We Needed Roads Podcast

🚨 SPOILER WARNING! 🚨Pack your bags, avoid the fog and join the We Needed Roads Team for some sunset cocktails because we're heading to Widow's Bay for our full Season 1 Spoiler Special! Joining Neil are David, Jose and Marie to break down one of the biggest surprise TV hits of the year. The show we've affectionately dubbed "Spooky Parks and Recreation" somehow mixed small-t...

💪 BY THE POWER OF GRAYSKULL! 💀⚔️This week on We Needed Roads, we're heading back to Eternia for our spoiler-filled review of Masters of the Universe! Joining Neil are Marie, Jose, and special guest Clare from the W-Rated Podcast as we ask the important questions: Has He-Man finally got the big-screen adaptation fans have been waiting for? Does Skeletor still have the greatest villain design...

The internet's favourite nightmare has finally escaped YouTube and made its way to the big screen. Join Neil and special guest Clare from the W-Rated Podcast as we dive into Backrooms, Kane Parsons' hugely anticipated horror film adaptation of the viral phenomenon. We discuss how low-budget horror continues to punch well above its weight, following in the footsteps of recent breakout succe...

The Boys is finally over. Join Neil, Luke, Marie and Jose as we dive headfirst into the fifth and final season of The Boys and ask the big question: did one of TV's most outrageous, violent and unpredictable shows actually stick the landing? From jaw-dropping deaths and shocking twists to questionable choices and moments that left us screaming "WHAT THE ACTUAL F***?", we're break...

Neil is joined by first-time guest Jack Gregson from the @WhenRomMetComPod for a deep dive into Season 1 of Saturday Night Live UK — the show that had most of the internet sharpening it's knives before a single sketch had even aired. From the impossible task of adapting an iconic American comedy institution for a British audience, to the sketches, hosts, musical guests and the inevitable onlin...

The Viltrumites are back, the trauma levels are somehow EVEN HIGHER, and once again Invincible proves that absolutely nobody is safe. Join Neil, David, Marie & Jose for a full spoiler special as we break down the GOOD, the BAD and the absolutely unhinged WTF moments from Season 4. From brutal fights and emotional damage to shocking deaths, awkward relationships and enough blood to fill several...

Welcome back to We Needed Roads, where we scrub in, get messy and fear the heart felt musical montage! This week, Neil, Jose, and David dive headfirst into the long-awaited (and slightly feared) Scrubs Season 10 reboot. Did this revival bring the heart, humour, and gut-punch feels we all need… or does this reboot need a bodybag? Expect full spoilers as we break down the good, the bad and the WTF m...

Grab a drink and maybe a tissue, because we’re diving headfirst into Shrinking Season 3 in this full spoiler special from We Needed Roads. Neil, Jose, Marie & David are back on the couch breaking down everything Apple TV’s most emotionally devastating (and weirdly comforting) show threw at us this season. From gut-punch moments to laugh-out-loud therapy chaos, we cover the highs, the lows, and...

Welcome back to We Needed Roads, where this week it’s time to scrub up and dive straight into Artful Dodger Season 2 — and trust us… things get messy but also hilarious Neil has fully, unapologetically fallen in love with Fanny (we’re not judging… much), while Marie is just grateful for a second series we never expected to see. But did Season 2 deliver the drama, the danger, and the comedy we want...

The Straw Hats are back—and so are we. In this full SPOILER SPECIAL for One Piece Season 2 (Netflix), Neil, David, and Marie break down everything from epic highs to “what the actual hell was that?” moments. Neil came into Season 2 cautiously optimistic after thinking Season 1 was fine… but did this one win him over? David has gone full pirate scholar, deep into the anime and manga trenches—so how...

Welcome back to We Needed Roads, where this episode we take two films with the exact same plot… and force them into a death match until only one crawls out covered in bloody carnage and in desperate need of a trip to the hospital! This week: two films, one mission — save your sister from a satanic cult. One does it with dark comedy, ridiculous violence, and rich people getting what they deserve…Th...

Welcome back to We Needed Roads, the podcast that proves you don’t need qualifications, training, or even basic emotional stability to be an astronaut...sorry review films on the internet, just a mic, a take, and the confidence of a man explaining astrophysics after two small beers. This week, we’re diving headfirst into Project Hail Mary—a story about a guy who wakes up alone in space, confused,...

