What We've Watched Podcast

Here we are with the finale of The Prisoner - a wild episode brings this wild ride to and end with an even more , or does it?

Spook-tober continues with an anthology film from 1945,Dead of Night - featuring a series of short stories of the paranormal and a very good framing device for it all.

As the series comes to a close with the penultimate episode, we discusses the quite wild events and ideas put forth in it and have a few theories about the show and it's characters.

It's Top 5 time and this episode we are continuing our decade look back at our favorite actors and actresses, this time for the 1960s. It's a decade of film that we both felt we were lacking in watches but as it turns out there are some amazing films and many great acting roles to match.

So if you thought last week's episode had an out of left field story hold on because its all wacky hijinks with Number 6 and a villain with a Napoleon fetish, this week on The Prisoner.

It's the spooky season and so we take a look at the newest Disney offering, Haunted Mansion. Based on a great ride, starting a great cast, will it be indeed great? Tune in and find out.

This week Number 6 is saddles to the bar up to an Old West themed episode that is pretty wild in more ways than one.

It's been sitting in our "to watch" que for quite some time so we finally watched the critically acclaimed Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, from the director and starting the same main actors as one of our favorites films of all time, The Sting, so it's got to be brilliant right? Right?

This week we have an episode of The Prisoner without Number 6, well sort of? Not really but yes? It's a whole thing. Listen in and find out what happens in the village this time.

It's time to roll back the clock 20 years for another decade look back, this time with 2003's "Identity". Can an impressive cast and a well known director land the possibly overambitious ideas presented in this film? Listen in and find out.

This week we have a bit of a strange episode that feel a little all over the place, not as a cohesive plot aims as we usually get from The Prisoner with a lot of out-of-left-field story elements that maybe don't add up.

This week we once again ride the George A. Romero train to his next film in the Living Dead series, Diary of the Dead, and this is one station we wish we had not gotten off at.

This weeks episode of The Prisoner doesn't quite sit with us, feeling out of place for the show's general vibe and theme. Listen is to find out what happened and why we think this might be one of the weakest episodes.

It's top 5 time and this episode we take a look at our personal favorite winners of the Academy Award for Best Original Song. With lots to choose from there is much discussion and we have a great time.

This episode of The Prisoner is possibly one of the best, brilliant premise and some of the best writing the show has seen to this point with Number 6 really putting Number 2 through the wringer and into a trap of their own making.

This week we bring famous director Mario Bava's only sci-fi endeavor to the pod with Planet of the Vampires and it is quite the film with lots of great trivia about the production and some interesting thoughts on the film itself.

This week the Number 6 plays some chess on the board and with the residents of the Village.

This week we watched a little HBO mock-u-mentary from 2017 that we had never heard of till I came across the trailer accidently - Tour De Pharmacy, a fun goofy look into drug use in bike racing. A crazy star filled cast and bonkers story.

This week we hit up the new Netflix hot film, They Cloned Tyrone, starting a trio of excellent actors/characters. It's quite the ride and the movie does a great job of zigging when you're expecting a zag.

Coming up on the half way mark to the series we hit an episode that doesn't quite dazzle us and leads to some discussion about the choice to air the episodes in such a different order than they were produced.

We once again ride the Romero train and this time into the 21st century rendition of his "Dead" film series. What does two decades on ice mean for the style of these? How do they translate into more modern film making and can the tenents of the series survive? We also get to some talking about film budgets and actors salary and how that can affect film performance.

This episode features Number 6 making another escape from the Village - but can he stay away?

It's episode 350! We continue with our second look at our favorite actors and actresses in a decade and this time it's the 1950s. Big names and big movies fill this one up.

On this week's episode of The Prisoner we find out who the mysterious General is and what that means for the Village. We also get to talking about some other related TV stuff as well.

Back in 2020, in episode 228, we watched Extraction and quite liked it - so we decided to watch Extraction 2. As it turns out we like it as well :) Tune in to this episode to see what we liked about it and what parts didn't quite hold up. We also spend some time talking about the SAG-AFTRA strike and the state of streaming as well.