544 – Mandalorian and Grogu, Backrooms, What’s Wrong With American Dramas?

About this episode

The episode features a review of 'Star Wars: Mandalorian and Grogu', a discussion on the film 'Backrooms', and an exploration of issues with American dramas.

This week, everyone is back in the war room and the numbered episodes resume! David, Patches, and Katey took the families to Star Wars: Mandalorian and Grogu, so the show must finally give it a full review. We swear we’re done talking about this movie, David’s son didn’t even want to stay to the end of the movie. Then, Da7e reports from having seen Backrooms and doesn’t spoil anything, if the movie explains anything, and if you know what Backrooms is at all. Finally, Patches has a big overarching question I have decided to summarize as “What’s Wrong with American Dramas?” because that’s a provocative part of it. Take a listen, embed and/or download below; for more from all of us, follow on BlueSky! Follow the show ( @fitwr.bsky.social ), Katey ( @kateyrich.bsky.social ), Da7e ( @da7e.bsky.social ),  Patches ( @misterpatches.bsky.social ), and David ( @davidehrlich.bsky.social ). One of TIME Magazine’s Top 100 Podcasts of All Time Please s ubscribe on iTunes and KICK US A REVIEW if you like what you hear! FORMAT 00:00 – Lightning Round: movie WITH Found Footage 02:30 – Intro – Welcome to Episode 544…

People in this episode

Hosts: David, Patches, Katey, Da7e

Topics covered

• Mandalorian
• Grogu
• Backrooms
• American Dramas
• film review

Keywords

• Mandalorian
• Grogu
• Backrooms
• American Dramas
• film review
• podcast

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Star Wars: Mandalorian and Grogu, Backrooms

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