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Blank Check with Griffin & David

Praying with Anger/Wide Awake

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Comedy, Film Reviews

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2016

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

In the debut episode of the newly rebranded ‘Blank Check’, Griffin and David look to another director of supersized ego and skill: M. Night Shyamalan. Similar to their investigation of George Lucas’ Star Wars, the hosts aim to discover where exactly in Shyamalan’s filmography did this artist lose touch with his unique vision and become the “twist” guy? Starting with 1992’s Praying with Anger (set in India and filmed while he was still a student at NYU), as well as, his first major-motion picture Wide Awake, join the hosts as they try to understand how these early attempts would affect his future films and the recurring themes Shyamalan would continue to explore.

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0:00.0

All you need to know is that the name of the show is my chest.

0:19.5

Hello and welcome to Blank Check with Griffin David presents

0:28.5

Pod Night Shyamaka.

0:29.5

Victory!

0:31.5

I'm Griffin Newman.

0:32.5

I'm David Sims.

0:34.5

This is, we got set the table here because this might actually be an entry point episode for new listeners.

0:39.5

Yeah.

0:40.5

This is a podcast called Blank Check.

0:44.5

Blank Check.

0:45.5

Hosted by the two of us.

0:47.5

The two friends.

0:48.5

That's what they call us.

0:49.5

The two friends.

0:50.5

Friends.

0:51.5

Griffin Newman.

0:52.5

David Sims.

0:53.5

I'm a comedian.

0:54.5

I'm an actor.

0:55.5

Yeah.

0:56.5

I'm a critic and a writer for the Atlantic.

0:58.5

For the last year, we did a series of investigative miniseries over analyzing the...

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