Tune in as Jessica and Saunya (Opinionated Lushes [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/opinionated-lushes/id1616178430]) hop back onto the program to review and recap As Good as Dead, the 2021 YA mystery-thriller novel by Holly Jackson that reunites us with a traumatized and determined Pippa “Pip” Fitz-Amobi as she uncovers more murderous happenings and secrets in this conclusion to the A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder trilogy. Continuing to read Pip as autistic-coded, the morally gray twists and turns that this book boldly pulls us through, cops being able to legally lie to you, and whether or not headless stick figures are all that creepy emerge as a few of the talking points for this episode.



TW: Death, murder, PTSD, rape (in the past), stalking, drug use, drug abuse, misogyny, gun violence (in the past), animal death (in the past), child death (in the past), pedophilia (in the past), fire, and vomit



Spoilers start at 18:15



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Good Word:



• Saunya: Murderbot [https://www.serializd.com/show/Murderbot-241554] (which was adapted from The Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells [https://www.goodreads.com/series/191900-the-murderbot-diaries])

• Jessica: Date Everything! [https://store.steampowered.com/app/2201320/Date_Everything/]

• Arthur: Constance by Matthew FitzSimmons [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56326737-constance?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=LAaUEqzw3e&rank=1] and Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/220223963-not-quite-dead-yet?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_18]



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#219 – As Good as Dead by Holly Jackson (with Jessica and Saunya of Opinionated Lushes)

Tune in as Rolo Tony (@PoorOldRoloTony [https://twitter.com/pooroldrolotony?s=21]) returns to 2CC for a breakdown of The Innocent, the 2021 Netflix mystery-thriller miniseries about the secrets and violence that burst out into the open after a husband and soon-to-be father, who had served four years in prison for negligent homicide, starts receiving strange texts about his wife. Repeatedly comparing this show to Gone Girl, handling (and mishandling) depictions of sexual violence, rooting for Mario Casas to make a career transition to Hollywood, and appreciation for foley artists emerge as some of the topics on this episode.



Directed by Oriol Paulo, The Innocent stars Mario Casas, Aura Garrido, Alexandra Jiménez, José Coronado, Martina Gusmán, Juana Acosta, Gonzalo de Castro, Ana Wagener, Miki Esparbé, Xavi Sáez, Anna Alarcón, Susi Sánchez, Oriol Vila, Mima Riera, Javier Beltrán, Santi Pons, Aysha Daraaui, Asia Ortega, and Alejandro Toro Cuenca.



Spoilers start at 32:50



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Good Word:



• Rolo Tony: Breakfast of Champions [https://boxd.it/1RUs]

• Arthur: KPop Demon Hunters [https://boxd.it/ufwK]



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#218 – The Innocent | Directed by Oriol Paulo (with Rolo Tony)

Tune in as Anna (@banananna024 [https://twitter.com/banananna024?s=21]/@formergleek [https://twitter.com/formergleek?s=21]) circles back around to the show for a breakdown of A Quiet Place, the 2018 horror movie about a family’s quest to survive a post-apocalyptic world in which monsters use their acute sense of hearing to hunt down their prey. Pushing back against the pro-gun reading of this movie, asking questions about its many plot and worldbuilding holes, John Krasinski’s career arc from comedy to horror and action, and the dangers of having a baby in such a life-threatening environment comprise a few of the subjects in this episode.



Directed by John Krasinski, A Quiet Place stars Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe, Cade Woodward, Leon Russom, and Rhoda Pell.



Spoilers start at 52:30



Spoilers for A Quiet Place Part II between 01:12:15 and 01:13:52



John Krasinski Breaks Down A Quiet Place's Lantern Scene | Notes on a Scene | Vanity Fair [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=azFsk42kb5E&pp=ygUXYSBxdWlldCBwbGFjZSBicmVha2Rvd27SBwkJ2AkBhyohjO8%3D]



The Silently Regressive Politics of “A Quiet Place” by Richard Brody | The New Yorker [https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/the-silently-regressive-politics-of-a-quiet-place]



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Good Word:



• Arthur: Breaking Bad [https://www.serializd.com/show/Breaking-Bad-1396]

