Latest Hooplecast Podcast Episodes
BONUS: The Last of Us 1x09. "Look for the Light"
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - April 02, 2023 21:30 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 39 ratingsThe hoopleheads and Steve discuss the season one finale of The Last of Us. | Send feedback to [email protected]. Find our recording schedule, show notes, discussion threads, and more at hooplecast.com. | Recorded March 26, 2023. Released April 2, 2023. [Warning: Explicit Language.]
BONUS: The Last of Us 1x01. "When You're Lost in the Darkness"
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - January 22, 2023 22:30 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 39 ratingsMatt A, Steve, Matt H, and Mel discuss the premiere of The Last of Us. | Send feedback to [email protected]. Find our recording schedule, show notes, discussion threads, and more at hooplecast.com. | Recorded January 18, 2023. Released January 22, 2023. [Warning: Explicit Language.]
HBO PROJECT: Westworld (2016) | Big Little Lies (2017)
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - February 20, 2022 22:30 - 3 hours ★★★★ - 39 ratingsThe distant future. The year 2052. Western-themed LARPing has inexplicably become a recreational pursuit for the world's wealthy elite. Willing to spend thousands, and risk almost certain personal injury and/or death, the degenerates of the upper crust indulge in their most depraved and violent...
HBO PROJECT: The Night Of (2016) | The Young Pope (2016)
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - August 14, 2021 21:45 - 3 hours ★★★★ - 39 ratingsIn The Night Of (2016) horny college student Nasir (Riz Ahmed) becomes ensnared by the criminal justice system after he gives a cipher a ride in his dad's timeshared taxicab and--flash forward past the steamy drug-induced knife play--she ends up murdered in the upstairs bedroom of her Bohemian ...
HBO PROJECT: Vinyl (2016)
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - June 07, 2021 03:45 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 39 ratingsIt's the 1970's and New York City is a grungy, graffiti-tagged, drug-fueled, teetering-on-the-brink of economic collapse urban hellscape. But, holy fuck, what a time to be a music exec. Bobby Cannavale is Richie Finestra, the founder and president of American Century Records, successful enough ...
HBO PROJECT: The Leftovers (2014) | Show Me a Hero (2015)
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - March 27, 2021 03:45 - 3 hours ★★★★ - 39 ratingsAfter two percent of the world's population inexplicably vanishes, the residents of Mapleton, New York are left to grapple with the "whys" and "hows" and "but Gary Buseys" of it all. Adapted from the novel by Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers (2014) is a series about loss and grief and cults and Just...
BONUS: Lovecraft Country 1x10. "Full Circle"
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - October 31, 2020 20:30 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 39 ratingsMatt, Steve, and Will discuss the season (series?) of Lovecraft Country. | Send feedback to [email protected]. Find our recording schedule, show notes, discussion threads, and more at hooplecast.com. | Recorded October 21, 2020. Released October 31, 2020. [Warning: Explicit Language.]
BONUS: Lovecraft Country 1x08. "Jig-a-Bobo" and 1x09. "Rewind 1921"
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - October 18, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 39 ratingsEpisodes eight and nine of Lovecraft Country. | Send feedback to [email protected]. Find our recording schedule, show notes, discussion threads, and more at hooplecast.com. | Recorded October 14, 2020. Released October 18, 2020. [Warning: Explicit Language.]
BONUS: Lovecraft Country 1x06. "Meet Me in Daegu" and 1x07. "I Am."
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - October 18, 2020 07:30 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 39 ratingsEpisodes six and seven of Lovecraft Country. | Send feedback to [email protected]. Find our recording schedule, show notes, discussion threads, and more at hooplecast.com. | Recorded October 1, 2020. Released October 18, 2020. [Warning: Explicit Language.]
BONUS: Lovecraft Country 1x04. "A History of Violence" and 1x05. "Strange Case"
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - September 27, 2020 21:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 39 ratingsEpisodes four and five of Lovecraft Country. | Send feedback to [email protected]. Find our recording schedule, show notes, discussion threads, and more at hooplecast.com. | Recorded September 16, 2020. Released September 27, 2020. [Warning: Explicit Language.]
