Same Movie Every Week

The Poole boys are back again for another exciting episode breaking down the 2019 masterpiece Pokémon Detective Pikachu. In addition to this film, EK and Harrison also both watched Rob Letterman's debut live-action film 2010's Gulliver's Travels, and Harrison saw his 2015 follow up with Goosebumps. They pick apart and discussion themes, motifs, and even full sequences that appear throughout all th...

For Halloween this year, Harrison and EK return to discuss 2019's Pokémon Detective Pikachu through the lens of monster movie. They break down some of the tropes and individual makings of the subgenre to see how not only this film but the franchise as a whole fits into the category. They see what each Pokémon could represent to the characters and story as a hole as well as discuss other genres of...

Only 10 weeks left for the Poole brothers this year, and for the second half of Harrison's birthday special, he has brought Pokémon Ranger and The Temple of the Sea. It's a film they enjoy but have more critiques of than any other movie in this franchise thusfar. They break down the emotional core, May vs Misty, as well as point out the obvious homage to Miyazaki's The Castle in the Sky. It's a go...

This week, it's the first part of Harrison's birthday special. Just like in July, the Poole brothers have decided to watch another movie in the Pokémon franchise to serve as a companion to 2019's Detective Pikachu. For the first week, Harrison has brought the 2001 movie Pokémon 4Ever, and he and EK dissect the film as it compares to the 2019 masterpiece. This episode also leads to an in-depth disc...

This week, Harrison and EK are back with another episode discussing Pokémon as a franchise after watching the 2019 masterpiece Pokémon Detective Pikachu for the fortieth week of 2026. This episode, they analyze what little is known about the upcoming Winds and Waves video games as well as give their predictions for the upcoming tenth generation of the franchise. This is a less Detective Pikachu ce...

This week, the Poole brothers are joined by a very special guest, Harrison's partner Geneva! The three of them (along with their dog Lillia) sit down on a couch in a family basement to watch along and give their live thoughts while 2019's Pokémon Detective Pikachu literally plays in front of them. The following is a best of clip show of that viewing. While Harrison and E.K. are still going mad, ha...

Harrison and E.K. Poole are back for another week of talking about Pokémon Detective Pikachu. This week is a listener suggested episode where Harrison's high school friend asked the brothers to go even wider in scope and examine Detective Pikachu through the lens of other Pokémon fan created media. They break down Nuzlockes, various fan games, and speedrunning and try to relate it all to the 2019...

This week, the Poole brothers are back to talk about 2019's Pokémon Detective Pikachu. To mix things up, they have decided to go a little wider in their examination and talk about other spin-off games within the franchise. Harrison brings Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, and Ethan brings Pokémon Conquest. They give an overview of each game and then theorize how a movie or miniseries would work if The Poké...

This week, the brothers are back to talk about Pokémon. Detective Pikachu specifically but also Pokémon films more generally as they break down their personal experiences with the films and attempt to explain the storytelling techniques used across the franchise. While doing so, they also try to find out information on the production pipeline of each film and see what specifics details they can fi...

Harrison and Ethan have returned this week to deliver the good word of 2019's Pokémon Detective Pikachu. For this week, they decide to zoom out a little bit and focus on the franchise more generally and the effect it has brought to their individual lives. They also give a brief history of the origin of the franchise as well as give their opinions on the recently announced Pokémon: Wild Card and th...

This week, brothers Harrison and EK Poole return after another watch through of 2019's Pokémon Detective Pikachu. And a few weeks ago, Harrison discovered that there existed a graphic novel adaptation of the film, and after waiting for it to come in the mail, it finally arrived. So he fast-tracked this episode to get it out while the excitement was still fresh. Does he end up enjoying the graphic...

This week, Harrison and EK return for another watch-through of Pokémon Detective Pikachu. They take a look at some reviews that came out around the time the film was still in theaters and attempt to break them down and understand how certain conclusions were arrived at. They also briefly attempt to determine what the purpose of a review is and what service it provides. They've both gone slightly s...

The Poole boys are back again to check in with each other after another viewing of Pokémon Detective Pikachu. They compare their thoughts on where they are with the viewing journey, assess the current state of the show, and discuss possible future iterations that could occur in the coming year. Over halfway through with 2026, they've both hit a bit of a wall but are still enjoying the act of makin...