• Anna: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem [https://boxd.it/mK0a]



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﻿#217 – A Quiet Place | Directed by John Krasinski (with Anna)

Tune in as James Willey (Movie Good or Movie Bad? [https://www.tiktok.com/@moviegoodormoviebad?_t=ZP-8y3KhWcIn3H&_r=1]) joins the podcast for a discussion on Upgrade, the 2018 cyberpunk action thriller about an auto mechanic’s vengeful quest to uncover who murdered his wife and left him paralyzed in the process—a quest that he pursues with the help of a chip implant that can take over a human’s motor functions. The references that this movie may very well be dropping to Tesla and Elon Musk, the dark comedy that this manages to slip into its tale, and the trope of “curing” disabilities in sci-fi and fantasy comprise some of the topics on this episode.



Written and directed by Leigh Whannell, Upgrade stars Logan Marshall-Green, Simon Maiden, Betty Gabriel, Harrison Gilbertson, Benedict Hardie, Melanie Vallejo, Linda Cropper, Richard Cawthorne, Christoper Kirby, Clayton Jacobson, and Kai Bradley.



Spoilers start at 24:25



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Good Word:



• James: Clipse - So Be It (Official Music Video) [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=URlPXepBZdo]

• Arthur: Heavenly Creatures [https://boxd.it/2974]



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#216 – Upgrade | Directed by Leigh Whannell (with James Willey of Movie Good or Movie Bad?)

Tune in as Betsy Gorham (Never Seen It with Betsy and Trent [https://open.spotify.com/show/5FnNOzJieiW2qelxhACFm1?si=Jx2IpzbhR228W92-mGu0Tg]) jumps onboard the program to talk all about Wanted, the 2008 action movie about a miserable office worker who gets to unlock his bullet-curving potential after joining an assassin organization of which his murdered father was a member. The energy of this movie (as well as the Mark Millar/J.G. Jones comic book series that it’s based on) getting so damn aggro, all the time this spends hammering home its themes of fate and faith, the Fast & Furious franchise being part of the screenwriters’ credits, and James McAvoy and Daniel Craig’s American accents emerge as a few of the subjects on this episode.



Directed by Timur Bekmambetov, Wanted stars James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman, Terence Stamp, Thomas Kretschmann, Common, Kristen Hager, Marc Warren, David O’Hara, Dato Bakhtadze, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Chris Pratt, and Lorna Scott.



Spoilers start at 29:15



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Good Word:



• Betsy: Shoot ‘Em Up [https://boxd.it/24LI], Salt [https://boxd.it/1rtK], Equilibrium [https://boxd.it/211s], and Cold Pursuit [https://boxd.it/fA80]

• Arthur: A Beautiful Way to Die by Eleni Kyriacou [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/217388280-a-beautiful-way-to-die?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=R6DHSF0aw0&rank=1]



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﻿﻿#215 – Wanted | Directed by Timur Bekmambetov (with Betsy Gorham of Never Seen It with Betsy and Trent)

Tune in as Marie Nicola (Alt.Pop.Repeat [https://open.spotify.com/show/0tgdntYYcKofvb8AJgzKb2?si=ItMwZEnhTQKU3R5eTbu5LA]) pops back onto 2CC for a breakdown of Shiki, the 2010 horror anime series about a secluded and quiet village that becomes plagued by what initially seems like a fast-moving and ruthless anemia epidemic, but actually turns out to be a growing clan of vampires. The difference between cinema and animation from Western and Eastern regions, the deep pit of moral ambiguity and nihilism that Shiki plunges itself into, the tragic arc of Sunako, and vampirism often being an experience that’s forced onto its victims land as a few of the talking points on this episode.



Created by Fuyumi Ono and Ryu Fujisaki, Shiki stars:



• Japanese cast:



Tōru Ōkawa, Haruka Tomatsu, Kazuyuki Okitsu, Aoi Yūki, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Wataru Takagi, Kōki Uchiyama, Haruka Nagashima, Keiko Kawakami, Nozomi Sasaki, Gackt, Ari Orikasa, Shin’ya Takahashi, Miki Itô, Kôji Ishii, and Ken’ichirô Matsuda.



