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I started listening to this podcast yesterday because the hosts have gone on record as loving Nicolas Cage’s The Rock. I have since listened to five or six episodes and will continue to do so. The hosts are highly knowledgeable, the film conversation enjoyable, and the concept to cover all the films from a particular year in history is great.

Phil and Kenny are great guides through the films and culture of 1999. They have a real energy and unique point of view that leads to fascinating tidbits and discussions you won’t find on many other podcasts.

If they really wanted to podcast like it’s 1999, they would’ve recorded using Radio Shack microphones on cassette, but that’s beside the point. This is a quality film analysis podcast that also takes into account the time and place these movies came out. So many great episodes, it’s hard to pick a favorite. I really just enjoy the hosts both here and on other podcasts as well. I don’t alway agree with their takes but at the same time, I never get annoyed or irked. It’s just a solid, consistent movie podcast that I look forward to. Subscribe, especially if you’re curious about that year in film and you should be!

I love that this podcast focuses on how both film and television have changed since the late 90s. The episodes are always fun and informative.

I loved that Phil did a deep dive on Ally McBeal and highlighted the things it did well instead of only focusing on the things it did poorly. On the Ally McBeal episode, you mentioned you wanted the perspective of someone in Gen Z who’d watched it. I was born in 1997 and I have a very ambivalent relationship with it. I thought it was frequently a hilarious show, I was a fan of the non-archetypal characters and I loved Ally’s whimsical hallucinations. I also appreciated that Ally was still single at the end of the series, not because they were trying to make a feminist statement but because their plans for her endgame romances didn’t work out. At the same time, the show often came across as very sexist. I disliked how Ally was never able to see herself as a whole person without a man and I wasn’t a fan of how the show seemed to have an axe to grind against sexual harassment laws.