Told you we’d be breaking away from Someone Else’s Movie‘s unofficial horror run — although this week’s episode is a kind of soft uncoupling, given that my guest, South African director Jenna Cato Bass, has a new genre work, Good Madam, dropping on Shudder today.

It’s really good, constructing a slippery, character-driven nightmare that evokes Jordan Peele’s brilliant Get Out reconfigured for a post-Apartheid dynamic. You should watch it.

Jenna did not pick a horror movie for the podcast, though. Technically she didn’t pick a movie at all, but when she suggested we tackle the brilliant NBC ensemble procedural Homicide: Life on the Street in its freaking entirety … well, what am I, a chump?

Obviously we didn’t do justice to a show that ran for seven seasons and a movie — I don’t even think the name “Adena Watson” is spoken in the episode — but boy, was it a fun conversation. Whether you’re Team Pembleton, Team Bayliss or Team Give Meldrick Some Damn Credit For Once, you’ll want to join us for this one,

Subscribe to the podcast at Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher or wherever and get it instantly, or download it directly from the web, why dont’cha. And yes, I absolutely think Munch killed Steve Buscemi. Squirrelly little bastard had it coming.

Also, in this week’s Shiny Things I explained why Rogers’ recent internet outage just proves the value of physical media, praised the return of Only Murders in the Building and even spent some time pontificating about the slow-motion disaster of Boris Johnson’s prime ministership. I contain multitudes! Subscribe and found out just how many!