The Periodic Table of Awesome Podcast

Jan 29 2025 31 ep. 71 mins 148
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The Periodic Table of Awesome is made by Geeks, for Geeks, bringing you the best of geek from week to week.

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TPToA Podcast 392 – Shocking Sci-Fi Shows! Severance & Skeleton Crew

Jan 29 2025 79 mins  
Severance and Skeleton Crew This week we are dipping our toes into a strange and disquieting corner of psychological sci-fi and then going on a child-friendly jaunt through inner and outer space! Most people don’t see Severance as particularly child-friendly, but it’s all in how you read it. And Skeleton Crew may not feel like a psychological exploration of the self, the Id, an

TPToA Podcast 391 – Season 2’s! Silo, Shrinking & Squid Game

Jan 23 2025 79 mins  
Season 2's Our month of “S” shows continues with a bunch of stupenduos second seasons, from Silo to Shrinking with some Squid Game on the side! Often the sophomore season brings a show unstuck, so let’s see how these second timers stand up to the serious scrutiny! Will Squid Game stick the landing? Does Silo slow to a slugs pace? Is Shrinking simply starting to soar? Stick a

TPToA Podcast 390 – Saturday Night

Jan 15 2025 71 mins  
Saturday Night In the 90 minutes leading up to the first ever episode of Saturday Night Live in 1975, producer Lorne Michaels battles against a swathe of challenges to get the unknown and untested conceptual nightmare of a show onto TV at 11:30pm. Personalities, egos, creative differences and unloved muppets are just the start of the challenges that they face. Welcome back to The

TPToA Podcast 389 – Christmas Thirst Traps

Dec 19 2024 70 mins  
Christmas Thirst Traps While we're getting ready to unwrap presents, it looks like we've gotten a bit thirsty and are ready to unwrap something else! Whether it's ugly-sweater beefcake, or Mrs Clause adjacent Cheesecake, we're down for it. By the end of the show we're actually talking about the comparative sexiness of Animated demi-gods and Anti-hero hedgehogs. It's a wild ride, th

TPToA Podcast 388 – The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

Dec 11 2024 71 mins  
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing? In this Anime feature film;The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, set in the Peter Jackson envisioned version of Middle Earth, directed by Kenji Kamiyama, thats where! Its got all the best bi

TPToA Podcast 387 – End of Year Wrap Up

Dec 07 2024 61 mins  
End of Year Wrap Up As we come screeching into the final corner to end the race of 2024, our tyres smoking, our bodywork hanging by a thread, and fire spitting from the engine bay, lets have a look at whats on in this silly season! in the show we talk about: Dune Prophecy Nosferatu Gladiator 2 It's a smaller show tonight with Dion and Jill guiding the car towards the finish li

TPToA Podcast 386 – Wicked (Act 1)

Nov 27 2024 68 mins  
Wicked Fellow Aussie-ans rejoice and gather around… The musical sensation of the stage is now here on the screen and we’re all green with envy! Or are we tickled pink? Thats for you to listen in and find out... We have one wicked princess of the Western Sydney… Jill! And Peta the Wonderful Witch of the Eastern suburbs. Oh and one Wizard of Oz, you know, that show about a pris

TPToA Podcast 385 – Two For Wednesday

Nov 20 2024 70 mins  
Two for Wednesday Sophomore seasons of TV can make or break a show. You can hit gold for one season, but can you follow it up? In this episode we look at some of the second seasons entering the market right now, including Arcane, The Diplomat and Silo and then look back at times from the past when maybe the second bite of the TV pie, was more sink than swim. The whole team is on b

TPToA Podcast 384 – The Franchise

Nov 13 2024 68 mins  
The Franchise In a world overrun by huge budget Super-hero blockbuster movies... one man will stand up for what he believes in... One man will hold back the tide of oncoming disaster... that man is... The Assistant Director. This week we check out the new comedy series; The Franchise on HBO, taking a critical look at the sausage factory of grand-scale Superhero cinematic universe

TPToA Podcast 383 – The Apprentice (2024)

Nov 06 2024 64 mins  
The Apprentice As the world looks on in disbelief at a system that has seemingly shifted towards the far right and the election of a convicted felon, we thought it was about time to have a look at what may be a really interesting and intelligent movie about a really awful person. Or two, in fact: Donald Trump as played by Sebastian Stan and Roy Cohn as portrayed by Jeremy Strong. T