Berri's Couch

Mar 09 2025 163 ep. 66 mins

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Two best friends who happen to be an Autistic and an English major sit down and discuss media, film and whatever they need to to justify a degree. So come along and waste some time with us or at the very least an hour a week.

Updates weekly unless life impedes us. All episodes can be found at https://www.patreon.com/berricouch

New episodes should be up once a week unless life proceeds to stop us.

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Ep 225 - Disney's Beautiful Beasts

Mar 09 2025 79 mins

Well may as well get the most recognisable adaptations out of the way. Disney and their grand machine had two hits at this tale, how do they both stand as art and more importantly how do they stand against each other?

Ep 224 - The Origin of Beauty and the Beast

Mar 02 2025 62 mins

Finally Bee fulfilled the self imposed requirements to get to ramble on about Beauty and the Beast. We start with it's origin point, whether it holds up and why it perhaps stands out amongst the list of other fairy tales that made it into the pop culture.

Ep 223 - Convention and the Breaking Thereof

Feb 23 2025 62 mins

Well we danced around the issue enough, time to break the glass and discuss the conventions on a narrative and what happens when you break them? If they should be broken? And can they even be broken and still be good narratives in their own right?

Ep 222 - Live Stunt Show Narratives

Feb 16 2025 64 mins

So we finally reach the episode about wrestling, Bee tries to verbalise why that form of entertainment is important and a legitimate form of storytelling. Jerri is along for the ride and even comes to a new appreciation for the live stunt shows and the way they uniquely tell stories.

Ep 221 - 4th Wall Improv

Feb 09 2025 60 mins

What is this? A short prompt and no clear line where a story is going can tell a narrative? Well thank god we're here to make some noise as we question who's line is it anyway and if these small moments that break walls count as narratives or are they just ways to entertain the smallest of us?

Ep 220 - TTRPG Stories

Feb 02 2025 68 mins

Stories told over a table with others while battling not only interpersonal dramas but also the whims of statistical chance, completely ridiculous right? Right. But the math rock stories are so much fun and unique so let's see why that is.

Ep 219 - Kaiju Wrestlemania

Jan 26 2025 62 mins

It's the showcase of the immortals, if said immortals were giant kaiju with generational beef. Kong and Godzilla are now separated but there is a challenger for top ape and he has a tag partner, can Kong find him an unlikely tag partner or will he lose everything? Does this film mark a pinfall for this series or will Bee run out wrestling references before she can finish this blurb

Ep 218 - Godzilla Grudge Match

Jan 19 2025 51 mins

After so many years finally we see the big ape fight the radioactive lizard. Does the story telling around the grudge match hold up to our fervor however? And with a new director at the helm can the change in finalised visions lead these films astray from where we started in favour of a Fast and Radioactive franchise?

Ep 217 - Kingzilla

Jan 12 2025 61 mins

The King, a usurper, and a flip flopping Dr who needed to figure out what she is actually doing in the plot. All present and mostly visible in this film exploration of the consequences from the last film, building on the foundations the past film set but can it stand up to it's predecessor or is it just lost in the shadows?

Ep 216 - Monsterverse Beginning

Jan 05 2025 53 mins

After an........... attempt in the 90's we finally got a Godzilla film from a studio outside of Japan and it's good. So good it started a universe of films and juggled themes of fatherhood and trauma. But how does it hold up now or were we just happy it wasn't a lot of fish?