E234 - The Season 2 Finale with Marcus & Oz

The Directors’ Take Podcast

This is episode 34 and the FINAL EPISODE in our second season of The Directors Take Podcast.

In this week’s episode your hosts Marcus Anthony Thomas and Oz Arshad do a round up of their 2024 highlights, lowlights and their favourite episodes from the second season of the podcast, before throwing out some optimistic feels for the year ahead.

It’s been a tough year, but we are here to bring you some positivity for 2025 with a little help from our friends and guests of past episodes.

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Nugget of the week

Marcus: The Telepathy Tapes by Ky Dickens

Oz: The Actors Guide to Success by Michaela Longden

Our Favourite Episodes of Season 2

Marcus:

Episode 1 - How I Directed Baby Reindeer with Weronika Tofilska

Episode 17 - Demystifying VFX with Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’s Angus Bickerton

Episode 8 - Showrunning BBC’s Domino Day with Lauren Sequeira

Episode 19 - Demystifying the road to BAFTAs & Oscars with Flair PR’s Catherine Lyn Scott

Episode 31 - How we created EMILIA PÉREZ with Jacques Audiard & Thomas Bidegain

Oz:

Episode 1 - How I Directed Baby Reindeer with Weronika Tofilska

Episode 15 & 16 - The Journey to Directing PRESUMED INNOCENT with Greg Yaitanes

Episode 9 - How I Directed HOUSE OF THE DRAGON with Clare Kilner

Episode 13 & 14 - The Journey to Directing SUPACELL with Sebastian Thiel

Episode 6 - Is Perfectionism Killing Your Creativity? With Dr. Thomas Curran

Credits

Music by Oliver Wegmüller

Socials

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Marcus: Twitter (X) & Instagram

Oz: Twitter (X) & Instagram

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