Jul 21, 2026 · 1 hr · 13 segments
Returning guest Michael joins us for a man on the run for being wrongfully accused of killing his wife but it was a robot-armed and legged and torso'd man who did it in the TV movie Annihilator.
Well, this week we're watching the failed pilot and TV movie Annihilator.
And this is absolutely filled to the brim with Continuum Drag All-Stars, Jordan.
Oh, wow.
Oh, I didn't realize that.
Yeah, yeah.
Plus, the writer of Annihilator was the creator of Otherworld.
He wrote this with his son.
Oh, you know what's funny? I noticed the name, but I forgot to look that up.
So that's interesting.
Yeah, so we've experienced stuff from both of these people before.
And then, of course, special shout out to the director.
Which is wild.
longtime cinematographer.
Taxi driver last while it's raging bull.
I know and you know, it's funny I didn't look at it until I had actually watched this and I'll say I'm not bearing the lead here But not that this was gonna be like winning winning lots of awards Although it did win one Emmy for makeup when I was watching I was like well the actual like the directors giving this something like he's giving it more than the material One would think would allow and there's like real attempts at like style and doing something interesting with the scenes and You know, the level of success might depend on the viewer.
But compared to some of the kind of run-of-the-mill TV movies we watched, I thought this at least had an attempt at looking like something better than what it is.
I think this has some of the fastest editing I've ever seen on television.
That's true.
There's some pretty fast editing.
There's so many flash frames in this.
I was like, oh, what am I seeing? I got to go back and see that again.
It's probably to cover a little bit of stuff, you know?
Well, this week we're watching the failed pilot and TV movie Annihilator.
And this is absolutely filled to the brim with Continuum Drag All-Stars, Jordan.
Oh, wow.
Oh, I didn't realize that.
Yeah, yeah.
Plus, the writer of Annihilator was the creator of Otherworld.
He wrote this with his son.
Oh, you know what's funny? I noticed the name, but I forgot to look that up.
So that's interesting.
Yeah, so we've experienced stuff from both of these people before.
And then, of course, special shout out to the director.
Which is wild.
longtime cinematographer.
Taxi driver last while it's raging bull.
I know and you know, it's funny I didn't look at it until I had actually watched this and I'll say I'm not bearing the lead here But not that this was gonna be like winning winning lots of awards Although it did win one Emmy for makeup when I was watching I was like well the actual like the directors giving this something like he's giving it more than the material One would think would allow and there's like real attempts at like style and doing something interesting with the scenes and You know, the level of success might depend on the viewer.
But compared to some of the kind of run-of-the-mill TV movies we watched, I thought this at least had an attempt at looking like something better than what it is.
I think this has some of the fastest editing I've ever seen on television.
That's true.
There's some pretty fast editing.
There's so many flash frames in this.
I was like, oh, what am I seeing? I got to go back and see that again.
It's probably to cover a little bit of stuff, you know?
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