The Everything Sequel Podcast

Listen as Mike and Tom discuss the 1993 sequel Robocop 3. You'll hear Tom's arguments against some character names that he argues do not represent who the characters are or what they do, discussions about the deep bench of supporting players that can't manage to make the most out of bad dialogue and a chat about America's apparent fascination and fear of Japanese culture in the early nineties. Tha...

Listen as Mike and Tom announce their plans for a Patreon. You'll hear what you get for five dollars, what you get for ten dollars, our plans for you if you decide to give us a silly amount of money and what you can expect if you give us an obscene amount of money. Thanks to our monthly supporters Matt and Vicki S Kate L Daniel Prudhoe Andrew Pangle Steve Weiss Matthew Aldrich Edward Lankford Heat...

Listen as Mike and Tom discuss the 1990 sequel Robocop 2. You'll hear what we thinks works about this sequel and what we have to admit does not, how much Mike's Irvin Kershner impression has devolved and who it sounds like now and a labored discussion about the last five seconds of the movie that includes a joke, what we think of the joke and whether or not the joke works. Thanks to our monthly su...

Listen as Mike and Tom rank and declare for the Robocop series. You'll hear which of these movies we think is much better than the other, musings about an old sequel directing friend because Irvin Kershner directs one of these sequels and discussions about the Larry David and NBC prime-time school of actors that pack one of these films. Thanks to our monthly supporters Matt and Vicki S Kate L Dani...

Listen as Mike and Tom discuss their 200th episode with the 1994 sequel Star Trek: Generations. You'll hear the state of the podcast including some new and exciting news for fans, whether or not we think Star Trek: Generations is good and where it ranks with TOS and why this is a perfect bridge movie to our next 100 episodes. Thanks for joining us in the balcony for this ride! Thanks to our monthl...

Listen as Mike and Tom pitch sequels to Sam Raimi's Spider-Man series. You'll hear whether or not we can manage to like each other's titles even a little bit, which of your hosts takes Spider-Man on vacation for their sequel pitch and which of us decides to kill off a major character in their sequel pitch's cold open. Thanks to our monthly supporters Matt and Vicki S Kate L Daniel Prudhoe Andrew P...

Listen as Mike and Tom discuss the 2007 sequel Spider-Man 3. You'll hear what we think of the villain heavy sequel and how thinly that choice spreads the narrative of the film, how odd it is this movie believes that only about six people live in New York and the coincidence heavy relation they have to each other and how this movie finally got us on its side, if only briefly. Thanks to our monthly...

Listen as Mike and Tom discuss the 2004 sequel Spider-Man 2. You'll hear how good each of your hosts think this movie is, what about the movie works so well and the few places it falls short and what we think of the set pieces and action scenes that set this movie apart from the sequel that follows it. Thanks to our monthly supporters Matt and Vicki S Kate L Daniel Prudhoe Andrew Pangle Steve Weis...

Listen as Mike and Tom rank and declare the Sam Raimi Spider-Man sequels. You'll hear how difficult it is for us to conceal our rankings and declariations for these two sequels, our final decisions which we feel are easy to come to based on what the filmmakers gave us and discussions as to how good one of these movies is and how bad the other movie is according to your fearless podcasters.  Thanks...

Listen as Mike and Tom pitch sequels to the original Star Wars trilogy. You'll hear yet another disagreement about titles in which Tom describes Mike's title as the one weak link and then believes Mike to retaliate in not at all good faith, where we decide to place our sequels and the not planned excellent place we put them to create a pentalogy for the series and finally you'll hear what we decid...

Listen as Mike and Tom continue to talk about the 1983 sequel Return of the Jedi. You'll hear what we think about the Ewoks and if we find them as egregious as fandom does, what we have to say about the speeder bike chase and how much we love the sound work in that scene and where we think the last lightsaber fight stands in the series. Thanks to our monthly supporters Matt and Vicki S Kate L Dani...

Listen as Mike and Tom start discussing the 1983 sequel Return of the Jedi. You'll hear how far we get in this first part for Jedi (spoiler alert, we don't get past Jabba), the differences we see between the original and the movie as it stands today and what we think about Harrison Ford's commitment, his blind acting and how much we love him anyway. Thanks to our monthly supporters Matt and Vicki...

