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Acolyte Episode 5, Ireland Adventures and More this Week on Whatcha' Watchin'!
Ever wonder why Ireland is the fastest-growing country? Well, Nitro has the answer and he shares it in this week’s episode where he recounts his journey from the charming streets of Dublin to the historic city of Belfast and even spills the beans on spotting some iconic Star Wars filming locations. Alongside Eric Ho and Anthony Pizzuto, we dive into travel tales, picturesque landscapes, and film magic, all served with a side of witty banter and unexpected musical moments.
But it's not just about Ireland! We also deep dive into our recap of The Acolyte, Episode 5. Spoiler alert… there’s going to be spoilers! Did our predictions come true? Are we still ranking the series at a 3.5 disco ball rating? Also, we dive into our queues sharing our reviews of Eric, Maestro in Blue, and Mayor of Kingstown.
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Did you hear? Ireland is the fastest growing country in Europe.
Speaker 2:I did not hear that no.
Speaker 1:Its population is always Dublin.
Speaker 2:Oh hey, why do people wear shamrocks on St Patrick's Day? Why, because real rocks are too heavy. Hey-oh, eric, come on, that was gold.
Speaker 3:That required a little bit of thinking on my end.
Speaker 2:It's a sham rock.
Speaker 1:It's Whatcha Watchin'. Welcome to Whatcha Watchin'. Presented by Geeky, A Go-Go, a show where we dive into what's curly on our screens. Big screens or little screens, size matter not here, just the quality or lack of of our cues. I'm Chris Nitro. Joining me today in the Go-Go is Anthony Pizzuto.
Speaker 2:Hello, I'm Anthony Pizzuto and.
Speaker 3:Eric Ho. Hello, soy Eric Ho.
Speaker 2:And Chris, you're clearly on vacation.
Speaker 1:still, that was not a very quality introduction Jet lag sucks, but yeah, guys, how you doing since I've been gone, since I've been gone, wow, wow, we got a musical. How you doing since I've been gone Since.
Speaker 2:I've been gone. Wow, wow, we got a musical. We got some musical from Nitro. Wow, the first and probably only time that will ever happen.
Speaker 1:No, I do that all the time Do you really, do you like? Break out into song when I'm at work. I get everybody going like that, like I just throw it into one line. I earworm everybody. That's my job, I just earworm people.
Speaker 2:I feel like I'm just now getting to know you.
Speaker 1:We hang out professionally Very loose term here.
Speaker 2:Folks there's nothing professional about it.
Speaker 3:I've been saying karaoke needs to happen. I agree.
Speaker 1:No, I draw a line there. I do not sing.
Speaker 2:So office karaoke is good, but you can't go out and get drunk and sing with people. Okay, all right, all right, interesting.
Speaker 3:There's a Korean place in Chatham, no, really Somewhere down here Westfield. It's a Korean fried chicken place. It's got a karaoke thing going on there. Oh, I love it.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:I'm just saying everything about that. Sounds pretty good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I could be convinced to go do that on a Tuesday night if I'm sitting here in New Jersey. Chris, we missed you last week. Yes, yeah, it was. I think it was one of the first times Eric and I have ever done a show together. You know, you and I have done solo shows without Eric, but I don't think Eric and I have done a show together. But I think we did okay. You know clearly, you, you you turn it off after the the dad joke, so you didn't give it a full, you turned it off after the dad joke, so you didn't give it a full college.
Speaker 2:try listen, but no, I think we did all right. How was?
Speaker 1:Ireland. Ireland was fantastic. I had a really good time, traversed the width of the country, so we went from the west coast to the east coast, then also went up almost to the North Coast in Northern Ireland, went all the way up to Belfast from Dublin, so we saw a good chunk of the country. Yeah, it's beautiful. I mean, I've been there once before, but we only stayed in Dublin. We didn't really do much because it was for a wedding. But this time it was like I mean, obviously it's very scenic and picturesque. I knew I was getting into that, uh, but seeing it for yourself for the first time, it was like wow, this is really really, really nice, and did you make it to some?
Speaker 2:uh, so you know, we had our travel episode a few episodes back, you know did you make it to any filming locations of our beloved star wars universe, or or any universe for that matter, did you at least get to see anything like that, uh, from a distance.
Speaker 1:Um, I did see star wars filming locations, possibly others, um, no, definitely others, I just don't recall the other films um, so I was out, uh, in western western ireland, southwestern I would. I would guess it's southwestern um county claire. I'm terrible. Yeah, so that is, that is the area where um the skelligs are, uh, skellig michael famously in at the end of the now I'm blanking the name of the film force awakens episode, force awakens.
Speaker 1:so at the end of force awakens, beginning of the last jedi, um, I saw them from a distance, though in a very far distance from the coast. So we get to see some of that. And then, a little bit closer, we got to see where they built the set when they came back for the Last Jedi. I didn't know this. They filmed some of it on the Skelligs, but then they recreated the village in a more accessible location, because where it was is like a UNESCO World Heritage Site and they didn't want to mess with things too much. So they created almost a cliffside elsewhere, on a different island that's more accessible and closer to the actual mainland of Ireland. But yeah, so again we didn't step foot on the locations, but we were in the vicinity of where cast and crew congregated and whatnot.
