Speaker 1: Warning, Today's episode contains spoilers for a bunch of animated
Speaker 1: shows on Netflix. But it's really not that big deal,
Speaker 1: but we will spoil them slightly, mate.
Speaker 2: So you warned.
Speaker 3: Hello.
Speaker 1: My name is Jason Concepcion.
Speaker 4: And I'm Rosy Nike and welcome back to x ray Vision.
Speaker 1: The podcast where we dive deep to your favorite shows, movies,
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Speaker 4: Anthors in today's Animation Month episode. In the previously on,
Speaker 4: we're gonna be talking about the return of the BoJack
Speaker 4: Horseman Team.
Speaker 1: Oh, everybody's favorite depressed actor horse.
Speaker 4: You know the best. He changed the game for Netflix.
Speaker 4: He's going to be coming up a lot today and
Speaker 4: they are the team is coming back with a new
Speaker 4: animation series.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 4: Also, we're going to our Edward and Bella are getting
Speaker 4: the animation treatment that is going to be extremely cursed.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you all about Midnight Sun and so are
Speaker 4: the Ghostbusters, which I think for people mine and Jason's
Speaker 4: age is probably a delight because our real Ghostbusters was
Speaker 4: like a big thing when we were kids. We love
Speaker 4: the Ghostbusters cartoon and in the airlock, we are going
Speaker 4: to be talking about what we watch on Netflix and
Speaker 4: how Netflix animation offerings are kind of changing the game,
Speaker 4: or looking at the impact of some of our favorites
Speaker 4: and how they've shaped what Netflix is doing. And in
Speaker 4: Who's Who, we're gonna give our rapid fire recommendations for
Speaker 4: what Netflix animation shows you should be watching.
Speaker 1: Up next news First up, BoJack Horseman team of Rafael,
Speaker 1: Bob Blacksburg, Tornante Company, Shadow Machine, etc. Reunite for Netflix
Speaker 1: animated series Long Story Short, which is slated debut in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. The BoJack team has a new project.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's about a family and kind of the shared
Speaker 4: history of a family over a long time, So that
Speaker 4: should be interesting, lots of depressing and I'm sure existential
Speaker 4: mining to be done from that. I'm very happy that
Speaker 4: Lisa Haniwal is the superviaing producer and she's going to
Speaker 4: design the original art for the series. She's an original
Speaker 4: BoJack person who also did Tukarimberti, which was completely brilliant,
Speaker 4: And Yeah, I think this is going to be great,
Speaker 4: and I think BoJack is one of those shows that
Speaker 4: changed the game for adult animation changed the game for
Speaker 4: Netflix and the way they approached animation, especially since it
Speaker 4: was nominated for Emmy's etc. And I think it made
Speaker 4: them realize there's a space for that with animation. So yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm excited. I think it will probably be very good.
Speaker 4: So that's another one for next year.
Speaker 1: Next up. I've been watching Terminator zero for the past
Speaker 1: couple of days on Netflix, but many have been watching
Speaker 1: it for much longer.
Speaker 5: Because I'm not Netflix on Netflix.
Speaker 1: Because all a significant amount of Netflix's animation offerings that
Speaker 1: are coming up in the future have been leaked online.
Speaker 1: That's pretty including upcoming seasons of Arcane out there, a
Speaker 1: Terminator zero season.
Speaker 3: And more.
Speaker 4: This is crazy, Yeah, Randmahalff, which I'm like, extremely excited
Speaker 4: for another remake of a classic Rumika taka Ashi anime.
Speaker 4: I have not pirated it obviously, not even with any
Speaker 4: hypothetical Say guys, I really didn't do it. This was
Speaker 4: a bad leak, dand Dan, which is a huge get
Speaker 4: for Netflix. The fact that leaked. Also the Plankton movie
Speaker 4: that's coming up, which is really wild because I feel like,
Speaker 4: did we even know that was happening so soon after
Speaker 4: the Sandy Cheeks movie. Yeah, Netflix basically told Variety and
Speaker 4: I quote one of our production partners has been compromised
Speaker 4: and footage from several of our titles has unfortunately leaked online.
Speaker 4: My understanding was it was a pretty bad leak, especially
Speaker 4: Arcane season two. Obviously, that's huge, That's probably one of
Speaker 4: the biggest releases Netflix has left. So yeah, not great stuff,
Speaker 4: very dramatic, and it does. Interestingly, they're saying that the
Speaker 4: partner in question is like a localization service provider.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're They're a company that does the subtitles for me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and make sure that they feel like you're reading
Speaker 4: something that makes sense rather than just kind of a
Speaker 4: basic translation. But yeah, you know, hard to feel bad
Speaker 4: for corporations, but I do feel bad for all the
Speaker 4: people who worked on these shows and if that is
Speaker 4: impacting them. But now terminated zeros out there. People seem
Speaker 4: to be watching it. We're gonna be talking about it,
Speaker 4: so obviously has not impacted the hype or the release
Speaker 4: that much.
Speaker 1: My friend Zach Tuscani, currently a touring comedian, used to
Speaker 1: do a very similar job doing the subtitles for television
Speaker 1: at a similar company out in the VA and but
Speaker 1: it was mostly just watching a lot of like Judge, Judy.
Speaker 4: Wild, right, it's you got to think about, like everyone
Speaker 4: gets subtitles. We were talking about this the other day
Speaker 4: because you know, comic book localization is also a thing
Speaker 4: where you release comics in different countries, and it's just
Speaker 4: so interesting to think about. For example, you know, in Europe,
Speaker 4: the Scrooge McDuck comics are still some of the biggest
Speaker 4: comics in the world, and they are all translated into
Speaker 4: different languages. So like, whose job is it to localize
Speaker 4: Scrooge McDuck because that is like so specific. But you
Speaker 4: know in like Holland, Scrooge McDuck is selling like hundreds
Speaker 4: of thousands of copies a month, like it it's just
Speaker 4: like wild. But yeah, Judge Judy, Scrooge McDuck, you could
Speaker 4: be localizing these things too if you are bilingual, the
Speaker 4: dreams you could achieve. Oh Baby, next.
Speaker 5: Time Midnight Sun, not Midnight Suns.
Speaker 1: Not Marvels Midnight Son, not Marvels Midnight Suns, but Twilight
Speaker 1: Midnight Sun.
Speaker 4: Baby I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: Has landed at netflick.
Speaker 4: Okay. Twilight Midnight Son is a twenty twenty book that
Speaker 4: Stephanie Meyer wrote. Twilight author Stephanie Meyer released this novel
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty, and it retells Twilight from Edward's perspective. Now,
Speaker 4: this is not to be confused with.
Speaker 1: The book from about returning to her fanfic roots.