• English cast:



David Wald, Tia Ballard, John Burgmeier, Cherami Leigh, Chris Burnett, Ian Sinclair, Jerry Jewell, Alexis Tipton, Luci Christian, Colleen Clinkenbeard, J. Michael Tatum, Lydia MacKay, Todd Haberkorn, Cynthia Cranz, R. Bruce Elliott, and Chris Rager.



Spoilers start at 38:05



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Good Word:



• Marie: The Apothecary Diaries [https://boxd.it/N43q]

• Arthur: Gothika [https://boxd.it/23y4] 



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#214 – Shiki | Created by Fuyumi Ono and Ryu Fujisaki (with Marie Nicola of Alt.Pop.Repeat)

Tune in as Pride Month comes to a close on 2CC! It’s been splendid to have this space be dedicated to queer art throughout this past June of 2025. Now we shall wrap that up by bringing back Connor Kujawinski (@connorkuj [https://twitter.com/connorkuj?s=21]) for a breakdown of Psycho Beach Party, the 2000 comedy-horror beach movie spoof that follows a whirlwind of surfing, dissociative identity disorder, murder, and other shenanigans over in 1962-set Malibu. Connor’s experience with drive-in theaters, clocking his rating for Split, reading Psycho Beach Party through a disability lens, and the polarized responses that its ending elicits from the hosts stand out as a few of the topics for this episode.



Directed by Robert Lee King, Psycho Beach Party stars Lauren Ambrose, Thomas Gibson, Nicholas Brendon, Danni Wheeler, Kimberley Davies, Matt Keeslar, Charles Busch, Beth Broderick, Amy Adams, Kathleen Robertson, Nick Cornish, Andrew Levitas, Channon Roe, Jenica Bergere, Nathan Bexton, Buddy Quaid, and Nicholas D’Agosto.



Spoilers start at 31:40



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Good Word:



• Connor: Crimson Tide [https://boxd.it/1ZuM]

• Arthur: Believe Me Now by S.M. Govett [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/213483406-believe-me-now?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_14]



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Cover art credit: Connor Kujawinski

#213 – Psycho Beach Party | Directed by Robert Lee King (with Connor Kujawinski)

Tune in as Pride Month continues for its third week on 2CC! Katrina (@katrinaslibrary [https://www.tiktok.com/@katrinaslibrary?_t=ZP-8xENm678JBu&_r=1]) is jumping onboard for a review and recap of Fake Dates and Mooncakes, the 2023 YA fake-dating rom-com novel by Sher Lee that follows an aspiring teenage chef who gets caught up in a fake-dating scheme with a rich crush, all while preparing for a mooncake contest that could help him save his aunt’s Singaporean Chinese takeout place. Comparing this book to the tropes of k-dramas, the hatability of Theo’s wealthy and distant father, and appreciation for the romantic fun and tension of the fake-dating trope comprise a few of the talking points in this episode.



TW: grief, parental death (in the past), parental neglect, classism, cancer (in the past), car accident (in the past), alcoholism (in the past), alcohol, dementia, and racism



Spoilers start at 28:05



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Good Word:



• Katrina: Fallen Thorns [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/179905129-fallen-thorns?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_13] and Rising Ashes [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/228986863-rising-ashes] by Harvey Oliver Baxter, and Fighting Spirit by Anna Harrison [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223501449-fighting-spirit?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=bq3tPvFfQo&rank=2]

• Arthur: Sinners [https://boxd.it/KQMM]



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﻿#212 – Fake Dates and Mooncakes by Sher Lee (with Katrina of Katrina’s Library)

Tune in as Pride Month rolls onward for its second week on 2CC! Anna (@banananna024 [https://twitter.com/banananna024?s=21]/@formergleek [https://twitter.com/formergleek?s=21]) is jumping back on the show for a deep dive into The Matrix, the 1999 sci-fi action movie about a computer hacker who’s bestowed with a quest to free humankind from the simulated reality in which they’ve all been imprisoned. The utterly trans layers of this iconic film, Tom Cruise and his representation of the predatory cult Scientology, multiple instances of Anna quoting the John Wick franchise, and the comparison that Arthur draws between Switch from The Matrix and Val from gen:LOCK pop out as just a few of the talking points in this episode.