Speaker 3:Nice, did you get to meet any of our fellow legionnaires?
Speaker 1:I did meet one wonderful, wonderful person named Keith from the Ireland Garrison. He unfortunately not too bad, but it is a little bit unfortunate. He's one of those like lone troopers where nobody else lives around him, so like it takes him several hours to get over to Dublin where the majority of people live. I think he said the next closest person, who is even further away from Dublin, is like an hour and a half away, like south of him, um, but he, I mean, he's a fantastic person, great trooper, um, you know, really has his heart in it and for the right reasons. Um, you know, doing stuff for charity, doing stuff for kids, putting smiles on people faces, has a, has a fantastic time, looks great in costume, wonderful, wonderful person.
Speaker 1:Unfortunately, I didn't get to meet anybody else, just timing didn't work and whatnot. Again, the Ireland garrison and then going up to the Causeway garrison in the 501st Just poor timing, short notice, poor timing too. Most of that was on me. But yeah, we got to meet him and he was a great person to meet. And what does he troop as he has? I vividly remember Chewbacca.
Speaker 2:Oh nice Chewbacca.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to remember what he has armor-wise, I'm going to say Stormtrooper, but I doubt it. I don't remember exactly what he was in the 501st, but he did have a few costumes in the 501st, yeah, nice. So yeah, look, it's a wonderful person. That's part of the allure we talked about in our travel episode of just going to meet people and whatnot he was a great guy to meet.
Speaker 2:Well, keith, if you're listening to this episode, send us what you troop as at mailbag at geekyagogacom and we will feature your trooper gear on our next episode. Yeah, it was a good week over here too. Uh, I was traveling. I was down in eric's old old world of texas, um, and texas in the summertime is a place that I would absolutely never recommend anyone ever going to. Uh, it is wait, hold on. You were down in win Houston. Right, I was in Whitney Houston. Yes, I started in Corpus Christi, which is a lovely, lovely seaside town. I'd never been there before.
Speaker 2:And kind of going back to the geeky things you know, I don't know if I actually specifically mentioned this in our travel episode, but what I do is I search for, like, geeky things to do in X, and so I did geeky things to do in Corpus Christi and while they do have some comic book stores and museums and things like that, they have a Harry Potter themed coffee shop and so I had to go to that because I am a pothead and I love me some Harry Potter and it's funny. I pulled in to this place and it was like this little derelict strip mall in the middle of nowhere, like the last place. You would think something cool and hipstery and unique like this would be. But you walk in and it's everything you'd expect from a Harry Potter coffee shop. In, and it's everything you'd expect from a Harry Potter coffee shop. There's like antique mirrors all over the walls and gigantic spiders hanging from the ceilings, and all the menu drinks are based off of names of characters from the uh, the book, and all the baked goods are, like you know, golden snitches and witch hats and stuff. It was.
Speaker 2:It was pretty cool, and then headed on over to Houston, which they have a Hobbit Cafe, fun fact in Houston. I did not go to that, though, because I'm not much of a Hobbit fan. So I ended up going to an 80s diner, because I am a baby of the 80s and I love me the 80s. This was on a Wednesday evening and I was the only person in the diner. It was like 730 on a Wednesday and it was just me and the kitchen crew and one waitress. So I had this like 20 foot screen that just played 80s music videos all to myself, and I was able to control it from my phone, so I was just like loading it all up with everything I wanted to listen to and I had the Paul Rubin and I had an ectoplasm which was like this green cocktail, uh. So yeah, it was. It was kind of fun. I wish there had been more people there to uh. It worth my energy, but it was still fun. And now I'm back here in sweltering New Jersey.
Speaker 1:Yes, sir, before we get to Eric, I took a page out of your book and I looked for a unique kind of place to go visit while we were in Dublin, just to have something to do with the kids and whatnot and we talked about this a few days ago. Uh, eric wasn't privy to that, so I was looking for some, again similar to what you said it's just find something fun, unique to do, geeky and whatnot. And and we found a place in dublin called board b-o-a-r-d. Um, and it it ended up being, uh, when we got to it, it was a pub downstairs and then you walked upstairs and it was just this like communal area that had all types of board games um, you know, on the wall to borrow and, just, you know, play with family and friends while you were there. And when we were there, someone happened to be doing a game launch, so they were selling the game and whatnot, and we'll talk about it a little bit at another episode.
Speaker 1:I think I'll keep that in the pocket, but it was a really cool place.
Speaker 1:It was also a pizzeria and it was like fantastic New York-style pizza in Ireland and I was like this is, and then the ladies that were running the pizzeria were like Italian and whatnot, but they were making New York-style pizza, not Italian-style pizza. So, great place, went with the family, all had pizzas and whipped out a few board games to play and stuff like that. And you know, people around us all were doing the same and it was like a really cool place. But, like I said, downstairs, a traditional pub where everything was like wood paneling and you know, like the deep colors and dark and like gold, uh, what I remember, what I from what I remember, like the gold bar handle and you know stuff like that and taps and things like that. But then you went upstairs and it was like this open area that was very well lit, big tables and stuff like that. So, thanks for that recommendation. I was like, let me try it while we're here. It actually worked out really well. That's a good one.
Speaker 2:Awesome, man Awesome.
Speaker 1:Eric, eric, what about you?