Bold move watching a whole season hours before recording—so let’s not pretend this episode isn’t powered by caffeine, chaos, and Neil desperately trying to keep things on the rails. Welcome to our Star Trek: Starfleet Academy spoiler special, where the syllabus includes: deep lore dives, unhinged takes, and Jose and Marie trying to remember character names like they’re cramming for an exam they ab...

Tonight… we ride...Not in a DeLorean, not through time, but straight into muddy fields, dodgy taverns, and the most polite violence HBO has ever put on television — because we’re talking Season One of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Yes, the smaller, scrappier, surprisingly heartfelt cousin to Game of Thrones — where the politics are quieter, the swords are still sharp, and the vibes are basically...

Join Neil & Luke as they delve into these years somewhat controversial BAFTAS films awards. Neil talks his issues with the format of the ceremony, Luke declares his love for the smaller films getting a big stage and they work there way through the winners and losers before getting into THAT controversy with their take on it. Also go watch I Swear ASAPIf you love movies, TV, geek culture or lis...

📚🎬  Adapt This Book! | Dream Movie & TV Adaptations  🎬📚 What if Hollywood actually listened to us for once? In this episode of  Adapt This Book , Neil, Marie and Luke each pick a book they  desperately  want to see turned into a film or TV series — and then argue, nerd out, and wildly over-pitch like we’ve accidentally wandered into a Netflix boardroom. 📖  Luke  brings the emotional devas...

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Join Neil & David as they dive boars head first in Sam Raimi's blood and mucus filled desert island darkly comic survival horror Send Help starring Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien. We breakdown how much of an Island bad ass Linda Liddle is until she becomes slightly problematic, and how much of a mewling man baby O'Brien's Bradley is throughout Will there be a redemption arc f...

🚨 SPOILER REVIEW 🚨In this episode of We Needed Roads, Neil and David sit down for a full spoiler discussion of Rental Family, a film that quietly sneaks up on you, wrecks your emotions, and then gives you a big, gentle cuddle afterwards. Neil goes all in, describing Rental Family as a warm hug of a film and argues that Brendan Fraser’s performance here hits harder and feels more honest than his...

Park Chan-wook is back, and No Other Choice is another masterpiece. In this FULL SPOILER REVIEW, Neil and David dive headfirst into Park Chan-wook’s pitch-black thriller, unpacking the insanely precise editing, the escalating moral nightmare, and just how far desperation can push an ordinary bloke when a job is on the line. Along the way, Neil asks the truly important questions:Would David murder...

This week on We Needed Roads, Neil and David sit down to talk about Hamnet… and immediately regret thinking this would be a normal, emotionally stable conversation. Based on Maggie O’Farrell’s devastating novel, Hamnet is a quiet, beautiful, grief-soaked gut punch — and yes, we spend most of this review adjacent to the kitchen as someone was clearly cutting onions We get into:Performances that abs...

Welcome back to We Needed Roads for the most metal film of 2026 so far!!! This is your no-holds-barred SPOILER SPECIAL for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple — directed by Nia DaCosta, with Danny Boyle’s & Alex Garlands DNA still pulsing through every frame like the infection itself. If you haven’t seen the film yet, stop right now, because we are about to rip this thing open like Samson and a sp...

Welcome back to We Needed Roads, and this is your FULL SPOILER WARNING, because today we’re heading back to Derry… and nothing is safe. 🎈Neil, David and Luke dive headfirst into the storm drain of Welcome to Derry, HBO’s Stephen King–soaked return to the town that really should’ve been condemned decades ago. We’re turtles,, cursed history, nightmare fuel, and how this show plugs into the ever-exp...

Alright folks, welcome back to We Needed Roads. This week Neil, David, Jose and Luke are catching up on everything they watched over the holidays – a wildly unhinged mix of Christmas classics, (regular classics) and they even escaped the Christmas cheer to make it to the cinema several times! We’re diving into stone-cold legends like Jaws (still perfect), Home Alone (way darker than you remember),...

Happy New Year and welcome back to We Needed Roads — the podcast where the chat is nerdy, the swearing is plentiful, and research on release dates was definitely done. This week we’re diving head-first into all the major TV show and movies were excited about that are hopefully dropping in 2026. From superhero behemoths and prestige dramas to horror sequels, wild indies, new streaming experiments —...