A slightly sad episode today as we bid farewell to Alex, our favourite TV critic, but before he goes we chat Rebellion, Doctor Who and Not Dead Yet. It's worth pointing out that Alex and Steven have a barney over who the best Doctor Who was/is.
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On the 'deep dive' Alex tells us about one of his favourites 'Riverdale', another great coming to the end of their run.
On 'back to the future' Steven takes us through The Big Lez Show, a niche one for sure but a big recommendation again.
Watch the full episode on shotstv.com
On the 'deep dive' Alex tells us about one of his favourites 'Riverdale', another great coming to the end of their run.
On 'back to the future' Steven takes us through The Big Lez Show, a niche one for sure but a big recommendation again.
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00:00 Stephen's here looking like he's about to join the Amish community.
00:02 I think it was a mourning outfit to start with, to be honest with you.
00:05 Stephen, what have you been watching?
00:07 Yeah, it was. It was like a sort of funerary sort of vibe that I was going for.
00:13 It's appreciating.
00:14 I thought I'd just wear the Oppenheimer hat one more time.
00:18 And then I watched the other day at my local independent cinema.
00:25 I watched Some Like It Hot, which was really good.
00:28 Oh, brilliant. The 1959 Marilyn Monroe film
00:31 about two musicians who have to sort of escape the mob in Chicago
00:37 because they witnessed a mob hit, which I think happened to be the St.
00:41 Valentine's Day massacre.
00:42 And then they go undercover as two
00:45 female musicians in an all-woman band.
00:48 And fall in love with Marilyn Monroe's character.
00:51 I feel like I've never seen the whole film.
00:54 I feel like I've seen parts of it many times.
00:56 Really? It's really, really good.
00:58 It's a bit dated at points, but then it's also like wildly progressive in some ways.
01:03 Like it really does openly look at like
01:07 how women were treated by pervy men.
01:11 OK.
01:13 But only through the lens of...
01:15 Pervy men.
01:16 [LAUGHS]
01:17 No, I'm joking.
01:17 Yeah, the fact that it's two men dressed as women that are experiencing this harassment
01:21 and they're like, "Oh, this is wrong because it shouldn't be happening to us."
01:25 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:26 So it's like expressing it, but at face value and not really being like...
01:30 Yeah, I think it sort of misses...
01:33 It's really self-aware, but also misses the point a little bit.
01:35 OK, OK.
01:36 Different, different times.
01:38 Different times.
01:39 Yeah, Hollywood, you know.
01:42 Ugh, I'm sure back then it was...
01:44 That was very progressive back then.
01:45 Never mind the olden days.
01:46 And also it's made in the 50s and set in the 20s.
01:49 OK, yeah.
01:50 OK, oh, that was interesting.
01:51 Nice one, nice one.
01:52 What about you, Alex?
01:53 What have you been watching?
01:54 Or have you just been out frolicking through the fields?
01:57 Painting, glossary.
01:57 What's been going on?
01:59 I watched some episodes of Doctor Who because we've never spoken about that properly on here,
02:04 which is obviously a tragedy.
02:06 No.
02:07 Yeah.
02:07 Your fave, one of your faves.
02:09 We'll miss.
02:10 So what's... Old, old ones or modern-y ones or what?
02:13 Recent-ish.
02:14 Peter Cawley and Jenna Coleman, who are, as far as I'm concerned, the best ever to do it.
02:19 Oh.
02:22 Yeah, yeah.
02:23 That's controversial in the Doctor Who community, surely.
02:26 Well, it's not controversial in my bit of it, which is the bit where we all have the correct opinions.
02:31 But...
02:34 But you've got like a Doctor Who WhatsApp group, yeah.
02:37 It's bigger than that.
02:38 But yeah, yeah, no, they are.
02:40 They're the best ever to do it, as far as I'm concerned.
02:43 I've got my...
02:44 That's been ridiculous.
02:45 What do you think, Stephen?
02:46 Who's your favourite?
02:47 Oh, that's actually insane that Jenna Coleman's the best.
02:52 I mean, obviously it would be David Tennant,
02:57 called very closely by Christopher Eccleston.
02:59 Both excellent as well.
03:00 I feel Stephen's a little bit shocked here.
03:04 He's kind of lost for words, Alex.
03:05 I knew that Alex was a big Doctor Who fan, but I'm surprised that
03:10 then off the back of that, he's decided to add his hand on Peter Cawley and Jenna Coleman.
03:14 No question.
03:15 The best.
03:16 The mummy on the R&A Express must have been a life-changing moment.
03:20 No, all of them, earlier than that.
03:22 They're all...
03:23 I mean, I love all of it.
03:24 There's none of it I don't like.
03:27 And I will even tell myself that the Jodie Whisker and Chris Chibnall ones
03:30 were sort of passable, but they're the best.
03:34 Oh.
03:36 What about the new ones?
03:37 When is that out? Has that started yet?
03:40 David Tennant back for a couple and then Chita Gatwa from probably March.
03:44 Well, maybe we should get you back for...
03:46 If you're willing to come on Unpaid, Alex,
03:48 we can get you on to do a special preview.
03:52 It should be around the time of our one year anniversary.
03:54 It'll be episode 50.
03:55 Of Screen Babble.
03:56 I think, because I sat and worked it out.
03:58 Oh.
03:59 Yeah.
04:00 There you go.
04:02 Well, if you're willing to work for free, then do it.
04:04 I'm always willing to work for free.
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