Do Try This At Home

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This week we talk more failed-Oscarbait from Netflix, Ron Howard's Hillbilly Elegy. We talk structure, characters, messaging, …

It's teen romance week as we enter the latter stages of Netflix Season. Listen to Caleb and Harrison take on the ridiculous premise of a girl that is too tall for high school.

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Documentary week on our Netflix season! This week, we're deep-diving on the Taylor Swift doco Miss Americana. We try for as long as possible to not be cynical as we pick apart the well-constructed bu…

We are back with a Netflix Season Christmas Special! This week we take on the Princess Switch. We end up discussing ripper bods and weird haircuts for about 15 minutes before we get down to stripping…

It's comedy week on the pod and we're ready to goof! This week we take on Amy Poehler's directorial debut as we follow the Netflix rabbit hole a little deeper. Squash your grapes, sip that nectar of …

Rob Merriam joins us to rewrite a film that is morally corrupt at its very core, and yet we still manage to save cinema! We also get one set closer to answering the question 'what the heck is a Netfl…

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Officially the first ep of the season, this week we talk all things 'Love, Wedding, Repeat'. Fun premise, woeful execution; great cast, woefully underused; great setting, mostly used…

It's the Oscars and we're back for Season 2! We're kicking off Netflix season with Aaron Sorkin's 2020 Netflix Original film, 'The Trial of the Chicago 7'. We talk casting, narrative structure, telli…

We're back for season 2! Get ready for our Netflix Original season starting this Sunday (27/04/21) with an Oscar's Special. We'll be tackling Aaron Sorkin's 'The Trial of the Chicago Seven'.

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A Kominsky New Year from Caleb and Harrison! As a very special treat, we decided to bring you a New Year's special to cap of the festive season and with the only film that we could possibly think of,…

This we go completely unhinged with as we attempt to make The Emoji Movie something other than a grim corporate cash grab. We decide to start from scratch and write on the fly a screenplay from scrat…

This week a very sleepy Caleb has a bit of a meltdown as we try to rewrite the thematically ambitious French musical romance, Les Chansons d'Amour (Love Songs) directed by Christophe Honoré. We talk …

This week we're joined by a very special guest, Rob Merriam, to talk about the Ben Stiller vehicle, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. We talk about making the most of this character, and the source ma…

The mid-budget sci-fi genre needs a Do Try This At Home style upgrade! We talk story structure and world building as we delve into Andrew Niccol's excellently-premised but poorly-executed 2011 dystop…

This week, we take on the unwieldy task of rewriting Zack Snyder's blockbuster superhero film Man of Steel (2013). We talk about reasserting a message of hope into a Superman story, removing the Amer…

This week we take on the truly uninspiring Rom-com Something Borrowed (2011), a film that left a big impression on 13-year-old Harrison but that Caleb can remember literally nothing about at this poi…

This week Harrison and Caleb take on Guy Ritchie's 2019 British gangster flick The Gentlemen. We managed to riff a real reimagining of what Ritchie offers in the original film and take the stories in…

We're here with episode one and we're talking about Tarantino's eminently disappointing Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. We get into the myriad of missed opportunities in this snooze-fest that seems to…

Coming this Monday (26th October), the first season of Maybe You Like It's new show Do Try This At Home. Join writers Caleb Barron and Harrison Gale as they riff rewrites for some of cinema's most me…