shit talking

all roads lead to Lisbon, actually. in the 54th episode of shit talking, "gentrifying lisbon for love," pedro and marcy are joined by raquel to finally bid farewell to the After series – with "After Everything" largely taking place in Lisbon they've decided to examine the curious and growing phenomenon of romanticising (and gentrifying) the Portuguese capital by young Brits...

stuck in Bulgarian trenches. in the 53rd episode of shit talking, "tessah", pedro and marcy are joined by logan to discuss possibly the two worst films ever made, "After We Fell" and "After Ever Happy," their abysmal attempts at storytelling and pretending that very obviously Central European landscapes are the English countryside, the shift of the series' focus f...

probably the most important franchise of the 2020s (we're being serious). in the 52nd episode of shit talking, "the sparknotes adaptation of wuthering heights," pedro and marcy take on the mammoth of bad filmmaking that is the After series – starting off with "After" and "After We Collided," they discuss the importance of the first film for mainstream media as a w...

the only thing messier than "The Idol" is the actual entertainment industry. in the 51st episode of shit talking, "potentially flagged for audio porn," pedro and marcy discuss the truly spectacular and ambitious failure that is "The Idol" – they discuss all the things that are wrong with the show (and the graphic sex scenes aren't really one of them) and the good...

there ain't nothing scarier than periods and female lust. in the 50th episode of shit talking, "girlies going monster mode," pedro and marcy celebrate Halloween with two very similar yet very different films: "Ginger Snaps" and "Raw" – they discuss sisterhood and monsterhood, the divergent approaches to the aesthetics of gore, the dangers of female desire and desi...

he's been making acting CHOICES from the beginning!!! in the 49th episode of shit talking, "nicolas 'loverboy' cage" pedro and marcy take a look at three movies whose energy, style, and panache succeed at a feat that feels almost unachieveable – namely, that our boy's performance feels perfectly in place and suitable to the aesthetic tone of the piece. they look at Franci...

Nicolas Cage is the only actor that has ever acted, actually. in the forty-eighth episode of shit talking, "good cage gone bad," pedro and marcy begin to consider the work of Nicolas Cage – the long-misunderstood virtuoso of acting; in this episode, they discuss "Vampire's Kiss" (the most depressing film to have ever been memed), "Face/Off" (the unexpected critica...

look out, it's a grown man in kinkwear fighting drag performers!!! in the fourty-seventh episode of shit talking, "batboy and daddy issues," pedro and marcy lovingly discuss joel schumacher's kinky as fuck take on Batman in "Batman Forever" and "Batman & Robin" – from the outlandish set design to otherworldly costume choices, these two are a true feast for...

when you are a 40 year old boyemployee and the teenage girl you have a crush on won't like you back. in the fourty-sixth episode of shit talking, "izabela łęcka you will always be famous," pedro and marcy are joined by their friend (and creator of their cover art), marcin to discuss two core works of the Polish literary canon – "Lalka" by Bolesław Prus and "Dziady&quot...

in this bonus episode, pedro and marcy discuss how the natural consequence of sparkles is female agency — and how chris nolan just doesn’t do it for pedro anymore

in the forty-fifth episode of shit talking, "a star is porn," pedro and marcy tackle the American pornography industry – its 70s heyday in "Boogie Nights," the contemporary scene and its many contradictions in "Pleasure," and the long-standing relationship between poverty and sex work in "Red Rocket". this one has everything: prosthetic dicks! the need for l...

back in the shitter (sponsored by wattpad). in the forty-fourth episode of shit talking, "rocky (wattpad's version)," pedro and marcy are back with their regularly scheduled programming, taking on one of the worst films ever made, "Perfect Addiction," and a 2-hour-long "After" commercial, "Beautiful Disaster," discussing the Sprouse twins lore and what m...

we forced ourselves to watch good films this time! / in the forty-third episode of shittalking, "the may jigsaw episode," pedro and marcy present you a collection of their voicenotes on stuff they asked each other to read and watch throughout the busy month of May – what follows is pedro's review of "Sing Street," "Sweat," and J.M. Coetzee's "Disgrace,&qu...

