The Show Off

What’s up everyone, we are so BACK with a special in-between-the-seasons episode for ya — our favorite movies, tv, music, and more from 2024. As always, our picks offer more of a psychological profile of us than anything else. 

We hope you enjoy this episode and maybe pick up a recommendation or two to add to your watch/read/listen list. :) 

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It’s a season in review — this is our Show Off S1 Season Superlatives where we give you our faves of the season, what we liked and didn’t, and we maybe get a little unhinged with some of our picks. You just have to be there for this one, trust us. 

But in all seriousness, thank you so much for listening to The Show Off pod this season! You guys are awesome. We’ll be back near the end of the year/early 2025 with our faves of 2024 ...

It’s Amanda’s turn to pick a movie, and this is one for the ages. We’re geeking out and breaking down the iconic, legendary, absolutely STACKED Ocean’s 8 (2018). Amanda makes the case for why this movie stands toe to toe with the original Ocean’s trilogy, and honestly, it’s just a freaking good time. Um and have we mentioned the stacked cast?? Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Mindy Kaling, Awkwafina, Anne Hathaway, Sarah Paulson, He...

We’re back with quite the episode for you today — to round out season 1 of The Show Off, Kampy and Amanda are each choosing a full movie to geek out about and break down for your listening enjoyment. We’re starting with Kampy’s pick — Twisters (2024). Which, for the record, is a pretty good sequel to an excellent 90s cult classic disaster film. But neither you, dear listener, nor Amanda are getting away that easily because Kampy’s ...

We're back with a mini-episode this week on what we're watching, listening to, digging right now. And by right now I mean about six months ago when we recorded this. But our recs are always timeless! What are y'all digging right now? Tell us in the comments!

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We’re back with part 2 of the “brilliant but cancelled” round of The Show Off with Kampy’s pick — a little show called Imposters. This Bravo network dramedy was unjustly cancelled after just two short seasons, but we’re here today to resurrect it and give it the spotlight it deserves. (How about that 93% on Rotten Tomatoes??)

We’re chatting about two clueless idiots, one dynamite conwoman and her dubious team, a guy with anger is...

Ever wonder what it would be like if you could read people’s minds by reading their faces, speech patterns, and body language? That’s basically what Lie to Me is about. We start a new round of The Show Off this week called “brilliant but cancelled,” aka “only the good die young.” Amanda’s pick is Lie to Me, a psychological procedural that made it about 2.5 seasons on Fox, starting in 2009 and ending in 2011. 

We’re learning about...

We’re sticking with the Doctor Who theme for just one more week, but this is a bit of a different episode. We’re expanding a long-standing debate between the two of us on Moffat era Who — Kampy stands for the prosecution, Amanda for the defense.

This week is Kampy’s pick for our double feature Doctor Who Show Off, and of course, it could only be a Ten episode: “The Girl in the Fireplace.” 

It’s another Moffat one-off, and we chat all about this timey wimey adventure with Ten, Rose, Mickey, and Madame du Pompadour herself, Renette. We dig into some frankly wild similarities between this episode and Amanda’s pick from last week, lots of Ten-isms including “wellllll” and sp...

Grab your companions and sonic screwdrivers listeners, because we’re talking Doctor Who today on The Show Off podcast. This is the first time we’ll each be pulling an episode from the same show to talk about, starting with Amanda’s pick: Doctor Who series 8 episode 4, “Listen.” It’s a Twelve and Clara episode, and you bet we’re gonna talk about all of the insanity that comes with these two together, for better or worse. 

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Oh shit, listeners, we’re back to talk about Kampy’s favorite show this week: Bob’s Burgers. The episode is “Poops, I Didn’t Do It Again,” and we’re getting real in this one. Buckle up for a lot of puns, toilet humor, purple pickles, shark obsessions, heartwarming family moments, an upsetting amount of laxatives, weirdos at the pharmacy, and a cast of off-the-wall side characters. Plus, we discuss process, writing humor, voice acti...

Let’s go steal a podcast, thieves and grifters! Welcome back to a new round of The Show Off, where we’re talking about episodes of our all-time favorite shows, starting with Amanda’s pick — Leverage, created by John Rogers and Dean Devlin for TNT in 2008. 

We chat all about this excellent heist and con procedural and break down a fan favorite episode: The Bank Shot job. We’re talking about some great (and very hot) set design, the ...

Today we’re switching it up and chatting a bit about one of our favorite TV genres: blue skies TV. This is a term that’s started to get tossed around in the last year or so, but it all started with late 2000s and 2010s TV. Is the blue skies genre making a comeback in 2024 and 2025? Join the discussion with us (Amanda and Kampy) and let us know, what’s your favorite blue skies TV show?

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We're back for part 2 on HBO's Barry, discussing the series finale, "wow." This was a super fun discussion where we talk about character development from the pilot to now, who's fighting who, a serious tone shift, why does everybody hate Sally, religious delusion, the American treatment of on-screen violence, lots of guns, a top ten comedy moment, the bronze Fonz, long stationary shots for the drama, communicating in microexpressio...

Amanda and Kampy jump into Kampy’s first pick for the Show Off pod – HBO’s Barry. We dissect the pilot, “Make Your Mark,” diving into camera movement (or lack thereof), the art and science of comedy, contrasting stakes, lighting and cinematography, depictions of violence, setting up character arcs, some good monologues, and the simultaneous love letter to and mockery of acting in this show. And much more! We hope you enjoy this one...

Welcome back to our part 2 discussion of Once Upon a Time! Amanda shows Kampy the season finale of season 1, 1x22 "A Land Without Magic". We get into the pilot parallels, wrapping up a cohesive season while setting up the next one, the benefits of a gun vs. a sword, a (not) dead kid, the infamous closet fight, and of course, the swanqueen of it all. And much more! Spoilers abound, so enter at your own risk! But we hope you join us ...

Join Amanda and Kampy as they jump into their first Show Off ever with Once Upon a Time season 1, episode 1 "Pilot". It's Amanda's turn first and she's showing Kampy her very first episode of OUAT. And boy do we have some stuff to talk about with this excellent pilot! We're talking about how you introduce six compelling characters in less than an hour, excellent costume choices, cheesy but not terrible CGI for 2011, color symbolism...