Speaker 4: Exactly this, And this is not to be confused with
Speaker 4: the hilarious book that she released like ten years before
Speaker 4: where she just switched the genders of the characters and
Speaker 4: called the male character Beaumont Color. It was just ridiculous,
Speaker 4: or Beaumont the other way around, but it was just
Speaker 4: very silly. No, this is Midnight Sun, which is a
Speaker 4: huge tome and it tells twilight from Edward's perspective. But
Speaker 4: if you were on the internet when this book came
Speaker 4: out in twenty twenty, which obviously also collided with Lockdown,
Speaker 4: you will likely have seen some of the most unhinged
Speaker 4: pages from this book because Edward is an insane, sociopath
Speaker 4: one hundred year old vampire. So one of the most
Speaker 4: famous scenes from this book is that when he first
Speaker 4: sees Bella in the very famous scene that I'm sure
Speaker 4: you've seen memed from the movies where he covers his
Speaker 4: nose and she thinks it's because she smells, but it's
Speaker 4: because she smells delicious. The book has like a ten
Speaker 4: page description of just like him committing a massacre in
Speaker 4: the classroom, of all the people he would kill so
Speaker 4: that he could get to Bella to drink her blood.
Speaker 4: It's absolutely deranged. Stephanie Meyer is a producer, and if
Speaker 4: you've read the annals of the Twilight movies, she was very,
Speaker 4: very controlling over those. But I'm hoping that alongside the
Speaker 4: writer that they have bought on for this, I'm hoping
Speaker 4: that they will be able to have a little bit
Speaker 4: of a of humor added to this because in my mind,
Speaker 4: I think it's going to be like an adult animation
Speaker 4: take that recognizes the outrageousness of the book.
Speaker 1: Now, see, that's the thing, because I'm not sure that
Speaker 1: Stephanie has ever really been plugged into the kind of
Speaker 1: secondary and lasting appeal of her works. You know, in
Speaker 1: the moment they hate, they were hits because they were
Speaker 1: it was a story that people were reading and people
Speaker 1: were excited for. But like the life that it has
Speaker 1: taken on since then, is influenced significantly by an awareness
Speaker 1: of how campy and shlocky and like absolutely bizarre. The
Speaker 1: films in particularly are and Meyer has ever seen particularly
Speaker 1: plugged into the camp side, like the the you know,
Speaker 1: the Rocky Horror Picture show exactly cull to aspect of her,
Speaker 1: the way her material is consumed by her fans.
Speaker 4: Maya is working alongside SHANEI Daily, who will executive produce
Speaker 4: and write the series, and she's worked on Tell Me Lies,
Speaker 4: The Walking Dead, well beyond Raised by Wolves and they
Speaker 4: get down. So I would say she is like a
Speaker 4: YA focus person, but she does have a lot of
Speaker 4: good credit and I'm hoping, like I feel that you
Speaker 4: have to have a sense of humor about this, and Lionsgate,
Speaker 4: you know, are very aware of the meme factor. They've
Speaker 4: started making the three Edward Moon t shirts. They have
Speaker 4: leaned into the meme mobility of it with their hot
Speaker 4: topic products which are now everywhere again like it's two
Speaker 4: thousand and eight, and I'm hoping that Stephanie is more
Speaker 4: aware of that ass then is open to it. I
Speaker 4: will also say I'm hoping that Stephanie has grown as
Speaker 4: a person, because it has become quite notorious that she
Speaker 4: would only allow the Cullens to be cast as white,
Speaker 4: even though Catherine Hardwick wanted to cast different people in
Speaker 4: the roles and stuff, so I'm hoping she's grown from there.
Speaker 4: But yes, I'm absolutely looking forward to this. And if
Speaker 4: you want some fun, just go on like your favorite
Speaker 4: social media of choice x Threads probably even has some
Speaker 4: Tumbler has a lot, and just look up Midnight Sun
Speaker 4: because you will not believe what happens in this book.
Speaker 4: It's absolutely awful and I personally cannot wait to watch it.
Speaker 4: Slash get hired to write on it. Shanaid Daily Netflix
Speaker 4: call me. I know too much about Twilight. I've done
Speaker 4: my time.
Speaker 1: Next up, Banana Nana nanat.
Speaker 5: Netflix has greenlit an animated.
Speaker 1: Ghostbusters series, which is first announced in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: In addition, Elliott Klin, former head writer at The Daily
Speaker 1: Show and a comic book writer in his own right,
Speaker 1: has boarded the project as a writer and EP. This
Speaker 1: is not the first Ghostbusters several Ghostbusters animated projects, including
Speaker 1: one that was only only like, very very slimly connected
Speaker 1: to the very famous Ghostbusters movies of the eighties and
Speaker 1: was very confusing for many children of the.
Speaker 5: Era why it did not resemble the Ghostbusters that they
Speaker 5: had seen in the movie theaters.
Speaker 1: But your thoughts on this new Netflix project.
Speaker 4: I think it's a great idea.
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 4: I think IP being reimagined in different forms is one
Speaker 4: of the most interesting ways to do it. I think
Speaker 4: Ghostbusters has always been apt for a great animated series.
Speaker 4: I think if this leans more into the there's toys
Speaker 4: they could go. I think it would make a great
Speaker 4: kids show, especially as every company is getting back into
Speaker 4: that idea of toyotic shows, like can you have a
Speaker 4: show that has its own toy line? Like one of
Speaker 4: the shows I'm going to talk about today Netflix is
Speaker 4: Camp Cretaceous that basically re invigorated the Jurassic Park toy
Speaker 4: market in shops like Target and stuff. So I think
Speaker 4: there's that version. But if you rewatch the original two
Speaker 4: Ghostbusters movies, which I love dearly as much as they
Speaker 4: have aged, they are very adult. They're this kind of
Speaker 4: interesting mix of like a fantasy comedy but with like
Speaker 4: a you know, an snl edge almost, And I think
Speaker 4: there's an interesting argument for a Ghostbusters show that leans
Speaker 4: into that. I wouldn't want it to go full Rick
Speaker 4: and Morty adult animation, but I do think it would
Speaker 4: be interesting.
Speaker 2: I was saying, I do.
Speaker 4: Think there's something interesting there, so it would be cool
Speaker 4: to see. I mean, Elliott Kaitlin has that duality because
Speaker 4: he did Daily Show, which is obviously like an adult
Speaker 4: political humor show, but he also wrote like Disney Villain's comics.
Speaker 4: So I feel that it could go either way. I
Speaker 4: would like to see it. I love ghosts. I love
Speaker 4: seeing a beautifully drawn animated creature. It's one of the
Speaker 4: joys of animation is you can make scary things look cool.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I think it will be fun. Will any
Speaker 4: of these shows come out? Who knows, It's impossible to know.
Speaker 4: When you talk about an announcement, You're like, will it
Speaker 4: come out? Well, that's Whylight show ever come out? I
Speaker 4: don't know, but I sure hope so, because the discourse
Speaker 4: will be deranged.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. Coming up next, we're welcoming our round table and
Speaker 1: stepping out of the airlock to talk about Netflix animation.
Speaker 1: Bring them out. We're so delighted to be joined Rosie
Speaker 1: and I by producers Carmen and Jill Wells. Talk about
Speaker 1: some of the stuff that we are watching currently on
Speaker 1: Netflix in the animated space. Anybody want to start. I've
Speaker 1: been reaching. I've been watching Terminator zero, the recently leaked
Speaker 1: Terminator zero I'm about halfway you have to start.