BONUS: Lovecraft Country 1x02. "Whitey's on the Moon" and 1x03. "Holy Ghost"
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - September 08, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 39 ratingsEpisodes two and three of Lovecraft Country. | Send feedback to [email protected]. Find our recording schedule, show notes, discussion threads, and more at hooplecast.com. | Recorded September 1, 2020. Released September 7, 2020. [Warning: Explicit Language.]
BONUS: Lovecraft Country 1x01. "Sundown"
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - August 25, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 39 ratingsMatt, Steve, and Will discuss the premiere of Lovecraft Country. | Send feedback to [email protected]. Find our recording schedule, show notes, discussion threads, and more at hooplecast.com. | Recorded August 19, 2020. Released August 24, 2020. [Warning: Explicit Language.]
HBO PROJECT: Parade's End (2013) | True Detective (2014)
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - December 31, 2019 23:00 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 39 ratingsNuchtchas, host of the Nutty Bites podcast joins us for our last recording of 2019. The Great War looms large for the characters of Parade's End (2013), a five-part mini-series based on the novels by Ford Madox Ford. Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Christopher Tietjens, a real "mug" of the landed...
BONUS: Watchmen 1x09. "See How They Fly"
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - December 27, 2019 02:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 39 ratingsMatt and Steven are back to chat about the season (series?) finale of Watchmen. | Send feedback to [email protected]. Find our recording schedule, show notes, discussion threads, and more at hooplecast.com. | Recorded December 18, 2019. Released December 26, 2019. [Warning: Explicit Language.]
HBO PROJECT: Luck (2012) | The Newsroom (2012)
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - December 07, 2019 23:15 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 39 ratingsDavid Milch's intention to transform his interests/vices vis-à-vis horse racing into a narrative fit for television leads to mixed results in Luck (2012). Dustin Hoffman is out of prison and looking for revenge against those who done him wrong, and his machinations appear to manifest in the for...
BONUS: Watchmen 1x01. "It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice" and 1x02. "Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship"
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - November 03, 2019 00:30 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 39 ratingsMatt (Watchmen newbie) and Steve (Watchmen expert) discuss the first two episodes of Damon Lindelof's new (limited run?) HBO series. | Send feedback to [email protected]. Find our recording schedule, show notes, discussion threads, and more at hooplecast.com. | Recorded October 29, 2019. Relea...
COMMENTARY: Scream 2 (1997)
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - October 31, 2019 13:00 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 39 ratingsHappy Halloween from HoopleCast! Claire and Brad, on loan from the podcast Sassy Sewer-Lion Boutique, join Matt for our final commentary of the year. Our friend Timmy O. stars in the horror sequel Scream 2: Secret of the Ooze (1997) as a pretentious film student (redundant) who is out to terror...
COMMENTARY: Hitman (2007)
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - September 02, 2019 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 39 ratingsWe're scraping the bottom of the Olyphant barrel with Hitman (2007) for our seventh (!) unnecessary commentary. This is the movie that our friend Tim routinely cites as an embarrassing low in his career, and aside from some impressive fight choreography, we're inclined to agree. More like, Shit...
Deadwood: The Movie, Part 2
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - July 31, 2019 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 39 ratingsThis is it, folks. The fucking end. There is no more Deadwood. (Unless those cocksuckers at HBO release those deleted scenes, hmmm?) We conclude our coverage of the film with listener feedback, favorite quotes, characters of the episode, and our all-important ratings. We discussed the plot in d...
Deadwood: The Movie, Part 1
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - June 30, 2019 04:00 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 39 ratings1889. That bald-pated cunt George Hearst has returned to Deadwood to celebrate South Dakota's transition from territory to state. Upon being mother-fucked from a balcony by a pregnant Trixie, Hearst leverages his newly found awareness of Al Swearengen's deception (vis-à-vis the prostitute Jen) ...
