Sara Reviews Audio Programming: Doug Loves Movies!

Man, I sure suck at book club. But you know what, I spend most days listening to at least some audio programming or other, and that's a lot of hours of my life (so many hours... so many wasted, wasted hours). So, screw all of you.

Doug Loves Movies was the first comedy podcast I really listened to. My exact recollection fails me now, but I'm pretty sure that I saw somebody post online a link to the episode with Adam Scott and Jon Hamm, and being me, I was like "I should probably listen to this." My first job included lots and lots of boring, boring BIM modeling of big box stores, so my brain wasn't exactly too occupied most of the time, and this show really spoke to me at that particular moment of my life. I ended up listening to all of the (free) back episodes within a relatively short amount of time, the appeal of which was, primarily, the games.

There are a lot of mediocre podcasts out there, and other than the relatively high caliber of guests, Doug Loves Movies really isn't anything extraordinarily above the rest. But the games! Oh, the games! I think they're the reason I never really tire of this show. Even though the laughs per minute are a lot lower than on superior shows like Who Charted?, I still find myself able to chug through more episodes of this than almost anything else. Generally speaking, even the duds have plenty of games. I'm even terrible at Leonard Maltin, yet I still listen with rapt attention.

I cannot remember specific episodes to recommend, but my favorite guests include: Paul F. Tompkins (the episodes where he shows up as Cake Boss, Ice-T and Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber to play the Leonard Maltin game against himself are a delight), Scott Aukerman, Adam Scott, Samm Levine (okay, this is just a list of people who get overly enthusiastic about the Leonard Maltin game), Leonard Maltin himself (who constantly apologizes for being terrible at his own game), Anna Kendrick, Garfunkel and/or Oates, T.J. Miller (especially earlier episodes before he got sort of replaced with Pete Holmes, whose popularity I do not understand). Generally speaking, I'd listen according to who you already like.

Overall, 8/10 stars!!!!!!! Honestly, on the enjoyment scale I'd put it closer to 6/10, but 10/10 for endurability (not a word, but let's make it one).

Points or whatever: NONE GAINED! Because this is not a book and if it were, it would be a really terrible book.