32 Like, we've seen these kind of characters before, but I like that they just kind of just included her in like the main cast this season, right? But this whole time she was just trying to be actually included and it just. She just wanted to be friends. Please, just let me be your friend. She created hexes. She kidnapped all of them. She would. It's just insane. I love it. I love it, you know? So good. So one of the other things that I loved about this season is that. With the ending with everything that happens with Guillermo, they actually all love Guillermo. Oh yeah, None of them wanted anything to happen. Whereas in the beginning he was like, they couldn't stand him. He was just, they're human, familiar, you know? But now you can see what Nadja and Laszlo were trying to do to for him to protect him.

38:20 Guillermo was part of their crew. Surprising or not surprising for Nadja. Yeah, I feel like because she's very ruthless in a lot of things, but especially if it doesn't involve Laszlo. Very surprising for her. I'm glad that she kept that secret as long as she did. Yeah, I'm glad we also have an adult Colin Robinson, because that baby Colin Robinson, aside from the Harpy situation. You think that was hilarious? That I'm just glad we have, like an adult. I want more of the energy vampire stuff. We got a tiny taste of it this season. I want more. I so personally, I'm a big fan of Vanessa Bayer. So whenever she guest stars on this show as Evie, the other energy vampire, it's like it's the exact character that she should be playing and it's so good to see her. It's so good.

39:09 Yeah, I'm. I'm excited to see where the show goes. I'm curious on how much longer they're gonna do it, because five seasons for a comedy like this is a feat. Especially now. I mean, I feel like things are ending earlier and earlier. We're getting 3 Four Seasons Max because the greedy ghouls don't give a shit. Very true. But whatever. What abs. There's five seasons. I mean, I'm, I'm thinking we're definitely getting a Season 6 and I'm looking forward to it already. Me too. All right, next one. This is an Apple TV. Apple plus. Yeah. Is that Apple, Apple Plus? Is that what it's? Called Apple Plus TV. Apple subscription Plus TV.

39:50 Yeah. So this one I feel like is one of the breakout comedies of this year. And I didn't see a lot of people talking about it, which does kind of make me a little sad, especially with the cast. So this is Platonic and this came out in May of this year. It stars Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen. I mean, I just do. Do I need to say anymore? They, yeah, they have such chemistry together. They are just hilarious. This is one of those things that came out weekly that I was every week going there's a new platonic like. I couldn't wait to watch it. And we were both excited for it. Sorry.

40:37 That was the most dramatic sneeze. I felt it tickling in my nose. I don't think I've ever sneezed on the podcast before. There's the first time for everything, totally smokes that took over my brain. There's so much that goes through my mind when some, like when like a bodily thing happens on the podcast where I'm like, do we cut, Do I run away? Do I just go under the desk? Do so, I don't. Know ooh, go under the desk next time and you know I'm gonna hit my head on the way back up. But this back to the the show. Sorry this one was so good because not only did it, you know, go away from the cliches of there can't be a platonic relationship between a male and a female or friends or anything like that.

41:22 And it does. This is literally a show about two friends. And one of the the things throughout the the series is like, are they actually friends? But then it cuts to them being absolutely ridiculous, kicking over, you know, rental scooters. And it's like, yeah, they're just friends. They're just friends. One of the interesting things about this that I like so much is that when we have sitcoms, a lot of times, like when the original run of Will and Grace, it's about these friends. We see them as friends, and as the series goes on, we sort of see a fallout between them, right? And that's how the original series sort of ends. There's a fallout. They really don't talk for years. They come back together good. God grace is the worst grace in re watching it grace is like the worst from episode like. 21 Yeah, it's it's that character was bizarre. Whereas what this does is that the fallout has happened already.

42:18 They've already been estranged for years. So now it's about them reconnecting, even though they're kind of in different places in their lives. Where Sylvia has, she doesn't work anymore. She's been a stay at home mom. You know, she used to be a lawyer. And Will is this brewmaster and he's like young and funky and he's a hipster. Yeah, he has some of the I want to like. I wanted to dress like will. Oh, so good. The style is fantastic, the style is fantastic, the use of necklaces, the hats. That's just how Seth Rogen dresses, though. Like, that's Seth Rogen. He just came to Seth. He just what Seth Rogen, real life does all day is he smokes weed right? And he does pottery right, and then he produces shows and things like that. I feel like Rose Byrne is the type of person that like, drinks Rosie whenever she wants Rosie Byrne. Rosie Byrne.

