The Millennial Falcon Podcast

Two of your three favorite millennials are here this week to talk about Community! HT and Willoughby discuss their relationship to the show, why it's amazing, and they talk about the live table read video chat that recently occurred. Plus, HT really likes Avatar: The Last Airbender finally coming back to Netflix, and Willoughby has been enjoying a Pixar marathon!

Your three favorite millennials dive into the quarantine content from the last couple of months, such as the late night talk shows, the Parks and Rec reunion, SNL at Home, and more! We see what's worked and what hasn't in these weird, weird times. Plus, Willoughby celebrates the end of Star Wars: Clone Wars, HT is really liking Never Have I Ever, and Anya is so happy for Taika Waititi getting to direct a Star War. May The Fourth Be With You!

Your three favorite millennials revisit James Cameron's Titanic. With new movie releases hampered by quarantine, we're looking back at one of the best movies ever made and why it's stayed with us all this time. Plus, Willoughby watched Netflix's The Willoughbys and Alex Garland's Devs, Anya's been enjoying the accessibility of theater during quarantine, and HT has seen the new Netflix movie The Half of It.

Your three favorite millennials are here again with another episode where they just talk about what media we've been consuming! Some highlights: Clone Wars final arc! an A24 marathon! Fruits Basket season 2!

This is a brand new type of episode for us. A film commentary! Specifically, a CATS commentary. We're all stuck in quarantine so we decided to record ourselves watching CATS. You can watch the movie with us, or just listen to Anya loving this musical, HT be happily confused towards it, and Willoughby having an existential crisis watching it for the first time. We are also joined by a few special guests! There's a lot of fun tangents and good convos throughout, so watching the movie isn't required. Enjoy!

Still in quarantine, your three favorite millennials review Pixar's Onward! Magic, fantasy, and modern day collide in a sweet story of brothers reconnecting on a quest to bring back their father for one more day.

The Rocketeer! Bad Genius! West Side Story! Three movies that have nothing in common except that two of each of your three favorite millennials have never seen them. Now we all have and we're discussing them on the podcast! Join us for discussions on class discrepancies, tragic romance, jetpacks, test-taking, choreographed dancing, and Timothy Dalton's sex appeal. It's another “book report” episode!

We're celebrating 200 episodes!!!! From our evolution on horror films, to the resurgence of rom-coms, and our ever-changing relationship with Disney, we reminisce on the past and look forward to the future of the podcast!

This week your three favorite millennials are discussing the ways in which they are taking care of themselves during the COVID-19 pandemic. Recommendations of tv shows, movies, books, music, and ways to stay productive in self-isolation and social distancing.

This week your three favorite millennials are discussing their favorite internet food shows as well as TV shows. From the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen to Gordon Ramsay to Epicurious, we talk about faves and why food shows of all kinds have been so popular! Plus, Anya really liked the latest adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma, HT caught up with The Dragon Prince and watched Ben Affleck's The Way Back, and Willoughby revisited George Lucas's pre-Star Wars career.

This week, all three of your favorite millennials talk about Netflix's slew of reality tv shows from the wholesome to the insidious and everything in between including their latest - Love Is Blind. Plus, Anya really likes the latest season of Survivor, Willoughby calls Gurren Lagann one of the most buckwild anime shows he's ever watched, and HT revisited the Before Trilogy for her birthday.

This week two of your favorite millennials are reviewing the latest film in the DCEU, "Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)." They examine the chaotic nature of the movie (thanks in part to Harley Quinn, the amazing action, and the feminist undertones of the film.

This week two of your favorite millennials are talking about the infamous video game movie curse! With Sonic the Hedgehog out in theaters we felt it was a good time to talk about how there has never been a critical hit film based on a video game, with maybe the exception of Detective Pikachu and the Angry Birds movie. What makes it so hard to adapt? Should video games be adapted to film or maybe TV shows, like we saw with The Witcher?

Parasite won big at the Oscars Sunday night, and Willoughby and HT react to Bong Joon Ho's historic sweep! Plus a discussion of the second year without a host, the unexpected and expected wins, and a recommendation list of excellent Korean movies to check out.

This week HT and Willoughby discuss the series finale of The Good Place, as well as the feelings on the series as a whole, now that's it's complete. There's talk of eastern philosophy, LOST references, and the moments when we cried during the finale. Plus, Willoughby cannot be more excited about the F9 trailer, and HT really liked Birds of Prey!

Your three favorite millennials toss a coin to their local Witcher, this week, and discuss Netflix's latest hit series, The Witcher, starring Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia. We discuss the high fantasy elements, camp vs. sincerity, and also the complexity of the characters!

