🎙️ Nerds Against Normality — The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (Review)

This week on Nerds Against Normality, we tackle The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn — Steven Spielberg’s motion-capture adventure that somehow sparked a full-blown argument about Belgium, accents, unicorns that aren’t unicorns, and why Tintin might be the most suspiciously perfect character ever created.

Ben is firmly in his “Tintin defender” era, Stacey is openly baffled by everything from the plot to the geography, and Harry spends most of the episode questioning whether Belgium is real, why everyone sounds Cockney, and why Tintin can apparently do everything without a single flaw.

Along the way, we also:

Briefly (and responsibly) mention Stranger Things Season 5, because it just dropped and we’re trying not to spoil anything

Break down the film’s £130m budget, box office performance, and why it never got a sequel

Compare Tintin to Indiana Jones, Uncharted, and modern adventure films

Argue about motion capture, uncanny valley, and whether this film still looks better than most CGI today

Play our new trivia game “Belgium or Bollocks”, which goes exactly as well as you’d expect

End the episode arguing about accents until the podcast completely derails

Is Tintin a misunderstood classic?

Is it just a kids’ film pretending to be clever?

Or is it secretly flawless… like Tintin himself?

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🎙️ Nerds Against Normality – End of Year Review

One last look back before we pretend we’re organised next year.

We’re closing out the year the only way we know how: arguing, reflecting, misremembering films, and bullying Ben.

In this special end-of-year review episode, the Nerds take a chaotic walk down memory lane, revisiting the films, games, and moments that defined our year on the podcast — from surprise hits and stone-cold classics to absolute disasters we’d quite happily never mention again (looking at you, Wild Wild West).

We break down:

The best and worst films we reviewed this year

Which movies we’d retroactively approve or bin off

Our favourite episodes and guest appearances

The running jokes that refused to die (Nosferatu, we’re sorry… sort of)

Our Games of the Year, including indie surprises and big-name disappointments

Bold (possibly stupid) predictions for next year’s films, TV, and games

And a time capsule of hot takes we’ll absolutely be judged on in 12 months

It’s honest, loud, occasionally insightful, and very much not dignified — but it is a love letter to another year of nerdy nonsense, brilliant listeners, and far too many hours spent watching things “for the pod”.

If you’re new here, this is the perfect episode to jump in.

If you’ve been with us all year — thank you. Seriously. 💙

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Merry Christmas, you filthy animals 🎄

This week on Nerds Against Normality, we go full festive chaos with a Christmas Eve special that starts wholesome… and immediately derails. First up: Stacey hosts a rapid-fire Christmas quiz packed with Elf, Home Alone, Die Hard, Love Actually, The Office, Friends, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine — with impressions, arguments, and absolutely no respect for the time budget.

Then it’s review time: Bad Santa (2003) — the infamous anti-Christmas comedy starring Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Lauren Graham, and Bernie Mac. We dig into whether Bad Santa is actually funny in 2025, how the shock humour has aged, why the “redemption arc” doesn’t land, and whether it deserves a place in your yearly Christmas movie marathon… or a permanent ban from your festive rotation.

Expect: hot takes, nostalgic reality checks, brutal honesty, and the most cursed question of the episode: “How many people are weirdly horny for Santa?”

Plus, we spiral into bizarre global festive folklore — from Krampus to Iceland’s Yule Lads, the Yule Goat, Sinterklaas, La Befana, and the legendary Christmas Pickle tradition.

If you like movie reviews, Christmas films, dark comedies, and chaotic friend banter with pop-culture tangents, this one’s for you. New episodes every Wednesday.

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