Listen as Mike and Tom continue talking about the 1980 sequel The Empire Strikes Back. You'll hear further discussions about the writing, directing, acting and effects in this movie, what we think of the characterization of Lando and why we think the mix of comedy and drama work so well in this film. Thanks to our monthly supporters Matt and Vicki S Kate L Daniel Prudhoe Andrew Pangle Steve Weiss...

Listen as Mike and Tom discuss the 1980 sequel The Empire Strikes Back. You'll hear discussions as to how much of this movie works and why, the sequel inversions that run rampant in this sequel and our comical impressions of George Lucas and director Irvin Kershner throughout the show. Thanks to our monthly supporters Matt and Vicki S Kate L Daniel Prudhoe Andrew Pangle Steve Weiss Matthew Aldrich...

Listen as Mike and Tom rank the original Star Wars trilogy. You'll hear if the forgone conclusion is the forgone conclusion in terms of which movie is at the top of our lists, whether or not we agree that both of these movies are good and if we agree with fandom about Return of the Jedi. Thanks to our monthly supporters Matt and Vicki S Kate L Daniel Prudhoe Andrew Pangle Steve Weiss Matthew Aldri...

Listen as Mike and Tom discuss the whole of the Halloween series one more time just to see what they missed. You'll hear how they regard the series as a whole, a re-ranking of the entire series and if there are any movies that move up or down in our lists as well as if any have switched from bad to good or good to bad. Thanks to our monthly supporters Matt and Vicki S Kate L Daniel Prudhoe Andrew...

Listen as Mike and Tom pitch sequels to the Halloween series for the second time. You'll hear where in the timeline each host puts their sequels, whether or not Mike got his homework right and which legacy characters will star in our pitched sequels. In addition we'll be throwing out a listener pitch! Thanks to our monthly supporters Matt and Vicki S Kate L Daniel Prudhoe Andrew Pangle Steve Weiss...

Listen as Mike and Tom discuss the 2022 sequel Halloween Ends. You'll hear why we're happy that the current batch of sequels are finally ending with Ends, what we think about the filmmakers choice to start an entire new story in the midst of ending a forty-four year long story and the many, many, many problems we have with this ill-conceived venture that tries to close out the Laurie Strode story....

Listen as Mike and Tom discuss the 2021 sequel Halloween Kills. You'll hear why your fearless hosts hate this movie more than any other of the Halloween sequels from H2O on, how surprised Tom is that Mike can differentiate what he hates and how much he hates it and discussions about how the filmmakers made so many promises that they simply couldn't keep. Thanks to our monthly supporters Matt and V...

Listen as Mike and Tom discuss the 2018 sequel Halloween. You'll hear how little Tom thinks of this sequel and why he thinks the critical and audience response to it was mass hallucination, why Mike disagrees with this assessment and how much he is starting to think Tom might be right and Tom's reaction to Mike's explanation of what he likes most about the end of the movie. An explanation which st...

Listen as Mike and Tom discuss the 2002 film Halloween: Resurrection. You'll hear why we think this movie has some intellectual ideas worth exploring behind it, the ways in which the film squanders those ideas in a way it can't recover from and musings as to how the producers completely missed the lesson they thought they learned from Halloween H2O: Twenty Years Later. Thanks to our monthly suppor...

Listen as Mike and Tom discuss the 1998 sequel Halloween H2O: Twenty Years Later. You'll hear why this sequel is our favorite in the second part of our look at the Halloween series, discussions on the meta quality of the film and why it works so well and explanations as to why this movie should be preferred over the most recent sequels. Thanks to our monthly supporters Matt and Vicki S Kate L Dani...

Listen as Mike and Tom rank and declare for the second half of the Halloween series. You'll hear which of these movies both hosts have at the top of their lists, how much Tom disagrees with the world regarding one of these films, which  disregarded sequel we think has some surprising merit and Mike's struggle with knowing that Tom is probably right about one sequel in particular. Thanks to our mon...

Listen as Mike and Tom pitch sequels to the Star Trek series. You'll hear Mike's disappointment when hearing how easy it was for Tom to come up with his pitch for the series, Tom's like of disappointment in Mike's title as he understands all the words in the title which is not always a given in Mike's titles and you'll hear where in the timeline we decide to put our sequels. Thanks to our monthly...

Listen as Mike and Tom discuss the 1991 sequel Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. You'll hear how what we think of this sort of last installment for the original cast, how much we like the mash up of genres in the film including an Agatha Christie murder mystery, the appearance of a Christian Slater, how well Sulu fits into a Captain's chair and the extreme literacy of this movie. Thanks to o...