This week, your three favorite millennials are discussing the Oscar nominations! We also discover the perfect actor who should have been the titular Irishman in Martin Scorsese's latest film. There's also talk about who we're excited for, who we're not, and also which snubs we're not happy about (cough Greta Gerwig cough). Plus, Willoughby went back to Hogwarts with a Harry Potter marathon, HT has been encircled by Netflix's The Circle, and Anya has been downright bewitched by Netflix's The Witcher.

Everything did change when the fire nation attacked and your three favorite millennials are here to talk about it! That's right, 190 episodes in and we're finally devoting a whole episode to Avatar: The Last Airbender, and the sequel series The Legend of Korra. It's no surprise we all love this show, and we dig in deep about why. It's a show near-and-dear to our hearts and one of the best examples of all-time great television.

Your three favorite millennials ring in the new year with a look-back at the 2010s, from Inception to Endgame, to How To Train Your Dragon to Into the Spider-Verse, and much more, we dive into the movies, tv shows, books, and video games that defined the ‘10s for us.

Your three favorite millennials are joined by special guest Jo Yao (For The Plot Podcast) to discuss the literary classic and the latest adaptation from Greta Gerwig. We discuss the personal impact of this story, Jo and Laurie shipping, the latest discourse, to a long overdue rethinking of Amy, and much more!

This week your three favorite millennials review Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. We all have complicated feelings, and not so complicated feelings, about [in extreme Palpatine voice] the final word on the story of Skywalker. We have spoiler free thoughts and then start talking about specific plot details at 19:20. Skip forward to our “Really Like" section at 1:13:15. Enjoy!

This week your three favorite millennials are discussing HBO's Watchmen, as well as the graphic novel from the 80s. We dive into the successes of the TV series and the way it recontextualizes the graphic novel and some of the issues we have with the source material itself. We also get into a discussion on Damon Lindelof, the showrunner, as well as talk about what we really life in pop culture this week!

This week, all three of your favorite millennials are back after vacations and thanksgivings to bring you their monthly movie review (a week late) of Knives Out, a Rian Johnson whodunnit. Listen to us discuss the murder mystery, all the twists and turns, the writing, the direction, and the ensemble cast!

This week we shake things up and get political! More than usual, this time it's the theme! We talk about how impeachment is a BFD and how all art is political. If you want to disengage and skip this episode, we really understand and you'll hear us next episode. Otherwise, we're bringing the big Leslie Knope energy this week.

No theme this week! HT is in Vietnam and Willoughby and Anya have a bunch of different things they want to talk about, from all the new Disney+ content, to The Adventure Zone, and more! It's a smorgasbord of topics!

This week your three favorite millennials (and their dæmons) expound on their love for Philip Pullman's book series “His Dark Materials” as well as give their reactions to the first episode of the new HBO/BBC television show of the same name!

This week your three favorite millennials review Bong Joon-ho's PARASITE. It's being lauded as one of the best films of the year - find out if we agree! Because this movie should probably best be seen without knowing too much about it, our spoiler section begins at 17:44 and ends at 1:02:00.

Your three favorite millennials are talking about the dastardly villains of pop culture and what makes them tick. Why are we so fascinated with the bad guys? What happens when there's attempts at redemption? We examine some classic villains and - in honor of the Maleficent films - pitch a reimagining of a villain we'd like to see or a redemption story. PLUS Get red hot takes on the latest RISE OF SKYWALKER trailer (because we recorded minutes after it was released).

Your three favorite millennials take a deep dive into vampires and what makes them such a compelling and interesting concept for basically all of humanity!

This week, your three favorite millennials review James Grey's latest film: Ad Astra! Listen as we break down the themes, characters, and plot of the this year's fall prestige space/sci-fi movie!

This week your three favorite millennials dive into the works of celebrated Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki. We take a deep look at his themes, his characters, and our favorite of his films!

Your three favorite millennials are here with their time-old tradition of the Fall TV Preview episode! They talk about all the television their excited about from His Dark Materials to The Good Place to The Mandalorian, and many more!

This week, two of your three favorite millennials have given each other homework and a “book report” to share with the class: HT watched the first two episodes of The Leftovers and Willoughby watched the first two episodes of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance! Listen as they stand at the front of the class and give their “reports” on each show.

This week your three favorite millennials review the horror comedy READY OR NOT. Anya and HT have embraced the horror genre in the years since starting this podcast, but Willoughby has not yet crossed that particular bridge. Listen to find out what they thought of the film!

Your three favorite millennials discuss all the latest news and announcements from D23, Disney's biennial convention, and also get into all the issues with Disney's increasing monopoly over the entertainment industry. But we're also like, really excited for The Mandalorian, so as we like to say here, we contain multitudes.