Harrison and EK are back for another week of watching 2019's Pokémon Detective Pikachu. This week, back by mild demand, the Poole brothers decide to take another look at the behind-the-scenes bonus content as well as Detective Mode to comment on aspects of the features they missed and to deepen their appreciation for the movie. Not a discovery per se, but they do find themselves expanding on what...

It's week 30 of 2026, and Harrison and EK Poole are back with another dissection of 2019's Pokémon Detective Pikachu. This week, they examine the incredibly muddy and confusing use of disability within the movie and how this might reveal the biases of the creative team and the audience. They attempt to answer exactly what Rob Letterman and Co. have to say on the topic and whether the movie express...

After analyzing the 2019 masterpiece that is Pokémon Detective Pikachu as a loose adaptation of the 2018 video game, Harrison and Ethan are back to attempt to examine it as an even looser adaptation (or possibly parody) of the Arthur Conan Doyle series of Sherlock Holmes stories and novels. Is this as much of a stretch as you think it is? What inspiration from the original capped detective does De...

Harrison has spent the last week playing the 2018 video game Pokémon Detective Pikachu in order to share with his brother Ethan how the 2019 film works as an adaptation. It's very loose, but the things the filmmakers did choose to take are often quite confusing. They try to determine why certain choices are made and how those choices affect the end product.

The Poole boys are back for another week of watching and analyzing 2019's Pokémon Detective Pikachu. This week, they decided to keep Ethan's birthday celebration going and let him pick another film in the franchise to watch alongside, and he chose the 2018 animated feature Pokémon: The Power of Us. It's a nice, slice-of-life romp with some thematic but also assorted plot relevance when compared to...

This week is Ethan's birthday so to celebrate the brothers decided to watch one of his other favorite Pokémon movies to dissect and compare and contrast to Detective Pikachu. He chose 2005's Lucario and the Mystery of Mew. Harrison and Ethan breakdown this movie thematically and structurally as well as speak about how well this movie holds up, even without the necessary nostalgia. They also do the...

Fresh off their silent film episode, the Poole Brothers decided that they wanted to play in the same realm of analysis and focus this week on Henry Jackman's score as well as other songs in the soundtrack. They try to determine what the individual tracks are communicating emotionally and plot-wise, and they also compare it to other scores in similar genres of film. They entered this episode not su...

Every week, the Poole Brothers watch Detective Pikachu incorrectly, but this week might be the most extreme example. This week, Harrison and Ethan sat down, turned off all the volume and subtitles, and watched the movie as if it were specifically made as a silent film. Does it translate without dialogue and music? What is lost in the noise (or lack thereof)? Are there other talkie films that would...

For nearly seven years now, The Pokémon Company has been silent on any details of the possibility of the release of the sequel to 2019's Detective Pikachu. This week, the brothers attempt to pitch some ideas for that sequel, tentatively titled The Great Detective Pikachu. Some predictions include the reveal of Roger's mother, the big bad guy, an addition of another legendary Pokémon, as well as ex...

Fresh from their midway check-in, Harrison and Ethan return with another genre fiction related, pseudo-academic episode breaking down the 2019 masterpiece Pokémon Detective Pikachu and how it fits into the cyberpunk subgenre of sci-fi. They discuss ways in which it takes from the tropes and how they differ. Ethan also explains to Harrison (and the audience) what solarpunk is and how Detective Pika...

Now nearly at the midway point of their journey, Harrison and Ethan return for another week of watching Pokémon Detective Pikachu. They discuss their thoughts on the podcast as it currently exists, how they feel about the movie twenty-one weeks in, as well as where the show might be headed into next year. Ethan is growing tired of the watching experience, and Harrison is feeling the very beginning...

This week, the Poole boys are back with another deep dive into the 2019 masterpiece that is Pokémon Detective Pikachu. This time, they've decided to take a look at the father/son relationship dynamics between protagonists Tim and Harry Goodman and antagonists Roger and Howard Clifford. They note how they serve as foils to one another narratively and note the similarities and differences between th...