Latest Hooplecast Podcast Episodes
HBO PROJECT: Iron Jawed Angels (2004)
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - June 27, 2018 02:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 39 ratingsWe're taking a short break from series premieres to review a few HBO original films. Iron Jawed Angels (2004) stars Hilary Swank and Frances O'Connor as suffragettes Alice Paul and Lucy Burns. (Molly Parker, Anjelica Huston, Vera Farmiga, Julia Ormond, and the warden from Shawshank are also in ...
COMMENTARY: Catch and Release (2006)
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - May 28, 2018 16:00 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 39 ratingsMemorial Day marks the start of summer, and if the impending hot weather, hurricanes, and escalating gas prices have you depressed, perhaps stay indoors and cool off with Matt, Claire, and Brad as they record an unnecessary commentary track for the Timothy Olyphant and Jennifer Garner comedy Ca...
HBO PROJECT: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (2008) | Generation Kill (2008)
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - April 29, 2018 21:00 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 39 ratingsThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (2008) is an adaptation of Alexander McCall Smith's beloved novels. Jill Scott plays Mma Ramotswe, our lead heroine who starts a detective agency for the purpose of solving mysteries and aiding the people of her beloved Botswana. Aside from its warmth and humo...
BONUS: Westworld 2x01 "Journey Into Night"
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - April 29, 2018 20:15 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 39 ratingsMatt, Laurel, and Steven share their disappointments with the second season premiere of Westworld. | Send feedback to [email protected]. Find our recording schedule, show notes, discussion threads, and more at hooplecast.com. | Recorded April 26, 2018. Released April 29, 2018. [Warning: Explic...
HBO PROJECT: In Treatment (2008) | John Adams (2008)
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - April 01, 2018 21:40 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 39 ratingsHBO's obsession with psychiatry and sex continues with In Treatment (2008). Dr. Paul Weston's first patient of the week, Laura, confesses her erotic fixations, which is not a good for a man in the throes of a crumbling marriage and mid-life crisis. Paul's other patients include Sophie (a suici...
BONUS: Deadwood RPG, Part 1
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - February 26, 2018 04:00 - 3 hours ★★★★ - 39 ratingsIn this bonus episode, we assume the identities of our favorite Deadwood characters for a unique role-playing experience. Steve is our GM (Game Master) for this mod of the RPG Apocalypse World, and he does a fantastic job establishing a post-season three narrative for us to act out: "Who killed C...
COMMENTARY: The Broken Hearts Club (2000)
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - February 14, 2018 13:30 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 39 ratingsIt's Valentine's Day, and whether you're single, married, coupled, or a member of Andrew Keegan's sex cult, HoopleCast wants you to know you are loved. That is why Matt, Claire, Will, Mel, and Matt H have recorded this unnecessary commentary track for the Timothy Olyphant-led ensemble flick The...
HBO PROJECT: John From Cincinnati (2007) | Tell Me You Love Me (2007)
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - February 06, 2018 03:00 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 39 ratingsDavid Milch's follow-up to Deadwood, John From Cincinnati (2007), is the metaphysical surfer drama Chris Carter wishes he created. A weirdo calling himself "John" (is he autistic? an angel? Dougie Jones from Twin Peaks: The Return?) disrupts the lives of the deeply unlikable Yost family, led by...
HBO PROJECT: Big Love (2006) | Five Days (2007)
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - November 27, 2017 05:35 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 39 ratingsThis episode we're deep in the heart of Utah for Big Love (2006), a well-written/produced/acted drama about plural marriage that some of the hoopleheads find deeply troubling due to the current state of the world. After we discuss "Sopranos in Mormon-town" we dig into America's fucked up laws r...
HBO PROJECT: Deadwood (2004) | Rome (2005)
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - November 06, 2017 06:15 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 39 ratingsThe hoopleheads return to the camp for what is likely a final reconnoiter as they revisit the premiere of the series what done brought em to this here place to begin it: Deadwood (2004). It's a thrill being back in The Black Hills with our dear friends, many of whom are looking younger and less...
