David, Devindra, and Jeff navigate the criminal underworld with Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice, audition for the role of a lifetime in Bait, and enter the ring for the second season of WWE: Unreal. Then they hatch a plot to play at the Rivoli with Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie.

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Weekly Plugs
David - Decoding TV: Covering Invincible & The Pitt
Devindra - Engadget Podcast: Can Microsoft fix Windows 11 by dumping AI?
Jeff - Jeff’s Cameo Page

Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What we've been watching (~00:19:42)
David - Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice, Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat, My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow
Devindra - Bait, Daredevil: Born Again S2, The Bad Guys 1 + 2
Jeff - Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice, WWE: Unreal S2, Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat

Featured Review (~01:07:28)
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
SPOILERS (~01:25:22)

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David, Devindra, and Jeff go for broke in How to Make a Killing, brace for change with The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, and take to the seas with the Disney Fantasy Cruise. Then they take one last chance on our universe with Project Hail Mary.

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Weekly Plugs
David - The eXpat Files: It Was Just Not an Accident
Devindra - Engadget Podcast on NVIDIA’s DLSS 5 mess
Jeff - Formative Media episode 2

Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What we've been watching (~00:06:15)
David - How to Make a Killing, Heel
Devindra - The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, Videoheaven, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
Jeff - Disney Fantasy Cruise Ship, Phineas and Ferb

Featured Review (~01:14:00)
Project Hail Mary
SPOILERS (~01:42:30)

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David and Devindra are joined this week by film critic Matt Goldberg to reflect on the winners and losers of the 2026 Academy Awards, unpack masculinity with Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere, diagnose the 2026 reboot of Scrubs, and look back on some of the best picture winners of the past. Then they reckon with the combined power of Quentin Tarantino’s epic Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair. Check out Matt’s newsletter Commentary Track.

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David - Decoding Everything: Matt Goldberg’s review of Project Hail Mary
Devindra - Engadget coverage of MacBook Neo and MacBook Pro M5 Max
Matt Goldberg - Interview with Lynne Littman and Jane Alexander for Testament

Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What we've been watching (~00:34:04)
David - Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere, Neighbors
Devindra - Scrubs (2026), Father Mother Sister Brother, Blades of the Guardians
Matt Goldberg - Past Best Picture Winners: Cavalcade, Cimarron, A Man for All Seasons

Featured Review (~01:02:13)
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair

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Credits:

• Our theme song is by Tim McEwan from The Midnight. This episode was edited by Noah Ross who also created our weekly plugs and spoiler bumper music. Our Slashfilmcourt music comes from Simon Harris.
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