Bonus! - Beasts of No Nation

January 31, 2021 by Julio Olivera

We can pinpoint exactly when Netflix stopped being a cool indie start-up and became an awards-seeking sellout company. The year was 2005 and Netflix decided it wanted to play with the big boys by making an artsy movie! Listen to Alex and Julio try to keep things light while talking about the bleak, depressing Oscars-baity BEASTS OF NO NATION! Forget the Tomatometer, can anyone make a film about African child soldiers sound fun? Maybe if we focus on Idris Elba’s weird bald spot?

SoW Finale Part One - Stranger Things

August 27, 2020 by Julio Olivera

Netflix figured it out, didn’t they? The recipe for a hit show is simply to recreate 80s tropes and mainline nostalgia to the audience. Hence, STRANGER THINGS! Listen to Alex and Julio as they take one of those rare detours into TV to explore the most recent (and insanely popular) Winona Ryder project and wonder why anyone would sink about 30 hours into three seasons when they could get the same rush from watching a two-hour long 80s movie. The Summer of Winona Finale begins with an episode that might lose us half our listeners and we are sadly aware of how on-brand that is!

Bonus! - Cam

January 27, 2019 by Julio Olivera

Join us for a very special mini live episode! Recorded during Julio’s birthday party, with a little bit of audience participation during Real Talk, listen to The Contrarians tackle the surprise Netflix critical darling CAM! What is the streaming behemoth telling our youth? Is it morally responsible to portray the cam girl industry as a glitzy fun community? And what are the true secret powers of The Vibratron?