I Don't Even Like Kids Movies and The Sheep Detectives Made Me Cry

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This week we did an extremely normal double feature!!

First up is Hokum, a dark Irish folklore horror written and directed by Damian McCarthy and starring Adam Scott. Hokum is part witch story and part "uh oh, the real villain is MAN." They spend the first twenty minutes here before moving on to the main event...

The Sheep Detectives (25:09) is a live action talking animal cozy mystery from Amazon MGM, written by Craig Mazin (you know, the Chernobyl and The Last of Us guy?) and directed by Kyle Balda the director of the Minions movies! The Sheep Detectives has an all star cast including Hugh Jackman, Bryan Cranston, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Nicholas Braun, Regina Hall, Brett Goldstein, Rhys Darby, Chris O'Dowd and Bella Ramsey.

A gentle vegetarian shepherd is murdered and his sheep decide to solve the crime. It is also, somehow, an incredibly moving meditation on grief.

Monika does not like children's media...Monika cried?

Video Chapters:
02:30 Hokum First Impressions
17:39 Hokum Nitpicks and Plot Logic
24:52 Switch to Sheep Detectives
30:14 Grief Themes and Winter Lamb
42:08 CGI Sheep and Uncanny Valley
42:59 Voice Cast Favorites
43:38 Cloud Jokes And Sheep Baa Bits
45:58 Why The Tone Works
48:24 Cozy Mystery Rules
51:17 Recasting Nicholas Braun (sorry Nick!)
58:31 Scary Scenes And Sheep Grief
01:02:16 How do Wills work?
01:05:15 Farm Visits And Animal Antics

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