Speaker 3:What did I do this week? I grilled a lot this week Because last week was disgusting, and this week was fantastic Smoking meats.
Speaker 3:Well, I also got a griddle. So that was my acquisition last week, which is I couldn't make it out to you guys it got delivered, which is very exciting. So I got a nice little flat top now to accompany my smoker slash wriggler grill and I've been going at it. So that's what I've been doing this week, other than that binging some TV shows which you can talk about in a bit, but that's what I've been doing this week.
Speaker 2:So wait, so this flat top, so it just sits on top of the normal grill and takes the.
Speaker 3:It's just a griddle, it's just a griddle, it's a straight-up griddle, yeah.
Speaker 2:You're going to have to send me a link, if you haven't done so already, because I'm curious about how this it's basically a.
Speaker 1:I haven't seen Eric's, but the ones I have seen. It's basically a table with a backsplash or sidesplash just like raised lip with burner knobs on it interesting that's pretty much a hibachi.
Speaker 3:Okay, yeah, okay situation yeah, yeah, okay so I've been practicing my little hibachi skills in the backyard, flipping of the shrimp into my hand, which we should really do a benihana thing. It is one of my favorite places. Actually, there's a place on 22?.
Speaker 1:We've been there many times. What's it called Ararang?
Speaker 3:Yeah, that place is pretty fun, we should go.
Speaker 2:Let's go there for lunch instead of Rise and Shine or Scotchwood. There will be no recording, that's fine.
Speaker 3:That's fine.
Speaker 1:It's very loud. It's always, that's fine, it's very, it's very loud. It's always someone's birthday.
Speaker 3:It's, yeah, it's, it's I, I, I will say that I have been to many of these places and, uh, it's always been somebody's birthday, oh yeah like oh yeah, yeah, it's his birthday the one place I really wanted to go for my birthday. And they do check your ID, for this is Medieval Times.
Speaker 1:Oh, sure, because for.
Speaker 3:Medieval Times. The guy with the birthday gets a discount and I'm like I really want to go back again. I haven't been to Medieval Times in forever.
Speaker 2:I went there for my I think it was my 30th birthday or something like that and it was amazing. And yeah, they like call you out, and oh, it was amazing, and yeah, they like call you out, and oh, it was a lot of fun. And then so my pal kind of organized it for me and we rented a school bus and we took that from Staten Island to Medieval Times and then, after Medieval Times, we went to this place called I think it was called, culture Club, speaking of 80s, which was like this awesome 80s nightclub. I forget where the heck it was. It doesn't exist anymore, apparently, but that was such a good time. But, yes, birthdays at medieval times, four disco balls, four disco balls. All right, shall we continue our Acolyte recap series.
Speaker 1:Yeah, let's do it. Yeah, Absolutely Go ahead, anthony.
Speaker 2:All right. So episode five came out this past Tuesday, June 25th, titled Night. It was the up-to-the-minute continuation of episode four, thoughtfully titled.
Speaker 3:Day.
Speaker 2:Now we see why they split them up. Now, if you don't like spoilers, well, my first question is why the heck do you listen to this show? It's just riddled with spoilers Followed by okay, thank you for listening to the show, but if you don't want acolyte spoilers, skip ahead about 10 or 15 minutes and we'll get into the normal. What you watch and cadence so much like. Back to the Future 2,. This episode takes place literally seconds after the end of Episode 4 and is, in essence, a 20-minute lightsaber battle between the stranger or the master, whatever his name is, and pretty much the entire Jedi landing party on Kofar. Wild and sad news While most of the Jedis and one of the Star Trek was it the red shirts or the yellow shirts? I think it's red shirts.
Speaker 3:The red shirts.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's the red shirts. So we now have our own version of the red shirts. And they're Jedis. Most of the background actor Jedis died. They took the light bullet pretty quickly and unceremoniously light bullet pretty quickly and unceremoniously, but a really kind of surprising kill. For the stranger was and again, spoiler alerts fan favorites Jackie and Yord, like was not expecting that at all. Those are two characters that really had a good foundational setup that you would expect to continue on, foundational setup that you would expect to continue on. But before all that went down kind of, we get the big reveal of who the stranger really is.
Speaker 2:As Eric Ho called it last week. It was none other than Kymer. So good job, eric Ho totally called it. So double what. Eric Ho totally called it. So double what. But why stop there with the? Oh my God, this is really happening. This episode ends with a heart to heart between OSHA and May. That leads to May pretty much knocking out OSHA and committing some pretty outrageous identity theft, taking over the role of her unconscious sister and joining back up with the remainder of the landing party, which is pretty much Basil, who totally creeps me out and Sol. This episode clocked in at about 28 minutes. So, eric, as the official oracle of the Acolyte, I want to start with you on your deep thoughts about this episode, especially since you put some bullet points in our Discord.
Speaker 3:So I want you to kind of take us away on this uh conversation I I agree with most of the news that came out the day after, which is sith hit the fan this episode?
Speaker 2:what?
Speaker 3:an appropriately written topic. No, it's. Uh, we knew last week that this is going to be a continuation of the last episode, so it was exciting Much more satisfying, I think for most people Definitely was surprised. I knew that there were going to be a whole bunch of people who died. I just I get the sense that people were going to die. I was just really surprised by how quick they removed that. But now, come to think of it, you know you're on the second half of the show now, and so I guess if they were to do that more the better. It's interesting that it feels like such a high for me, because we still got what three episodes left. That's right, three. And this feels like the climax so far, and I wonder how they're going to top this to kind of close out the series, which. I hope they don't go out with a whimper.
