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The Incomparable

The Incomparable

The Incomparable is a weekly dive into geeky media we love, including movies, books, TV, comics, and more, featuring a rotating panel of guests and hosted by Jason Snell.

The Incomparable Podcast Guide

Listen to The Incomparable, a TV & Film podcast by The Incomparable. Stream 822 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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830: Sad Man in a Van

Buy some flowers and get ready to profess your feelings—we’re here to talk about “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” in which Tom Holland’s Peter g...

80:25Aug 14, 2026

829: The True Horror is Bureaucracy

Put on your summer best and board a ferry to New England’s hottest tourist destination! It’s time for us to discuss “Widow’s Bay,” a funny h...

71:27Aug 7, 2026

828: Perfectly Serviceable Boat Movie

It’s one of the best “Star Trek” movies, a classic Dad Movie, and the start of a franchise that never really started. It’s “Master and Comma...

60:12Jul 31, 2026

827: Organic Free-Range Cave Cheese

Non-linearly begin and end your journey across a wide range of cursed islands! We discuss Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” a film now in t...

107:39Jul 24, 2026

826: Layers of Shenanigans

Our awards shortlist book club rolls on with a selection of books we’re much more receptive to: “A Drop of Corruption” by Robert Jackson Ben...

66:25Jul 17, 2026

825: 3D Printing With Xenon

What if “The Martian” but with an alien buddy? We break down “Project Hail Mary,” and marvel at what a good translation of a sort-of-unfilma...

69:18Jul 10, 2026

824: The Most Movie

Get out your PowerBooks and prepare to punch an alien in patriotic fashion! We celebrate Independence Day with a 30-year-old film, “Independ...

76:15Jul 3, 2026

823: Someone on Both Sides of the Gunfight

We combine our love of “Star Trek” with the appreciation for old movies that can only be provided by our sister podcast Lions, Towers, and S...

77:00Jun 26, 2026

822: Jacket Into Cyberspace

William Gibson Book Club reconvenes to close out the legendary Sprawl trilogy with “Mona Lisa Overdrive,” a book in which there are lots of...

79:56Jun 19, 2026

821: Historic Parking Garage

Get behind your typewriters! Old Movie Club follows the money to discuss 1976’s “All The President’s Men,” in which the power of dogged repo...

88:25Jun 12, 2026

820: I Can Read It!

Our survey of award-nominated novels rolls on with “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter,” “When We Were Real,” and “Sour Cherry.” Not gonna lie: we’re...

69:59Jun 5, 2026

819: All the Babus Frik

We went out to the movies to see “The Mandalorian and Grogu,” the first “Star Wars” film this decade. We had a really good time, thanks in l...

80:17May 29, 2026

818: Ferris is Magic

Let’s travel 40 years back in time, to Chicago in 1986, where on one legendary day, a high school student named Ferris Bueller bends time an...

79:48May 22, 2026

817: A Found Family of Monsters

Awards Book Club reconvenes for 2026, as we discuss Nebula-nominated novels “Katabasis” by R.F. Kuang, “Wearing the Lion” by John Wiswell, a...

75:07May 15, 2026

816: Fascism for Algernon

Put on your eye phones and jack in to the cyberscape! Rocket Surgery comes for 1996’s cyberpunk epic “Lawnmower Man 2.” (Don’t worry if you...

87:18May 8, 2026

814: Demons are People Too

A special Book Club panel provides an overview of Lois McMaster Bujold’s excellent Penric & Desdemona series of fantasy novellas (plus one n...

67:57Apr 24, 2026

813: Spiritual Sequel

We complete our run through blades with “Blade Runner 2049,” a late sequel in which Ryan Gosling plays a replicant detective searching for a...

83:53Apr 17, 2026

812: Ridley Scott Just Can't Stop

No voiceovers! More unicorns! Our journey deep into the futuristic world of 2019 Los Angeles continues with another look at “Blade Runner” —...

120:05Apr 10, 2026

811: Have You Considered More Voiceovers?

These movie producers really did a job on “Blade Runner.” They don’t advertise for narrations in the newspaper, every good writer knows that...

79:36Apr 3, 2026