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A podcast where four intrepid adventurers pick Pilot Episodes, and decide whether the show has the skills to take off, or is grounded for the season.
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Oct 18, 2016

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome to our 76th flight, Hannibal.

 

There's a hunger - a ravening hunger in the pit of you. And you can see the hunger, see its yawning chasm, its desperate gasps for sustenance. What can you do, but eat?

So what if the show that inspired such yearning features the meat as human flesh? It looks good, ok, don't judge me. 

But beware lest Will Graham and his true empathy see past the facade of a mild mannered ordinariness and he peers into the heart of you. The very dark depth of you. 

Beware lest he know you and reveal you. 

 

Stick perhaps, to Kraft Dinner.

Oct 11, 2016

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 75th Flight, Twin Peaks.

When the murder of the Perfect Daughter shakes a small town, what's left to be done but track down the sicko that did the deed. But this small town has one thing in common - secrets. And also the same meeting place for secret rendezvous. Literally - find somewhere else to meet. Also is anybody NOT sleeping with somebody else?

And if the Perfect Daughter turns out to have had secrets of her own, what will we find out when we ask: Who Killed Laura Palmer?

 

 

Oct 4, 2016

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 74th episode, The Living and the Dead. 

The Race to modernity has begun, but on this farm the old ways still take hold. And sometimes they take hold in the worst ways - a sinners soul corrupting a once adventurous girl - a salt of the earth farmhand compelled to lay down in the most dangerous of places, and the voices. The echoing voices of the past, and maybe the future.

 

 

Sep 27, 2016

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 73rd episode, Versailles. 

Louis' been having those prophetic dreams. The kind where he bangs the embodiment of the glory France in a mirrored hall. You know, architecture dreams. But he's got opposition and while his royal entourage grow increasingly bored at the lack of society out in the woods at a decrepit hunting lodge, Louis wants to bring Paris to Versaille.

If only it wasn't so hard, and there were less assassins, and war, and less baby daddy birth-drama.

 

Sep 20, 2016

Hello everyone and welcome aboard our 72nd Episode, Jeeves and Wooster.

 

Sometimes even the most respectable of gentlemen need fishing out of the soup, as it were. They may have gotten into a spot of trouble with the law, snatching a police officer’s helmet perhaps. Or they may attract fiancées like that flies and honey nonsense. Or worst of all, they may be horridly hung over and need a restorative of the highest sort. Enter Jeeves, the butler that buttles with the best of them. Shimmering into rooms like a mirage, and the cleverest sort you’ve ever seen. Throw the two together and you have hijinks aplenty

Sep 13, 2016

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 71st flight, Stargate Atlantis.

What's a Scientist to do when faced with the possibility of exploration of strange new worlds? Or a Pilot, with a heroes history and a disregard for rules who somehow is compatible with ancient technology. Or worse? A...who else was there? Some military types. They just do military things - shouting, guns, dying honourably to Marilyn Manson wannabes. Classic.

Dial up FS and step through the Stargate to a good time - we promise Mid-2000's Canadian CGI for all!

Sep 7, 2016

Disco, drugs, and dreams - you can find them all in the Bronx in 1977. Buildings always burning, but so too does the soul of one young Wordsmith, destined to meet Grandmaster Flash. 

Art, politics, and the war against an inescapable urban experience, step back in time to the birth of modern music. 

Sometimes you wanna get out, sometimes you wanna get in, but I promise you, you'll wanna Get Down.

Aug 30, 2016

Hello Frequent Flyers and Welcome Aboard our 69th Episode, Stranger Things.

Come with us back to a time before the internet - when Dungeons & Dragons ruled from the basements, phones had cords, and missing children taken to a dark otherworld happened so infrequently as to be rare.

Can four kids, three teenagers, two adults and one strangely talented escaped experiment solve the mystery of small town Suburbia, before it destroys them all?

 

Aug 16, 2016

Hello Frequent Flyers, and welcome aboard our summertime service. With your Flight Crew away on top secret missions, we have decided to cultivate a selection of picks for you when the heat of the day overwhelms your poor burnt skin, and you decide to duck inside.  Sit down, get sorted with a nice cold drink and stay tuned!

Our resident Stowaway gets gritty with Gotham - the film noir superhero sendup that peeks at the backstory of Batman's villains and heroes. She then charges over to the Nintendo DS with her very own Pocket Jockey before jumping on the Back of the Turtle with Thomas King.

Stowaway then takes a load off with some Happy Little Trees with our favourite painter, Bob Ross. A happy little time is had by all.

