2025 Thanksgiving Special

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Happy Thanksgiving from Unspooled! Paul and Amy celebrate Thanksgiving by ranking cinema’s most disastrous families to spend the holidays with. They revisit the Torrances, the Sawyers, the Tenenbaums, and the deeply unsettling brood of Dogtooth to determine who would ruin dinner fastest. You can join the Unspooled conversation on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6 Follow Paul and Amy on Letterboxd for more of their movie hot takes! https://letterboxd.com/paulscheer/ https://letterboxd.com/theamynicholson/ Paul’s book Joyful Recollections of Trauma is out now! Find it at https://www.harpercollins.com/products/joyful-recollections-of-trauma-paul-scheer Check out more of Paul's writing on his Substack https://substack.com/@paulscheer Learn more about the show at Unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and on Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or where you listen to podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	it's time to go home for the holidays,
0:02.8	but what home is the absolute worst home to go back to?
0:07.0	That's right.
0:08.0	Whose family would you hate to be a part of
0:10.5	or even be at the table having dinner with?
0:14.4	We are going to find the worst families out there,
0:17.9	and you'll be surprised where we land.
0:21.3	Let's fight it out.
0:24.1	Oh, Unspool.
0:27.0	Hello, everyone, and welcome to Unspool.
0:37.0	Yes, welcome to Unspooled.
0:38.4	This is a podcast about good movies, critical hits, fan favorites, mustsies, and in case you misdums.
0:43.4	We have covered the AFI top 100, and now we are checking off movies from three major lists.
0:48.8	The Letterbox top 250 films with the most fans.
0:51.2	The IMDB top 250.
0:53.7	And the New York Times, 100,000,
0:57.5	essential films. We'll also be chasing our own curiosity like we are today when I asked Amy,
1:03.1	Amy, who would be the worst movie family to spend the holidays with? And you know what?
1:08.4	We are going to get into all that. But first, I am Paul
1:10.8	Shear. I'm an actor, writer, and director. And you know what? I make a damn good pumpkin pie as well as cookies. Yeah, I bake and so does. My co-hosts. Well, yeah, hi. I'm Amy Nicholson. I'm the film critic for the Los Angeles Times. I am a blue ribbon baker. I'm going to just brag about that as much as I can.
1:27.9	Thank you, LA County Fair. And yeah, I'm really excited to have a day off to bake and decorate sugar
1:32.2	cookies. I've actually been workshopping a special specific holiday recipe since last year,
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