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The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2013

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Grab a pint and marinate your brain as we discuss the “Cornetto Trilogy,” three films by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright that are linked in theme if not in characters: “Shaun of the Dead,” “Hot Fuzz,” and recent release “The World’s End.” Why aren’t there more smart genre comedies? How do Pegg and Wright so deftly handle different genres? How are these movies like the Commedia dell’arte? Why do Jason and Jeff want to punch Nick Frost, then hug him? Plus, we give even more Incomparable love to “Spaced.”

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0:27.3	The incomparable, number 164, October 2013.
0:34.9	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable. I'm your host, Jason Snell, and our topic for this
0:40.2	episode is three movies that are called collectively the Coronado Trilogy. They don't actually
0:46.0	share characters, but they share some themes, and most importantly, they share actors and a director.
0:51.8	It's Sean of the Dead from 2004, Hot Fuzz from 2007, and the World's End from this year,
0:59.3	which I just saw a couple weeks ago, and I found it delightful.
1:02.8	And the other two movies are really great, too.
1:04.9	So we're going to talk about all of them.
1:06.5	Of course, the common threads here are Edgar Wright, the director.
1:14.9	And did he write all of them with Simon Pegg? Is that right? I believe they, yes, they wrote all. And Simon Pegg and
1:19.2	Nick Frost are star in all of them. So that's the common bond. And you heard the voices,
1:24.3	but spoiler. But I'm going to introduce our panelists now.
1:28.4	Dan Morin, of course, contractually obligated as always, but Dan Morin also loves, loves, loves the work
1:33.2	of these guys, because Spaced is just like his favorite TV show ever.
1:36.0	And these people also did Spaced.
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