Taxi Driver

They said it couldn’t be done. They said two cis white men who liked movies couldn’t make it to 28 years of age without having seen Taxi Driver. And yet somehow that was true, until this week. Let’s just say right now is, uh, not the best time to be watching a movie from the perspective of a troubled, violent, lonely male figure, and as a result we’re not too thrilled about this film. Thankfully we’ve packed this episode with as many tangent-spawning questions as possible, including: how much money is Travis Bickle making? Why did Ron Howard name his kids like that? How does one become superstitious? Why are we so bad at guessing children’s ages? How many “gangster” movies have we seen thus far this miniseries? Why does Samuel not watch anime if he’s already read the manga? And maybe most pointlessly: what sorts of ads does Pluto show when you watch this movie?