Speaker 4: Yeah, biggest current animation hit for Netflix. Also very unique
Speaker 4: in that they went to a Japanese anime studio, Project IG,
Speaker 4: that had actually made you know, ghost in the Shell,
Speaker 4: like a lot of stuff, and then brought on an
Speaker 4: American writer, Matson Tomlin, who is a comic book writer
Speaker 4: who also reat Project Power for Netflix, who I think
Speaker 4: had some involvement in early drafts of The Batman. So
Speaker 4: it's a very unique project and I do feel like
Speaker 4: it presents something we haven't yet seen in the Terminator space.
Speaker 1: So here's the setup. The year is nineteen ninety seven, Uh,
Speaker 1: one of the great years in nineties history. Malcolm Lee
Speaker 1: is developing an AI named Cokeo, who he just keeps
Speaker 1: arguing with who is it? It's basically, WelCom you take
Speaker 1: some space from Cokeroo. Anyway, I'll get to that in
Speaker 1: a second. Uh. Who is who? He wants to create
Speaker 1: because he understands that, like, uh, there's this sky Net
Speaker 1: project happening in the States and they want to create
Speaker 1: something that will compete with that.
Speaker 5: And he begins wondering, hey, is this a good idea?
Speaker 1: For various reasons, including the fact that there are currently
Speaker 1: active Terminators uh plying the streets of Japan looking for
Speaker 1: him and his family in order to fucking wipe him out.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about it. I think this is I think
Speaker 1: the term as I texted to Rosie when I told
Speaker 1: her I was watching it. I love the Terminator ring,
Speaker 1: particularly early on. The Terminator ing is so pretty and
Speaker 1: fucking dark and great Malcolm arguing with Corcoro all the time.
Speaker 1: I could take her leave, But that does kind of
Speaker 1: it does the shifting and does become something that really
Speaker 1: drives the drama and just and the action as you
Speaker 1: get into the midpoint of the series where I am currently,
Speaker 1: it's great. It's a really easy watch and the cold
Speaker 1: open is like grabs you by the neck.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Who anybody else watching this? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 6: My brother put it on as like background and it
Speaker 6: made me put my phone down, which is astounding.
Speaker 2: I was like, what is happening?
Speaker 6: It was giving me almost and like cerebral and sort
Speaker 6: of in animation.
Speaker 2: Style, like perfect blue vibes, where.
Speaker 6: These they do these super high angles at times and
Speaker 6: its face like kind of cocks of the side. We're like,
Speaker 6: this is the most evil Terminator's truly terrifying in the
Speaker 6: if you're watching the English version, the cast is astounding.
Speaker 6: So Timothy Oliphant plays the Terminator.
Speaker 2: Which sweet baby Timothy face.
Speaker 1: He's so good it is face behind animation.
Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm like, let's do the live action Timothy
Speaker 4: Oliphant Terminator because that sounds great. I'm like, let's.
Speaker 6: Stay hell yeah, and Co was placed by Razzario Dawson,
Speaker 6: who's then arguing with Malcolm Lee, who is Andre Holland.
Speaker 2: So you too liked incredibly talented the actors doing these fights.
Speaker 6: So though they can sometimes be tedious, if you're like this,
Speaker 6: I'm a huge anime hast. I like when an anime
Speaker 6: is like here, here's a slice of life. Here's a
Speaker 6: very long conversation that you're not quite sure what it means,
Speaker 6: but by the end you'll be like, I understand the
Speaker 6: philosophical concepts we were setting up in this conversation. I
Speaker 6: saw sixteen hours ago. It's really it's a fun show.
Speaker 6: And what I was really impressed by was.
Speaker 2: The action sequences. The fights are fun as hell to watch.
Speaker 4: Yeah, common you are the only one who's like, finished it, right.
Speaker 3: Yes, I actually I finished it last night. I you know,
Speaker 3: my boyfriend and I were on the sofa together and
Speaker 3: there was one more episode to go. It was like
Speaker 3: eleven o'clock and I was like, let's just fucking do it.
Speaker 4: I got it.
Speaker 3: I got to see how the shit ends exactly, because yeah,
Speaker 3: it really it does really continue to ratchet up like
Speaker 3: the you know, it starts out really slow, but then
Speaker 3: you start to see where it's like going and you
Speaker 3: get really excited to just keep watching. I did not watch.
Speaker 3: I am a little bit of a sub only nerd,
Speaker 3: so I watched the Japanese. I had no idea that
Speaker 3: that that we had a star senate American cast for
Speaker 3: the for the English. But I loved voice acting. I
Speaker 3: loved the animation and what I to echo kind of
Speaker 3: what Joel said about the action. And also Perfect Blue,
Speaker 3: which is like my favorite anime movie of all time.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: The me Saki character, which is another robot, really brings
Speaker 3: a fun She's not a terminator and she's not run
Speaker 3: by Skyna and she's not run by Cocoro. She is
Speaker 3: like her own robot with her own free will, but
Speaker 3: she brings like this. Her action scenes are like she's
Speaker 3: doing ballet.
Speaker 2: It's like absolutely.
Speaker 3: Very beautiful to watch.
Speaker 6: She's gonna ask the panel as Terminator fans, if you
Speaker 6: guys are Terminators had like a rough go of it
Speaker 6: the past two films. Yeah, yeah, I'm so sorry. I
Speaker 6: apologies to all of you to movies that were really
Speaker 6: a struggle.
Speaker 2: This show is excellent.
Speaker 6: How do you feel it places within the lore and
Speaker 6: what do you think it means for the future of
Speaker 6: the franchise.
Speaker 4: So I I do think that it is really good
Speaker 4: if you like Terminator. I also was lucky enough to
Speaker 4: I saw it at Netflix on like their screening room
Speaker 4: is like a crazy led screen, and the first time
Speaker 4: I watched it, I didn't have any subtitles. It was
Speaker 4: all in Japanese, and I felt like it captured you instantly.
Speaker 4: It was before I was in a whole mass and
Speaker 4: I still felt like it was just so engaging visually
Speaker 4: so beautiful. So what I will say is, I think
Speaker 4: the reason it's so good is because of the story
Speaker 4: Mattson decided to tell. Because when Netflix approached him, they said, oh,
Speaker 4: we want it because we're doing it with a Japanese
Speaker 4: studio that has to be at least like one Japanese character.
Speaker 4: And Matson was like, well, why don't we just set
Speaker 4: it in Japan? And I think the idea that is
Speaker 4: so appealing and that also broadens the world of Terminator
Speaker 4: is what does Judgment Day look like in different places?
Speaker 4: And I think that is really interesting and I think
Speaker 4: that could essentially become an anthology series throughout the world.
