Welcome To The Party Pal: The Mind-Bending Film & Television Podcast You Didn't Know You Needed!

Welcome To The Party Pal ( Osiris Media ) invites you to join in on a deconstruction / celebration of the most celebrated and important film of 2019, Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite . Parasite is a South Korean dark comedy thriller directed by Joon-ho, who also wrote the film's story and co-wrote the screenplay with Han Jin-won. The film stars Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik, and...

Welcome To The Party Pal ( Osiris Media ) proudly presents a celebration of the the year in cinema 2019 with an episode dedicated to the 92nd Academy Awards. In this episode, hosts Mitch Lucas and Michael Shields recap the Oscar ceremony while shining a light on the remarkable works that the famed award ceremony commemorated. Expounding upon the art and artists celebrated at the Oscars, this episo...

Welcome To The Party invites you to a deconstruction / celebration of the most stressful and manic film of 2019, Uncut Gems .  Uncut Gems  is the 2019 American crime thriller directed by Josh and Benny Safdie, who co-wrote the screenplay with Ronald Bronstein. The film stars Adam Sandler, Kevin Garnett, Lakeith Stanfield, Julia Fox, Mike...

Welcome To The Party Pal journeys to a galaxy far, far away in an episode dedicated to the gift that keeps giving that is Star Wars. In an dual-focused episode, the most recent offerings from the Jedi, Sith, and droid thronged universe are discussed in depth. First up, hosts Mitch Lucas and Michael Shields set their sights on The Mandalorian, the space Western web television series that premiered...

Welcome To The Party invites you to a deconstruction / celebration of Season One of HBO’s Watchmen. Watchmen is a superhero drama television series that continues the 1987 DC Comics series Watchmen, created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. The television series was created by Damon Lindelof for HBO, with Lindelof serving as executive producer and writer. Its remarkable ensemble cast includes Regina...

Welcome To the Party Pal meticulously explores the in-and-outs of the fascinating British dark comedy / drama television program The End of the Fing World. The End of the Fing World, which is based on a graphic novel of the same name by Charles Forsman, follows James (Alex Lawther), a 17-year-old who believes himself to be a psychopath, and Alyssa (Jessica Barden), a rebellious classmate who sees...

Batten down the hatches! Episode 36 of Welcome To The Party Pal travels to a remote island off the coast of New England to examine one of the most original and captivating films of 2019, The Lighthouse. The Lighthouse is an American psychological horror film directed and produced by Robert Eggers, who co-wrote the screenplay with his brother Max Eggers. Shot in black-and-white, the film follows tw...

Welcome To The Party Pal invites you to experience a celebration of Martin Scorsese’s latest filmmaking epic, The Irishman. The film is a 2019 American crime flick directed and produced by legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese and written by Steven Zaillian, based on the 2004 book I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt. It stars Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci, with solid co-star perfor...

Welcome To The Party Pal transports listeners back in time to 1327 Italy in an episode dedicated to the multiple adaptations of Italian author Umberto Eco's renowned novel, The Name of The Rose. The Name of The Rose follows an enlightened friar and his young apprentice as they investigate a series of mysterious deaths at an abbey, wherein risking the wrath of a powerful Inquisitor. In 1986 filmmak...

Welcome To The Party Pal invites listeners into the sordid, captivating world of HBO's Succession. Succession is an American satirical comedy-drama television series created by Jesse Armstrong that centers on the fictional Roy family, the dysfunctional owners of a global media and hospitality empire. The series features an ensemble cast which includes Brian...

Episode 32 delves into Chasing the Moon, a film by Robert Stone, a six-hour documentary series about the space race that journeys from its earliest beginnings to the monumental achievement of the first lunar landing in 1969 and beyond. Chasing the Moon thoroughly reimagines the race to the moon for a new generation, upending much of the conventional mythology surrounding the effort....

Welcome To The Party Pal journeys back to 1969 Los Angeles to celebrate the 9th film by acclaimed director Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. In Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,everything is changing as TV star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) make their way around an industry they hardly recognize anymore. To aid in the dissection...

