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Send us Fan Mail We wrap up the Gilliam restrospective in the internet's love language, ranked lists.

Send us Fan Mail Brett Blake joins John to mull over the state of horror in a horrible year

Send us Fan Mail In which, get this, there are aliens in a Spielberg movie!

Send us Fan Mail Gilliam's career comes to its likely close with a film with a film that somehow managed to be one of the hardest-fought triumphs in the history of film, and appropriately doomed to immediate obscurity.

Send us Fan Mail School is back in session in Baltimore, as The Wire somehow completely reinvents itself without changing its stripes.

Send us Fan Mail In which Gilliam gets back to form, sorta, with this basically functional dystopian satire.

Send us Fan Mail In which we have notes on a criminal f****ing conspiracy

Send us Fan Mail Look, it's really very simple.  Heath Ledger is a suicidal fraud with amnesia and a magic pipe, who is also sometimes 3 other actors, and falls in with a medieval theater troupe in present-day London, where they operate as a front for an immortal, alcoholic monk with a post-graduate degree who uses a magical portal to Candyland to weigh human souls as a way to compulsively ga...

Send us Fan Mail We reflect on Wilson Fisk's tenure as mayor of New York, and the ever-escalating difficulty of making genre stories that don't acknowledge the last ten years of politics.

Send us Fan Mail Gwen Sisco returns to offer measured defense of possibly Gilliam's least-loved film.

Send us Fan Mail In which we wake up from a long Bioware hypersleep to roll up our sleeves and get down to some busywork.

Send us Fan Mail Chris Prentice returns to chart Gilliam's precipitous decline with this overcast, fantasy snoozer 

Send us Fan Mail We're drinking with the longshoremen tonight.

Send us Fan Mail David Sarnecki returns to ponder the point where the wave crested and started rolling back, both for the dream of the 1960s and Gilliam's creative prime.

Send us Fan Mail In which Al goes under the microscope to prove his true nerd credentials

Send us Fan Mail Chris Prentice returns to talk about the career comedy superstar-turned-dramatic-workhorse-turned-urban-cryptid, the inimitable Bill Murray.

Send us Fan Mail Joon Kim returns, but to the wrong point in the timeline, landing in a bizarre place where Bruce Willis was engaged with dramatic material, Brad Pitt was just a pretty face, and Terry Gilliam made profitable movies.

Send us Fan Mail It's time to get way down in the hole, as we look back at the premiere season of the ultimate prestige TV drama.

Send us Fan Mail Michael Martin returns as Gilliam searches for the grail (again) while ushering us into Robin Williams bearded era.

Send us Fan Mail We talk about the triumphant first season of KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS, and connect it to WONDER MAN and ANDOR to create the current trend of streaming IP seemingly designed to appeal to people that don't really like that IP.

Send us Fan Mail There is only one Coen brothers, but... well, there are two of them.  But sometimes there's a man...a men...hell, I done lost my train of thought.  This episode is about people who aren't Coens trying to make Coen movies.

Send us Fan Mail Gwen Sisco returns to talk over the capper to Gilliam's Imagination Trilogy.

Send us Fan Mail We finally close the book on the Veilguard, and possibly all of Thedas.

Send us Fan Mail In which our gripes with the Veilguard reach their fever pitch.

Send us Fan Mail Thor Kilppert returns to talk over Gilliam's embattled masterpiece.  The first of those, anyway.