Episode 502: "Lovely, Dark and Deep" and "Players"

Published: Feb. 23, 2024, 1:11 p.m.

It\u2019s been two weeks since we talked horror at Spoilerpiece, so Megan and Dave remedied that by watching Teresa Sutherland\u2019s LOVELY, DARK AND DEEP, a bump-in-the-night-type thriller that plays out in a national park. While Megan and Dave came to roughly similar conclusions about the movie\u2019s technical aspects and Georgina Cambell\u2019s lead performance, one of them hated it overall (like, HATED IT) and one of them liked it. First listener to guess who hated it wins a trip down amnesia lane. Then the whole gang watched PLAYERS, a new Netflix romcom starring Gina Rodriguez, Damon Wayans Jr., and a million supporting actors. Listeners, this movie is the definition of meh. It\u2019s too bad, because there\u2019s some serious talent involved. But few things can save crummy writing, except maybe doing a bunch of shrooms so you can space out while watching this below-average collection of silly gags and contrived plot threads. (Spoilerpiece doesn\u2019t advocate you doing shrooms. But we can\u2019t stop you, either.) And over on Patreon, we talk about Bill Duke\u2019s DEEP COVER with Laurence Fishburne and Jeff Goldblum, which won our Black History Month poll.