Speaker 3:Um, I think there are some things that are just super cool in here. Uh, I think that, uh, well, the way that the stranger took out his lightsaber uh was kind of sick. He had a combination lightsaber uh, which, uh, we haven't seen that kind before where it's kind of stacked on top of one that you can take it out uh kind of situation, fights differently, and then, um, what was interesting and I didn't know this because you know as much as a lot of star wars, I'm not, as you know, I think, in touch with a lot of the lore kind of situation, but uh, the material, uh, of his helmet, that uh, he had on apparently is a material that's been around for a while that can diffuse energy, including lightsaber, which explained a lot of what we saw with the sparkling lightsabers and all that kind of stuff, which I thought really was really cool to kind of introduce that into um, you know, like action. And then the last thing I will say is just gosh, like Chimera is like powerful, it's got like really sick-looking arms, yeah, and those are the kind of things that I was like Chimera hiding, you know, you didn't pick up on it. And Chimera like the bad guy.
Speaker 3:I was like hot damn. I was like look at this guy just breaking that really swole arm around and.
Speaker 3:I am curious where they're going to go from here, right, because obviously there's got to be a thread with Basil, I think, because he can smell things and so I think that something's going to happen there.
Speaker 3:What I didn't understand and I would love to get your guys' feedback on this was I didn't understand that last interact, the note that the show ended on. The episode ended with Kaimir looking at Osha and then said a few things to her somewhat poetic, whatever thing that he was saying to her and I have no idea what that means. I think that he clearly knows that's Osha. I think he knows that's Osha. I don't think he's tricked by the whole Osha and Mei switch, but I don't know what that means. And he put a cloak on her, like is he going to take her away or is he going to leave her there?
Speaker 3:I am curious where this goes from the next episode and, by the way, we still don't have the resolution of. I don't have the resolution of. I think Soul was trying really hard to talk about maybe what actually happened 16 years ago, whatever, but you know, never got that chance. And I'm curious when in the next few episodes we're going to do another flashback again, because we're definitely going to have another flashback to see the other point of view, but I don't know when that's going to happen. So, all in all, I really enjoyed this episode. I think I want to go back and watch the last two episodes together to really kind of get that continuity and kind of flow. But solid man, I think it was really cool for these kind of things to be introduced.
Speaker 2:And, by the way, the guy that you thought was Plo Koon got murdered in like the first 30 seconds of the episode yeah, so now it is actually confirmed it is was Plo Koon got murdered in the first 30 seconds of the episode. Yeah, so now it is actually confirmed. It is not Plo Koon, that's right. That's right.
Speaker 3:So, anyway, that was my little feedback on that episode.
Speaker 2:No, that's great, Chris. What did you think? Did you get a chance to see it while you were in Ireland, or did you drop everything?
Speaker 1:Yes, well, kind of not. Really. I'm with Eric with a lot of this stuff. I mean, the thing that I did not like is like it's seemingly an extremely fast-paced episode, right, I mean it's the typical length of episodes, right, but it's seemingly extremely fast-paced and so it's a huge change of pace from the beginning of the episodes, right, but it's seemingly extremely fast-paced and so it's a huge change of pace from the beginning of the series, right.
Speaker 1:You know, one and two and three kind of seem to drag a little bit, and then you know we get to four and it picks up, and then this one is like over done like super quick, and so it follows the story arc of a film right over the course of what is it?
Speaker 1:Two and a half hours now-ish, and so like it's just when you're trying to pace a television show, like I think they messed up on this one, right, Because it's super fast, it's just pure action, almost the entire thing, and then it it slows down, like at the end a little bit um, just to add a little bit of cliffhanger, mystery, so to speak, almost a little bit forced um, and it's just, it's not so much as cliffhanger than we're all just asking ourselves like are they really falling for this? We, we kind of get the sense that Basil is not like he hasn't fallen for it, like he knows something is up. Um, chimer knows something is up too, and I think Saul also realizes it as well. Right, because I think earlier in the series like he senses something, you know when.
Speaker 3:Osha is near or May is near.
Speaker 1:Do you think he knew? I think he suspects, right, I don't think he knows, but I think he feels like there's something there, right, there's something is off slightly. So I mean that's the sense that I got, yeah, um, yes, I didn't get that sense.
Speaker 3:I didn't get that sense that he, uh, he got it and I think he's in a very messed up state of mind right now. He, I mean he almost killed the dude and I think you can tell he was just kind of chaotic coming onto the ship and I wonder if he actually doesn't know, though I will say one has a thing on the forehead and one doesn't, so I don't know how he was going to hide that. So anyway, back to you, chris, sorry.
Speaker 1:You know, I mean I totally welcome that. It's just coming off of this episode I was like, okay, why did we go so fast, just to slow down again to the point of almost confusion? Do we really suspect that all these people are falling for it and Basil's the one that's going to crack the code? Because his scent, his skill of smelling, Possibly? I mean, it is a TV show. Star Wars is for kids, right? We use that quote.
