{"podcast":{"title":"Kermode & Mayo’s Take","slug":"kermode-mayo-s-take-5310583","podcast_index_feed_id":5310583,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/kermodeandmayo","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/3dead3fa-9fbc-11ec-a343-aba8a0855498/image/K_M_TILE_ART_full_lyr_UPDATED.jpg-2023-12-01_15_59_52.236000.jpeg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Sony Music","episode_count":290,"summary":"Essential film reviews, TV reviews, and all conversations around movie and non-movie related stuff brought to you by Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo. Plus a whole bunch of recommendations to watch in cinemas, on all streaming services and on physical media. Want more Kermode & Mayo? Subscribe to Kermode & Mayo’s Extra Takes to get ad-free listening plus access to our subscriber-exclusive show, TAKE TWO, with new episodes every Friday. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, or at extratakes.com to get access on your preferred podcast platform. There's more to discover at kermodeandmayo.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices . EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee!","last_synced_at":"2026-06-26T02:20:02.396742+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/kermode-mayo-s-take-5310583"},"episode":{"title":"Level up or game over for SUPER MARIO GALAXY?","slug":"level-up-or-game-over-for-super-mario-galaxy","published_at":"2026-04-02T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/kermode-mayo-s-take-5310583/level-up-or-game-over-for-super-mario-galaxy","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/kermode-mayo-s-take-5310583","url":"https://pdst.fm/e/pdrl.fm/a16f7d/mgln.ai/e/143/tracking.swap.fm/track/Vjambo9ifGBwbaCTlDBD/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/SONY8963883034.mp3?updated=1775126101","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/pdrl.fm/a16f7d/mgln.ai/e/143/tracking.swap.fm/track/Vjambo9ifGBwbaCTlDBD/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/SONY8963883034.mp3?updated=1775126101","summary":"Some exciting news—The Take is now on Patreon: www.patreon.com/kermodeandmayo Become a Vanguardista or an Ultra Vanguardista to get video episodes of Take Two every week, plus member-only chat rooms, polls and submissions to influence the show, behind-the-scenes photos and videos, the monthly Redactor’s Roundup newsletter, and access to a new fortnightly LIVE show—a raucous, unfiltered lunchtime special with the Good Doctors, new features, and live chat so you can heckle, vote, and have your questions read out in real time. More movie musings and cinematic chat this week on Kermode & Mayo’s Take. The Good Doctors will be reviewing this week’s biggest big screen releases—plus a bit of TV for you too today. First up, there’s The Drama, a black comedy starring Robert Pattinson and Zendaya as a soon-to-be-married couple whose romantic bliss is derailed by a shocking confession. Then more white-knuckle stuff in Fuze—a bomb disposal meets heist thriller starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Theo James and Sam Worthington. On a much more colourful note, we’ve got Super Mario Galaxy—but will this latest screen outing for the videogame franchise be a level up or game over? On the small screen, the spotlight turns to the BBC’s Twenty Twenty Six—a brand new sequel series that catches up with Hugh Bonneville’s Ian Fletcher in all his bureaucratic glory. This time he’s been appointed ‘Head of Integrity’ on the organizing committee for an international football tournament taking place in summer 2026, which definitely isn’t the FIFA World Cup. Simon sits down with the ever-charming Hugh to unpack the series—plus a word on his latest stage outing in Shadowlands, and little bit of Downton chat too. All that, along with the usual listener correspondence and presenter cantankerousness—you won’t…","meta_description":"Some exciting news—The Take is now on Patreon: www.patreon.com/kermodeandmayo Become a Vanguardista or an Ultra Vanguardista to get video episodes of Take…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4749,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/kermode-mayo-s-take-5310583/episodes/level-up-or-game-over-for-super-mario-galaxy/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/kermode-mayo-s-take-5310583/level-up-or-game-over-for-super-mario-galaxy.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}