Speaker 4: What does Judgment Day look like here? What different countries
Speaker 4: were trying to make their own versions of Skynet or
Speaker 4: their versions to stop Skynett. That is an infinitely interesting
Speaker 4: thing that the American films have not really looked into
Speaker 4: outside of how does it impact this kind of western
Speaker 4: border state? And I do love I love the first
Speaker 4: two Terminator movies. I feel like this is more akin
Speaker 4: to Terminator Too, simply because of the family aspects, though
Speaker 4: it does not have as much of the ya kind
Speaker 4: of kids crossover that Terminator Too had because of John
Speaker 4: Connor and that incredible Edward Furlong performance. This is a
Speaker 4: little bit more dry, a little bit more serious, but
Speaker 4: also interestingly, one of the things that Mattson mentioned was
Speaker 4: that his biggest takeaway from the first Terminator movies that
Speaker 4: really impacted him was the fact that Terminator is really
Speaker 4: just this like romance story about like Kyle Reese, like
Speaker 4: looking at his photo of Sarah Connor being in love
Speaker 4: with her before he's even met her, And that's really
Speaker 4: the whole horror friend.
Speaker 1: Mom exactly like.
Speaker 7: And like and I think that I think that human
Speaker 7: har that kind of like beating funny, like weird in
Speaker 7: the intimate moments.
Speaker 4: That made the thing about the first term in a movie,
Speaker 4: a movie I watched so much is like, don done.
Speaker 4: How scary is it? Right? It's just people like it's
Speaker 4: just a guy like calling you being like, are you
Speaker 4: Sarah Connor? Like that kind of scary, intimate horror. This
Speaker 4: show does those small things well as well as doing
Speaker 4: the big things. Well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, when the show Terminator zero, it does
Speaker 1: start out really slow, and I was kind of annoyed,
Speaker 1: though they give you enough each episode that you're like, I,
Speaker 1: of course I'm gonna keep going, right, But it builds
Speaker 1: to a point that there's a not to spoil it
Speaker 1: too much, but there's a scene in which the resistant
Speaker 1: soldier Cho swings into action to protect Malcolm's kids, and
Speaker 1: it really made me think of the first true terminum movies,
Speaker 1: which are excellent because the terminating movies for me, they
Speaker 1: make you think about your own body. You know, you're
Speaker 1: fighting this thing that's like it can't be stopped. It's incessant.
Speaker 1: It looks like you, but it's not. It's indestructible, or
Speaker 1: when you damage it, it doesn't care half its face
Speaker 1: hanging off, and you think about what it would take
Speaker 1: to fight something like this. And there's a moment where
Speaker 1: I was just like giving up her body to let
Speaker 1: these kids escape.
Speaker 6: Or to.
Speaker 1: Give them a moment to help her defeat this thing,
Speaker 1: and it is it just so it was so resonant
Speaker 1: for me, Like she's just getting the shit beat out
Speaker 1: of her so that she can buy the kids like
Speaker 1: five seconds so they can defeat this thing. And that,
Speaker 1: to me is the essence of a Terminator story, like
Speaker 1: can you can you double down on your humanity and
Speaker 1: can you sacrifice it your own body in order to
Speaker 1: protect humanity like as a whole, as a species, And
Speaker 1: it was really resonant. I'll just say. Also as a
Speaker 1: fan of Terminator offerings, I thought Terminator Dark Fate was
Speaker 1: really good. Like if we lived, if we were back
Speaker 1: in the pre streaming blockbuster days, this would be a
Speaker 1: Friday night rental movie or that you'd be like that.
Speaker 5: Was that was good?
Speaker 1: I didn't go to see it in the theater. I'm
Speaker 1: glad I didn't go to see it in the theater.
Speaker 1: But you know what, like on a Friday night, this
Speaker 1: is a fun movie. Or it'd be a movie that
Speaker 1: you would see fifty times a month on Basic cable. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: like Stars, Yeah, on Stars or something or tea.
Speaker 5: Yes, that you'd be like, you know what.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna lock in. I'm gonna lie. I came in
Speaker 1: the middle of this movie. I'm gonna lock it. I
Speaker 1: think the action is like really really cool and inventive
Speaker 1: and hyper violent in a way that is stylistically unique
Speaker 1: for the Terminator franchise.
Speaker 4: Also fantastic cost an.
Speaker 1: Awesome cast, including fucking Arnold back in action, and and
Speaker 1: a really cool setup in which the resistance hero that
Speaker 1: is sent back has been augmented in order to like
Speaker 1: physically fight the Terminator. Cool action scenes. You know, it
Speaker 1: takes place in Mexico, like diverse cast. It's just the Yeah,
Speaker 1: it looks it's just a I think I thought it
Speaker 1: was a cool movie. And like Fog Guy, which The
Speaker 1: Fog Guy, which I recently watched because it's now free
Speaker 1: on Peacock. There's this whole slew of movies, like a
Speaker 1: tier of movies that releasing the theaters. You hate it.
Speaker 1: But if we were back in the days where you
Speaker 1: just rented it from Red Box or Blockbuster or whatever
Speaker 1: on a Thursday, Friday, Saturday night, you'd be like, that
Speaker 1: was fun. I enjoyed that. Yeah, So Mander Darkfraight is
Speaker 1: that kind of movie, and Terminator Zero is akin to it.
Speaker 4: It's yeah. I think you make a great point, and
Speaker 4: I do think this is something that we have lost
Speaker 4: via streaming, not just as a literal stream of income
Speaker 4: for actors, because Matt Damon's talked about this quite a lot,
Speaker 4: how a lot of home video royalties would be how
Speaker 4: you made money on like a small indie drama that
Speaker 4: didn't make money but one awards, but also movies like
Speaker 4: and we're going to talk about the cartoon of this,
Speaker 4: but like Scott Pilgrim, that movie did not do well
Speaker 4: in the cinema, but it found its audience on home video.
Speaker 4: It became a perennial rental, a perennial purchase. It became
Speaker 4: a huge court hit in its own right, to the
Speaker 4: point where now we're getting this unbelievable anime adaptation of it,
Speaker 4: then even going old as something like True Romance, which
Speaker 4: is like you know, Tony Scott Quentin Tarantino script, in
Speaker 4: my opinion, his best work, and that movie is now
Speaker 4: seen as one of the greatest kind of Hollywood Roman
Speaker 4: answers of all time. Failed in the cinema, made a
Speaker 4: ton of money on home video, and I do think
Speaker 4: that you're right. I feel like The Fall Guy, which
Speaker 4: I really love and is like it's got like it's
Speaker 4: not a five out of five movie because there's a
Speaker 4: couple of things, but.
Speaker 1: It's like a it's like a three point two out
Speaker 1: of five, but.
Speaker 4: When the stunts are good, it's a five out of
Speaker 4: five movie, and the stunts are incredible. That's the kind
Speaker 4: of movie where if you had it on a VHS tape,
Speaker 4: you would be like rewinding just to watch the stunts,
Speaker 4: Like you would be watching the cannon roll the eight time,
Speaker 4: which by the way, won a world record just accidentally
Speaker 4: while doing it. But the cannon roll they do with
Speaker 4: the car, Like, there's just so many cool stunts. I
Speaker 4: think you're so right. There's that feeling of like you'd
Speaker 4: be rewinding back to watch the best parts, and you'd
Speaker 4: be like, oh, you know what, I could I'm a blockbuster.