COMMENTARY: Deadwood: The Movie (2019)
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - June 03, 2019 00:30 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 39 ratingsThe hoopleheads watch the long-awaited, highly-anticipated film. | VIDEO VERSION (Links within the Facebook group): http://bit.ly/2WjzRxo | Send feedback to [email protected]. Find our recording schedule, show notes, discussion threads, and more at hooplecast.com. | Recorded: June 1, 2019. R...
BONUS: Game of Thrones 8x06 "The Iron Throne"
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - May 26, 2019 00:30 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 39 ratingsWell, that was certainly a finale. | Send feedback to [email protected]. Find our recording schedule, show notes, discussion threads, and more at hooplecast.com. | Recorded May 21, 2019. Released May 25, 2019. [Warning: Explicit Language.]
BONUS: Deadwood RPG, Part 2
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - May 19, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 39 ratingsFifteen months later, we conclude the Deadwood RPG campaign "Nature Abhors" in a spectacularly violent fashion. (Cy Tolliver's corpse as an I.E.D.? Yes, of course, naturally, why not.) Starring: Matt A as Al Swearengen, Carol as Seth Bullock, Matt H as Dan Dority, Mel as Trixie, Nutty as Calamity...
BONUS: Game of Thrones 8x03 "The Long Night"
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - May 05, 2019 04:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 39 ratingsMatt, Steven, and Will discuss the epic battle that is Winterfell vs. Night King. | Send feedback to [email protected]. Find our recording schedule, show notes, discussion threads, and more at hooplecast.com. | Recorded April 30, 2019. Released May 4, 2019. [Warning: Explicit Language.]
COMMENTARY: High Life (2009)
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - April 20, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 39 ratingsIs it a stoner comedy? Is it a crime drama? It's neither. It's the sixth in our series of unnecessary commentaries for Timothy Olyphant movies. Claire and Matt watch the very Canadian based-on-a-play movie High Life (2009), which may be a shared universe prequel to The Crazies and may be secret...
HBO PROJECT: Mildred Pierce (2011) | Game of Thrones (2011)
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - March 25, 2019 04:00 - 3 hours ★★★★ - 39 ratingsKate Winslet stars in Mildred Pierce (2011), a five part adaptation of the James M. Cain novel. Mildred finds herself a grass widow after tossing her dirty bastard of a husband from their hovel due to his affair with a distinctly middle class frump. Now, staring down the barrel of a Depression-...
BONUS: Deadwood 1876
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - February 06, 2019 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 39 ratingsSteve, Will and I play the dice game Deadwood 1876. I will not claim this recording is entertaining, or even mildly interesting, but I am including it in the feed for the sake of completeness. Video version: https://goo.gl/4GLW2z | Send feedback to [email protected]. Find our recording schedul...
HBO PROJECT: Treme (2010) | Boardwalk Empire (2010)
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - February 05, 2019 04:00 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 39 ratingsThree months after, and the citizens of Treme (2010) are still rebuilding their lives. Antoine Baptiste is a musician adverse to paying cab fares. LaDonna, Baptiste's ex-wife, throws shade on the neighborhood brass band section whilst searching for her lost brother. Toni Bernette is a lawyer/cr...
HBO PROJECT: True Blood (2008) | The Pacific (2010)
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - October 15, 2018 05:30 - 3 hours ★★★★ - 39 ratingsWe're down in the hot, sticky swamplands of Bon Temps, Louisiana with Nuchtchas of The Nutty Bites Podcast to discuss True Blood (2008), the sexy vampire soap that HBO apparently forgot about when they announced they were eliminating late night adult programming from its services. Although it's...
HBO PROJECT: Grey Gardens (2009)
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - August 13, 2018 02:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 39 ratingsJackie Kennedy's oddball relatives, Edith Ewing Bouvier ("Big Edie") and her staunch daughter Edith Bouvier Beale ("Little Edie"), live a true hoarder lifestyle in Grey Gardens (2009), HBO's dramatized version of the famous documentary from 1975. Little Edie never launched after being spurned b...
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