Bad films, one mercy each.
One Good Thing is bad-movie analysis with a rescue mission baked in: every flop gets mocked, mapped, and granted one defensible virtue. The two Pauls turn plot holes, strange performances, cheap effects, and baffling titles into rapid comic argument.
PRESS PLAY
One Good Thing is bad-movie criticism with a stubbornly charitable rule at its center. Every film, however misshapen, gets one good thing. That premise gives the show its structure, but the real pleasure is the route it takes to get there. The two Pauls are quick, digressive, and cheerfully disrespectful, turning plot recap into a running collision between actual film detail and increasingly strange comic extrapolation. A movie like The Electric State becomes less a straight review than a tour through robot bodies, Netflix logic, Woody Harrelson as Mr. Peanut, pop-culture sentiment, and the hope that viewers might go read the book. Plan 9 from Outer Space invites both mockery and respect: bad narration, dead wives, zombie logistics, and the strange endurance of a film that somehow became the one that worked. Dunston Checks In is handled with the same seriousness as Fallen, which is to say the seriousness lasts only until a massage scene, a slapped character, or a demon’s body-swapping clue gives the room something funnier to chase. The show is not polished prestige-film talk. It is fast, blunt, and deliberately unruly. Episodes often open with a sideways question before landing on the movie, and the hosts are happy to wander through mythology, old television, social media, Akinator, Godzilla marketing, or Christmas stunt casting on the way back to the point. Guests such as Sarah Keep, Helen Gaffney, Sean Flierl, and Nell Heald join that rhythm rather than replacing it. The comedy can be coarse, especially in bonus-style holiday material, but the critical instinct is more affectionate than cruel. It notices cheap choices, broken storytelling, odd performances, and weirdly successful moments. It also understands that a bad film can be more memorable than a competent one. For PlayNext users browsing film-review chaos, this is the show for hearing a flop get dismantled with relish and then, at the end, reluctantly spared.
Made for: For bad-movie fans who like rapid banter, chaotic plot recaps, cult-cinema references, and jokes that sprint past the obvious punchline. Best for listeners comfortable with blunt adult humor and irreverent film talk.
What sets it apart: Most bad-movie shows stop at mockery; One Good Thing makes the rescue attempt part of the joke. Its appeal comes from the tension between relentless ridicule and the final hunt for a genuinely redeeming detail.
Every Tuesday the Pauls take a cinematic flop and find the one good thing about it - because no film is worthless!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Comic plot walkthroughs uncover the performances, choices, and accidental pleasures that keep cinematic failures interesting.
One Good Thing turns detailed plot recap into comic salvage work, following a film's strange choices until the hosts can name something worth keeping.
Dunston steals some glasses; you get a movie conversation that refuses to stay on rails.
Press play if you want
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A filthy Christmas riff session where the two Pauls spin disguised penises, a library threesome, and stray sharp edges into escalating absurdity.
Christmas gives the two Pauls a seasonal frame for an episode built on gleefully filthy escalation. They start with a Christmas spike and a Grown Ups 2 rewatch, then keep pushing into morning wood, sentient penises, Angela White, a possibly disguised masseuse, and a library…
A profane, fire-powered walk through The Electric State's strangest plot machinery.
One Good Thing treats The Electric State less as a story to solve than as a machine worth poking while it runs. The hosts move through the boy whose consciousness is stuck in a robot, the trip into the exclusion zone, and Blue Sky, a robot-run shopping mall under Mr.
A dead wife, a cheap mausoleum, and a growing zombie problem turn Plan 9 into a comic excavation of cinematic failure.
Plan 9 from Outer Space lands here as a study in failure so theatrical that it starts generating its own comic logic. The hosts trace an Edward-style formula where a spoof becomes so bad it stops being funny, then circles back into something oddly alive.
A profane, freewheeling monster-movie riff on Kong, Godzilla, octopuses, kombucha, and a badly placed detonator.
One Good Thing uses King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) less as a fixed object than as permission to chase the oddest possible angles on it, beginning with the question of which version of a person could win in a fight.
Akinator takes a shot at Azazel before Fallen follows a cabin clue into demonic body-swapping.
One Good Thing opens its pass at Fallen with Akinator, the online guessing game, trying to land on Azazel, then eases into the movie's occult-tinged detective trail.
Mike Muncer and a different guest dissect two horror films per episode, by subgenre.
["One Good Thing Episode 363 revisits Toho's 1962 King Kong vs Godzilla after opening with a comparison to Godzilla x Kong and \"the new Frozen Empire.\"", "Paul Pharmaceuticals and his co-host, who says \"I am a crane,\" steer the conversation with jokes, riffing, and film notes.", "The episode asks why a 1962 kaiju clash still matters while the hosts compare it with Godzilla x Kong and \"the new Frozen Empire.\"", "The historical run-up starts with Willis O'Brien's stop-motion work on The Lost World in 1925 and King Kong in 1933."]
Paul and guest Nell Heald review the 1998 thriller Fallen, starring Denzel Washington as Detective John Hobbs.
The hosts pitch a horror movie based on the Pokémon card game, brainstorming ironic deaths tied to Pokémon types.
The hosts discuss the superpower of stopping time and its implications, then introduce themselves and their podcast about finding one good thing in cinematic flops.
Paul and Paul treat a batch of pornography titles like a lesson in how to stand out online, starting with “I can’t say no to his dick” and “Cute girl next door lets me come in all three holes.” They keep circling back to search terms such as “amateur doggy blowjob,” “Angela White,” and “living milk truck” to show how titles cram in as much attention-grabbing detail as possible.
Paul Amherst and his co-host review The Electric State (2025) as a Netflix movie shaped by the Russo brothers, a reported $320 million budget, and a 30% Rotten Tomatoes score.
One Good Thing’s Episode 398 on Plan 9 from Outer Space tracks Ed Wood from a 12th-birthday camera and 1937 Hindenburg footage to the 1956 shoot of Grave Robbers from Outer Space.
Paul Salt opens with the revelation that his microphone was not recording properly, so much of his voice sounds muffled while Sarah Keep and Helen Gaffney come through clearly.
The hosts riff on finding a worse outfit than Santa for an unconscious billionaire, leading to a tangent about a German family tree with a swastika, then introduce themselves and the show's premise of finding one good thing in cinematic flops.
The hosts banter about movie monsters and anticipate upcoming films like Godzilla x Kong, setting up their format of finding one good thing in cinematic flops.