It's most appropriate that this weeks main offering is a review of The Odyssey because Will has been on quite the odyssey himself. He has returned from Australia having been beset by many obstacles. There was a ten euro coffee in Dubai airport, a pizza-eating possum in Sydney, a whole new hemisphere of stars to navigate by and a big banana in Coff's Harbour.

Lorraine, meanwhile, has been keeping the lights on at Pop Filter HQ.

This week, as I say, The Odyssey has been tackled and in an attempt to maintain standards, at least one of our heroes saw the film 'as Nolan intended'.

Does a 79 foot tall screen help or hinder the enjoyment? Will has the answer.

Next up, an opponent as formidable as anything Homer dreamed up: Katie Price.

Nothing to Hide is her four part documentary series currently showing on Sky/NOW TV.

It's a little more than your traditional 'star makes doc about themselves and lets themself off the hook quite a bit' format. Pop Filter are looking at you, Beckham!

It's a rogues gallery of exes, both romantic and business, all coming together to give us a better picture of the artist formerly known as Jordan.

Is it the case that, as novelist John Updike once said, 'Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face'?

This might literally be the best argument for that quote ever.

This week, our heroes go on quite the rollercoaster of horror and comedy and sex and obsession. I know, it sounds just like one of Will's Saturday nights but this is the range of topics and genres found between the two films being reviewed in this episode.

First up, it's massive sleeper hit, Obsession. Curry Barker's film tells the story of an infatuated 'nice guy' and how far he will go to get the girl of his dreams.

Will's advice is that if you have to rely on a magical item to make things happen in a relationship, you need to rething your strategy. It's always worked for him as a maxim to live your life by. Lorraine has also approved this as a top point on any young man's checklist when approching a new relationship.

Next up is Lorraine's choice, The Invite.

When ordinary frustrated couple, Joe and Angela, invite their noisy-sex upstairs neighbours for dinner the scene is set for embarrassment and social awkwardness. When the neighbours are named Pina and Hawk, you know it won't be an ordinary evening.

Rate and review the lads on the downloading platform of your choice. Subscribe too, why don't you? Sure, what else would you be doing?

This week, Lorraine & Will examine the adventures of Disney Plus TV show characters, Alice & Steve, and how they deal with the idea of Steve dating Alice's daughter.

Can you tell a funny story about the betrayal of a lifelong friendship and still have engaging and sympatheric characters?

If they're played by Jemaine Clement and Nicola Walker, you can.

Listen to Lorraine and Will take the idea apart as they try and figure out how such a story that would be traumatic in real life can make for an engaging comedy!

Then they have some recommendations for you to enjoy if you're hiding indoors from the heatwave!

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This week our heroes just Can't Get Kylie Out of Their Heads. So much so, in fact, they are left Spinning Around.

That's enough Kylie song title word play.

Netflix's 3 part Kylie documentary is this weeks subject. Lorraine, a lifelong fan, and Will, old enough to remember a pre-Kylie world.

Also, the episode comes with some recommendations at the end, Especially For You.

Right, ENOUGH!

Not many laughs in this weeks episode as our heroes taking on the tricky subject of Michael Jackson.

60 Minutes Australia recently aired an episode on Michael Jackson and the many allegations, both old and new, on the late singer.

Lorraine and Will discuss his undeniable talent, the hard to ignore rumours, the undeniable court settlements and the hard to understand nature of celebrity and parasocial relationships with fans.

They also hang around at the end to offer some recommendations that are less disturbing to watch.

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Another episode? So soon?

Our heroes are really spoiling you. You might say that they are DTF (Downloading To your Feed)!

This week, our champions delve into the murky world of suburban swinging and app-based adultery with HBO's newest offering DTF St. Louis.

Old PF favourite David Harbour gets a shot at redemption alongside Jason Bateman and Linda Cardellini as they get caught up in a Bizarre Love Triange, as New Order would say. There's a reference for all you kids out there.

Ordinary people doing sad, lonely things. Or is the show right? "No one's normal. It just looks that way from across the street'.

Then again, they also say 'Cornhole is the only sport where you can hold a beer in one hand and your dignity in the other, and lose both simultaneously.'

Give Pop Filter a rating on your platform of choice if you're trying to figure out a gift for either of them.

Pop Filter has detected an alien life-form on board their craft. It's little, rock-like alien Nicky Coghlan.

Listen as Lorraine and Will try to understand him so they can get on with the weekly business of saving the planet.

Nicky joins our heros from RTE where he is the head of children's podcasting. Nicky also co-hosted the podcast, Nilpod, with Will many years ago where they discussed the most juvenile things ever for over 200 episodes. Many of which are unavailable today.

If you were curious, though....

https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/nilpod/id1473819045

https://open.spotify.com/show/5fKIEWMcAwH0qxiaOCn896?fbclid=IwY2xjawRTFIBleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETEwVmREUzdnOVJndFpmb2V6c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHtkkQlfwxBNz01mbURsoZqn4s-bDWXMXzEUvCxUVWajIHASzKl_667pxdHim_aem_3IUrvlk4_Byun2g8SbVAzg

This week, our gang are light years from home trying to save the dying sun with R-Goz and a spider-rock.

Project Hail Mary is a huge hit without their blessing but it would put a nice bow on the top of their run, but will that happen?

Next up, Small Prophets. Lorraine reveals how likely she would be to join a cult. Answer: very but it IS robe-dependant.

Would you grow a humunculus in a jar in your shed and if so, what secret would you want it to reveal to you?

The answers are undoubtedly elsewhere, but join our heroes to hear their ramblings one more time.

Our heroes return in a relatively timely fashion to discuss Toxic Masculinity and Toxic Femininity.

Will is a clear representation of all that is wrong with modern men and the less said about Lorraine and her own particular brand of toxic femininity, the better!

Of course we're just joking and they are fine representatives of their respective genders!

First up is Louis Theroux's brand new Netflix documentary, Inside The Manosphere, where Louis subjects himself to spending time with poisonous, self-proclaimed 'Alphas' as they grift around looking to earn money. Whether it's from beating up someone on a live stream, to propositioning unsuspecting women in public, or giving unreliable crypto advice, they just don't care.

It's all 'one-way monogamy' and 'I do what I want!' until the wife/girlfriend is in earshot.

Then our hosts move back in time to 2003 and the launch of the 'reality' show America's Next Top Model.

This documentary, poorly titled as Inside America's Next Top Model is a 3 part series talking of the rapid rise and subsequent fall of the show. We learn how far TV has progressed from the Wild West days of poor after-care for people involved in reality TV when they are spat out the other end back into society.

Our heroes are hopeful, though. The grifting crypto bros will never win!

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