This week all three of your favorite millennials are back! And they're here to talk one of the subjects that started it all: fall movie preview! There's so many interesting movies coming out, for example: the buckwild-looking CATS.

Only two of your three favorite millennials are here this week and there's no theme! HT and Willoughby spend an hour catching up after a few vacations and talk about all the movies, tv shows, and podcasts they've been consuming! We need a new name for these themeless episodes so please tweet at us!

This week, we're pitching ideas for what we would like to see Tarantino do after he's done with directing movies (he's said he's done after 10 films). What would it like to seem adapt other stories, or tell them in different mediums? Find out!

With HT at Comic-Con, reporting on all the Hall-H news, Anya and Willoughby discuss Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson book universe and all the greatness in those books. We dive into the compassion, diversity, and amazing world-building of Percy Jackson! Plus, Willoughby really likes the latest graphic novel adaption of The Adventure Zone from the McElroys and Anya really liked Hugh Jackman performing at the Hollywood Bowl!

This week, in honor of Spider-Man: Far From home, this episode is all about your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man! From the cartoon, the comics, and the films, we talk about why we love the web-head superhero - plus a small discussion on what Willoughby and HT thought of Far From Home.

YEEHAW! Your three favorite millennials are finally back together!!!! We had to make sure we were altogether for our review of Toy Story 4! We discuss things like why a 4th film was made, the merits of the film, a weak arc of a certain space ranger, and we say so long to a sheriff that's been in our lives for 24 years, and will always be in our hearts.

This week, two of your three favorite millennials are here to discuss the miniseries, or more recently retitled by The Emmys as "the limited series" Angels and Demons and the End of the World, nuclear disasters, British period pieces, and 5 extremely talented actresses in Monterey, we dive into why we the modern miniseries and talk about some of our favorites from the past and present!

This week, with the release of Booksmart - the latest in a great, long line of coming-of-age films - two of your three favorite millennials nostalgically look back on their own time coming of age watching coming of age films and why they resonate for literally all of human history.

Your three favorite millennials are here with a very special guest to review POKÉMON: DETECTIVE PIKACHU and discuss why Pokémon has been so successful for over 20 years. We talk about our love for the franchise as well as go into some of the history of how Pokémon came to be!

We don't have a real theme this week, so we talk just about a whole heckuva bunch of things! From the GoT finale, to what we've been rewatching, to recent movies we've seen it's the jazziest episode we've ever done! Take a listen!

This week, two of your three favorite millennials are back from a Mother's Day break, this time, talking WICK. That's right, we're all about John Wick and his latest exploit, JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 3 - PARABELLUM. HT and Willoughby dive into what they love about the franchise as well as ask the question, Is John Wick the greatest modern action franchise? Bold question for a bold franchise. Listen now!

May the Fourth Be With You, listeners! This week, two of your three favorite millennials are here - with a guest! - to finally discuss Star Wars, something we've *never* talked about (wink wink). In the past, we've mainly focused on the movies we were reviewing but thanks to #MayThe4thBeWithYou we thought it was finally time to sit down and have a well and proper deep dive into what we love and why we love Star Wars so much.

Your three favorite millennials assemble to talk about the latest motion picture from a little studio called Disney. WE'RE IN THE ENDGAME NOW! This movie has made a billion dollars at the box office so let us explain why. We all get emotional about various plots and characters, so join us on the emotional journey of reviewing AVENGERS: ENDGAME. Plus, hear Willoughby talk about Netflix's Someone Great and the film's use of music and flashbacks, Anya got to see Ralph Fiennes in person at a screening of his new film The White Crow, and HT has been covering the Tribeca Film Festival and really liked House of Hummingbird!

Your three favorite millennials are joined by two special guests to discuss the final season of Game of Thrones. “But i thought you guys didn't watch it anymore?” you may be asking, and you're correct. It's the final season, one of the last television monocultural series to still be airing so we thought we'd bring on two people who still do to and have a roundtable discussion about GoT's issues, why we loved the show in the first place, and why even though we're not watching, we're rooting for the Starks from afar.

Two of your three favorite millennials are here to react to and discuss the STAR WARS EPISODE IX trailer. We give our thoughts on who the “Skywalker” in the title might be and also what we think of a certain Senator-turned-Chancellor-turned-Emperor return. Plus, Anya couldn't join but through the power of the Force, she does give some of her thoughts too!

This week, your three favorite millennials take a trip…to the twilight zone….as well as the rest of Jordan Peele's career! From humble beginnings on Mad TV to winning oscars and being the big name in horror, we look at it all! We also go on a bit about Shazam! somehow!