For December 21st, Vertical Viewing is back with an extra Special Edition™ episode! Today on the podcast, MikeL, Red, MikeG and Scott meet in the Mos Eisley Cantina and discuss Bill Burr's brand new Netflix Original animated series F IS FOR FAMILY, a straight up miracle of graphic novel perfection known as SHAOLIN COWBOY from the mastermind Geoff Darrow, we continue our journey deeper INTO THE BADLANDS while sharpening up our post apocalyptic Kung Fu skills, Sam Rockwell slinks across the holy land as the fraudulent relic hunter DON VERDEAN from Napoleon Dynamite creator Jared Hess, Paramount beams down the first official trailer for STAR TREK BEYOND care of the furiously fast director Justin Lin, we try to sell Red on HEARTHSTONE and why it is a more modern and approachable card game than MAGIC: The Gathering, Mike loses abet and is forced at Elvish knife point to endure the extended editions of all three HOBBIT films in succession, we once again spend entirely too much time discussing GODS OF EGYPT and the whitewashed casting of tentpole Hollywood films, and much, much more before our galaxy smashing review of the absolute behemoth that is STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS from director J.J.Abrams.

MUSIC

• The AntiTheory - "Smart Bombs"

SHOW GUIDE

• 0:00:00 - What We've Been Viewing
• 0:40:35 - News
• 1:08:10 - Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens(2015)
• 1:35:42 - *Spoiler Tag*

CLIPS

• Don Verdean (2015)
• Star Trek Beyond (2016) Trailer #1

CREDITS

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