in this bonus episode, pedro and marcy discuss the series finale of "Succession" and why it was such an important and extraordinary little show (also justice for roman)

make American cinema sexy again!!! / in the forty-second episode of shit talking, "pornonoir," pedro and marcy investigate the fascinating landscape of 1980s erotic thrillers with "Body Heat," "Dressed to Kill" and "Crimes of Passion"; they discuss the genre's origins and allure, argue against its perceived trashiness, and lament the prudishness and the...

in the forty-first episode of shit talking, "portuguese-american history hour (x3.5)," pedro and marcy are joined by their friend raquel (herself a portuguese-american legend) to discuss two films that claim to represent the portuguese-american minority: "A Date with Miss Fortune" and "Mystic Pizza" – however, one is so abysmally bad and the other so comically uninter...

gotta love that "a Norwegian girl feels completely lost as she navigates a well-written love triangle" genre. in the fortieth episode of shit talking, "the realest person in the world," pedro and marcy discuss the peak naturalist masterpiece that is the first season of "Blank" (the lesser known sister show of the widely influential "Skam"); from Ella's arrested coming-of-age and the show's comment...

dunking on showgirls is a red flag, prove us wrong in the thirty-ninth episode of shit talking, "magic nomi," pedro and marcy take on the best "worst" film ever made "Showgirls" and its trully bizarre crowd-funded sequel "Showgirls 2: Penny's from Heaven," trying to get to the bottom of why a film so daring with its artistic choices was received with such bad faith; they also indulge in early zoom...

espionage is for lesbians and terminally straight dudes. in the thirty-eighth episode of shit talking, "pussies & pistols," pedro and marcy investigate spycraft on film -- they talk about the chronically straight roger moore as 007 in "Octopussy" (a film that sounds a lot more fun than it actually is) as well as the forgotten masterpiece of the mid-2000s, "D.E.B.S." ("D.E.B.S." walked so "Kill...

scooby dooby doo where are you? for you're sure not in this episode.  in the thirty-seventh episode of shit talking, "2022: a year," pedro and marcy are back from their unintended hiatus and break with the mold and list like a buzzfeed "article" all the best things they watched, read and listened to in the year of our lady immaculate taylor swift 2022 -- they also may or may not address the s...

tasteful is not the word. in the thirty-sixth episode of shit talking, "the head cuntress hotel: psychoanalysing ryan murphy (again)," pedro and marcy once again try to understand the twisted workings of ryan murphy's psyche -- this time though through the prism of his depraved!gay show aka American Horror Story (as opposed to this menece!gay show that is Glee); focusing on the underappreciated fi...

john travolta as edna can, like, get it / in the thirthy-fifth episode of shit talking and the seventh palate cleanser, "whitewashing, but make it camp," pedro and marcy go back in time to study the beginnings of popular music in 50s and 60s through "Elvis," "Dreamgirls," and "Hairspray" (the 2007 version); they discuss the bops and the flops, investigate how the shady business of Jennifer Hudson'...

monk used hygenic wipes before it was cool.  in the thirty-fourth episode of shit talking, "mr. monk and the podcast," marcy once again exploits this podcast to make pedro watch a beloved series from her childhood -- and she once again strikes gold; focusing on four episodes from various seasons ("mr. monk and the airplane," "mr. monk and the garbage strike," "mr. monk and the rapper" and "mr...

hypothesis: even when open-minded, a published reylo fanfiction will inevitably make you cringe. in the thirty-third episode of shit talking, "STEM (seriously terrible envisionment of mating)," pedro and marcy read the tiktok phenomenon "The Love Hypothesis" and were not impressed or even that entertained; they discuss the source texts (marcy's favourite star wars film is to no one's surprise "the...

when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie that's amoreeeeeeee. in the thirty-second episode of shit talking, "guidofellas," pedro and marcy are feeling, ehhh, a bit italian--and what got them in that mood? not robert de niro, nor scorsese, nor stallone (yet), but three superbly stereotypically Italian films: "Little Italy," "Mambo Italiano" and "Kiss Me Guido"; from pizza wars to off-off-Br...