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Kill James Bond!

S2E1: Syriana

Kill James Bond!

November, Abigail, and Devon

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Tv & Film:film Reviews

4.7615 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

It's finally here, after much fanfare and buildup: Season 2 of KJB starts off not with a bang, but with a knowing hmm as we kick off the Cerebral HourSyriana is potentially the best depiction of spy work we have covered, and it's serious themes lead us to a very thoughtful and introspective discussion of western intervention- and also Mark Strong is here in what i can only describe as 'Arab Face' Find bonus episodes at our reasonably-priced patreon!https://www.patreon.com/killjamesbond     *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/   Find us at https://killjamesbond.com and https://twitter.com/killjamesbond

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0:00.0

It's in America's interest to do business overseas.

0:05.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of Kill James Bond.

0:23.5

I am Alice Gouldo Kelly, joining me as ever are Abigail Thorne and Devon.

0:27.6

Hello?

0:28.6

We watched Sireana, this was my pick, to try and sort of round out the Jason Borns

0:35.7

with some contemporary global war on terror. Well, I say contemporary,

0:39.7

it's 2006, with some global war on terror, gritty, realistic spy movie making.

0:46.2

It's time to begin the cerebral hour. I'm afraid so. I'm drunk on power. But the thing is

0:52.7

that now that you've unleashed the prospect of Alice and Alice's

0:56.2

on the world, I've kind of, I've taken a little bit too far, and now I'm just going to

1:01.2

make you watch films that I think have a lot to say about capitalism and society.

1:07.0

Yes, things of this nature.

1:08.3

I have a drop of those two things.

1:10.3

Alice made us watch a film that's actually really good,

1:12.5

and I very much enjoyed, which is kind of a novel experience for this podcast. Yeah, it's something like, right? Normally, it's just about like, come and shit, but this is actually, like, kind of good. Yeah, typically we'll just watch like a children's. Oh, fuck. Do you really think that I would let you get through a whole episode without getting a drop of Matt Damon saying...

1:30.4

So that when you finally wait... no come in this episode? Do you really think that I would let you get through a whole episode without getting a drop of Matt Damon saying...

1:30.3

So that when you finally wake up, they will have sucked you dry.

1:34.3

Fingers cross, Matt.

1:36.3

I'm on pipe.

1:39.3

I'm sake! I just said it was the cerebral hour.

1:46.0

The cerebral hour, the cerebral hour begins now. So, we begin by immediately passing the did you get a fake muayzine test.

1:56.0

Yes.

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