Speaker 3:Well.
Speaker 1:I mean, yeah, we're over. Eric says this all the time. We overanalyze things, right? So it might be something that simple. We're like you know what? We're going to play the dumb. We're not going into the scientific facts about Star Wars. This is like just a plot point. Let's move on to the next thing and we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2:Well, to be a star wars fan does mean you have to analyze, overanalyze everything as we see every day in every facebook group.
Speaker 2:But you know it's, it's an interesting, you know. So, um, I I'm with eric. I didn't get the sense that sol had an idea what was was going on with the osha. May uh switch up, um, and, and I and I also, like we didn't clearly there's a relationship between sol and keimer, uh, or or a version of keimer that that may have been forgotten by sol and the jedis or something, but there was something there, um, because he makes comments during their battle about, uh, you know like what kind of master hides his face from his padawan, uh, and and keimer's like, uh, yeah, what kind you know you so clearly, something happened, uh, either either keimer's kind of projecting, you projecting what happened with May Osha, or there's, there's some form of Chimer that maybe, as a child, was going through the Padawan ranks and he kind of fell out of the graces somehow. But it seemed like there was some sort of substance and relationship there that we haven't been able to touch on just yet. Substance and relationship there that we haven't been able to touch on just yet, the whole OSHA Keimer kind of taking now OSHA under his wing was or not under his wing. We don't know what's going to happen. But you know, it was a great opportunity for him to just take her out if that was his MO, but clearly it wasn't. And I wish I could find the quote that he said, eric, because it was very poetic, like a very philosophical and something, something that I'm sure will open up the door to, to whatever their relationship being, but kind of I left it. As you know, it's almost like Vader saying you know, if you won't turn to the dark side, then perhaps she will. You know, referring to Luke not wanting to come, but maybe he convinced Leia to do it. You know, maybe this is something similar where Kymer needs an acolyte, a Sith acolyte, and if May is going to switch or do whatever she wants, go rogue. I mean, clearly she pissed him off and tried to kind of throw him under the bus. Maybe Osha can be my acolyte. You know she has the blood of Mother Anisea, so maybe she has the gifts as well.
Speaker 2:I wish these two episodes have been done together, though. I am sick and we've talked about this before, about the short episodes and the inconsistency in the run times and stuff like that. It's like episode four was 27 minutes. If this was 28 minutes. I'd be shocked. It was anywhere between 26 and 28. You totally could have had a one hour episode and the fans would have eaten it up, and I'm with you. I'm going to go back and rewatch the two together because it is one right after the other. It's a great episode.
Speaker 2:I was mildly disappointed when the mask came off and it was Kymer, because I was really hoping that. I really wish we I'm glad we didn't bet on it Because clearly I'm just an awful gambler but I was really, really hoping it was going to be a woman or a female Sith. I don't know why I want there to be a strong female antagonist Sith master. I think that would just be so badass and we have yet to see it. But, kymer, it was not too much of a surprise, especially after we talked about it last week. You know, I was like, oh yeah, that's actually very obvious. And Chris, even you were like, oh yeah, totally called that in the chat and I was like, yeah, I mean, it seems kind of very obvious. But yeah, overall, fun episode. I maintain my rating. I'm cautiously giving it a four disco ball because we do have three episodes to screw this all up. But I'm cautiously giving four episodes. Eric, how many disco balls are you giving this episode?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm going to keep that at four.
Speaker 2:Keep it at four, all right. And Chris Nitro, what's going on? You going up to four the episode or the series? The series let's do the series.
Speaker 1:I'm sticking with three. Okay, all right, I reserve judgment. It ain't over until someone sings.
Speaker 3:Okay, wait, I was doing it, for the episode Series to me is around 3.5.
Speaker 2:Okay, 3.5. All right, I'm doing four for the series, so I guess our average then is three and a half. Three and a quarter, Okay, cool. So what did you think of Acolyte episode five Night? Let us know. Mailbag at geekygogocom. We'll share your comments and feedback on the next show. Or just leave us a comment on one of our many posts that we put on Facebook. If you're not following us, check out facebookcom. Slash geekygogo.
Speaker 1:Nitro, I'm going to hand it back to you to take us back to Whatcha Watchin'. Whatcha Watchin' okay, okay, uh, I mean, this whole episode's what you're doing, our traditional what you're watching. Um, I I'll start, okay, um, so the show that I'm picking is not a new show. It started uh back in 2022, but season two just uh started airing uh back in 2022, but season two just started airing back in May. It is on Netflix. The show is called, in America, maestro in Blue. I think. The official title of the show in its native language is Maestro. The official title of the show, uh, in its native language is maestro.
Speaker 1:Um, it is a greek drama. Um, I'll preface it with this I enjoyed it immensely because I understand greek um, understand greek um I. I recommend it to everyone, though, because it it it has all the traditional greek drama tropes and things like that. Uh, in a more modern day setting. Um, you know, familial drama and professional dramas and interrelationships and romance and this and that and the other thing. So, um, I, like I said, I enjoyed it a lot. Um, I thought season one was good, and then I watched season two and I was like, oh, this, yeah, this continues to be good. It's a. It's a good, a good show. Um, it's easier for me to understand.
