Episode 452: Bog-Muppet Territory

The Crate and Crowbar

Chris, Jamie and Marsh discuss what the f Silent Hill f is about, get systemic in Sword Hero, jump ship in Jump Space, try to pronounce “photogrammetry” correctly while discussing Mind Diver AND take a cathartically large dump on Alien: Earth.

• Silent Hill f
• Big-time ambiguity intertext: Henry James’ Turn of the Screw
• I’ve always wanted to make something with a rainy montage sequence in it, inspired by Ghost in the Shell’s. And Silent Hill f goes and does it out of the gate!
• The Whale God: film in which a Japanese fishing village eats itself
• Sword Hero: pocket-sized Skyrim-sim with loppable limbs and good meat
• Skin Deep: pocket-sized imsim that we may come back to!
• Jump Space, formerly Jump Ship
• Iron Pineapple plays games on the internet telly
• Chained Beasts
• Sunderfolk: tactical turnbased Dungeons & Dragons stuff
• Mind Diver
• Alien Earth
• Noah Hawley is Alien Earth’s showrunner
• Fargo and Legion are other shows he’s worked on
• Our Fargo/True Detective Lock-in
• John Carpenter’s The Thing
• Gale Ann Hurd: co-writer of Terminator and producer on Aliens, The Abyss and many other films
• Possessor, directed by Brandon Cronenberg
• Babou Ceesay, Adrian Edmondson and Sydney Chandler are all doing acting good
• Severance is a TV show also guilty of sweeping problems into future seasons

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Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.