Elaine and Mark met at a movie club and got married in a brewery. Mark loves spreadsheets. Elaine can’t pronounce asterisk. We watch a lot of film and TV.
Episodes
Monday Apr 20, 2020
Monday Apr 20, 2020
This week, we can’t stop singing a Bobby Brown classic…
Who wants to be a millionaire? We do! And we also review ITV’s re-telling of the infamous coughing scandal in Quiz (5.15). Sky’s comedy drama Run makes us dream of escape (14.35), Elaine’s not entirely convinced about Alex Garland’s newest sci-fi spectacular Devs (18.45), and Mark’s watched the first episode of Season 3 Killing Eve with mixed results (23.35).
Date Night: Waterworld (1995) (28:00)
Tuesday Apr 14, 2020
Tuesday Apr 14, 2020
This week, Mark’s patience with corporate emails during a global pandemic may be waning…
Elaine discusses the challenges of trigger warnings for TV (with MAJOR SPOILERS for BBC1’s The Nest!) (3:04). And we’ve just finished two Amazon Prime shows, so step into a parallel universe with Elaine’s review of alternate history drama The Man in the High Castle (12:30) and get your US Marshal’s hat ready for Mark’s look at American crime show Justified (24:00).
Date Night: High School Musical (2006) 30:45
Tuesday Apr 07, 2020
Tuesday Apr 07, 2020
Hello again!
An eclectic week… We’re delving into Mark’s love of wrestling with our reflections on the first night of Wrestlemania (4:30), getting the gang back together with Nellie and crew in Sky's Save Me Too (16:20), and wondering if we've already missed the boat with Netflix's Tiger King (22:30). And we throw in a brief review of Rocketman for good measure (25:00).
And, of course, in DATE NIGHT (31:15), it's Pete's Dragon (1977)...
Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
Welcome back!
This week, we subscribed to Disney+ and Mark has a lot to say about it! We share our initial thoughts on Episodes 1 & 2 of The Mandalorian, chat about Season 2 of Netflix's Sex Education, and review Episode 1 of new BBC drama The Nest. And, of course, Elaine has her say on Episode 2 of Season 3 of HBO's Westworld. We also received a request (!) so listen out for Mark's review of Amazon Prime's Picard.
And Elaine gets to experience Top Secret! in our newly-named feature "Date Night".
The Mandalorian 11:15
Sex Education 18:45
The Nest 21:30
Westworld 25:00
Picard 29:00
Date Night: Top Secret! 34:00
Tuesday Mar 24, 2020
Tuesday Mar 24, 2020
We're in COVID-19 lockdown, so we decided to make a podcast!
This week, we learn about Mark's childhood radio shows and Elaine's penchant for makeover programmes. We discuss HBO's The Outsider and Season 3, Episode 1 of Westworld. And Mark has an idea for a feature...