Second Breakfast with Cam & Maggie

What if there was a Diablo game with hard-hitting combat, a satisfying skill tree, an easy inventory system, a great map, and a TEN-act campaign? Oh and what if it was…

Swamps, snakes, salvation, oh my! Just as the game starts to wind down, it’s finally getting great. This act features real character arcs, new mechanics, compelling lo…

We’ve been working on this episode for months. The Idol was transcendent, a whirlwind of traitorous reversals, doomed s…

We’ve been rewatching the Harry Potter movies at Alamo Drafthouse, and Cam developed a theory based on the way Chamber …

Discussion of the Lady of the Lake, Chapter 7

We’re jumping back into the multiverse of madness today, as Ciri races through space and time towards the uncertain end o…

Writer, director, and editor Anthony DiBlasi joins us to discuss his horrifying masterpiece, Malum. This movie scared us silly when we saw it back in April, and we’ve been tinkering with these notes …

In all seriousness, this might be the best animated movie we’ve ever seen. The script is wildly and consistently funny,…

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Discussion of The Lady of the Lake, Chapter 6

In this chapter we get Sapkowski working with two hands tie…

Let’s start with the good news —Tristan is back to chat with us about the next act of Diablo IV. The undercurrent of this episode is the volatility of a game that is so reliant on updates and patches…

Greta Gerwig’s Barbie is fantastic for so many reasons, but there was one idea that struck us particularly hard, and we couldn’t let it go. Enjoy this solo column-style episode from Cam, wherein he p…

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Discussion of The Lady of the Lake, Ch. 5   We’re barreling towards the end of The Witcher saga, and in this chapter we finally get some answers. After we break down revelations about elves, unicorns…

Hey, remember a couple months ago when we were whining that they didn’t make any good comedy movies anymore?? Well, they must have heard us. This episode runs through five fantastic comedies we’ve se…

This year’s Summerween is bringing the pain. As Above, So Below is once again the scariest movie we’ve ever seen, but it’s also been designed in a lab to perfectly appeal to Maggie’s medieval art his…

Discussion of The Lady of the Lake, Ch. 4   This chapter of the final Witcher novel is the perfect complement to its predecessor. We continue through a messy, empathetic, nuanced interlude of fantasy…

At the halfway point of Diablo IV, we reach a crossroads. The narrative work here can be incredible, but more and more the game seems to be prioritizing the uneven gear grind and endgame. This episod…

Discussion of Insidious, Insidious: Chapter 2, and Insidious: The Red Door

James Wan and Leigh Whannell made the best haunted house horror movie of all time in 2010. Three years later, they made the …

Never let it be said that we here at Second Breakfast refuse to admit our mistakes. They’ve finally gone and done it: they made a great multiverse superhero movie. Not only is the story here thoughtf…

Discussion of The Lady of the Lake, Ch. 3   At first, this chapter seems like back-to-basics victory lap for our beloved Geralt of Rivia. But as we all know, onions have layers. Sapkowski peels, dice…