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PV & FRANNY
A girl with a glockenspiel. A boy with a guitar. A high school full of weirdos, mascots who may or may not be unhinged, and a mystery that isn’t what anyone thinks it is.
A dead-serious love story… that refuses to behave like one.
One flier turns into a band. One band turns into obsession. And before they ever play a real set, everything is already ridiculous.
ACT TWO
If Act One is about starting a band, Act Two is about what happens when everything immediately gets in the way.
Franny does what any rational person would do.
He writes a love song.
Which would be fine… except for the rule.
No romance. Ever.
And PV means it.
What follows is a series of perfectly logical decisions that somehow make everything worse.
A love song that says too much.
A date that shouldn’t exist.
A plan to fix things that only complicates them further.
Because if PV won’t date a bandmate, there’s only one solution:
Make the competition part of the band.
Which works.
Until it doesn’t.
As alliances shift, rules get enforced, and Franny finds himself deeper in a situation he cannot control, the band becomes something else entirely.
Not just music.
Not just friendship.
Something closer to a test.
Of loyalty. Of identity. Of whether you can separate what you create from how you feel.
And in the middle of it all, the stakes quietly expand.
A school competition that suddenly matters.
A partnership that feels more intense than anything either of them expected.
And a realization that success might not look the way they imagined it.
Act Two is where the band takes shape, the lines get blurred, and the consequences of those rules start to land.
Because sometimes the only thing more complicated than love…
…is trying to avoid it.
🎭 CAST
NARRATOR – Ty Burrell
AJAY – Rahm Braslaw
JUDY – Samantha Morelos
MARIAN – Eileen Fogarty
PV – Kensington Tallman
RYUZO – O’Neill Monahan
FRANNY – Liam Richardson
GROUNDSKEEPER – Fred Armisen
DALE – Ruben Ray
TAP WATER BOTTLED WATER JINGLE – Chris Mann
🎬 PRODUCTION
Written by Tommy Wallach
Directed by Mark Knell & Jack Levy
Executive Produced by Shaan Sharma, Jack Levy, and Mark Knell
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As David Lynch's Blue Velvet turns 40, Adam and Josh revisit the film that shocked audiences and helped define modern American cinema. Is it Lynch's masterpiece? Plus: Massacre Theatre and Josh’s thoughts on Practical Magic 2 and Paul Greengrass's The Uprising.
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Intro (00:00:00-00:03:09)
Pantheon Project: Blue Velvet (00:03:10-01:16:00)
Filmspotting Family (01:16:01-01:19:03)
Practical Magic 2, The Uprising (01:19:04-01:27:11)
Massacre Theatre (01:27:12-1:33:05)
Credits / New Releases (1:33:06-1:37:01)
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Blue Velvet turns 40 this month—Adam and Josh have a Sacred Cow review coming later this week—so we're going back to 2014 for our Top 5 David Lynch Scenes.
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Alexander Ullom's It Ends is a daring little piece of microbudget drama about four friends at transition points in their lives, who find themselves in a place where life and death no longer hold any meaning. Whether it’s a film about despair, about the afterlife, about the human condition, or all of the above, is up for discussion this week, as well as how It Ends fits into this current moment in independent horror cinema. After that, we bring Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris back in for Connections to discuss these two films’ respective existential journeys, the baggage their characters are bringing with them, and how each movie uses its genre premise to explore a big central metaphor. Then for Your Next Picture Show, we take a quick look at how Steven Soderbergh’s 2002 version of Solaris compares to Tarkovsky’s.
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For a few days in the summer of 2024, the world’s attention was focused on Dr. Rachel Gunn — and not for anything good. Gunn, aka “Raygun”, was representing Australia at the Paris Olympics in the inaugural breakdancing competition, when her infamous performance became the subject of mockery, outrage, and even conspiracy theories. That’s the subject of the new Netflix documentary Untold Raygun: Breaking Badly. Matt and Jordan have a review, and use the film as an opportunity to recommend a film from the dawn of on-screen breakdancing and a sports doc about a ‘90s-era rivalry. Plus, streaming recommendations for a listener looking for movies with adrenaline-rush-inducing twists.
Intro (00:00:00–00:07:20)
Untold Raygun: Breaking Badly (00:07:21–00:23:38)
Rec Seg! (00:23:39–00:40:27)
Listener Req Seg: Movies With Twists (00:40:28–00:52:47)
New to Streaming / Credits (00:52:48–01:00:16)
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