Speaker 1:The subtitles aren't exact like perfectly translated, um, but they do a really good job. Um, so if you're a fan of foreign films, tv shows, whatever, you don't mind watching things with subtitles, um, or anything to that effect. Or if you speak greek listeners, um, I do recommend watching maestro in blue. Um, like, just really cool show. A lot of cliffhanger type of things, like drugs is involved in crime and like, and it all takes on this picturesque, uh scenic island in greece where the community is very small, um, everyone knows each other, but all these dark things are going behind the scenes and and um, like I said, uh, family struggles and and and whatnot, and coming of age and a little little bit of inappropriate behavior and whatnot. So, yeah, like I said, I recommend it.
Speaker 1:I don't want to give away too much because there's a lot of cliffhanger, surprise things that are happening, especially at the end of season two and season one, just kind of like, hey, I want to watch the next season. I want to watch the next season just to see how this progresses.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, that's my so does it like follow like a family, like a family in greece, and they're kind of their their drama, or is it? Multiple storylines and families and different it's characters.
Speaker 1:it's centered on a, on a specific family. However, the the there's romances involved, so it involves other families because of the romances. Uh, other people, um, someone comes to visit the island, um, and is basically, uh, a music teacher or like a musician that is helping the island set up a music festival that they do every year, um, and so you have this inappropriate like older person. Um, it gets romantically involved with this young woman and the young woman is the daughter of the guy who ends up being the mayor and, yeah, like I tell you, it's all the stereotypical, dramatic things that happen in Greek dramas. So, yeah, like I said, it's a very small, close-knit community, but then all these dark things are happening in the background. There's murders and, yeah, check everything, all the boxes get checked in the show, so it's everything combined in one.
Speaker 2:It almost sounds like a Greek music man. The young girl isn't a librarian, is she? Is that too much of a deep theater geek joke? I'm sorry. Okay, all right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, okay, clearly it is, clearly it is.
Speaker 2:Well, chris, I'd really like to watch it, but it sounds like it'd be all Greek to me. Oh hey, to watch it, but it sounds like it'd be all greek to me. So, oh hey, oh, very good did I redeem myself.
Speaker 1:No, I didn't redeem myself. You get a verbal deep boo it's.
Speaker 3:it sounds very much like those telenovelas, and telelemundo is what I'm hearing. Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1:I mean, it is almost what. Do they call them Soapy?
Speaker 3:Soap opera.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm, but it's more dramatic. Like it's more I shouldn't say more dramatic, like dramatic gopher, like you don't have that like zoom-in camera kind of situations. It's very well filmed Cinematography. I should say filmed Direction. You know, the acting is great. Like I said, it's a little bit easier for me to watch because I understand the language. But if you don't understand language, strip titles, do it justice, don't watch it dubbed. I don't know how you guys feel, but I never watch anything dubbed. Dubbed is terrible.
Speaker 2:And where is it streaming? Netflix Maestro in Blue is what it was called Yep.
Speaker 1:And I do give it four disco balls.
Speaker 2:The Greek bias setting in. That's a.
Speaker 3:Greek bias right there. It totally is. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1:It definitely. If you guys were to ever watch it, it definitely it's deserving of that.
Speaker 3:Which, by the way, I don't do dubbed. However, there are times where I make exceptions, so I was actually watching. You guys know Corridor Digital. It's a YouTube channel. It's like a bunch of folks who uh who do visual artists Like. They do a lot of different kind of sub uh um series and one of it is they bring like visual artists to kind of talk about the visual effect. It stuns people to come in and talk about the stunts. It was One of the latest episodes they just talked about. Was they reviewed? What's that terrible movie with Jennifer Lopez that we talked about? Atlas?
Speaker 2:That I saw Atlas, yeah, that one, that terrible movie, all of them yeah.
Speaker 3:Well, so this one they were talking about why everyone wanted to see Titanfall like giant mecha, like in a movie, right? And so if you had said that this was a fan film and that everyone would like, just lose their crap, and then everyone will just lose their crap. And then they said and I thought this was hilarious they said maybe we should have watched this in Japanese and then everything will be much better. And they played like a clip in Japanese and I go, oh yes, everything in this movie just got 10x'd. It's like a giant mecha movie in Japanese. That just happened to star Trevor Lopez and you know, maybe there are times where the dubbed version of it could be much better, it's the same.
Speaker 1:Would you count Saying that now, like would you count Studio Ghibli films as being dubbed?
Speaker 3:I don't watch them in English, though I watch them in Japanese, so I've only watch them in English, though I watch them in Japanese.
Speaker 1:I've only watched them in English because the American or the English-speaking cast is like heavy hitters they're big-name actors and they act very well.
Speaker 3:Would you consider animation to be dubbed? I wouldn't consider animation to be dubbed, actually, yeah. Yeah, but like you have a script. You're acting to the blah, blah, blah of the face, you know, whereas like dubbed feels like there was an original language and you're just forcing yourself on top of it so in in digital art animation it's easy to match the mouth movements right.
Speaker 1:So when you're changing from one language to another, you can change that. So, like the mouth movements match what you're saying. But in traditional animation, kind of like what Studio Ghibli does or like older animation, you're trying to a good dubbing, will try to match the mouth movements, but it always it's never perfect.
