Episodes

  • The Monkey Movie Review

    The Monkey Movie Review
    Feb 20 2025
    The Losers' Club review Osgood Perkins' highly anticipated Stephen King adaptation The Monkey. For even further discussion on the film, become a member of The Barrens at patreon.com/thebarrens. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 56 mins
  • The Timekeepers of Eternity (fka The Langoliers)

    The Timekeepers of Eternity (fka The Langoliers)
    Feb 14 2025
    Well, here's a strange detour. Remember Tom Holland's 1995 miniseries adaptation of The Langoliers? We do, too. And we covered it in 2019. In 2021, however, Greek filmmaker Aristotelis Maragkos retooled said miniseries into a 62-minute paper film that Bloody Disgusting's Meagan Navarro calls "a condensed, experimental, and ingenious reworking of the source material." Now, the Losers chime in four years later. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • Our All-Time Favorite Stephen King Crushes

    Our All-Time Favorite Stephen King Crushes
    Feb 6 2025
    The Losers get smutty in the latest list episode after they gush about their favorite Stephen King crushes from within the pages. Things take some wild turns in this episode, so get ready! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 53 mins
  • HBO's The Outsider TV Review

    HBO's The Outsider TV Review
    Jan 31 2025
    Five years later, the Losers re-review HBO's The Outsider. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    2 hrs and 35 mins
  • The Outsider

    The Outsider
    Jan 24 2025
    The Losers head to Flint City, Oklahoma to record a full-fledged book episode on Stephen King's 2018 novel The Outsider. Together, they weigh in on the balance between true crime and the supernatural, whether Holly Gibney adds or detracts from said balance, and the post-MeToo era's influence on the story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    3 hrs and 47 mins
  • Hollywood King: On Welcome to Derry, Talisman 3, The Monkey, King Noir

    Hollywood King: On Welcome to Derry, Talisman 3, The Monkey, King Noir
    Jan 17 2025
    Losers Randall Colburn, Michael Roffman, and Justin Gerber head to Hollywood King again to discuss the latest developments in King's Dominion, specifically a potential third Talisman novel; the latest updates surrounding Welcome to Derry, The Monkey, The Institute, and The Running Man; the forthcoming book King Noir; and much, much more. Follow us on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    2 hrs and 12 mins
  • Season 9 Preview and Stephen King 2025 Guide

    Season 9 Preview and Stephen King 2025 Guide
    Jan 9 2025
    Eight years, nine seasons! The Losers look ahead at 2025. Together, they share their own highlights of Season 8 and go over the Club's reading and viewing lists for the year. Consider this a big old teaser trailer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    2 hrs
  • Stephen King's The Pop of King EW Column: 2003-2004

    Stephen King's The Pop of King EW Column: 2003-2004
    Jan 3 2025
    Stephen King and Entertainment Weekly go back a long ways. The pair's relationship began with a handful of grouchy letters to the editor in which King excoriated the magazine's film critics. Kin's barbed words, however, only motivated the outlet to recruit the author — after he reviewed a Harry Potter book for them, the editors asked him if he'd want to like his own monthly column. In July of 2003, the Pop of King, a full page of King's pop cultural musings, debuted. In June 2023, The Losers' Club was initially going to discuss the column in one fell swoop in their Patreon-exclusive Archives series. However, after reading through the first year and change, they discovered there's too much brilliance, too many bad takes, and too much pure bile to not spread this out a bit. In this episode, Randall Colburn, Jenn Adams, and Dan Caffrey travel back to 2003 and 2004, using King's comically acerbic reviews, recommendations, and takedowns to discuss how that era of culture resonates two decades on. Topics include horror (obviously), poptimism, The Passion of the Christ, baby boomers, gradeflation, movie quotes, death, pet peeves, and Mystic River (the man would not stop with Mystic fuckin' River). And this is just the beginning. Want more? Become a member of The Barrens -- patreon.com/thebarrens -- for more installments of The Pop of King, in addition to a fourth episode dropping later this month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    2 hrs and 56 mins