148 - Avengers: Endgame

Eavesdropping at the Movies · May 10, 2019 · 1h 44m

A big one. The Marvel Cinematic Universe closes a chapter - kind of - with Endgame, a three-hour behemoth that concludes stories that have been told over 21 films in 11 years. It's elegiac, both of its characters' fates following the end of Infinity War, and of itself, offering a good deal of fan service to its vast, devoted audience, some members of which have grown up knowing nothing other than the MCU as the dominant mode of cinema. We take our time to discuss it in a two-part podcast. The first part is, as usual, recorded upon our return from the cinema, the film still ringing in our…