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March 6, 2026·1 hr 26 min·5 clips

The episode opens in a loose, conversational way and then settles into a years based argument about which performances should count in a ranking. The hosts keep circling back to whether 2015 is the right cutoff and how strict the rules should be. Mahershala Ali gets a strong push because the conversation brings up Green Book, Jurassic World, Luke Cage, and the Blade voice work in Eternals. Mads Mikkelsen comes up as the near miss who would have been an easy yes if Hannibal were included in the frame. Christian Bale is treated as someone who has never really stopped being fantastic. Barry Keoghan is folded in as the newer rise, with Saltburn and the rest of his climb doing the heavy lifting. The debate is less about clean certainty than about how much one year window can warp a ranking. There are jokes about spelling, about how strict the rules are, and about how brutal some of these cutoffs can be. The whole thing stays messy in a way that feels deliberate, with the panel thinking out loud until the argument settles into shape.

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Casting chatter turns into a lively, messy argument.

This episode turns casting chatter into a loose, spirited argument. Mahershala Ali, Mads Mikkelsen, Christian Bale, and Barry Keoghan all come up as the hosts work through the year-cutoff logic and keep correcting each other mid-thought. The result has a nice rough edge.

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You want cast debates, year-cutoff arguments, and actor-filmography tangents you can actually follow.

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