Speaker 3:Um, yeah, so, yeah, that's, that's why I bring up that point I think I pay less attention for animations because it feels like they just and there's requires like a lot of translation, that kind of. I suppose dubbing does too. I know in my head there's still a difference between the two. I guess I should check out some of the Studio Ghibli ones in English, which we can do a whole episode about that. There's a lot of really great Studio Ghibli films.
Speaker 2:Well, you know what kind of going back to what you were talking about, Eric, about me educating you on horror. I've never seen a Studio Ghibli, so you guys could get me to be a Ghibli fan. There we go.
Speaker 3:There's just so many.
Speaker 1:Cool, okay, let's go with Eric Eric, what are you watching?
Speaker 3:I just want to go back and say they are Studio Ghibli films. That's kind of gonna make you like just fall with, like just cry. So there are things that traumatize me. As a child watching from studio ghibli that I'm like I still like their movies from them. That only was like twice in my entire life because there's enough and so, but not in a bad way, more of a such an impactful way like I can't do this again, so oh wow, there are stuff we can line up for you.
Speaker 3:That's kind of insane, yeah, um, yeah. So so, talking families, uh, I have been watching, uh, this other show called mayor kingstown, which I don't know if anyone has heard, uh, stars jimmy, uh, jeremy renner, uh, in this town, this fake town, michigan, called kingstown, and uh, the whole premise for this entire thing is it's a town of, uh, pretty much the economy is run around the prison. It's a prison system town. The town has a lot of prisons there, um, and Jeremy Renner's character's family, um is in. I guess they, they, they are more of like the, the folks that are creasing the wheel between the folks who are in the prison, with the prison guards, with the local politicians, with the various gang groups. And you know the way that he talks about it. He's there to keep the peace right. So you know, trying to be that arbiter in the middle to try to help negotiate things so that order doesn't break down in the town or there's a balance. That's done there.
Speaker 3:And and I've been just going at it for the last two seasons the third season is happening right now. It's on Paramount+ and I've pretty much enjoyed it. What has been weird for me is that the producing company for it, I think, is MTV, and I'm like I did not know MTV is still around and then I also did not know MTV is producing content like this is. I thought was very interesting. Um, I'm a big fan, uh, yeah, oh. And the last thing I will say is the producer for it. Um, the writer, uh, or producer, I guess, for this is a tiller sheridan uh, who's been doing the yellowstone stuff, who is now like everywhere, he's doing so bunch of shows now which are all grabbing big names and taking on multiple seasons. It's feeling like he's almost like the new Dick Wolf of our generation.
Speaker 3:He has a similar theme. It's a lot of family. It's about your environment, your town. It's interesting stuff. I kind of liked it. It's been in the background for me. It's got one of the producers and an actor. Yeah, it's interesting stuff. I kind of liked it. It's been kind of in the background for me. Uh, it's got uh, one of the producer and actor in. It's got this actor called hugh dylan uh, who I'm also a big fan of from a lot of his other stuff. I think he was in flashpoint this canadian show that I used to watch, uh uh, and it's fantastic. It was really good seeing him uh, kind of uh on and about uh in the show. So liked it, liked it in the background. Three balls for me for that show. I do recommend watching it and I do enjoy kind of putting it in the background as I kind of just catch up on things.
Speaker 2:Hugh Dillon was also in Yellowstone as well as the sheriff, so I guess he and Tyler shared it. And you see these more and more these days, these producers or these creators kind of dragging their casts along with them into new projects, like Mike Flanagan in the Flanaganverse on Netflix. He did the Haunting of Hill House and the Haunting of Blythe Manor and all that stuff and it's like the same actors over and over again, which is really funny.
Speaker 3:It kind of makes sense though, right, you want to work with people you like? Exactly.
Speaker 1:And you want to work with people.
Speaker 3:Who knows how to react? Yeah, and so why create new things when it kind of works?
Speaker 1:Anthony, what are you watching?
Speaker 2:I am watching. I am watching Eric on Netflix, and oh you mean. Eric.
Speaker 1:Not.
Speaker 2:Eric.
Speaker 2:I'm here, oh, I'm not watching Eric on Squadcast I'm watching or on Geeky Go-Go I'm watching Eric on Netflix. The tagline is the Real Monsters Aren't Under the Bed. It's really interesting. It's new. It came out in at the end of May this year. It's streaming on Netflix. The synopsis on IMDb says Vincent, a grief stricken father whose son goes missing, finds solace through his friendship with Eric, the monster that lives under Edgar's bed. That makes it sound much more tame than this really is.
Speaker 2:This is a very dark, dark series with a lot of very heavy content and themes, especially if you're a father of a child. It stars Benedict Cumberbatch, who is just a UK treasure. I love Benedict Cumberbatch in everything he is. I aspire to be the performer that he is. Gabby Hoffman, who was she's been in lots of things, I think more recently she was in Transparent, that one where the father becomes transgender. She was great in that. And Dan Fogler, who's been in tons of things. Dan Fogler was in everything he's in. The Goldbergs is the one that's jumping out of mind, but he's in tons of movies as well. Anyway, pretty much Benedict Cumberbatch is the creator he's this Jim Henson-esque creator of a puppet show on a New York public broadcasting type of show. It's called Good Day Sunshine. It's clearly an analog to Sesame Street.