COMMENTARY: The Crazies (2010)
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - October 31, 2017 13:30 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 39 ratingsWhat is more spine-chilling, blood-curdling, and alliterative than spooky skeletons, ghastly ghouls, and zoophagous (look it up) zombies? Answer: HoopleCast's third entry in its series of unnecessary commentary tracks for Timothy Olyphant movies! In celebration of All Hallows Eve, Claire and Ta...
HBO PROJECT: K Street (2003) | Angels In America (2003)
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - October 06, 2017 02:45 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 39 ratings*LOOK UP!* HoopleCast makes its triumphant return, discussing an odd pair of HBO programs. First, the Soderbergh and Clooney produced K Street (2003), which trails real life political operatives James Carville and Mary Matalin as they interact with actual statesmen (Howard Dean) and fictional c...
BONUS: Game of Thrones 7x01 "Dragonstone"
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - July 24, 2017 04:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 39 ratingsBrian (Sparkstalker) and Casey (Furgus) of Geezer Gamers join Matt to discuss the long awaited seventh season premiere of Game of Thrones, "Dragonstone." | Send feedback to [email protected]. Find our recording schedule, show notes, discussion threads, and more at hooplecast.com. | Recorded Ju...
HBO PROJECT: The Wire (2002) | Carnivàle (2003)
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - July 17, 2017 00:25 - 3 hours ★★★★ - 39 ratingsRe-up your podcast stash with another supply of HoopleCast, featuring Will of SpartaCast fame ALIVE! ALIVE! ALIVE!. Will is here to defend The Wire (2002), the series about Baltimore's drug war, which is often cited by critics as the greatest fucking thing mere mortals have ever had the privile...
COMMENTARY: A Perfect Getaway (2009)
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - July 04, 2017 17:00 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 39 ratingsHappy Independence Day from HoopleCast! 7th in literacy! 42nd in life expectancy! 1st in gun deaths! U-S-A! U-S-A! It's the second in our series of unnecessary commentary tracks for films featuring "Hawaiian" Timothy Olyphant. Matt, Claire and Will are on a wild ride to Kauai, following the adv...
BONUS: The Leftovers 3x08 "The Book of Nora"
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - June 12, 2017 03:30 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 39 ratingsMatt and Robin lament the series finale of The Leftovers. (Cue devastating Max Richter score.) | Send feedback to [email protected]. Find our recording schedule, show notes, discussion threads, and more at hooplecast.com. | Recorded June 8, 2017. Released June 11, 2017. [Warning: Explicit Lang...
HBO PROJECT: Six Feet Under (2001) | Band of Brothers (2001)
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - June 01, 2017 02:00 - 3 hours ★★★★ - 39 ratingsDane of The Proud Jacuzzi Crew is our guest for this Powers Boothe Memorial Podcast. Six Feet Under (2001 - 2005) is Alan Ball's dramedy about the insufferable Fisher clan. Nate, the scruffy eldest son, has flown home to Los Angeles for Christmas, but holiday plans are thwarted when the family ...
HBO PROJECT: The Sopranos (1999) | The Corner (2000)
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - May 01, 2017 03:00 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 39 ratingsThe Sopranos (1999) is considered by many to be the pinnacle of HBO programming, but do the hoopleheads share that opinion, or are they wistful for the salad days of Maximum Security and Hotel Room? Are you kookalamanza? Vaffanculo, you pazzo stunad! New Jersey native Carol is the M.V.P. of thi...
BONUS: The Leftovers 3x01 "The Book of Kevin"
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - April 20, 2017 14:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 39 ratingsFrequent HoopleCast contributors Will and Haso join Matt to discuss their thoughts on the third season premiere of The Leftovers. | Send feedback to [email protected]. Find our recording schedule, show notes, discussion threads, and more at hooplecast.com. | Recorded April 19, 2017. Released A...
HBO PROJECT: Oz (1997) | From the Earth to the Moon (1998)
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - March 01, 2017 02:30 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 39 ratingsIt's a new era for HBO as the premium cable network launches its first successful dramatic series, the relentlessly grim Oz (1997), which ran for an impressive fifty-six episodes. Our guest Steven brings a fan's enthusiasm to the discussion of "The Routine," which introduces us to the prisoners...
