Kermode & Mayo’s Take

the best movie review duo since Siskel & Ebert!!! i always look forward to all their witterings

Although it still ranks below Shakespeare, Kermode Mayo’s Take is now undoubtedly several rungs above the Beatles on the hierarchy of great British cultural exports. Listen in awe.

Podcast has continually gone downhill with fewer reviews, short run times, seemingly more attention paid to conning paying customers into listening to Shrink the Box because no one else would. The producers are doing a terrible job. Poor episode descriptions that are missing words and have improper spellings. And these new titles?? I imagine someone told them this was good for SEO or algorithm but it’s a withering slap in the face to the people who have listened to this show for decades. Ben Bailey Smith is hard to listen to on The Take, why would I seek him elsewhere?

Every week Take 2 gets shorter. Are we being tested? How much do we love Mark and Simon? How little content will we still be prepared to pay for? I haven’t unsubscribed yet but given the quality is definitely deteriorating and the pod seems increasingly lazy and undisciplined since they left the BBC, the drastically reduced quantity is testing me.