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Sadly, Melody\\u2019s not around for this episode, but the four guys have promised to try to argue enough to fill her role as the most belligerent Screener. We\\u2019ll have one fewer segment than normal for this episode, but there\\u2019s plenty of content to make up for it.

Past Its Prime (Time)

First off, late night TV has a new face in its roster. There have been profiles about Colbert and analysis of the dog-eat-dog comedy world he\\u2019s entering, but the Screeners (at least, the ones who still have \\u2018cords\\u2019, since you know how hard it is to watch network TV online...) have politely waited until his show started to pass judgement. It\\u2019s been a week, though, so gloves off. Has he changed anything for the better, or is it more of the same?

And since that was a reasonably interesting and timely discussion, we decided to let Chris ask a question. We\\u2019re not quite sure what happened next, but we remember it was something about physical media and that Josh had to make something up because he\\u2019s maybe watched a grand total of one DVD commentary in his life. Maybe Daniel can save us here...

\\u2018Surprisingly Not Terrible\\u2019, or \\u2018Not Terribly Surprising\\u2019?

This episode\\u2019s another famous Screeners double-header. First up, Alex Gibney\\u2019s The Man in the Machine, a documentary focused on Steve Jobs that simultaneously hit theaters and just about every on-demand service you can think of. Fresh off his mission against Scientology (which you might remember from a previous Screeners episode), Gibney seems to still be in skeptic mode. Tune in to find out if Chris is able to uphold the vow of fealty he\\u2019s sworn to Apple after Gibney\\u2019s assault.

To round out the show, we guess we\\u2019ll talk about the new M. Night Shyamalan movie\\u2014y\\u2019know, if we have to. Turns out he\\u2019s made a couple movies between The Village and this one too; that in itself is news to Josh. There\\u2019s more to say, of course; we just can\\u2019t say it here since, unlike with The Man in the Machine, we have a spoilers section to think about. Let\\u2019s just say that...not everyone agreed about The Visit. Is that unspoilery enough?

That does it for the first all-male revue review here at the Screeners\\u2014join us over on Facebook to keep the conversation going!