Speaker 4: I could get something new. But wouldn't it be sick
Speaker 4: to just have that same feeling of watching something great.
Speaker 4: We definitely have lost something in that, and streaming can
Speaker 4: replicate it to a point, but it's not the same.
Speaker 1: What are you watching, Rosie on them?
Speaker 4: I I will see you as we just brought up
Speaker 4: I will bring up Scott Pilgrim. We do have a
Speaker 4: whole episode coming up, so if you want to hear
Speaker 4: me and Jason talk about it more extensively, please join
Speaker 4: us there and make sure to check it out. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I love this show. I think it's amazing. I think
Speaker 4: it's already been winning some awards. I think it's going
Speaker 4: to keep winning awards. It's so gorgeously animated. Again, they
Speaker 4: went to an actual animation studio that was already established
Speaker 4: to make this, and it's Brian Lee, O'Malley, it's Ben
Speaker 4: David Grivinsky. And it is a show that's like utterly
Speaker 4: in conversation with the last twenty years of fandom and
Speaker 4: in a way that I think is very interesting and
Speaker 4: also challenging. It's almost like an anti fan service show.
Speaker 4: But I am a fan and I loved it, and
Speaker 4: I just think it's some of there's a it's funny
Speaker 4: because it does have this deep, existential, brilliant writing kind
Speaker 4: of the idea of the death of the author and
Speaker 4: all this the death of you know, your favorite characters
Speaker 4: and stuff. But it also just has like a sick
Speaker 4: five minute Lucas Lee's skateboarding scene, Like that's what's good
Speaker 4: about it. It's like it's not like you can just
Speaker 4: watch it and be like, oh, this looks sick. And
Speaker 4: if you've never read or watched Scott Pilgrim, you will
Speaker 4: also probably really enjoy it. But if you have read
Speaker 4: or watched the film or read the original series, it
Speaker 4: is like so shocking at the end of the first episode,
Speaker 4: the choices they decide to make, and I just think
Speaker 4: it's something that has made the story as a whole
Speaker 4: and the franchise, if you can call it that, just
Speaker 4: so much stronger. Like I will tell everyone just watch
Speaker 4: that shows. And it's just also really cool and has
Speaker 4: like cool music and feels cool.
Speaker 1: Joelle, what are you watching?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I recently rewatched season one of Arcane because it's delicious.
Speaker 6: It's so good I love drama. I love all of
Speaker 6: the cosplay inspiration rampant.
Speaker 2: Throughout the series. I just realized, maybe.
Speaker 6: Stupid Lee that Elo Pernell plays Powder, and I was like,
Speaker 6: is this girl just gonna be everywhere and great all
Speaker 6: the time?
Speaker 2: Like, how is this happening? I love this series?
Speaker 1: Yeah, are you a League person?
Speaker 2: Not at all, not even a little bit right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the character, But you know what I was always
Speaker 6: an appreciator of. I actually used to work in the
Speaker 6: building where they shoot the competitions in Bourbank. I was like,
Speaker 6: always like really like, I love seeing the character pictures
Speaker 6: go up and the designs, and I was like, man,
Speaker 6: this looks great. That's a game I should get into
Speaker 6: when while I have the time more funds to develop
Speaker 6: a new hobby, I don't know. When the show came out,
Speaker 6: I was like, oh, maybe this will be an accessible
Speaker 6: way to enter this space. And game players were like,
Speaker 6: it's really not at all like this kind of but
Speaker 6: not really, Like the storyline is a completely different level,
Speaker 6: but we also love it. And I think the ability
Speaker 6: to navigate both a very aggressive fandom and bring in
Speaker 6: people who could care less about the video game and
Speaker 6: satisfy both parties.
Speaker 1: They really crack insurmountable.
Speaker 2: Challenge and they nailed it. Yeah, Yeah, I loved it.
Speaker 6: I can't wait for season two. We're gonna do a
Speaker 6: whole episode on season two and looking ahead and predictions,
Speaker 6: and we'll probably do a recap of season one.
Speaker 2: We won't talk about it too much.
Speaker 6: But man, I think our Kane was really impressive to
Speaker 6: me because it's the first sort of.
Speaker 2: In between ages space. Like they had a lot of
Speaker 2: success with.
Speaker 6: Katra and who thing about Sira, right, Shira? Yes, yes,
Speaker 6: so they had a ton of like all age success
Speaker 6: with like okay Shira, they love it. We got the
Speaker 6: powerful girls here. They've had a lot of success with
Speaker 6: like your BoJack Horsemen's. But this is a show, Like
Speaker 6: I mean, if you're you feel your the children in
Speaker 6: your life are mature enough, you could introduce them to
Speaker 6: this at TWN and it's accessible to them. But I
Speaker 6: also showed it to my mother and she was like this,
Speaker 6: this happened. It hits for everybody, and I think that's
Speaker 6: so rare.
Speaker 1: Now I think, like like BoJack is a kind of
Speaker 1: hinge point show for Netflix. Oh h huge hit in
Speaker 1: multiple countries, number, completely.
Speaker 4: Different style of animation. Two that we hadn't seen before.
Speaker 1: That's right, And to your point, Joelle did the thing
Speaker 1: that I think every game studio is hoping to do
Speaker 1: when they have one of their properties adapted, which is
Speaker 1: satisfy the fans of the franchise that know all about
Speaker 1: all these different characters and have been playing the game
Speaker 1: for years and bring in a bunch of people who
Speaker 1: have no idea what the first is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I have seen the first I know. I have
Speaker 4: seen the first episode of season two, not illegally. Not illegally,
Speaker 4: I go to watch it at Netflix on the same
Speaker 4: day when I watched the first episode of Terminator zero
Speaker 4: and the first episode of Twilight of the Gods and
Speaker 4: the first episode of Tourmraiatea the Legend of Laura Croft.
Speaker 2: She's blessed.
Speaker 4: I was very blessed. I was very lucky me and
Speaker 4: Nick got to go in there and watch them together.
Speaker 4: But the first episode of Ourcane season two is unbelievable,
Speaker 4: and it keeps up everything that you want it to
Speaker 4: keep up. So if you're excited, be excited. It's unreal.
Speaker 4: It was so great to see it on a big screen.
Speaker 4: I think we've been seeing in La recently a lot
Speaker 4: of They've been doing full season screenings to FYC. They
Speaker 4: just did a full season screening of X Men ninety
Speaker 4: seven The Arrow, which people absolutely loved. We've been seeing
Speaker 4: some live action ones too. I would love to see
Speaker 4: Netflix team up with a rep cinema like that and
Speaker 4: do an arcane full marathon of the first season because
Speaker 4: I think, Netflix, yeah, if you want us to it,
Speaker 4: we can host it. I mean, get Joe, We'll We'll
Speaker 4: do it. We'll host it. Like yes, I think that
Speaker 4: seeing it on the big screen just it just cemented
Speaker 4: to me how fantastic that animation is. Like, the storytelling's brilliant,
Speaker 4: the music, drops are still there, everything you still want.
