Episodes

  • Season 9 Preview and Stephen King 2025 Guide

    Season 9 Preview and Stephen King 2025 Guide
    Jan 9 2025
    Eight years, nine seasons! The Losers look ahead at 2025. Together, they share their own highlights of Season 8 and go over the Club's reading and viewing lists for the year. Consider this a big old teaser trailer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 54 mins
  • Stephen King's The Pop of King EW Column: 2003-2004

    Stephen King's The Pop of King EW Column: 2003-2004
    Jan 3 2025
    Stephen King and Entertainment Weekly go back a long ways. The pair's relationship began with a handful of grouchy letters to the editor in which King excoriated the magazine's film critics. Kin's barbed words, however, only motivated the outlet to recruit the author — after he reviewed a Harry Potter book for them, the editors asked him if he'd want to like his own monthly column. In July of 2003, the Pop of King, a full page of King's pop cultural musings, debuted. In June 2023, The Losers' Club was initially going to discuss the column in one fell swoop in their Patreon-exclusive Archives series. However, after reading through the first year and change, they discovered there's too much brilliance, too many bad takes, and too much pure bile to not spread this out a bit. In this episode, Randall Colburn, Jenn Adams, and Dan Caffrey travel back to 2003 and 2004, using King's comically acerbic reviews, recommendations, and takedowns to discuss how that era of culture resonates two decades on. Topics include horror (obviously), poptimism, The Passion of the Christ, baby boomers, gradeflation, movie quotes, death, pet peeves, and Mystic River (the man would not stop with Mystic fuckin' River). And this is just the beginning. Want more? Become a member of The Barrens -- patreon.com/thebarrens -- for more installments of The Pop of King, in addition to a fourth episode dropping later this month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    2 hrs and 56 mins
  • Maximum Overdrive Movie Review

    Maximum Overdrive Movie Review
    Dec 20 2024
    The Losers gather at the Dixie Boy Truck Stop to finally review Stephen King's lone directorial effort Maximum Overdrive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    2 hrs and 45 mins
  • Merry Kingmas: A 2024 Gift Guide for Stephen King's Constant Readers

    Merry Kingmas: A 2024 Gift Guide for Stephen King's Constant Readers
    Dec 13 2024
    Randall, Jenn, Pfleegor, and Justo rock around the Kingmas tree in a holiday-themed episode that doubles as a gift guide for Constant Readers. They discuss King swag both real and imagined, as well as the best King books to buy for the King lover (or skeptic) in your life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Commentary

    The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Commentary
    Dec 6 2024
    The Losers head to the Aladdin Theater to celebrate 30 years of Frank Darabont's The Shawshank Redemption. Losers include Justin Gerber, Michael Roffman, and Jenn Adams. Together, they discuss why it's such a ubiquitous favorite, where it ranks in the pantheon of prison movies, which of them would survive it all, and, naturally, how the film connects to 90210. This was originally recorded in January of 2023. Follow us on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    2 hrs and 36 mins
  • Sleeping Beauties

    Sleeping Beauties
    Nov 29 2024
    The Losers spend their Thanksgiving weekend in Dooling to discuss Stephen and Owen King's Sleeping Beauties. Follow us on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    3 hrs and 15 mins
  • Ranking Stephen King's Worst Families

    Ranking Stephen King's Worst Families
    Nov 22 2024
    Holiday dinners can be minefields. Your pretentious cousin won’t stop talking about her year abroad, your mom keeps asking when you plan to have kids, and your drunk uncle just spilled red wine all over the green bean casserole. Sometimes the tricks don’t end with Halloween and even the best sweet potato casserole can’t make up for the stress of listening to your dad go on yet another political rant. But Constant Readers may rest assured that no matter what horrors may lie under your granny’s covered casserole dish, they won’t be as bad as the terrible families lurking in King’s Dominion. From the Cunninghams to the Hartsfields, the master of horror seems to delight in showing us the dark secrets that lie within every hearth and home. This episode features a sour 16 of sinister clans each duking it out to be named the family you’d least like to visit for the holidays. It’s stiff competition, but thankfully your hosts Jenn Adams, Dan Caffrey, Rachel Reeves, and Julia Marchese are on hand to wade through the overturned tables and broken dishes. With a March Madness-style bracket, they’ll pit each family against each other till only one remains to claim the title of King’s Worst Family. Note: This episode was recorded in November 2023 and is being unlocked ahead of Thanksgiving 2024. Follow us on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 57 mins
  • Hollywood King: On Never Flinch, Mike Flanagan's Carrie, and Stephen King's Lily

    Hollywood King: On Never Flinch, Mike Flanagan's Carrie, and Stephen King's Lily
    Nov 15 2024
    Losers Randall Colburn, Ashley Casseday, Michael Roffman, and Jenn Adams head to Hollywood King again to discuss the latest developments in King's Dominion, specifically Stephen King's next novel Never Flinch, Mike Flanagan's totally necessary remake of Carrie, a potential third Talisman novel, King's animated short Lily, and more. Follow us on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    2 hrs and 16 mins