HBO PROJECT: Hotel Room (1993) | Perversions of Science (1997)
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - February 01, 2017 05:00 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 39 ratingsCome see us, little boys, as we scrape the very bottom of the HBO programming barrel. Hotel Room (1993) is David Lynch at his most pretentious--a terrifying thought. In "Tricks" Harry Dean Stanton may have a split personality, and may intend to kill a prostitute, but who the fuck can say for ce...
COMMENTARY: Dreamcatcher (2003)
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - December 25, 2016 17:00 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 39 ratingsHappy Christmas from HoopleCast! And what did Santa bring you? Why, shit weasels and toodle pips for days and days, by Jove! Join Matt and Claire as they laugh and cringe their way through Stephen King's oxycodone nightmare Dreamcatcher, the first in our unnecessary series of commentary podcast...
HBO PROJECT: Tales from the Crypt (1989) | Lifestories: Familes in Crisis (1992)
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - December 18, 2016 17:00 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 39 ratingsThe HoopleCast HBO Project continues by discussing two episodes of the horror anthology Tales from the Crypt (1989). In "The Man Who Was Death" William Sadler is a real Frank Underwood-slash-super villain, getting sadistic thrills by electrocuting his city's undesirables, until the easily predi...
HBO PROJECT: Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (1983) | Maximum Security (1984)
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - November 21, 2016 06:15 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 39 ratingsNow that we've wrapped Deadwood, what is a hooplehead to do? Why, cover every. single. fucking. HBO drama series since the very fucking beginning, of course. This is the first installment of "Phase II" of the podcast in which we tackle the premieres of all HBO dramas chronologically. ... First ...
BONUS: Deadwood Fan Fiction
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - October 22, 2016 20:30 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 39 ratingsWe preview the first two HBO series to be covered in the next phase of the podcast, then read some terrific Deadwood fan fiction. Featuring "Undeadwood" and "PostMortem Exam" by mooncustafer, and "The Damage Which Does Not End The World, Part 1" by fragrantwoods. | Send feedback to hooplecast@gma...
Goodbye, and Fuck You
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - October 11, 2016 02:30 - 3 hours ★★★★ - 39 ratingsPeaches, hoecakes, titty-lickers, gleets, antler gods, bicycle rides, ginger bums, constant throbs, loopy fucking cunts... It's been quite the journey through the muck and mire of the gritty outlaw camp known as Deadwood. Nuchtchas of Beyond the Wall: A Game of Thrones Podcast helps us reflect ...
Deadwood 3x12 "Tell Him Something Pretty"
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - August 23, 2016 03:00 - 4 hours ★★★★ - 39 ratingsEpisode Thirty-six. A murder engine versus a Swearengen as Stephanie Edd, author of The Clear Case and The Halyard Hitch, drops the hammer again. Hawkeye arrives with future Tarantino cast "The Almost Eighteen"... Seth opines on the nature of bullies, and how they never know when to shut the fu...
COMMENTARY: Deadwood 3x12
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - August 07, 2016 01:30 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 39 ratingsHooplehead Carol records a commentary for "Tell Him Something Pretty." | Send feedback to [email protected]. Find our recording schedule, show notes, discussion threads, and more at hooplecast.com. | Released August 6, 2016. [Warning: Explicit Language.]
Deadwood 3x11 "The Catbird Seat"
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - July 30, 2016 22:00 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 39 ratingsEpisode Thirty-five. Longtime Deadwood fan Andrew is our guest for this pivotal penultimate episode. The murder of a beloved individual unites the camp against the grotesque George Hearst... Trixie is the loopiest of loopy cunts, and we couldn't love her more for it... Aunt Lou fires the openin...
COMMENTARY: Deadwood 3x11
HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood - July 20, 2016 14:25 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 39 ratingsHoopleheads Matt H & Mel record a commentary for "The Catbird Seat." | Send feedback to [email protected]. Find our recording schedule, show notes, discussion threads, and more at hooplecast.com. | Released July 20, 2016. [Warning: Explicit Language.]
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