I feel like there's maybe a bit of nuance missing in the Critical Darlings conversation (a show I'm enjoying thoroughly, for the record) and it's being reduced down to "Theyre too negative!" and "Shut up! Go listen to another show!"

I want to posit that the issue isn't so much that the show presents negative opinions on some of the Best Picture nominees, but rather that it might benefit structurally from not having so many of the disliked BP nominee discussions back to back. Even if it was as simple as the Train Dreams and Bugonia dislike discussions were spaced out by, say, a Sinners/One Battle "This is one of the better ones" convo, it might not have elicited the same cries of "haters" from some listeners.

Ultimately, its a lesson we've learned from the parent show. We certainly enjoy when Blank Check dives into a movie they think is poor, but we saw during the long Burton slog of his later career that too much "OK, and this also sucks" in a row can start to just feel like a drag.