It all comes down to this.

JD and Paul reach the end of What the Hell Are You? A Rewatch of Everything Predator with Predator: Badlands, and Paul's wife Megan joins them for the final hunt. Dan Trachtenberg makes perhaps the strangest creative decision in the entire franchise: this time, the Predator is our protagonist. Does turning Predator into a sympathetic hero finally push the franchise somewhere new, or does it fundamentally misunderstand what made Predator interesting in the first place?

JD, Paul and Megan debate whether Badlands still feels like Predator, how much franchises need to evolve to survive, what Dan Trachtenberg has added to Yautja culture, whether the movie borrows a little too freely from Dune, Avatar, Star Wars and Alien, and why Weyland-Yutani may ultimately be the most dangerous predator of all. Plus: Dek's bizarre family dynamics, Elle Fanning playing both sides of the synth divide, James Cameron's surprising influence on the ending, Predator callbacks, sick kills, Paul falling asleep during the movie, and the official final ranking of all nine Predator films.

After months of trophy hunts, thermal vision, spine ripping and arguments over whether Predator even has a memorable theme, the season ends here.

JD and Paul take on Predator: Killer of Killers, the animated anthology from Dan Trachtenberg that sends the Predator hunting across centuries of human history.

This time, a Viking warrior, a samurai, and a World War II pilot each face their own Yautja hunter before being brought together for a Predator gladiator battle. JD thinks Killer of Killers contains some of the best and most inventive action in the entire franchise. Paul thinks animation might fundamentally prevent him from caring about any of it. So naturally, things get contentious.

We break down the three stories, the wildly different Predator designs, the new Yautja Codex and language, the film's animation, its historical settings, the samurai showdown, the aerial Predator battle, the final arena sequence, and what Dan Trachtenberg seems to understand about this franchise that so many previous filmmakers didn't.

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After six Predator movies, we finally arrive at the one that changed everything.

JD and Paul are joined by Mallory Vining (AudiYOOObooks) to break down Prey (2022), the critically acclaimed reboot that breathed new life into the Predator franchise. We discuss why Naru is one of the series' greatest protagonists, how Dan Trachtenberg returned the franchise to its horror roots, and why smaller stakes and smarter storytelling made for the best Predator film since the original.