This week on Geektown Radio, Dave is joined by Matt for another packed episode covering TV, film and gaming, led by chat about ‘The Pitt‘, horror thriller ‘They Will Kill You’, indie survival game ‘The Last Caretaker’, and the first trailer for the new ‘Harry Potter’ TV series. There is also discussion around ‘The Last of Us’ Season 3 casting, the UK launch of HBO Max, Ryan Coogler’s ‘The X-Files’ reboot, and a healthy pile of renewals, cancellations and pick-ups.
Matt kicks things off with an update on his huge ‘The Last of Us Part II’ chronological mode deep dive, which sounds like the sort of project that starts as a neat idea and ends with six hours of recording, 111 paragraphs of notes, and your brain permanently rearranged by fungus trauma. That also rolls neatly into a discussion about the newly cast roles for ‘The Last of Us’ Season 3, including Lev, Yara and Jerry, as excitement starts building again for the next run of the HBO drama.
On the film side, Matt also reviews ‘They Will Kill You’, the new horror thriller starring Zazie Beetz (Atlanta, Deadpool 2). It sounds like a gloriously violent, darkly funny ride with a strong lead performance and a final act that goes properly off the rails in the best possible way. Not exactly Shakespeare, by the sound of it, but very much a good time if you like your horror bloody, energetic and a little bit unhinged.
Matt also checks in with thoughts on ‘Resident Evil: Requiem’, which lands as a slightly mixed but still worthwhile entry, with Grace’s side of the story sounding like the stronger half of the game. There is plenty to like there, but also a few of those very video game-y moments where you find yourself wondering why the heavily armed professional cannot simply climb over the obvious problem and get on with it.
Dave, meanwhile, brings in one of his latest gaming obsessions, ‘The Last Caretaker’, an atmospheric survival crafting game from indie developer Channel 37. Set on a flooded Earth, it puts you in the role of a robot tasked with helping save and regrow humanity by scavenging, building, exploring and generally keeping the whole thing from collapsing. It sounds a bit like ‘Subnautica’ if you swapped the panic fish for mechanical melancholy, and very much like the sort of thing that can quietly eat dozens of hours of your life before you realise what has happened.
On the TV side, Dave has also been digging into ‘Harley Quinn’ Season 5, the return of ‘For All Mankind’, and, most notably, ‘The Pitt’, which he reckons is every bit as strong as people have been saying. The medical drama, starring Noah Wyle (ER, Falling Skies), unfolds in near real time across one brutal hospital shift, and sounds like exactly the sort of stress-inducing television that is impossible to stop watching once you are in.
A big chunk of the episode is also spent talking through the UK launch of HBO Max, which is exciting in theory, slightly odd in practice, and perhaps a little less revolutionary than some people expected, given how much of the library has already been available through Sky and NOW. Still, it does at least finally give UK viewers direct access to things like ‘The Pitt’ and ‘Harley Quinn’, even if it also raises a few questions about what is missing and why bits of Warner’s wider catalogue still seem to be off wandering the rights wilderness.
In the news section, there is the usual Geektown blend of renewals, cancellations and casting stories. ‘Watson‘ has been cancelled by CBS after two seasons, ‘DMV’ is done after one, and ‘Talamasca: The Secret Order’ has been axed at AMC. On the happier side, ‘For All Mankind’ has been renewed for a sixth and final season, ‘Chicago Fire’, ‘Chicago P.D.’ and ‘Chicago Med’ are all coming back, ‘School Spirits’ scores a fourth season, ‘Criminal Minds: Evolution’ rolls on, and ‘Wonder Man’ has surprisingly landed a second season on Disney+.
There is also some notable air date news, including ‘The Punisher: One Last Kill’ arriving in May, plus the first trailer for the new ‘Harry Potter’ TV series, which is now confirmed for Christmas 2026 on HBO Max. Whether the world really needed another full trip through ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ is still very much up for debate, but the trailer at least gives everyone something real to talk about now, beyond the endless noise that has been surrounding the series since it was first announced.
Elsewhere, Netflix has picked up Westminster siege thriller ‘The Lord’s Day‘ starring Damson Idris (F1, Snowfall), Prime Video has cast Sonya Walger (For All Mankind, Lost) as Freya in ‘God of War’, and Ryan Coogler’s ‘The X-Files’ reboot has added Himesh Patel (Station Eleven, Yesterday) opposite Danielle Deadwyler (The Piano Lesson, Station Eleven). There is also the quietly surreal news that ‘Mr Benn’ may be heading to the big screen, proving once again that British television nostalgia is a resource producers will never stop mining.
As usual, the episode rounds up what is coming to screens next week too, including ‘The ‘Burbs’, ‘Race Across the World’, ‘Have I Got News For You’, ‘Your Friends & Neighbors’, ‘Harry Wild’ and ‘Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord’.
So if you want one podcast episode covering ‘The Pitt’, ‘They Will Kill You’, ‘The Last Caretaker’, the ‘Harry Potter’ trailer, ‘The Last of Us’, ‘The X-Files’, and the latest TV renewals and cancellations, Geektown Radio Episode 491 has you covered.
Listen below.
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Also, a quick but important plug for ‘Geekstorians‘, because it genuinely is a pretty big moment for the show right now. The new Easter special drops this Friday, kicking off the return of the podcast before Season 2 launches immediately after, with Season 3 already in the works too. So if you have been missing Dave disappearing down strange, fascinating rabbit holes from geek culture history, there is a lot more on the way very soon.
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