Part 2 of my conversation with guest Matt Phillion as we discuss the decade in TV and movies.

Show notes:

• Going over some of our favorites of the decade

• Jay: Haven't seen a lot of critical faves

• Both enjoyed Blackkklansman

• Toy Story 3 is the best of that series

• Matt: Beasts of the Southern Wild was a stunner

• In the Loop is profanely excellent

• Jay never saw Inside Out; Matt says it's borderline educational

• The traumatic sadness of Disney movies

• Don't ban offensive old movies

• Stereotypes in older movies stick out

• The series 24 was so over the top about torture and terrorists

• Writing for women's roles in the '80s was pretty awful

• Post-9/11 jingoism

• Good Sorkin: The Social Network

• Bad Sorkin: The Newsroom

• When older celebs are trending on Twitter

• Matt: In praise of Monsters

• Timothy Olyphant is great

• Matt needs to watch Justified

• Black Mirror is predicting everything

• The Americans is an excellent show

• Matt hasn't seen Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul

• Orphan Black features an amazing performance by Tatiana Maslany

• Bill Hader elevates himself from comic genius to dramatic auteur on Barry

• Russian Doll came out of the blue

• The People Vs. OJ Simpson was excellent, with a bizarre performance by John Travolta

• The sneaky genius of Legends of Tomorrow

• Dark on Netflix is a German show that is brilliantly out there

• Downton Abbey: Cultural phenomenon that doesn't make sense

• The Leftovers got better when it went beyond the book

• The Marvel shows on Netflix were surprisingly good (except for Iron Fist)

• The fight scenes in Daredevil were intense and creative

• So much content out there that it's impossible to see it all

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The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.