GGS 11.24 The Heist
This week we’ve gathered a team of podcasters, each with a very specific set of skills. Can they pull off the job? It’s a Geek Girl Soup heist episode with a discussion of a few episodes of “The Magicians,” “Leverage,” and the movie “Heat.”
“The Magicians” (Netflix) is one of Cort’s all-time-favorite shows. She and Brad have covered it extensively at PureFandom.com. It’s like Harry Potter for the college set. We jump into episode 207 when someone needs an abortion/exorcism, and the rest of the gang decides to pull off a bank heist to get the two gold bars required in payment. Thank goodness for the time turner that allows the gang to repeat the past 15 seconds a few times because there are magical traps and more powerful magicians guarding the vault!
“Leverage” (IMDb TV—soon to be Amazon Freevee!) stars Timothy Hutton as a former insurance investigator-turned-“Robin Hood” after his former employer denied coverage for a treatment that could have saved his son’s life. He works with a team of hackers, con-men, and thieves to exact justice on behalf of the underdog—regular people who were somehow screwed by the greedy and corrupt. Episode 1 pulls a nice little twist. Fun show!
“Heat” (Pluto) is the epitome cop-robber-heist movie. It is directed by Michael Mann and features too many awesome actors to mention—but I’m going to!…. Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Amy Brenneman, Diane Venora, Tom Sizemore, Ashley Judd, Ted Levine, Tom Noonan, Mykelti Williamson, Wes Studi, Dennis Haysbert, William Fichtner, Hank Azaria, Danny Trejo, Henry Rollins, and the most excellent Natalie Portman—just a year after her appearance in “Léon: The Professional.” The scene of Pacino and De Niro in the dinner is stellar—cop and robber facing off, acknowledging “I know you did it,” “Yeah, prove it.” This was the first time that Pacino and De Niro had appeared in a scene together in any film—what so many fans had been waiting for for so long. While they were both in “The Godfather Part II,” they were from separate generations and couldn’t be on screen at the same time. They were in “Righteous Kill” together, and then most recently in Martin Scorsese’s “The Irrishman.”
Next week we’re talking all-thing-Walking-Dead. Yep, season 11B just ended. (That’s right, they broke the final season up into three “trimesters.” Ugh.) So, we’ll be chatting about that and the rest of the TWD Universe.
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