Speaker 2:So Cumberbatch and his wife Sarah I think her name is, who's played by Gabby Hoffman, they have a very tumultuous relationship. They fight constantly and their son, edgar, who is about 10 years old, witnesses their constant fighting and insulting each other and the alcoholism and just you know he tries to cope as a 10-year-old in 1970s, new York can. So he does that through his own art, just like his father is an artist. And one day, as he's going off to school, vincent, the father, benedict Cumberbatch, says you just walked to school, it's only a few blocks away, and what happens is the kid goes missing. And you know, in 1970s New York City was not the nicest of places for many reasons, and so you know the end of the episode.
Speaker 2:The first episode is Edgar goes missing and as they're kind of going through the process of trying to find Edgar, the son, vincent, finds all these sketches that Edgar has done and one of them is this big blue monster monster to life, as in the form of a puppet for his show. That will that Edgar will see it and he'll know that. You know his parents are looking for him and he'll come, come back wherever he is. So it's almost like this. This I'm not accepting that he's been kidnapped, I'm just accepting that maybe he's run away because of our family situation. Anyway, this is a show that I'm not necessarily going to spoil, because it does go in several different directions, but I will say that it is.
Speaker 2:It's only six episodes, I think maybe seven episodes. They're 50 minutes, solid 50 minutes. Disney learn something for crying out loud, consistent 50 minutes. But it's dark, it's uncomfortable, it's funny at times emotionally abusive person trying to cope with that and trying to get better, but constantly slipping up and failing, but also trying to be the superhero for his son.
Speaker 2:It's just one of those films you know like. Again, I gravitate towards dad films sometimes because you know my dad died when I was 16. And so you know that that screws up a person in general, especially when it comes to their forms of entertainment, and so you just kind of like see a lot of stuff and so in these types of films really it was really good. It ended on a on a strange note that I wasn't too satisfied with, and so for that reason I'm going to give it three and a half disco balls. But overall a good watch if you're in the mood for like dark suspense, dark comedy, thriller and just getting that kind of guttural, uncomfortable feeling, uh, when it comes to the, the loss of a child or the kidnapping of a child or a child going missing and you can't do anything about it.
Speaker 3:So yeah, good watch, check it out. I watched it. I watched a trailer, so was it like kind of fantastical throughout or with like no?
Speaker 2:no, not at all, it's, it's um. So so, pretty much, vincent begins seeing eric, this, this, this creature that his son created, and and it almost becomes kind of like vincent's subconscious and he starts talking to it in reality and people think that he's just losing his mind and going crazy because he'll, like, start yelling at vincent I mean at eric but there's no one there and and people are like are you okay, dude and um? But? But eric to vincent is as real as his son is.
Speaker 2:And what's what's interesting about eric? And and you can actually see it in the, in the artwork of the poster, you have this kind of silhouette of eric and then benedict cumberbatch is is in the center of it. It's almost as if like and now we're going into a psychology class but it's almost as if, like 10 year old edgar created eric as a almost a, not a metaphor, but a, a, a visual representation of the monster that is his father. And when his father sees this, he wants to bring Eric to life and put him on the show and make him this, this, this confused monster character puppet that's been hiding because he wasn't sure what people would think of him, and so he's, he's trying to bring himself to life as a good person through edgar's creation of eric. It's really, really interesting. Uh, you can go down a lot of interesting rabbit holes in terms of like thinking about the subtext of what's going on here, but at the end it is, it is a good watch. So yeah, three and a half. Three and a half disco balls.
Speaker 1:Which is interesting because no no, go ahead.
Speaker 2:I was gonna say you know which is which is interesting? Because Rotten Tomatoes, you know, I like to go check out what Rotten Tomatoes has to say 70% on the tomato meter and a 50% audience score. So I guess a lot of people didn't agree with me in terms of the three and a half disco balls. Sorry, go for it, chris.
Speaker 1:The sense that I got from the show. I watched it as well. I won't rain on your parade here, but the sense that I got from your show is that I think, because of that really tense feeling people got, it feels real and a lot of people thought it was based on a true story, which happens to not be true because it was mid-'80s New York, the famous disappearance of a child in the late 70s it was fresh on everyone's mind. So it's that time frame that everybody's like. Is this really based on this kid? But the creator of the show I think she's Welsh or British or something to that effect she came out and said no, this is based on multiple experience that I had back home.
Speaker 1:So, it had nothing to do with New York other than the setting and we all know the trope of the kid on the side of the milk carton and stuff like that when we grew up in the 80s and the 70s and whatnot. So I think that's what people got Like. No one enjoyed that feeling. I think Benedict did fantastic, like paying multiple characters and personas and the ego and all that stuff. I thought it was a great show, both as a dad and just a person who enjoys TV, so to speak. Yeah, I thought it was fantastic.
Speaker 2:So how many disco balls would you have given it, or did you give it?
Speaker 1:I agree with you. Three and a half, definitely Nice, nice, awesome, just yeah. Like I think that part of the story was enough, like I don't think we needed the whole fight with the city and corruption, like I don't think we needed any of that, but I mean it was integral part of it. But yeah, I don't think we needed all of that together. Agree, yeah, we, we all knew that the 70s, 80s, new york was not a cool place to be, exactly, exactly awesome man cool.
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Speaker 3:Bye, bye-bye, baboo, bye.