43:07 That's the the brand. She should really have that. Has her face on it, but is. But hosts probably the best lunches, dinners, whatever. Like she Her comedic timing is one of the best. And physical comedy. She's so good. It's like watching bridesmaids. But it's all her exactly. So good. And I think going into this, you think like Seth Rogen's going to steal the scene. He's going to be hilarious, actually. He kind of plays the straight man and she is the comedy. It's so good. She oh, my gosh. She there's a scene where they're they go to Johnny Rocket right?

43:48 Is that the Johnny Rockets is the real thing. This is like some. Whatever is the made-up chain restaurant. So they go to that and they get a bunch of the memorabilia and like the hats and the like the jackets and stuff like that, and they're just riding down the street in the scooters and just seeing Rose Byrne in this oversized hat be a complete badass but also look ridiculous. It's it's one of those shows. Just watch it. It's very short. I hope they get a second season. I would really love a second season. It's a lot of fun and it's it does get poignant at times when it needs to, but it's one of those awkward, you know what are relationships and friendships at some point.

44:29 The last episode is very emotional, but like in a I relate to that type of situation. And also very funny, very funny. I also wanted to speak very funny. The supporting cast in this is also fantastic, very good. We have Luke MacFarlane who plays Charlie Sylvia's husband in this and he's dealing with what does their relationship mean, The most awkward 1 dry humping. One of the funniest scenes I've seen in like a comedy like this, and like, he gets drunk and his coworkers there, they're both very drunk. They're doing whatever. And like, this is at the point where, like, he's kind of jealous of Will being back in Sylvia's life and so like. His idea is to, like, get drunk late at work with his coworkers, but when the other coworker leaves and it's just the I can't remember her name but she's there with him, they're like dancing together and then they like dry hump. It's so weird.

45:27 And it's the most awkward thing. But he has so much guilt. And so when he finally tells Sylvia about it and she's like, what? You dry hump, it's like what she's. Doesn't even understand this. I wish I could remember this song that they were dancing to. It was like, it was so awkward. That whole scene was just hilarious. I also Carla Gallo, who plays her friend Katie. I mean, this is another breakout star is so funny because she's incredibly raunchy. Her delivery is perfect. Another just fantastic scene partner for Rose Byrne. Yeah, I feel like this is a good comedy to watch when you know you this weekend.

46:09 Yes, watch it. Binge it. Binge it and it's very quick. It's so funny. Do it. Highly recommend make it get a second season please because they left it open where there could be a second. We have to wait. All right? We have another apple one we. Have three more. Three more we could do this. I feel like our personal picks might be a little quick, quick, quick, quick. Make it snappy. Make it snappy. So this one we kind of added because when we forgot it came out this year, it came out of March. And he came out of March great this year. Earlier this year, Yeah, I'm just saying why we forgot about it is cuz it was from so long. Ago, yeah, but we get included stuff from February.

46:50 But we watched that recently. We watched this in real time. So the last season of Ted Lasso, I mean what can we say about Ted Lasso that hasn't already been said that I don't, I think we've. We briefly talked about Ted Lasso on the podcast before, a long time ago. A long time ago. Yeah, I think. Was it a Patreon episode? Yep, yeah. Yep. Great. I mean, this series I feel like is one of those that I'm glad it ended when it did, but I wish there was more because the cast and characters, you just love them so much. There has been talks about potential like spinoff series, like it's not going to be about Ted Lasso because of where it left off. I would love for there to be spinoff series for everybody else that's still in England.

47:43 Yeah, what Ted Lasso, the the show did so well was that the first season really did feel about that. It was about Ted and his journey. But as it has gone on, the worlds of the supporting characters got bigger and bigger. And for us, you know, a lot of the time I was actually looking forward to seeing what was going to happen with Ryan Keeley or you know what Sam's Restaurant. You know, these these characters were having lives of their own and so you became very invested in them. So I do think that if Ted isn't there while he was the heart of the show, if if he wasn't there, we still have the emotional connection to these characters because we've seen what they've been through over the over the years. One of.

48:29 My stand out episodes from this season. The finale season was the Sunflower episode with Rebecca and the guy in the boat, Amsterdam. It was beautiful. Like, I like holy shit, Like it's one of those episodes you didn't expect to happen and it happens and it ends and you're like, oh that was so well written. The acting was amazing and it's just one of those. Episodes where you just keep thinking about it because so much happens in it, but like, it's so quiet and it like sneaks up on you. And that's I think what the show did so well.

49:10 It's funny and it's amazing and these characters are great, but it deals with such important and hard issues that everybody goes through. And I I like the message. It's like you have to take care of yourself. You have to take care of others and just be kind. But just I can't. Like I I wish it didn't end, but I'm glad it did, because how much more can it still have that magic? And one of the interesting things that it did was it didn't have to end with everyone pairing up and everyone finding the love of their life, because it wasn't necessarily about that, right? It was What does it mean to be a human trying to exist in the world at the most authentic self?

