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Jason and Rosie break down House of the Dragon Season 3, Episode 4, and make the case that Ormund Hightower is a different kind of villain: a self-styled refined gentleman with a modern politician's instinct for crisis PR.. They also dig into what they see as the real flaw undermining Rhaenyra's reign: an inability to understand what ordinary people actually want, from her plan to scapegoat a Master of Coin to her blindness toward what's motivating Ulf and Hugh. Plus, a rotting Sunfyre as a symbol of collapsing Targaryen exceptionalism, and how this season's Harrenhal storyline diverges from George R.R. Martin's Fire & Blood.
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Jason and Rosie break down the 2026 Emmy noms, arguing this year's list skews unusually genre-heavy (The Pit, Pluribus, Knight of the Seven Kingdoms) and debate the Stranger Things shutout versus Widows Bay's earned surprise haul, plus a detour into whether Christopher Nolan is overrated as a director. Then: Sony's plan to end PlayStation physical media production by 2028, which they frame as an ownership problem — you're now paying full price for a revocable license, not a game you own. Finally, the Dune 3 trailer: Rosie argues it's leaning into Chani as an anti-Paul figure and turning Paul into someone the audience has to reckon with rather than root for, while she and Jason split on box office predictions ($700–800M vs. a real shot at $1B).
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Jason and Rosie are here to get you prepped for Christopher Nolan's upcoming epic, The Odyssey. They breakdown the details of the film including how Nolan got the project, the IMAX and 70mm formats, the script and the cast. They then cover some of the backlash aimed at the film including some of the casting decisions and a perceived lack of history accuracy in the costumes and accents. To close, Jason opens up the Omnibus to discuss if Homer actually existed and how this epic story was shared and transformed over the centuries.
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Jason and Rosie break down the fourth episode of X-Men '97 season two, picking up from the cliffhanger at the end of episode three. Did our heroes survive the attack from Rama Tut? Can they stop Nur from fulfilling his destiny and becoming Apocalypse? Will they make it back to the 90s? And what about that Weapon X post-credit scene! All will be revealed! Then Jason and Rosie discuss the titles and log lines for the remaining five episodes of the season and predict what other storylines, villains and twists the show could explore.
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Jason and Rosie break down House of the Dragon's third episode, where Rhaenyra's coronation collides with an empty treasury, a hostile High Septon, and a body double nobody asked for. It's the show's best trick yet: putting us inside one impossibly bad day of ruling, with every decision costing her something.
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