Speaker 4: But to see that animation on a screen like that
Speaker 4: and just it is truly I feel like it's groundbreaking.
Speaker 4: When it first came out, me and Jason and Zig
Speaker 4: were talking a lot about how it felt like Spider
Speaker 4: Verse level, Like it really does feel like you're seeing
Speaker 4: a different vision for what animation could be. And yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm I'm really excited for everyone to see season two.
Speaker 1: Carmen, what are you watching?
Speaker 3: I want to talk about Sailor Moon Cosmos and I
Speaker 3: do have a silly word after if we have time.
Speaker 3: I have another silly recommendation that I don't have as
Speaker 3: much to say about too, but Sailor Moon Cosmos just
Speaker 3: came out recently on Netflix and it has been absolutely amazing.
Speaker 3: It's a two part basically, it's basically two movies. It's
Speaker 3: like three hours of total if you were to watch
Speaker 3: the whole thing, and this is the final arc of
Speaker 3: the Sailor Moon story essentially. It was never aired originally
Speaker 3: in the US, which is because of the trans themes
Speaker 3: that are kind of in the season. The US was like,
Speaker 3: we're not doing that in the nineties, so they said.
Speaker 4: They were we can't just say their cousins, which is
Speaker 4: what they used to do about the lesbians.
Speaker 3: Of course, right, yes, they used to do that about
Speaker 3: the lesbians, but now we have literal boys transforming into
Speaker 3: girls through a magical girl transformation, and there's no way
Speaker 3: you can turn that into something more conservative. So it
Speaker 3: never aired in the US, and I'm really glad to
Speaker 3: see that this has gotten the same treatment as Sailormon Crystal,
Speaker 3: which I know some people didn't like Salomon Crystal. Personally,
Speaker 3: I loved Sailorman Crystal.
Speaker 4: Because I really stuck.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's stuck to the original manga storyline. If you've
Speaker 3: read the manga, it's literally the only manga I've ever read,
Speaker 3: so I know that that's like exactly like the story
Speaker 3: follows it to a tea, and it really pays homage
Speaker 3: to Naoko Takuci's original art style, and she is one
Speaker 3: of the most amazing artists and makes these beautiful, like
Speaker 3: fashion drawings. Everything she draws is like inspired by fashion
Speaker 3: magazines and like all of this stuff. So Sailorman Cosmos
Speaker 3: is really fun because it's also the first season where
Speaker 3: we don't have Tuxedo Mask or Mamaru. He has gone
Speaker 3: to the US for college, and so now when the
Speaker 3: girls are in trouble, they have the Sailor Stars come
Speaker 3: in and kind of save the day for them, which
Speaker 3: is very fun. So it has this whole kind of
Speaker 3: like ury kind of like vibe to it because of
Speaker 3: the girls are all in love with these boys that
Speaker 3: actually are turn out to be girls, So it has
Speaker 3: this whole like kind of vibe to it that's really fun.
Speaker 3: And basically they have to fight off all of the
Speaker 3: Sailor Scouts have to do their final fight and protect
Speaker 3: their crystals from being stolen by Sailor Galaxia, and she
Speaker 3: has all these amazing hinchmen that they have to fight off.
Speaker 3: It's very kind of like formulaic in that same style
Speaker 3: of like we're going to go through all these henchmen
Speaker 3: and then you've got the final boss fight with Sailor Galaxia.
Speaker 4: I I wrote an article about it IGN because I
Speaker 4: actually felt like it was I felt like it was
Speaker 4: quite profound, not only because the trans stuff is just done.
Speaker 4: They're like, here's a sexy boy group and then they
Speaker 4: transform into the sexiest, sluttiest Sailor Scout outfits you've ever seen.
Speaker 1: Yes, they look like.
Speaker 4: The outfits were causing quite a stir at San Diego
Speaker 4: Comic Con because they had a big poster of them
Speaker 4: and everyone was like, wait a minute, who are these
Speaker 4: like Sailor Scouts in their underwear? But the thing that
Speaker 4: I thought was really cool about it is it it
Speaker 4: decides that it's gonna try and answer the ultimate superhero question, right,
Speaker 4: which is like who came first Batman or the Joker?
Speaker 4: Like does the Joker exist without Batman? Does Batman exist
Speaker 4: without the Joker? That kind of question, And it gives
Speaker 4: this definitive answer, which is basically like, yes, if you
Speaker 4: are a superhero and you keep showing up and doing
Speaker 4: your magical girl transformation and being like I want to
Speaker 4: save the world, then people are gonna come and try
Speaker 4: and stop you. And that and Sailor, you know, Ysagi,
Speaker 4: Sala Moon, she has to make this decision to essentially
Speaker 4: not fight anymore and to give up, you know, her
Speaker 4: her place as Sala Moon, to allow the Cosmos to
Speaker 4: come into you know, peace and harmony. And I found
Speaker 4: it very profound, and I like anything where it's like,
Speaker 4: let's choose love over fighting. And also if you I
Speaker 4: would say that if you do, like if you do
Speaker 4: like Tuxedo Mask, which like who are you? I don't
Speaker 4: think anyone fights, but I will say do stay for
Speaker 4: the ending, because you do get some You do get
Speaker 4: some like Sailor Moon, black Mark, Tuxedo Mask, Mamory like
Speaker 4: what happens in the future. But yeah, oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's really really good. It's like delightful and I think
Speaker 4: you yeah, I just think ten out of ten. It
Speaker 4: is what as we would say old people would say,
Speaker 4: it's an OVA and original video animation, So you're really
Speaker 4: getting that. This feels like the kind of thing that
Speaker 4: you would go to Blockbuster, you would rent it, and
Speaker 4: you'd think you'd rent it all of it, but you
Speaker 4: only rented the first half, and then you'd be like
Speaker 4: super piste off and you'd go back in the second half,
Speaker 4: where where's the But yeah, Also, the animation of all
Speaker 4: of these, from Crystal Yes to Cosmos is like unbelievable. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm so glad you brought this up common thank you
Speaker 4: me too.
Speaker 6: I was gonna say, I I have like such a
Speaker 6: sailor moon was so vibes for me until I went
Speaker 6: to summer camp. I was one of the kids who
Speaker 6: was like always like hanging out with the camp counselors,
Speaker 6: like I don't know, I can relate, Yeah, what's happening
Speaker 6: over here. And so one of my camp counselors was
Speaker 6: this dude I don't remember his name, sorry, bro. He
Speaker 6: had like ginger hair and he had a sailor moon
Speaker 6: chair on and.
Speaker 2: In my.
Speaker 6: Youthful days when I was not as educated as I
Speaker 6: was like, sailor moon is for girls, and he turned
Speaker 6: around he was like, Sailor Moon is for everybody. And
Speaker 6: I always had my I always had my teen.