49:53 Right. And it takes everybody on their own journey, you know? And one of the, I mean, looking at Jamie. Jamie Tart from where he started to where he ended up. Even Ned. He can Oh my well, please. That was a whole thing. A little turd, the biggest traitor there ever was in Ted Lasso history. I mean, but the makeups are worth it. Yeah, it's so sweet, Jamie. Fantastic character arc. I actually really loved the the, the friendship that grew between Roy and Jamie. It's just really sweet. I'll never forget the image of him teaching him how to ride a bike. It's just fantastic. And that show can do that type of thing. It can do that ridiculous thing. Or like you tell somebody about it.

50:33 It's like, oh, that kind of sounds boring. It's not. No. And it's amazing you care so deeply about these characters and that's the mark of a good show. Yeah. So bye Ted. Bye Ted. Hope to see some of you all soon at some point. Yeah, write or strike, they ain't doing nothing. That's true. No way. Fingers crossed. All right, final two pics. Told you we were going. We were going through these kind of quick, but these are just things we missed and we have to talk about. Because we can say we talked about it. Yeah, we did it. We watch other things other than Marvel and, you know, Apple movies. Ghosted, ghosted like that. Okay, so you do your personal pick first, he said. You go first, Okay.

51:19 So my personal. I just want to sip of my Coffee is another Apple Plus TV. Whatever it is, this is shrinking. So actually this is a good connection because Brett Goldstein, who plays Roy, is one of the creators and writers of shrinking. So good, that's how talented this person is. I can't. He's also Hercules in the Marvel. Movies. So where is that character? Right now, I don't know. Don't bring it up. No one knows. No one knows. So this is starring Jason Segel. He plays Jimmy. He is a therapist who, when we first see him is completely His life is in ruins. His wife died not too long ago. He has a young teenage daughter, and what he has done to deal with this death is basically binge drink and do drugs every night.

52:05 So what this is, this is his journey of healing and how he works with his patients and how the people around him kind of deal with his life and how they deal with their own stuff. But it's a stellar cast. So I think Jason Segel got nominated for an Emmy. Jessica Williams, who plays one of his coworkers, Gabby, got nominated. I mean, it's so good. Hello. I mean also you. Harrison Ford is in this. I was like, why aren't you mentioning Harrison? Harrison Ford is in this people and he is so funny. Everybody is so talented. The the actors that plays. His daughter Alice is incredibly talented. It's just a really great cast. It mixes funny it with emotional. I feel like that's kind of the shtick. That we like on our lists.

52:53 It's like it has to be funny, but also has to have heart. We need depth. We need depth. It ends in a cliffhanger that just has you just going what just happened and it's going to cause so much trouble for Jimmy going forward. I haven't watched it, surprisingly. I think I was watching something, doing something at the time and Derek is like, I'm just going to watch this. And I remember when you watched the last episode, I think I was in this room and you were in the living room and you were just freaking out. And I was like, what? Cuz I thought you were watching and just like that. And I'm like, there's no way he's freaking out. That is not on my list, yeah. The people were mad. Okay, don't get me started. But so I'm excited to watch it. I do wanna watch it, but it's so much about grief and healing. But they do it so well and add so much coming. I mean, Michael Urie is in this as well. He's perfect.

53:46 Everyone. Kristen Miller plays their next door neighbor, Liz, who Kristen Miller has this way. I mean, she was in The Drew Carey Show, she was in Cougar Town. She has this way of playing a character that's so bitchy, but you love them. And there's also a character named Derek in it, so everyone has to watch drinking. Are they a good character? They you think you're going to hate them in the beginning, but he actually turns out to be really great. Surprising, I know. Derek's are never really well. They're usually, yeah, Derek and what we do in the shadows was pretty funny. He wasn't that bad. Yeah, but he was bad at what he was doing, that's true. He wasn't a very good vampire. Now he's a zombie. So true. All right. Benedict Huang also made an appearance of What we do in the shadows. Yeah, he did.

54:29 OK. So my personal pick is good. Omen Season 2, I had thought about doing The Witcher. I haven't finished it because when I know somebody like Henry Cavill is not going to be done anymore and it's going to kind of end, it's hard for me to continue watching it, you know? It's like it took me so long to watch Sense 8 finish it. When I knew it was ending, I was like, what's the point? I don't get anymore, Noah says. I cannot take the emotion of trauma, of saying goodbye to these people. So I'm just stopping, yeah. But I will eventually watch it. But good omens. I mean the amazing book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. It's one of my favorite books.