Aug 9, 2016

Hello Frequent Flyers, and welcome aboard our summertime service. With your Flight Crew away on top secret missions, we have decided to cultivate a selection of picks for you when the heat of the day overwhelms your poor burnt skin, and you decide to duck inside.  Sit down, get sorted with a nice cold drink and stay tuned!

Fearless Flyer dives right in with Flight School Recommend Favourite - that $10 founding father without a father, Hamilton! Alongside some Shakespearean shenanigans, and Lumberjane kick-assery, she celebrates Uncharted 4 by firmly suggesting a trip to your local abandoned temple in the middle of the jungle to find El Dorado.

Or just pick up the first Uncharted. You're worth it.

 

Aug 3, 2016

Hello Frequent Flyers, and welcome aboard our summertime service. With your Flight Crew away on top secret missions, we have decided to cultivate a selection of picks for you when the heat of the day overwhelms your poor burnt skin, and you decide to duck inside.  Sit down, get sorted with a nice cold drink and stay tuned!

This week Justin gives a convincing sermon about Preacher and PaperGirls - two fantastical picks to start off your summer with. Then he travels East of West in this alternate history comic that put the apocalypse and cowboys together in a rollicking race to the end of days.

He stops for a small gig with the Greek Gods in The Wicked and Divine, and gives as good as he gets when the prophecy: He will be loved, he will be hated. In two years he will be dead - threatens to end his tenure on our show. Fight back, SEMM!

Jul 26, 2016

Hello Frequent Flyers, and welcome aboard our summertime service. With your Flight Crew away on top secret missions, we have decided to cultivate a selection of picks for you when the heat of the day overwhelms your poor burnt skin, and you decide to duck inside.  Sit down, get sorted with a nice cold drink and stay tuned!

Vector gives Gilmore Girls a go in anticipation of its return, and hitting up the nostalgia of Teen Wolf season one. Alongside a gambit of other recommendations, you can be assured Vector's on the mark.

Jul 20, 2016

Hello Frequent Flyers, and welcome aboard our summertime service. With your Flight Crew away on top secret missions, we have decided to cultivate a selection of picks for you when the heat of the day overwhelms your poor burnt skin, and you decide to duck inside.  Sit down, get sorted with a nice cold drink and stay tuned!

In our first part of the WOOR series, The Flying Dutchman tackles Cleverman. Why should you watch it, and why should you care about Australia? ( You should care so much.)
Will it fire you up or cool you down this summer? The Dutchman certainly knows which.

Jul 12, 2016

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 68th Episode, Eureka.

We all know that you're geniuses. Certifiable smart-folk. So why not move on down to the epicentre of intelligence, small-town Eureka. 

Where science and math are encouraged and the law is very relaxed about explosions. 

Where the Infinite Universe theory is not only accepted but played with by children.

Or, if you're not a genius, you could just be a U.S Marshall, trying to shepherd your wayward ward home, with an slightly above average IQ but a keen way of puttin' things together.

OR maybe just...don't move there? Seems to be some sort of world-annihilation device every week so... maybe just keep driving.

Jul 6, 2016

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 67th Episode, Filthy Preppy Teen$.

Folks, I'm sure you know the feeling of being cast away on a desert island, with only your boomerang to survive. Meegan and Chaud certainly do - but that's all behind them. They just want to return to their life atop the high school social ladder. Too bad the rungs have been greased, and they've been replaced by Ikea children.

So relatable.

So High School.

There's teen leprechauns, girls in comas, and so many transition screens.

Jun 28, 2016

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 66th Episode, Penny Dreadful.

When there's a creaking on the steps and a sudden quiet outside, when your breath fills the cold air with mist and your heart trembles in your chest, to whom do you turn?

Perhaps to a woman with a mysterious gift and penchant for fortune telling? Or maybe a strange anatomist whose obsession with life and death transgress the bounds of science?
Or an adventurer known for exploring the darkest parts of the world, who understands what if feels to be both hunter and prey?
Even a Wild West actor, whose sharpshooting masks a troubled past. 

And what if you decide to step out from your room, and venture into the unknown - that Demi-Monde, can you say you loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night? 

There's no stars down here, no light. Just spiders, Josh Hartnett, and Death.

 

Jun 22, 2016

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 65th episode, Narcos.

On this flight, we take a romp through the idyllic city of Miami, early 1970's. Flip flops, Hippies and Farrah Fawcett hair rule the scene and the DEA all have their eyes on that Devil's Lettuce, if you catch our drift.