Episode 30 on WTTPP takes you on the road in an in-depth celebration of the first two seasons of Mike Judge Presents: Tales from the Tour Bus. Tales from the Tour Bus is an animated documentary television series created by Mike Judge, Richard Mullins and Dub Cornett that airs on Cinemax which presents a biographical oral history of musicians with each season focusing on a specific genre (Season 1:...

In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics became one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes. In June 2019, the hosts of Welcome To The Party Pal — Brian Sachson and Michael Shields — convened to celebrate and dissect HBO's 5 part miniseries about the disastrous event, Chernobyl. Chernobyl was created and written by Craig Mazin,...

The Welcome To The Party team revisits the subject of their debut episode, once again exploring the twisted, thought-proving world of the techno-paranoia anthology Black Mirror. Black Mirror is a television series created by Charlie Brooker, which he writes and executive produces with Annabel Jones, where each episode “is all about the way we live now; and the way we might be living in 10 minutes'...

On the cusp of its 40th Anniversary, the Welcome To The Party Pal duo — with the help of actor/comedian Will Nunziata (of God Ween Evan fame) — celebrate the masterpiece that is Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now. Apocalypse Now journeys to Vietnam in 1970 where Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) takes a dangerous and uniquely psychedelic journey upriver to find and terminate “with extreme pre...

WTTPP hosts Brian Sachson and Michael Shields — with the help of Game of Thrones expert and Across The Margin’s GOT Guru Geoffrey Golia — celebrate and dissect the worldwide phenomenon that is the television series Game of Thrones. Coming on the heels of the hit HBO show’s series finale, the George R.R. Martin penned epic is given the full WTTPP treatment in an episode that attempts to reconcile w...

The Welcome To The Party Pal team invites you to join in on a celebration of the career of one of the most gifted character actors in modern times, Bill Paxton. With 97 acting credits to his name, including films such as The Terminator, Weird Science, Aliens, Near Dark, Tombstone, True Lies, Apollo 13, Twister, Titanic, Edge of Tomorrow, and Nightcrawler, and also starring in the HBO drama series...

The Welcome to The Party Pal duo go all in on the 22nd film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and the follow up to 2018's Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame. Dissecting and celebrating the finale to Marvel's epic Infinity Saga, hosts Brian Sachson and Michael Shields expound upon the intricacies of the film, from the post snap fallout of Thanos' master plan, to the time travel rules employed by...

In this latest episode of Welcome To The Party Pal, the eye-opening and urgent documentary One Nation Under Stress (HBO) is dissected with the help of its director Marc Levin. One Nation Under Stress follows Sanjay Gupta (CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent) as he tries to uncover the root causes of why American life expectancy is falling and is now shorter than all other major developed countries....

Pulling no punches, yet careful in their treatment of a sensitive/controversial topic, the Welcome To The Party Pal duo examines the HBO documentary directed and produced by filmmaker Dan Reed, Leaving Neverland, which focuses on two men, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who allege they were sexually abused as children by the singer Michael Jackson. In this episode hosts Brian Sachson and Michael...

The latest episode of Welcome To The Party Pal invites you into the world of Richard Adams's Watership Down. Expounding upon Adam's 1972 survival and adventure novel which features a small group of rabbits, the 1978 animated film adaptation written and directed by Martin Rosen, AND the 2018 BBC/Netflix limited series, this episode discusses the unique way in which Adams birthed the story, the weig...

The 20th episode of Welcome To The Party Pal draws you deep into the world of HBO's True Detective, the gritty anthology crime drama television series created by Nic Pizzolatto. On the heels of the finale of Season 3, this episode explores the three timelines present in the season, Pizzolatto's meticulously and deeply-engaging crafted storyline, the exploration of the darkened corners of the mind...

Episode 19 of Welcome To The Party Pal ushers listeners into one of the most notorious festival failures of all time, Billy McFarland and Ja Rule's Fyre Festival. Expounding on two documentaries that explored the arrogance and incompetence behind Frye's failure — Hulu's Fyre Fraud and Netflix's Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened — hosts Brian Sachson and Michael Shields discuss all the p...

The Welcome To The Party Pal team once again gets political in an episode dedicated to the Oscar-nominate film Vice, directed by Adam McKay and starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carrell, and Sam Rockwell. Vice is the story of Dick Cheney, an unassuming bureaucratic Washington insider, who quietly wielded immense power as Vice President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe...