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The Latecomers
Amity and Lemuel have seen a lot of things, but they have missed some major cultural plot points. The Latecomers is their recaps and reviews of the shows that have shaped entertainment and culture because when it comes to the good stuff - better late than never.
Episodes
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Children of the Corn (1984)
Episode Notes Amity thought Christopher Reeves was in this and that’s only disappointment one of this franchise builder. What’s in the corn? Why’s it so mad?…
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Christine (1983)
Episode Notes In the last film of 1983, we visit Arnie Cunningham and his lady loves – the car and the girl. Only one can have his heart. We discuss parental…
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The Dead Zone (1983)
Episode Notes Lemuel and Amity watched the Dead Zone and marvel at a pre “Christopher Walken” Christopher Walken and the passion with which he can say “Sarah.”…
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Cujo (1983)
Episode Notes Lemuel and Amity watched Cujo this week and animal lovers beware - you’re gonna hate this dog. Critical consensus was massively split on this…
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Creepshow (1982)
Episode Notes We delve into Stephen King pulp this week as we watch Creepshow from 1982. The practical effects as well as the scene-chewing performances…
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The Shining (1980)
Episode Notes Lemuel and Amity tackle the 1980 classic horror film The Shining and talk casting, directorial abuse, Stephen King and black people, and how a…
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Salem’s Lot (1979)
Episode Notes Amity and Lemuel watched all three hours of the first miniseries made of Stephen King’s work – ‘Salem’s Lot. One strong woman and one mess, one…
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Carrie (1976)
Amity and Lemuel tackle the first adaptation of Stephen King's work to hit the screen with Brian De Palma's 1976 classic Carrie. How does the casting match the…
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Stephen King
Episode Notes Lemuel and Amity discuss Stephen King. Who is he? How do we know him? And we map the longest season so far as we get set to discuss the screen…
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Battlestar Galactica S1E12 “Kobol’s Last Gleaming” Part 2 (2005)
Seeking some resolution, Amity and Lemuel watched Battlestar Galactica’s first season finale. Is there a baby? Is Boomer okay? Why can Baltar act like this in…
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Battlestar Galactica S1E12 “Kobol’s Last Gleaming” Part 1 (2005)
We've all come a long way. It's been 50 days since the original cylon attack and it's official - everyone has lost their damn minds. We ponder what anyone is…
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Battlestar Galactica S1E11 “Colonial Day” (2005)
As we watch this episode we compare it to the hypothetical inspiration, the West Wing, we dig on Starbucks utter bad-assery, and we are grateful for Baltar’s…
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Battlestar Galactica S1E10 “The Hand of God” (2005)
This week we watched a WWII film inspired episode nominated for an Emmy for visual effects. It’s a busy one, but the action is hot and the takes are hotter. We…
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Battlestar Galactica S1E9 “Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down” (2005)
Logic has left the building on this week’s episode of Battlestar Galactica and Amity has a real question for the audience – help her, help all of us. Is she…
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Battlestar Galactica S1E8 “Flesh and Bone” (2005)
Amity cannot stop swearing as we discuss this episode of BSG and two very large, very glaring issues with the overall situation. We ask some hard questions…
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Battlestar Galactica S1E7 “Six Degrees of Separation” (2005)
Amity and Lemuel spend the week confused and judgey: How come no one believes the truth when it is told to their faces? How can everyone believe that they are…
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Battlestar Galactica S1E6 “Litmus” (2005)
Amity and Lemuel watch Litmus, and miss the reason for the episode title entirely. We debate who is a cylon (why haven't we done that before?) and who is just…
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Episode 407: Battlestar Galactica Season 1 Episode 5 “You Can’t Go Home Again” (2005)
Amity and Lemuel debate the merits of the title of this episode, the merits of planet vs. space Boomer, the merits of cylons and toasters on this week's…
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Episode 406: Battlestar Galactica Season 1 Episode 4 “Act of Contrition” (2005)
Episode 4 brings us our first cliffhanger – what will become of Starbuck and how guilty will Commander Adama feel about it. We zoom through this one because…
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Episode 405: Battlestar Galactica Season 1 Episode 3 “Bastille Day” (2005)
Episode 3, Bastille Day brings us t0 a prison set of debatable quality. Poor decisions are made, masturbation jokes are uttered, rape is thwarted and an…
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Episode 404: Battlestar Galactica Season 1 Episode 2 “Water” (2005)
Amity and Lemuel get into the what and when of Battlestar as we recap the second episode. Amity is holding firm to her beliefs on the timeline, while Lemuel is…
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Episode 403: Battlestar Galactica Season 1 Episode 1 “33” (2005)
Amity and Lemuel watch the first episode of the reimagined BSG. We are happy to see a living Helo and Amity thought everyone was asleep, but we quickly find…
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Episode 402: Battlestar Galactica Miniseries Part 2 (2003)
Picking up where we left off, we discuss tough decisions, what’s a reference to something else, the existence of Earth, who or what these “people” are, and are…
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Episode 401: Battlestar Galactica Miniseries Part 1 (2003)
The fourth season starts strong as we dig into the Battlestar Galactica reimagined miniseries. We look for an analog for Baltar, try to dig into Number Six’s…
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Episode 400: Intro to Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Amity and Lemuel bring you a broad discussion of our new season’s subject Battlestar Galactica, including updated casting from 1978. In addition, we take down…
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Episode 330: Defiance (December 2008)
Amity and Lemuel watch Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber and their terrible accents as Belarusian Brothers the Bielskis who saved 1200 Jewish Belarusians from…
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Episode 329: The Prince of Egypt (December 1998)
Lemuel and Amity dive into the Old Testament with 1998’s The Prince of Egypt. We are confounded by the choice to release this at Christmas and target it at…
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Episode 328: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (December 1988)
True Jackal sounds? Check! Bad Michael Caine impression? Check! Teary muppet remembrance? Check! This week we discuss the bananas concept of women falling for…
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Episode 327: The Deer Hunter (December 1978)
This episode starts with more content warnings than we have ever done. We watched 1978's Deer Hunter and got so caught up talking about the plot and the…
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Episode 326: Our First Year of Podcasting In Review
Amity and Lemuel take a break to look back at their first year as podcasters. They pick their favorites – movies, television, and podcasting moments. It’s a…
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Episode 325: Australia (November 2008)
Coming into this week we were fully unexcited for a three-hour movie, but it turns out we were wrong. Discussing Baz Luhrman’s 2008 epic Australia, we address…
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Episode 324: The Siege (November 1998)
Amity and Lemuel watched 1998’s The Siege – a twisty terrorism romp with a dash of martial law thrown in for flavor. Among the devastating explosions and…
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Episode 323: A Cry in the Dark (November 1988)
Content Warning: Child Death. We watched A Cry in the Dark and then tried to stay light. We discuss media and the justice system and the condemnation this…
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Episode 322: Watership Down (November 1978)
We’re on the November side of Halloween, but there’s some horror left as we watch the dark side of rabbit life in 1978’s Watership Down. Amity is left…
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Episode 321: Halloween (October 1978 - 2018)
We rewatched a classic and watched a cult classic and a modern sequel and we discuss those three films along with the other 8 in the franchise. We tackle the…
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Episode 320: Changeling (October 2008)
CW: Sexual assault; mental health issues. We watched 2008’s Changeling and it combined with the current climate led to a perfect storm of discussion. This is a…
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Episode 319: Rushmore (October 1998)
Description: Differing opinions abound in this episode as we tackle Wes Anderson’s sophomore film, Rushmore. Amity wants to know how come all these adults want…
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Episode 318: Alien Nation (October 1988)
Description: The original Bright and basis for television show, TV movies, novels and comics, we watched Alien Nation and had some questions about the…
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Episode 317: Miracle at St. Anna (September 2008)
Two hours and forty minutes from the inexplicable opening, we get an inexplicable ending with no explication to be found. Amity and Lemuel watch the WWII epic…
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Episode 316: Ronin (September 1998)