Then a Cockroach survives the end of the world and makes his way to Columbia, to Pablo Escobar.

When American DEA agent, Steve Murphy, left for Columbia he'd left with the same sense of destiny that just conquerors have. One year later, the world's gone to shit, and it doesn't matter how many people take a lead for their pains, sometimes the end justify the means.

But whose means, whose ends? The end of the world keeps coming, so who will rise above?

Jun 14, 2016

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 64th Episode, Fairy Tail.

When your world is full of Wizard Guilds that insist on you joining to get your wizard license like a more interesting AMA card, there's bound to be some problems. Especially when you want to get into the most prestigious guild, Fairy Tail. You know, the one where the really popular members star in the centerfold. That's a thing. A ....gross thing.

Maybe just go to Hogwarts, not this weird Team Butt Wizard bullshit.

 

Jun 7, 2016

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 63rd flight, Attack on Titan.

If passengers look out the left side of the plane, they'll be able to see the three massive walls that have protected our kind for centuries. If they look out the right side you should see the monstrous, ravening Titans, here for the flesh of you and your family. 

There is no escape, there is no fighting - there can be no quarters given. It's survival or extinction. 

Enjoy the fight!

 

May 31, 2016

Hello Frequent Flyers and Welcome aboard our 62nd Episode, In the Flesh.

When the apocalypse goes from nigh to passé, the question ringing in everyone’s brains must be – what next?

So what, the Zombie hoards massacred your village, forcing you to destroy the terrible mockeries of humanity that shambled endlessly onward in search of sustenance.

So what if these self-same Zombies have been ‘cured’, and can remember every terrible action? So what if they can only keep washing the blood from their hands and recite over and over, ‘I’m not responsible for what I did in my untreated state’? Maybe they didn’t ask to come back from the dead. They didn’t ask to be made public enemy #1 by the HVF.

And poor, gentle Kieren didn’t ask to be made a killer – but that’s reality now. And you have to face it head on, nail-filled cricket bat and all.

 

May 24, 2016

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 61st Episode, House of Lies.

When you're trying to get the fat cat 1% that drove the economy to the brink to go with your economic plan, things can get a bit heated. Especially when the #1 company you're going up against is your ex-wife's.

And sure, maybe she's the spawn of satan, and SURE maybe you should be at home taking care of your adorable son who just got cast as Sandy in Grease. But you are Don Fucking Cheadle, and you came to get yours. So claw your way to the top and make sure to get those billable hours. 

May 17, 2016

Hello Frequent Flyers and Welcome aboard our 60th Episode, Turn.

 Our passengers may notice that this trip to the past comes free with de-saturated tones, and a heck of a lot of moral ambiguity. We advise that you remain seated until your Captain turns off the 'Fight The British' sign. 

Upon which time you'll be free to move about and gather intelligence with the best of them. But be careful, it's the gallows if you get caught. Or worse, you'll have to go back to your life being a cabbage farmer. 

But it'll all be worth it when the Right Side wins, all thanks to you - you help prove that if you just keep turning you'll make one full revolution.

May 10, 2016

Hello Frequent Flyers and Welcome Aboard our 59th Episode, Brooklyn Nine Nine.

We here on Flight School take your safety seriously. That's why we've decided to get rid of our old air marshal that let us do...literally anything...and replaced him with a newer, tougher, air marshal. One that's going to teach us how to be a team, how to grow up, and maybe a little bit about manscaping. 

And sure, maybe kick ass and look good while doing it. 

May 3, 2016

Hello Frequent Flyers and Welcome Aboard our 58th Flight, Fresh Off the Boat.

I think we can all remember the 90's. Hip hop and CD Player's, skipping every bump in the road as your family drives you way across America to open up a Western themed restaurant in the middle of Florida. 

We can all think back to that sweltering heat - so different from our home in Washington's China Town.

Oh wait, we can't? Too bad, you're going to relate to this kid anyways, as he struggles with cultural identity and lunchables. 

Make a move over to our Facebook Page Facebook 

Make a mix tape of all our old episodes iTunes

 

Apr 26, 2016

Hello Frequent Flyers and Welcome aboard our 57th Flight, Lizzie McGuire.

We've all been there, perched awkwardly on the end of our beds as our parents try to explain the magical mysteries of puberty. And if those mysteries happen to come attached to scrunchies and a million tarantula braids and Judge Judy reference, well, so be it.

And so what if your mom won't let you go to THE pool party of the closest thing you'll ever get to Brad Pitt? 

Growing up is hard, but it gets a bit easier with friends, and tie-dye

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