Speaker 2: Vogues with me.
Speaker 6: He was like you know, the artists like really into fashion.
Speaker 6: And I was like, like, do you like the outfits?
Speaker 6: And he was like he was pointing out. He was like,
Speaker 6: so like this is the dressers from I was like,
Speaker 6: oh my gosh, is the teaching me all about Sailor Moon?
Speaker 6: And ever since then, every time I checked out of
Speaker 6: Sailor Moo, I'm like, let's go with these costumes in
Speaker 6: the fashion and the fact that she was copying looks
Speaker 6: out of.
Speaker 2: Her character.
Speaker 4: She was directly put them in. It was great.
Speaker 6: What I assume is an engagement ring, maybe a promised
Speaker 6: ring in the series that is so Warders. I was like,
Speaker 6: commission it immediately. It's like heart's covered in pearls.
Speaker 2: It's that god in't.
Speaker 4: I was in like to oh to Luca Lake because
Speaker 4: I'd been at one of the studios. I'd been at
Speaker 4: Warner Brothers and uh, and I literally went into like
Speaker 4: a boutique because they have all these crazy like boutiques
Speaker 4: where you can always find weird old granny clothes that
Speaker 4: look cool. And they had a ring that looked so
Speaker 4: much like Glinn a ring from this series that I
Speaker 4: just boy it. It was like five dollars and like
Speaker 4: and it's like I've got a big poll and it's
Speaker 4: got all the little diamonds around it. But yes, I
Speaker 4: feel you deeply.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just that absolutely to see.
Speaker 4: And actually some of our Discord members were like talking
Speaker 4: about whether they should watch it or not, so I've
Speaker 4: been in there selling it. So yeah, I would just say,
Speaker 4: even if you've never actually watched any other sale Moon,
Speaker 4: watch this. Also, you'll say, if you want to watch
Speaker 4: all of Salo Moon, it is on Hulu, so you
Speaker 4: can watch all the original Salo Moon on Hulu, which
Speaker 4: is definitely one of my most rewatched animations.
Speaker 2: Dubbed or some all that.
Speaker 3: Yes, I was just gonna say with Naoko tech Cheese,
Speaker 3: like all right, it's like, if you like the way
Speaker 3: it looks, you're gonna like the because everything is really
Speaker 3: just about like the aesthetic and the vibe and all
Speaker 3: of that, and of course the sor is great and fun,
Speaker 3: but it's really just like I'm there for the for
Speaker 3: the vibes, you know.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Rosie, you wanted to talk about Jurassic Park
Speaker 1: Camp Cretaceous.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, I just want to say I think
Speaker 4: this show is absolutely delightful. I would say, I think
Speaker 4: this is another touch point show for Netflix because it's
Speaker 4: actually been running for such a long time. It was
Speaker 4: a collaboration with DreamWorks, which has obviously gone on to
Speaker 4: be very successful for them. They have Boss Baby, they
Speaker 4: have different animated shows. Camp Cretaceous is set in It's
Speaker 4: set at the same time and in the lead up
Speaker 4: to the first events of the Jurassic World movie. If
Speaker 4: you don't like those movies, if you haven't watched those movies,
Speaker 4: if you don't like Chris Pratt, that's fine. He's not
Speaker 4: involved kids. It's like some kids and they are on
Speaker 4: the island at a summer camp for teens who love dinosaurs, right,
Speaker 4: And there's kids who are there because their families are rich.
Speaker 4: There's kids who are there but because they're influencers. There's
Speaker 4: kids who are there just because they love dinosaurs. And
Speaker 4: then of course, low and behold, it's Strassic Park story.
Speaker 4: They should never have had a kid summer camp there.
Speaker 4: The park falls apart, and the kids missed the last
Speaker 4: boat off the island, so they're just left on island
Speaker 4: ubler and there is no joke, no adults, and it's
Speaker 4: so fun and no joke. There is like a moment
Speaker 4: in the first season where I literally had to pause
Speaker 4: it because it was so suspenseful and fantastic, where the
Speaker 4: kids are kayaking and they're like finally, like we're gonna
Speaker 4: get away, and they pull out and you realize that
Speaker 4: they're in the Mossasaurus kind of pen and you see
Speaker 4: the shadow closure. Yeah, And they do a really really
Speaker 4: good job of doing stuff like that. And the show
Speaker 4: has now been on for so long that the characters
Speaker 4: you've grown up with them. There's great representation with these characters.
Speaker 4: It's a brilliant cast. There's a fantastic queer romance at
Speaker 4: the heart of the show. It has a lot of suspense,
Speaker 4: a lot of high stakes. And now they actually have
Speaker 4: a show called Chaos Theory that is set five years
Speaker 4: after the end of the show, where the kids are
Speaker 4: more like young adults and kind of looking at that space.
Speaker 2: This show grows with its eyes.
Speaker 4: I just look. I think this is kind of like
Speaker 4: a Star Wars Rebels situation where if you are of
Speaker 4: our age and you watch something, you might be like, oh,
Speaker 4: I'm not sure if I like this CG animation, Like
Speaker 4: what does this look like? Do I like the character designs?
Speaker 4: I would just say pushed through like, this is legit
Speaker 4: some of the best, most criton esque Jurassic Park storytelling
Speaker 4: that we've had for a really long time. And I
Speaker 4: do just think, like I rewatch some of these episodes
Speaker 4: and they're scary, they're spooky. The last season before Chaos
Speaker 4: Theory is like an insanely high concept sci fi story,
Speaker 4: and I really think it's like keeping the passion and
Speaker 4: power of Racic Park alive. Even when look, I like
Speaker 4: every Jurassic World movie, I'm a sucker for a dinosaur.
Speaker 4: I decided I can't. I'm sorry, it's it's just my
Speaker 4: it's my my vice is like bad dinosaur movies. But
Speaker 4: this show is actually keeping the quality of the Jurassic
Speaker 4: Park slash World franchise alive. And I think it is
Speaker 4: so incredible that it's been on for like five or
Speaker 4: six years, because also we know shows don't last that
Speaker 4: long a Netflix, So to me, I just I just
Speaker 4: think it and it's such a great binge watch, Like
Speaker 4: if you want to watch something it's yeah, I'm a
Speaker 4: huge fan. That's a that's a big one for me
Speaker 4: in the that could also I think fly under the
Speaker 4: radar for a lot of genre fans for a lot
Speaker 4: of adults. But it really is just so good. And
Speaker 4: if you like Jurassic Park, it's also like full of
Speaker 4: you know, the world building, the space that it's setting.
Speaker 4: You could say it's full of Easter eggs, but I
Speaker 4: think it's more like it's just so immersively in that
Speaker 4: world that you will enjoy discovering those things. Is there
Speaker 4: anything else you've been enjoying on Netflix?
Speaker 1: From the animations here, I've been I have in my
Speaker 1: up necks and have for a long time. The Castlevania show.
Speaker 6: Yes, what is it called, the newest one?