55:13 It's a singular story. For decades people have been wanting a sequel. What is going to happen? They're like, no, we probably can't recreate what we did the last time. But then there was talks and then there was talks about a movie and all the stuff. And then unfortunately, Terry Pratchett did die in 2015. But before that, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett had been talking about potentially a sequel, like what would happen. And we got it. We got it with Season 2 of Good Omens. Now I will say they're very different, like you can tell. It's a little different. Neil Gaiman wrote all the episodes for the first season. It's very much the book it has trying to stop the Antichrist from bringing about the end of the world.

55:55 What happens with that? This one is a lot smaller, and it's more it takes place in the street with the Zero FL's bookshop, Everybody's back, some of the characters, the actors changed out, but it's very much about. Them, Azero Fell and Crowley and what their relationship is and what goes on with that. But it's just perfect. Like, it's one of those shows where the actors themselves, you have these people that are such good friends in real life and then they play characters who are such good friends in the show. And it shows through that David Tennant and Michael Sheen are some of the greatest people to be. Together on the screen, if you watch the show staged, it came out during the pandemic.

56:42 It's just like watching a Zero Fell and Crowley, but not in makeup and red hair and white hair, but. I think that if you're a fan of the books and you book and you haven't watched it, you should watch it. Because this one I would equate to. Let's say our flag means death, where it's like. Are they are they a thing? Like, do they like each other? Took a whole season, and then the second season and then the last episode of this season for us, finally for them to realize, wow, they're really dragging it out. But it's one of those things where it's like, it parallels almost funny enough to our flag means death.

57:23 It's like these people that have such a big connection and then it's like, oh, the connection goes further than just friendship, you know? I don't. The show is just good. It's just it's one of those things where like it's hard to describe like how much I like it and it's so ridiculous. It's absolutely batshit crazy. But I just love them and I love the characters and so it's their chemistry. You cannot beat that chemistry. And it's David Tennant. Like what? What do you like if you've been like, I don't know if I want to watch it. Just fricking watch it. It's good and gay. Good and gay. That's what we've been saying in the whole episode. Yeah, I will say like, no matter how much I do like it, I do know that there's some like interesting things that happened this season. It did feel like they added things just to like make stuff happen, which I was like, OK, but I it was all fine because those two were on the screen.

58:16 And we also got two amazing new characters, Maggie and Nina. Fantastic. There was like kind of like a will. They won't they in that situation, but I'd loved in the end. That they were like, stop messing with our lives. And you guys need to realize that you guys love each other. So go talk about that. It's all about love. It's very gay and very like talking about the like the hypocrisy and the ridiculousness of the Bible. And it's just all the things I love. Sure is that's Noah wrapped up in a bow. Yeah, love it. So good. That is our so far what we've missed in 2023. I would love to hear what you all think about these things.

58:57 Comment below. We've been posting on the YouTube. You can actually comment below now. Yeah, let us know what your standouts were. Yeah, I think our personal picks were kind of like our standouts for the year. And obviously we're not doing a whole episode on them and we can't dive super deep into them. But you know, you know our picks. I want to know yours. I agree. That means get to it. Yeah. What are you doing? So we have quite we have some stuff brewing. Planned. Yeah. There's a lot of things, you know, the writers strike is it's happening and so things are getting postponed and things that we had planned to maybe cover are not going to be at this time anymore. So we're again, we're shaking it up. We're shaking it up, shaking it up. We have some plans, but a lot of the October, November are stacked.

59:46 If some of the stuff still stays what it is, yeah, I mean, just look out for that stuff. It's always it's always get creepy. Yeah. Ooh, that's right. We're doing that. I don't even know if they saw that. We're doing the collected works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven, The Telltale Heart. No, let's see, let's do, let me see which one we're going to do. Let's do the black cat. I don't know about it. I'm excited to jump in. No, I mean, if you know what this book is, it's very obvious what we're going to be gearing up for. We're going to go back to our roots, you know, if you listen to our blame manner. Spooky season is upon us.

1:00:31 Yeah, or any of the other Mike Flanagan works. You know what? We're going to. Do you know we love the Flanaverse? We can't get enough. It's the last one. Oh, ran. This is his last. Well, the Netflix thing, right? Yeah, but then he's going on to do Stephen King stuff prime. All right, he's jumping over. That's just Noah's brains are colliding in the best way possible. I love him. OK, bye. Bye. Thanks for listening to a bite of artwork and editing by our own Noah. Be sure to follow us on Instagram and Twitter at a Biteofpod and on Facebook at a Bite of. If you have any questions, recommendations, or just want to say hi, you can contact us on a biteofpod.com. Please be sure to subscribe, rate and review to spread the word.

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