Lemuel and Amity watch Amity's "favorite" style of film - a heist movie! What is DeNiro after? A box! What's in the box? It's not Gweneth's head, but beyond…
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Episode 315: Eight Men Out (September 1988)
1919 World Series losers, the Chicago White Sox, colloquially known today as the Black Sox, historically threw the series. This is their story. We try to…
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Episode 314: Gorillas in the Mist (September 1988)
Amity spoiled the end of this historically accurate movie while watching it by going to Wikipedia to try to make sense of the wonky timeline, so this episode…
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Episode 313: Babylon A.D. (August 2008)
Amity thought this was Treasure Planet. Or was it Titan AE? It was neither. Instead, Lemuel and Amity watched the 2008 moving picture Babylon AD. We discuss…
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Episode 312: How Stella Got Her Groove Back (August 1998)
Amity and Lemuel watched a very long movie about a very short conflict, 1998’s How Stella Got Her Groove Back. It had us on Taye Diggs’ side all the way – she…
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Episode 311: All In The Family S8E4 Edith’s 50th Birthday (October 1977)
CW: Sexual Assault; discussion of rape Lemuel has suggested an episode of television that changed the conversation in society - All in the Family season 8…
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Episode 310: The Last Temptation of Christ (August 1988)
Amity and Lemuel watched Martin Scorsese’s 1988 film The Last Temptation of Christ – yes, all 2 hours and 43 minutes of it – and they have feelings, bad bad…
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Episode 309: The Eyes of Laura Mars (August 1978)
Once Amity got past her disdain for the theme song, this watch was smooth sailing. Listen through the violent murder, a treatise on what is art even, a…
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Episode 308: Mamma Mia! (July 2008)
Amity and Lemuel watched Mamma Mia! this week – the original came out 10 years ago. Amity is in full pearl clutching mode at the sexual mores on display – she…
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Episode 307: Saving Private Ryan (July 1998)
Amity and Lemuel delve into the three hour war epic from 1998, Saving Private Ryan. This is a real love-fest for Tom Hanks. And a real dislike-fest for Steven…
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Episode 306: A Fish Called Wanda (July 1988)
Amity and Lemuel have reached 1988 and this week we watched A Fish Called Wanda. Amity had literally no idea what this movie was and feels a bit robbed by that…
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Episode 305: Animal House (July 1978)
Lemuel and Amity finally watched Animal House. Amity thinks all these white dudes look/act/are the same. Lemuel struggles with age and mortality. Amity bets on…
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Episode 304: Kit Kitteridge: An American Girl (June 2008)
June of 2008 brings us the only theatrically released American Girls Dolls movie – Kit Kitteridge – a story of precociousness and hobos populated by big name…
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Episode 303: Mulan (June 1998)
Amity and Lemuel watched Mulan, and both ended up liking it more than they thought they would. We get into the truthiness of M Butterfly, the enjoyment of…
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Episode 302: Coming to America (June 1988)
Description: Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall play three too many characters each in this comedic hit from the 80s. Patrice gets the short end of the stick and…
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Episode 301: Heaven Can Wait (June 1978)
Amity and Lemuel strapped in for a screwball comedy from the seventies, remade from a 1941 film and remade again in 2006, so we are reminded Hollywood…
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Episode 300: Black Panther (99.9% Spoiler Free)
Amity and Lemuel are gearing up for season three so they are taking a detour to discuss current cultural phenomenon, Black Panther. Appropriation…
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Episode 210: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Lemuel and Amity watched 2001: A Space Odyssey this week. Is this the best movie ever made? Should you be high when you watch it? What was Bob Ross’s pet…
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Episode 209: Deliverance
We watched the hill people classic Deliverance - it's a rough go and it was everything Amity expected. We talk about the treatment of sexual assault, the…
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Episode 208: Slumdog Millionaire
Amity thought this was a happy movie. She confused it for a movie with a happy ending. Rough as it is, it does end well and both confirm that Dev Patel is an…
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Episode 207: Pretty in Pink
In a classic boy loves girl, girl loves other boy who loves her back conundrum, we side with college and a future. Does Ducky need medication? Is Andrew Dice…