Speaker 1: Yeah, whatever it's called, because I like horror Ship and
Speaker 1: I was as a child, was a huge fan of Castlevania,
Speaker 1: the video games. Something hot vampires that yeah, vampires.
Speaker 4: That's like one of the funniest names of all time.
Speaker 4: It's it makes me so happy.
Speaker 1: Well, you know what else makes me happy? It makes
Speaker 1: us happy.
Speaker 5: Here is paying the bills, come.
Speaker 1: Back after a message boom from our smalls, And now
Speaker 1: we're going to give you our sixty second Netflix animation recommendations. Carmen,
Speaker 1: let's start with you.
Speaker 3: My quick wreck for y'all is it's a silly one,
Speaker 3: but through my rome, I want everyone to watch it. It
Speaker 3: is such a fun just kind of you can just
Speaker 3: like put it on and not worry about it. But
Speaker 3: it's about a guy in ancient Greece or ancient Rome, whichever,
Speaker 3: ancient Rome, and he gets into the bathtub and is
Speaker 3: teleported to modern day on sen culture Japan. So he
Speaker 3: goes back to Rome with his what he learned from
Speaker 3: modern day Japan's baiting culture and like adapts those into
Speaker 3: the Roman bathhouses. It's very ful, yes, And each episode
Speaker 3: ends with the actual writer herself and the woman who
Speaker 3: made the manga, she visits an onsen, an actual onsen
Speaker 3: in Japan. So it's a little bit of like a
Speaker 3: horror cultural Yeah, it's a little bit of that. It's
Speaker 3: just silly bath house anime.
Speaker 4: I will also say if we're doing quick ones, and
Speaker 4: I will say I do think that Netflix's anime selection
Speaker 4: is really incredible. And they have a show called Kataro
Speaker 4: Lives Alone. There is legit one of the most heartbreaking,
Speaker 4: fantastic dramatic shows I've watched in years. It's about and
Speaker 4: the setup is silly, right, kind of like what you
Speaker 4: said with yours comment is like the setup is about
Speaker 4: a four year old kid who lives by himself, and
Speaker 4: he moves into this building like an apartment building, and
Speaker 4: then it's kind of about how like the cranky guy
Speaker 4: and the woman who works at the maid Cafe and
Speaker 4: all this stuff, they kind of have to come together
Speaker 4: to help this little kid, but they what could just
Speaker 4: be a silly setup, they actually used to explore, like
Speaker 4: why would a kid live by themselves? And what is
Speaker 4: it like to kind of try and make your way
Speaker 4: in the world when your parents are not good parents?
Speaker 4: And it is so good, Like that's one of those
Speaker 4: shows where I watched that, and I watched Ranking of Kings,
Speaker 4: which is on crunchy roll and is also amazing at
Speaker 4: the same time, and I was just like, Wow, I
Speaker 4: love my small anime sons, like I would die for them.
Speaker 4: But yeah, Katara Lives Alone is so good. And I
Speaker 4: think Netflix really went out of their way to get
Speaker 4: more interesting, eclectic anime offerings, and that's definitely one of them.
Speaker 1: Here, I'll do a sixty second one. Scavenger's Rain recently
Speaker 1: on recently on HBO Max, now streaming on Netflix. It
Speaker 1: is a sci fi animated series about a group of
Speaker 1: survivors of a ship who are stranded on an alien
Speaker 1: planet and start experiencing strange things because of this weird
Speaker 1: and hostile ecosystem that the planet has.
Speaker 3: Oscar looking it is.
Speaker 1: It's awesome. It reminds me. The vibes are so mysterious.
Speaker 1: It reminds me a lot of I don't know if
Speaker 1: anybody has seen the Russian film Solaris or the adapt
Speaker 1: the George Colony adaptation from some years ago, but it's
Speaker 1: that kind of spooky kind of like I can't trust
Speaker 1: my mind kind of storytelling. The visuals are beautiful and
Speaker 1: striking and so inventive, like as they start delving into
Speaker 1: the way this planet it's natural ecosystem works and the
Speaker 1: way it uh it's affecting these people, the way they
Speaker 1: visualize that is just so fucking compelling and good. And
Speaker 1: it was an incredibly underrated show, Like I remember what.
Speaker 1: I just saw it because it was in my tiles,
Speaker 1: like my HBO tiles, my Max tiles, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: this looks kind of fun. I'll put this on, and
Speaker 1: I didn't realize it was a current show that was
Speaker 1: like yeah, and that was like coming out. There's like
Speaker 1: no promo and it's great. You can watch it now
Speaker 1: on Netflix it's awesome.
Speaker 4: Gave that just like one of the best shows given
Speaker 4: out a lot right, one of the shows of the year.
Speaker 1: Joelle, you're you're a quick your quick link?
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, So my quick sixty second is an anime
Speaker 6: called Pluto, which is based off a legendary manga which
Speaker 6: I have not read, but fans have been like, this
Speaker 6: is a great adaptation, So we're gonna trust the fans
Speaker 6: on that. If you like Terminator Zero, if you wind
Speaker 6: up checking that out and you're enjoying it, your next
Speaker 6: click should be Pluto. It's about these like automatons. There's
Speaker 6: like eight great ones throughout the world, and they're all
Speaker 6: sort of legendary and the regions they come from, and
Speaker 6: then someone starts killing them off, and you're following the
Speaker 6: story with a detective who is one of the great
Speaker 6: eight who's trying to solve it. It gets into some really interesting,
Speaker 6: like heady concepts. I was really intrigued by the idea of,
Speaker 6: like what happens if you have a body that people
Speaker 6: don't expect matches your personality or.
Speaker 2: What they expect you to do.
Speaker 6: I really like that it sort of runs throughout. I
Speaker 6: was also really intrigued by your typical AI robot stories
Speaker 6: of like what is it to be alive? And who
Speaker 6: gets to have rights and things like that. It's beautifully
Speaker 6: animated with some great action sequences, and the mystery is gripping.
Speaker 6: Like from Jump, you are actively engaged in trying to
Speaker 6: solve this mystery. They give you so many who could
Speaker 6: like red Herrings and who done it, and they're all
Speaker 6: feel so viable. It makes you nervous and excited. It's
Speaker 6: a great series. Check out Pluto.
Speaker 4: It's a quick watch based on hersaad like a famous
Speaker 4: manga that basically we in tup Prits astro Boy. But
Speaker 4: and it's like, I'm just this. This is like an
Speaker 4: adaptation people have been waiting for for years and Yeah,
Speaker 4: from everything I've heard, it's just unbelievable.
Speaker 1: On Thursday's episode, we'll be opening up a time capsule
Speaker 1: all about Scott Pilgrim on Netflix, and Friday, we're back
Speaker 1: in Middle Earth to discuss episode seven of Rings of
Speaker 1: Power season two. That's all for this episode.
Speaker 5: Bye Bye.
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Speaker 1: producers are Joelle Smith and Aaron Kaufman. Our supervising producer
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Speaker 1: Mia Taylor. Our theme song is by Brian Basquez.
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