DARREN ARONOFSKY SPECIAL: CAUGHT STEALING (WITH AND WITHOUT SPOILERS)

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This week, TGTPTU again interrupts its Season 15’s Squib Game coverage for something unique, a return to Year 1998 through film and to Scarf Season 11 with the new wide release from Darren Aronofsky CAUGHT STEALING (2025). 

According to one summary (to be read in the voice of Roger Ebert):

In late-1990s New York City a former baseball player whose career was cut short by a tragic accident has his life turned upside down when his neighbor asks him to watch his cat while he is out of town. Austin Butler plays the ex-baseball player, and the stakes rise fast with a host of violent and quirky characters all after what the neighbor left behind. It is directed by Darren Aronofsky in what is a clear break from his previous films we covered last year. It’s CAUGHT STEALING on The Good, The Pod and The Ugly.   

This ep, host Ken talks screenplay writing’s twists, payoffs, and literally saving the cat; host Thomas brings up Clifford actor Martin Short and his (Thomas’s) disdain for late-90s three-button suits; and host Ryan fills in again as the human jukebox.  

One thumbs up, one thumbs down, and one thumb pointed hitching a ride for reasons covered by spoilers in the latter half of the ep.  

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