Second Breakfast with Cam & Maggie

The second act of Diablo IV is full-on heavy metal. We’ve got three-headed beasts, a blood swamp, and a gigantic talking wolf. There are also startling, quiet moments of humanity exploring the Fat Go…

For this second Summerween episode, we’re looking at one of Maggie’s most formative horror movies. Black Swan is a movie we’ve been thinking about for thirteen years - the symbolism is so rich, the p…

Discussion of The Lady of the Lake, Ch. 2

The thing about curveballs is that you can never get used to them. Every time we think we’ve got the reigns of Sapkowski’s story, he does something like this…

Diablo IV is finally here! As we play through the game, we’re going to do a series of diary-style reflections where we reflect on story, gameplay, and progression. In this first act, we adjust to the…

Flip open your Motorola Razrs and grab an Izze; we’re heading back to 2008 and the “epic fail” that was the Cloverfield apocalypse in Manhattan. Summerween 2023 begins with this 85-minute panic attac…

Discussion of The Lady of the Lake, Ch. 1   Here we are – the beginning of the end. Sapkowski kicks off the final Witcher novel with his greatest curveball yet: a crossover into Monty Python. Maggie’…

Diablo III is one of the most successful works of fantasy ever made, having sold more than 65 million copies worldwide. Between the three of us — Cam, Maggie, and Tristan — we have spent a startling …

Discussion of The Tower of Swallows, Ch. 11

The Tower of Swallows goes out with a bang this week. For one thing, we actually find the tower, but there also unicorns, ghosts, dead people talking, and …

From The Social Network to The Wolf of Wall Street to Vice, the 2010s was a golden age of dramatized, real-life catastrophes. 2023’s Blackberry is a ruthless, fantastic addition to that lineage (whic…

This is by far the weirdest movie of the year – so we went to see it twice, and Cam built up one humdinger of a theory. This whole episode is him frantically working through the idea that Beau Is Afr…

Discussion of The Tower of Swallows, Ch. 10

Wave your red flags in the air like you just don’t care. Ciri’s about to torch King’s Landing or become The Punisher – either way, she’s not turning out to…

Sisu is the best action movie of the year, and we had to come back for a Tuesday bonus episode and talk about it. This whole episode is a full-throated endorsement, a shining bat-signal to all of you…

It’s a really hard time to be a creative. Ever shrinking wages, vanishing royalties, exploitative contracts. Three days ago, the Writers Guild of America officially went on strike, and in this desper…

Surprise! We've got two bonus episodes about Succession out today! Cam rewatched the whole show totally out of order and it gave him some unexpected, funky insights that we wanted to share! 

This fir…

Discussion of The Tower of Swallows, Ch. 9

Buckle up, buttercup. This is probably the most intricate, complex chapter we’ve ever covered – and how fitting that it focuses on his most elaborate and en…

We’ve been waiting for Diablo IV for over a decade. It’s the ultimate Second Breakfast topic – the perfect marriage of fantasy and horror. Cam and Tristan played the bajeezus out of the beta, and we’…

Welcome back to Second Breakfast! Today’s episode is a pre-written column in the style of our recent Substack-exclusive bonus episodes discussing Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, 65, and the scourg…

Discussion of The Tower of Swallows, Ch. 8

Welcome back to Curveball Corner with Cam and Maggie! This is by far the least traditional, least linear chapter of this series – a marathon of surprises in…

What’s more surprising: a great new fantasy action-comedy, or Maggie getting to see Taylor Swift? What about both of those in the same episode?! This movie was a huge surprise for us. It’s got confid…

There’s a murkiness running through this chapter’s adventure; a nervous, questioning fear that digs at the very heart of Geralt’s character. Cam argues that our beloved witcher is reaching the end of…