Show Notes
After reading that stupid play, Sam and Natalia watch and review the next instalment of the HARRY POTTER film series: FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM.
Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), a British wizard, arrives in 1920s New York City. After his magical suitcase is mistakenly picked up by Muggle ‘No-Maj’ Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogler), the two become wrapped up in an evil scheme perpetrated by infamous Dark Wizard, Gellert Grindelwald (Colin Farrell/Johnny Depp). With the help of Auror Tina Goldstein (Katherine Waterston), Newt and Jacob must do something-something fantasy, something-something boring, something-something this one doesn’t even have Hogwarts in it, so who cares?
Sam and Natalia sit down to watch (and nap through) the first FANTASTIC BEASTS film.
Topics of conversation include J. K. Rowling writing her first screenplay, David Yates, THE POLAR EXPRESS, Comic Relief, Polish name pronunciation, Saint George's Cross, Pokemon, the British class system, donuts and Fat Thursday, Ezra Miller, HARRY POTTER lore, bad editing, J. K. Rowling's views on LOLITA, ALL IN THE FAMILY and Archie Bunker, Newt's costume design, and the TARDIS.
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In "The Order of the Phoenix", Sam and Natalia criticise J. K. Rowling's writing as well as the filmmaking of the fifth Harry Potter story (On Spotify / On Apple).
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