Summary: The first episode with book 5 in a series. LOVER UNBOUND has ties that bind. Ghada discovered this gem and told everyone. This is one of many paths Coleen follows her down. Listen to their break down V and Jane.

Zach Roberts (@zdroberts) is back in town, so he and Russ (@russburlingame) join forces for a new episode of the new release wall, where they checked out Blinded By the Light at an early, “Springsteen Fan Event” screening four days before its official release on Friday.

Russ braved being sick and Zach being jet-lagged after a week-long event in Switzerland to go see this movie. Was it worth it? Well…

You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows.

If you like what we’re doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense.

Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please — always remember to rewind your videocassettes.

Russ Burlingame and Shawn Carpenter from Delicious Flavor: A Psych Rewatch Podcast break down the final season of iZombie, a criminally underrated show with heart, humor…and a pinch of horror.

You can read Russ’s interview with showrunner Rob Thomas here.

You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows.

If you like what we’re doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense.

Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please — always remember to rewind your videocassettes.

You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows.

If you like what we’re doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense.

Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please — always remember to rewind your videocassettes.

Russ and Zach make a trip to the cinema for Sorry To Bother You, the first feature film from Boots Riley, who pretty clearly stands out as a Talent You Should Be Watching.

We talk a lot about film theory, about the importance of indepdendent cinema, and other theoretical and quasi-academic stuff that we don’t get into with most of the big blockbusters and schlock horror movies we watch.

But fear not: we find a way to tie it back to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

For those of you relatively new to the show, the New Release Wall episodes differ from other episodes in one important way: we are talking about a new-in-theaters or BRAND-new-to-video movie, which typically means we do no (or at least minimal) spoilers and there is no second film discussed in the episode. This time around, though, there are a few particular films (O Lucky Man and Idiocracy, for instance) that come up again and again.

You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows.

If you like what we’re doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense.

Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please — always remember to rewind your videocassettes.

This week’s episode is the first recorded on new hardware, the first recorded while part of the ACPN group (as opposed to recording an episode and then being invited while in production), and the first in a while to have the “classic” format of an old release and a new release.

For anybody who might be new to Emerald City Video and is currently reading these notes (likely at ACPN), here’s what our deal is:

Russ Burlingame (that’s me!) is a senior writer for ComicBook.com, but in another life, I managed Emerald City Video, a family-owned video store in Syracuse, NY. During that time, I worked with Visu.News‘s Zach Roberts briefly as well as a number of other people who have been featured on this show less regularly, including Logan Bretschneider, Dan Fecteau, Erica Ladd, Eva Furmanska, and Dave Nielsen.

The idea of this show is to have the kind of conversations people used to have at the video store: a little more casual, a little more in-depth, and a lot more organic than you get from the crappy algorithms of Netflix, Amazon, and the like.

For example: today, YouTube Movies suggested six movies I should buy, and — as acknowledged under each one with the caption “you purchased this,” each of their purchase suggestions was a movie I already owned. Additionally, they were all six Marvel movies. That seems like a huge missed opportunity to pitch me on…I don’t know, literally any other big blockbuster?

At any rate, Emerald City Video.

In the beginning, over two years ago, our format was that we would talk about one new or new-to-video movie that everyone was buzzing about, and another, older movie that was somehow thematically linked.

For instance, our first-ever episode was Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the underrated girl-power masterpiece Josie and the Pussycats.

Yes, masterpiece. Fight me.

The reason we chose this format goes back to our video store: at ECV, when it was in business, you could rent any movie at full-price and get an older/catalog movie for free. The most frequent combination, of course, was that somebody would get one of the hot new releases, come to the counter, and be reminded “you can grab an older movie for free if you want.” This was one of the most frequent ways that conversations would start, with the cutstomer saying “well, what might go with the thing I have in my hands?”

In today’s case, Zach and Russ are talking about Jack Ryan, the new Amazon series, and the very first live-action Jack Ryan adaptation from 1990, The Hunt for Red October, directed by Die Hard and Predator filmmaker John McTiernan.

There are four more Jack Ryan movies, and we will get to those (and a little more talk about the rest of Jack Ryan season one) over the next few episodes.

You can find us on Facebook at facebook.com/emeraldcityvideo or Twitter at twitter.com/ecv_podcast. If you want to support our show, we have ways you can do that, either at PayPal.me/emeraldcityvideo or at https://patron.podbean.com/emeraldcityvideo.

And for more from Russ, Zach, and the rest of the ECV crew, make sure to be back here by noon on the fifth day, and always remember to rewind your cassettes.

It’s been a long week and Jack and Aaron will be taking a week off next week. Just so you know.

Be warned: Aaron had an itchy trigger finger going into this episode. Basically, coffee and whiskey and no sleep and all work make Aaron a grumpy … oh well, you get it.

Be sure to find us all the places podcasts can be found: Stitcher, iTunes, Castbox, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, etc etc. Also, if you enjoy this show, check out Aaron’s other show PrunerTV every Tuesday at Idobi Radio.

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK:

• “Stranger Things” will be the first Netflix series to get its own maze at Halloween Horror Nights in Orlando, Hollywood and Singapore this fall.
• FX Networks has ordered the pilot for “Y,” based on the post-apocalyptic comic book series “Y: The Last Man”
• Ryan Murphy says Joan Collins will join the cast of “American Horror Story” for Season 8
• Roseanne’s ratings dropped 17 percent in its second week, bringing in 15.2 million viewers, as opposed to the adjusted number of 25 million who tuned in for the premiere.
• Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions is making a four-part Lorena Bobbitt docuseries for Amazon.
• Amazon’s “Lord of the Rings” TV series will be the most expensive TV show ever. The streaming service is planning on producing at least five seasons and it’ll cost around $1 billion dollars to make.
• “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” will end after Season 4. The CW has renewed “Arrow,” “Black Lightning,” “Legends of Tomorrow,” “Dynasty,” “The Flash,” “Jane the Virgin,” “Riverdale,” “Supergirl” and “Supernatural.”
• The Parents Television Council wants Netflix to hold off on airing Season 2 of “13 Reasons Why” until “experts in the scientific community have determined it to be safe for consumption” by minors.

