A shaggy, sharp Thief conversation that lands on family and code.
The episode turns a loose, funny Thief discussion into something sharper about men, family, and the fantasy of keeping crime and domestic life in separate boxes.

Film talk with sharp elbows.
Trylove turns movies tied to the Trylon Cinema orbit into fast, argumentative movie talk. The panel moves from plot setup into taste, form, politics, and increasingly specific jokes.
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Trylove is a movie roundtable with group-chat velocity. It grows out of films seen at or around the Trylon Cinema in Minneapolis, but the show is not simple programming commentary. Each episode tends to start loose. There are intros, bits, corrections, social handles, guest handoffs, and the occasional recording-room problem left in the texture. Then the discussion finds the film. THIEF becomes a conversation about Frank, Leo, crime as work, fatherhood as fantasy, and the terrifying normalcy of a mob boss who sincerely loves family life. MATEWAN becomes a way to argue through labor history, downer endings, organizing, martyrdom, and the uncomfortable gap between inspiration and material progress. THE INSIDER and MICHAEL CLAYTON sit squarely in the show’s recent interest in evil corporations, compromised institutions, whistleblowing, legal pressure, and men trying to keep a personal self intact inside systems built to erase it. The panel can be silly. It can also be exact. Jokes about titles, actors, social media, or film references often turn into real analysis of editing, genre, political framing, or cultural memory. The show’s rhythm is conversational rather than polished, with people qualifying their own points as they make them. That looseness is part of the value. It lets disagreements breathe and lets strong readings arrive in public, not prepackaged. Guests are brought into the room through personal movie history and reaction, then folded into the larger argument. Animated cult films, corporate revenge stories, prison dramas, tobacco-industry exposure, union struggle, and crime cool can all sit inside the same sensibility. Trylove is for listeners who like criticism with fingerprints on it: knowledgeable, funny, sometimes chaotic, and serious about why movies matter without pretending that talking about them has to sound clean.
Made for: For listeners who like movie conversations that assume some film literacy and reward attention to politics, genre, and form. Best for people who enjoy digressive panel chemistry more than tidy review segments.
What sets it apart: Trylove keeps the mess of group criticism intact: jokes, interruptions, corrections, and all. Its strength is how casually it can move from a throwaway bit into a precise argument about institutions, masculinity, labor, crime, or cinematic structure.
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Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Trylove turns post-screening conversation into searching film criticism, with character, politics, and directorial choices tested through lively group argument.
Trylove gathers Jason Daphnis, Cody Narveson, Harry Mackin, Aaron, and rotating guests around a literal roundtable, where one film becomes an invitation to argue through character, politics, craft, and directorial choices.
The credits roll, and the Trylon roundtable is still finding fresh fault lines in your favorite scene.
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