Show Notes: S02, E08 - The Empire's Got Back
This week, we bring you disappointing book-to-film adaptations, Karl's Star Wars fantasies, and Three Lions over and over again. If you thought our listeners had problems, wait till you hear us trying to solve them...
Here's all the art we recommended.
(Art we only mentioned in passing, and never intended as a problem-solving recommendation, is in italics.)
Underlined items are this week's top picks from each of our presenters. If you're only going to try one of the pieces of art we mentioned, try these ones first.
Books
- The Song of Ice and Fire Series - George R R Martin
- The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
- The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Dune - Frank Herbert
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
- The Power of the Dog - Thomas Savage
Films / TV
- Wall-E
- Hello Dolly
- Game of Thrones
- House of the Dragon
- The Lovely Bones
- The Scarlet Letter (1995)
- Easy A
- Dune (1984)
- Dune (2000 miniseries)
- Dune (2021)
- The Truman Show
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Star Wars Episode VII: The Empire Strikes Back
- Star Wars Episode VIII: Return of the Jedi
- Hook
- Peter Pan
- I Love You, Man
Music
- Leave (Get Out) - JoJo
- Help! I'm a Fish - Little Trees
- Three Lions - Baddiel, Skinner & Lightning Seeds
- We're on the Ball - Ant & Dec
- Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) - Shakira
- World at Your Feet - Embrace
- Girls Just Want to Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
- Girls Just Want to Have Fun - Robert Hazard
- Papa Don't Preach - Madonna
- Jealous - Nick Jonas
- SexyBack - Justin Timberlake
- Flight of the Conchords (radio series)
A selection of the music mentioned in this episode can be found in the Agony Art Spotify playlist.
Corrections
We are currently unaware of any errors made in this episode. That doesn't mean we didn't make any - just that they haven't been spotted yet.
Picture above from Flight of the Conchords © HBO
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