AARON’S LOSER: “The Crossing” and “Roseanne” JACK’S LOSERS: “Roseanne,” “The Dangerous Book For Boys” and “The Crossing” JACK’S FENCERS: “The Last OG” AARON’S WINNERS: “Rapture” The Logic episode, “The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” “Supernatural” Scoobynatural, “A Series of Unfortunate Events” and “Legion” JACK’S WINNERS: “Barry,” “Supernatural” and “Legion”

SHOWS COMING UP WORTH WATCHING: Jay-Z on “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction” on Friday (Netflix), “Paterno” on Saturday (HBO), “Saturday Night Live” with Chadwick Boseman hosting with Cardi B as the musical talent (NBC), “Howard’s End” on Sunday (Starz), “Killing Eve” on Sunday (BBC America), Wrestlemania 34 on Sunday (WWE Network), “New Girl” Season 7 premiere on Tuesday (FOX), “HBO Special: Andre the Giant” on Tuesday (HBO), “CW Special: Harry Potter: A History of Magic” on Wednesday (CW), “The Expanse” on Wednesday (SYFY), “Lost in Space” on Friday (Netflix), “Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas” on Friday (HBO)

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Hey guys, it’s been a rough week. So instead of filling this intro with some sort of witty small talk, we’re just going to ask that you head over to iTunes and review/rate the show if you like what you hear. We love you.

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK:

• “The Walking Dead’s” Season 8 finale and Season 4 premiere of “Fear the Walking Dead” — aka the series’ first-ever crossover episode — will hit 750 theaters nationwide on April 15 in what Fathom Events is calling “Survival Sunday”
• Thanks to the success of “The White Queen” and “The White Princess,” Starz has put the third installment into production. Based on Philippa Gregory’s series of books, the newest series is “The Spanish Princess” which “returns viewers to the world of royal court intrigue as seen uniquely through the perspective of the women, but also sheds light on a previously untold corner of history — the lives of people of color, living and working in 16th century London.”
• Hulu is developing a series about the “Satanic Panic” of the late ’80s and early ’90s. The series is called “Demons,” and according to THR, the drama will “revolve around Marilyn Jones, the seductive “patient zero” in the frenzy surrounding satanic ritual abuse, and her husband, Bennett Lewis, a brilliant but manipulative psychiatrist. In success, each season of Demons would explore a twisted crime affected by the couple’s dark exploration into the fragile nature of memory and guilt.”
• MTV is expanding its “TRL” franchise to add late night and morning editions of the program.
• Nerdist reported on a rumor that FOX may be interested in rebooting “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Of course, it’s just a rumor but would this even be a good idea?

QUESTION: After watching “Jessica Jones” and “Daredevil’s” sophomore seasons, I have to wonder, Is there a Season 2 curse for Netflix’s Marvel shows?

AARON’S LOSERS: “The Pizza Show,” “Deception,” “American Idol” and “Rise”JACK’S LOSERS: “Nailed It,” “The Simpsons” and “American Idol” AARON’S FENCERS: “Nailed It,” “For the People” and “The Walking Dead” JACK’S FENCERS: “Deception,” “Hate Thy Neighbor” and “Rise” AARON’S WINNERS: “Gotham,” “The X-Files” and “Collateral”JACK’S WINNERS: “The Zoo,” “For The People” and “Flint Town”

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In Episode 89 of Punch Drunk TV, Jack and Aaron discuss a very important topic: Their rekindled Tori Amos fandoms. Seriously, it’s overtaken everything … but only ’90s Tori.

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK:

• Barack and Michelle Obama are in early talks with Netflix to produce a new global series for the platform. The deal is said to be focused on a series that would highlight inspirational stories, not anything to serve as a direct rebuttal to current President Donald Trump or his policies.
• Bronson Pinchot, aka Balki from “Perfect Strangers,” has been cast as a recurring character in Netflix’s “Sabrina” series. Pinchot will recur as George Hawthorne, “Baxter High’s villainous, puritanical principal. He is a constant thorn in Sabrina’s side and is always trying to thwart her escapades.”
• Disney Jr is working on a new “Rocketeer” animated series. This time, the story will follow Kit: “a young girl who receives a surprise package on her birthday revealing she’s next in line to become the Rocketeer, a legendary superhero who has the ability to fly with the help of a rocket-powered jetpack.” Assisting Kit with her adventures will be “her gadget-minded best friend, Tesh, and airplane mechanic uncle, Ambrose.”
• Jon Favreau has been tapped to write and executive produce a live-action “Star Wars” TV series that’ll air exclusively on Disney’s yet-to-launch standalone streaming service
• 26.5 million people tuned in to the Oscars on Sunday, making it the lowest rated event in the awards show’s history.

QUESTION OF THE WEEK: Do the Oscars still matter?

AARON’S LOSERS: “Life Sentence,” “The Walking Dead” and “UnREAL”JACK’S LOSERS: “Life Sentence” AARON’S FENCER: “Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and Notorious BIG”JACK’S FENCER: “The Tick” AARON’S WINNERS: “Booze Traveler,” “Hap & Leonard,” “The X-Files,” “Ash vs. Evil Dead” and “Flint Town”JACK’S WINNERS: “Far Cry 5: Inside Eden’s Gate,” “Flint Town,” “Sundays with Alec Baldwin,” “Hard Sun” and “Queer Eye”

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