My father ran a successful construction company for many years and he was able to apply his fondness for maths, keen eye for engineering and practical skills on a daily basis to build anything from an individuals kitchen extension to complex and sizeable corporate or government driven erections (lol). What a huge disappointment I must be then when my DIY skills extend only as far as putting up pictures or installing a toilet roll holder - after several hours of fretting, crying and watching YouTube videos first of course. It's this latter demonstration of 'expertise' that informs this weeks Top 5 as we discuss the Worst Movie Sets; from unconvincing and wobbly cardboard soundstages through to craptacular clusterfucks of CGI design and implementation.
Despite the Coen brothers being a firm favourite of all of the Bad Dads, we have yet to review any of their films on the podcast. That all changes this week as we discuss 2018's The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, an anthology containing six stories written and collected by the brothers over 25 years, set against the backdrop of the American frontier. The Coen's signature blend of black humour, rapid fire dialogue and elegiac tone are at the fore in a funny and frequently dark meditation on death. Cheery stuff. So cheery in fact that Howie has to invent a revolutionary new scoring system just to be able to properly quantify his feelings.
We finish up this week by watching a classic British science fiction series, Doctor Who. With one of the Dads confessing to have never seen a single episode, Sidey helpfully drops us in to the New Years Day special and culmination of series 12, Revolution of the Daleks. In the absence of any context at all, how will the Dads feel about the exploits of the worlds favourite Time Lord and her battle against the perennial threat of that most brutal race of glorified garbage cans?
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