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Back to SearchPMP#136: Nathan Fielder’s “The Rehearsal”
Season 3 Episode 136
Mark, Lawrence, Sarahlyn, and Al convene an emergency podcast recording to react to this brilliant, mind-blowing, possibly immoral HBO comedy docuser…
3 years, 8 months ago
PMP#135: The Breaking Bad-O-Verse
Season 3 Episode 135
Given the end of Better Call Saul, Mark, Lawrence Ware, Sarahlyn Bruck, and Al Baker discuss this strange TV "franchise" that amazingly produced a pr…
3 years, 8 months ago
PMP#134: Unpopular Music Genre Fandom
Season 3 Episode 134
With the dissolution of popular music culture by the Internet, what is it now to be into music genres that aren't currently popular? Is it still an a…
3 years, 9 months ago
PMP#133: Predator (Films) and Prey
Season 3 Episode 133
Thanks to the new film Prey, we now have six films (starting with 1987's Predator) featuring the dreadlocked, camouflaged, infrared-seeing race of al…
3 years, 9 months ago
PMP#132: “Too Soon” in Comedy?
Season 2 Episode 132
To honor the death of Gilbert Gottfried, we discuss jokes like the 9-11 one he was pilloried for. Can comedy really be "too soon" in relation to its …
3 years, 10 months ago
PMP#131: Hope for Jordan Peele’s “Nope”
Season 2 Episode 131
Jordan Peele's launch from a solid comedy base with Key & Peele to the unexpected Get Out was so impressive that he's generated a huge amount of good…
3 years, 10 months ago
PMP#130: CODA and Deaf Culture
Season 2 Episode 130
The 2022 Oscar winner for Best Picture was CODA, a story about a musically inclined girl with a deaf family. Kambri Crews, herself a CODA, joins your…
3 years, 11 months ago
PMP#129: Wherefore the Cover Song?
Season 2 Episode 129
Is re-playing or re-recording a song written and performed by someone else an act of love or predation?
Mark is joined by Too Much Joy's Tim Quirk, t…
3 years, 11 months ago
PMP#128: Jurassic Shlock
Season 2 Episode 128
Mark is joined by NY Time entertainment writer/philosophy prof Lawrence Ware, novelist/ex-actor Sarahlyn Bruck, and filmmaker/Remakes, Reboots, and R…
4 years ago
PMP#127: You Down with Downton Abbey?
Season 2 Episode 127
We discuss the appeal of this Julian-Fellowes-penned British historical drama in light of the new film. Is this really "a new era" or just more of th…
4 years ago