Tanner Mastaw

Who Was This For?

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Film, TV, and theater pull wildly different reactions from each person. The box office and critics often move in polar opposite directions. Join us as we stick around after the credits roll or the curtains close and ponder the question "Wait...who was this for?"

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Tanner Mastaw

Episodes

Ep. 3 The Leftovers (Apocalypse When?) 03.07.2026 45:32

Show Notes: Tom Perrotta Damon Lindelof Lost Stephen King Book Review The Book of Job Damon Lindelof on the Apocalypse Amy Brenneman Matthew 24:36-51 Left Behind: The Kids I Wish We’d All Been Ready Dark Night of the Soul The Psychology of Kevin Garvey Michael Schur Does the Bible Predict the End of the World? How "Left Behind" Haunted a Generation of Evangelicals Devil and the Deep Blue Sea podca...

Ep. 2 Blue Moon (Linklater for Snobs?) 18.06.2026 32:22

Blue Moon , a 2025 film directed by Richard Linklater and starring Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, and Andrew Scott, follows Lorenz, or Larry Hart, on the night of his writing partner's greatest triumph. You've heard of "Rodgers and Hammerstein." Well, before Richard Rodgers changed musical theater in the 20th century with his infamous partner Oscar Hammerstein II, he actually had...

Ep. 1 Wicked: For Good (Creative Shoehorning?) 04.06.2026 42:25

Episode 1: Wicked: For Good is the much anticipated second installment of the film adaptation of the Broadway musical, Wicked. Released in 2025, with a book by Winnie Holzman and music by Stephen Schwartz, the musical is itself an adaptation of Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West . But wait, Maguire's novel is a twist on L. Frank Baum's The Wond...