Hate Watching Mercy: Cannot Compute

Hate Watching Mercy: Cannot Compute

From Hate Watching with Dan and Tony by Dan Goodsell and Tony Czech

April 1, 2026 · 1h 44m · Season 1 · Episode 281

About this episode

The hosts review the movie 'Mercy', exploring its themes and flaws in a comedic manner.

Send us Fan Mail An AI judge. A 90-minute timer. One chair that can end you. Mercy sells itself like a sleek future-court thriller, but the more we follow its rules, the less the world holds together and that’s where our review gets viciously fun. We walk through the movie’s central idea: Judge Maddox runs the Mercy Court as judge, jury, and (indirectly) executioner, while Chris Pratt’s Detective Chris Raven has to prove his innocence with no lawyer and almost no real investigation happening...

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Hosts: Dan Goodsell, Tony Czech

Topics covered

  • movie review
  • AI
  • court thriller
  • justice
  • innocence
  • Chris Pratt

Keywords

  • Mercy
  • AI judge
  • Chris Pratt
  • court thriller
  • movie review

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