Written and directed by Lana and Lilly Wachowski, The Matrix stars Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Hugo Weaving, Gloria Foster, Joe Pantoliano, Marcus Chong, Julian Arahanga, Matt Doran, Belinda McClory, Anthony Ray Parker, Paul Goddard, Robert Taylor, Marc Aden Gray, Ada Nicodemou, and Rowan Witt.



Spoilers start at 59:30



The Matrix Is Intrinsically Trans [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KGzSGkmV5e8]



The Marcus Chong Story#MatrixGate what really happened to Tank the Operator in the original Matrix [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cI07UxRbYsw&pp=ygUYbWFyY3VzIGNob25nIGRvY3VtZW50YXJ5]



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Here’s how you can send eSIM cards to Palestinians in order to help them stay connected online [https://connecting-humanity.org/]



Good Word:



• Anna: Andor [https://www.serializd.com/show/Andor-83867]

• Arthur: Someone Knows by Vi Keeland [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/220161384-someone-knows?from_search=true&from_srp=8nz8NLemjY&qid=4]



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#211 – The Matrix | Directed by Lana and Lilly Wachowski (with Anna)

Tune in as 2 Cents Critic kicks off Pride Month! Yes, this month has circled back around for the year 2025, so the program will be focusing on queer art. For this first episode of June, Robyn Zabukovec (@TheFinalGirly [https://twitter.com/thefinalgirly?s=21]) strides on back to her guest chair for a breakdown of Hannibal, the psychological horror-thriller show that premiered on NBC in 2013 and spent three seasons diving into the grisly and psychological layers of the bond that grows between an FBI criminal profiler with a painfully perceptive knack for empathy and a cunning forensic psychiatrist who harbors murderous and cannibalistic secrets. Comparing this show to the underrated horror movie Sound of Violence (which Arthur and Robyn previously covered last Pride Month on 2CC), the fake TV series Clarice, and Robyn’s hatred of the movies Hannibal (2001) and Red Dragon stand out as a few of the subjects on this episode.



Developed by Bryan Fuller, Hannibal stars Mads Mikkelsen, Hugh Dancy, Laurence Fishburne, Caroline Dhavernas, Hettienne Park, Scott Thompson, Aaron Abrams, Gillian Anderson, Raúl Esparza, Kacey Rohl, Lara Jean Chorostecki, Suzy Eddie Izzard, Gina Torres, Anna Chlumsky, Katharine Isabelle, Michael Pitt, Joe Anderson, Vladimir Jon Cubrt, Cynthia Nixon, Richard Armitage, Rutina Wesley, Tao Okamoto, Glenn Fleshler, and Fortunato Cerlino.



Spoilers start at 40:45



Note: Sorry for not posting an episode last week! There had been some podcast rescheduling that resulted in a brief hiatus.



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Good Word:



• Robyn: Hell of a Summer [https://boxd.it/BLQQ] and Idle Hands [https://boxd.it/21xI]

• Arthur: “In Sound, We Live Forever” [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5eTT_xOdmxs&pp=ygUYaW4gc291bmQgd2UgbGl2ZSBmb3JldmVy], “Sushi Noh” [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hl-2cJkAhBI&pp=ygUJU3VzaGkgbm9o], and “Trial 22” [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6i0S_0S7Sak&pp=ygUIVHJpYWwgMjI%3D], all of which can be found on ALTER [https://m.youtube.com/@WatchALTER]



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#210 – Hannibal | Developed by Bryan Fuller (with Robyn Zabukovec)

What's new, folks? If you're in the mood to listen to Arthur Howell (creator of the blog 2 Cents Critic) give his thoughts on books, movies, and TV shows, then join in! Podcast Twitter and Instagram: @two_centscritic Personal Twitter, Goodpods, StoryGraph, and Letterboxd: @arthur_ant18 Website: www.2centscritic.com Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/144101970-arthur-howell

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