The Franchise The Franchise

Buffy’s Angles and Hey, I’m Watching Here are absolute gems, particularly when Logan underrates movies that are perceived by everyone else as classics.

This might not be a popular opinion, but I love every time Shut Up Tim makes an appearance and I’ve been really enjoying catching up with the WLKM episodes.

While the humour and banter might have been what first drew me to the show, there’s so many genuinely emotional and heartwarming moments between the hosts, particularly on the Patreon episodes. There’s nothing more wholesome than two men discussing during which moments of Buffy they teared up.

After almost a year, I’m finally caught up, so now I can confidently say that this show is nothing short of magnificent. I would have never guessed that I could listen to two hour episodes about movies, some of which I have no interest in, and still find every minute entertaining. This is not least due to Daniel’s great sense of humour, anecdotes, and occasional angry political rants.
I have to admit, I miss Henry and all his knowledge AND his microphone sound, I always thought it gave him a very fitting vintage vibe. However, Logan too is an absolute delight, especially, but not exclusively, because of how valiantly he defended the Lord of the Rings franchise. As a big fan of these movies (excluding The Hobbit movies, of course), I was really glad to have someone in my corner on that subject. Also, it’s great to hear about Daniel’s love for Stephen Fry, who I think the world would be a much poorer place without.
Since he is such a great fan of Ed Sheeran’s, I can very much recommend the song ‘Meanest Man’ to Daniel, in which Sheeran raps near the end, it really puts ‘Shape Of You’ to shame.
On a more serious note, I am eternally grateful to Daniel for recommending the Before Trilogy, the Hal Hartley Trilogy and Pavement, all three of which have grown very close to my heart.
I’m now very much looking forward to the new episode every week and to binging all the patreon content. I’m so sorry I haven’t subscribe to that sooner, but the amount of content would have probably completely overwhelmed me.

Used to love the intense deep dives into the movies even back when Henry was on. Dan has always made racist jokes but they were fewer and easy to skip and at this point it’s just too much to ignore. Logan doesn’t come off racist but honestly it just made me sad listening to him get verbally beat up.