This week Andrew and Ted sit down to discuss the Netflix South Korean original thriller film "The Great Flood". Antarctica is hit by an asteroid causing the glaciers to instantly melt raising the ocean levels quickly along with sending tsunami outward. An-na, an AI researcher, is awaken by her son as the water levels have hit their apartment on the 3rd floor of their 30 floor complex. An-na receives a call from her boss letting her know that someone is coming to get her but she should proceed to the roof of her apartment complex. After gathering few items, An-na and her son Ja-in leave their apartment and head towards the roof. They meet up with Hee-jo, sent to insure her safety to the roof where a helicopter will be waiting. Fighting the rising waters, along with instances arising from her neighbors as well as additional tsunami's An-na, Ja-in, and Hee-jo make it to the roof where the audience discovers a secret about An-na her job and Ja-in.
On this episode of "Streaming Without A Paddle" Andrew and Ted sit down and discuss their Top 5 reviewed Series and their Top 5 reviewed Movies of 2025.
On this week's show Andrew and Ted discuss what they thought of the third installment of the Knives Out franchise, "Wake Up Dead Man". Daniel Craig is back as that southern private detective Benoit Blanc, hired by the local police chief (Mila Kunis), to solve what they feel is the unsolvable murder of Monsenyor Jefferson (Josh Brolin) the local priest. With suspects ranging from characters played by Thomas Haden Church, Andrew Scott, Josh O'Connor, Glenn Close, Daryl McComack, Cailee Spaeny, Kerry Washington, and Jeremy Renner it's a classic who-done-it! Tune into find out how Andrew and Ted stack this case up against the previous Benoit Blanc mysteries!
This week Andrew and Ted discuss Prime Video's original holiday feature presentation starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Chloë Grace Moretz, Denis Leary, Felicity Jones, and Dominic Sessa. Claire (Pfeiffer) and Nick (Leary) are hosting a family Christmas for their two daughters and son. Leading up to the event Claire has been hinting to her children that all she wants for Christmas is to be nominated, by them, as mother of the year on her favorite daily talkshow "The Zazzy Tims Show". Zazzy played by Eva Longoria. After spending days cooking, cleaning, and planning the family inadvertently leaves Claire at home as they go to the Christmas program she arranged. This "forgetfulness" triggers Claire as she jumps into her car and heads to California from their Texas home to go watch "The Zazzy Tims Show" in person. The family discovers where she has taken off too after watching her on the "Zazzy Tims Show". At that point they realize their selfishness and look to right the wrong. Tune into the show to find out if Andrew and or Ted think "Oh. What. Fun." will become a holiday classic.
This week Andrew and Ted kick of the holiday season with a review of Netflix's original Christmas "themed" romantic comedy starring Alicia Silverstone (Kate) and Oliver Hudson (Everett). Kate and Everett a separated husband and wife are reluctantly looking forward to moving on with their lives after they've come to the conclusion that their post children in the house life goals are no longer the same. However, Christmas together has them reevaluating those dreams after discovering maybe their focus going forward wasn't necessarily clearly thought through. Find out what Andrew and Ted thought ... did it get them in the holiday spirit or did it leave them bah humbug? Tune into to find out.
This week Andrew and Ted sit down to discuss the Mark Wahlberg sequel to the 2023 Apple original feature "Family Plan" ... "Family Plan 2". The entire "family" cast returns now knowing their father, Dan Morgan (Wahlberg), past life was as a robber and son of Europe's most notorious criminal mind. Only this time the family ends up in Europe on a Christmas work-cation where Dan (Wahlberg) meets his half brother, Finn (Kit Harrington), that intends to take over the throne of the family criminal empire now that dad has died. But he feels the need to eliminate the only person he thinks as a road block to his plan ... Dan (Wahlberg). Tune into find out what Andrew and Ted thought of this billed "action / comedy".
This week on Streaming Without a Paddle Andrew and Ted discuss the Danish born Netflix Original romantic drama "Mango". Lærke is trying to work her way up the corporate ladder in the hotel hospitality industry when her employer sends her to Spain to purchase a struggling mango plantation so that they may build a new hotel on it. When she gets there she finds that the executor of the plantation is an attractive single man, Alex. There seems to be an instant attraction between the two but neither wants to admit it as it might show weakness in the negotiations. Ultimately ... we'll that would be a spoiler wouldn't it. Beside the negotiations, Lærke uses this time away from Denmark to bond with her daughter, Agnes, who has been living with her ex-husband while her focus has been on her career. Alex, a widower, has been not only tasked with continuing his late wife's family mango plantation, after a tragic accident left the wife and her parents dead, but raising his dead wife's little sister, Paula. Paula and Agnes form a bond that ends up ... well that too would be a spoiler. Tune into the show to find out if Andrew and Ted are a watch or not.
This week on "Streaming Without A Paddle", Andrew and Ted jump on board a big ole' yellow "Lost Bus" being driven by Mr. Texas Cool himself, Matthew McConaughey. Based upon the 2018 Northern California forest fire known as the "Camp Fire" the real life story follows bus driver Kevin McKay (McConaughey) as he has been tasked to go to Ponderosa Elementary and rescue 22 children a teacher (portrayed by America Ferrera). What would normally be a 45 minute drive turns into a 5 hour navigation nightmare as McKay is forced to circumvent fire engulfed roadways. Tune into the show to find out what Andrew and Ted thought of this two hour and ten minute runtime drama!
This week on "Streaming Without A Paddle" Andrew and Ted discuss the Netflix original "Ballad of a Small Player" from "Conclave" director Edward Berger and starring Colin Farrell. Billed as a black comedy psychological thriller, Brendan Reilly (Farrell) assumes the fictitious identity of "Lord Doyle" in the gambling capital of the world Macau after embezzling nearly 1 million pounds from a client back in England. Having lost pretty much all of it playing baccarat and running up a tremendous tab at a luxury hotel Reilly / Doyle is struggling to win money to stay afloat. That's when he meets a female loan shark ... Dao Ming (Chen) who seemingly shows him compassion after being confronted by the wife of another client that has taken his own life due to his debt to her. Tune into the show to find out what Andrew and Ted thought.
This week on the show Andrew and Ted discuss the Netflix original feature "House of Dynamite", starring Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso, Idris Elba, and strongly featuring Anthony Ramos, Tracy Letts, and Jared Harris. This Kathryn Bigelow (Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty) directed thriller counts down the departmental actions of the US Government as they have 20 minutes to make decisions before a suspected nuclear warhead, secretly launched from the far western waters of the Pacific Ocean strikes Chicago. Tune into the show to find out what element of this feature blew both Andrew and Ted out of the water and what, if any, misses there were.
This week on "Streaming Without A Paddle" Andrew and Ted sit down to discuss this monster based thriller "Wolf Man" now available on Prime Video. This horror-esk movie stars Christopher Abbott (Blake) and Julia Garner (Charlotte) as this husband and wife take their young daughter to Blake's now presumed to be deceased father's off-grid home deep in the mountains of Oregon as it is now his. Once Blake's childhood home he feels it is necessary for this troubled couple to get back to basics to save their marriage from he believes a city life driving a wedge between them. Childhood horrors aside, Blake loads up a rental truck with their belongs and they head out. As they near the house the childhood horrors return as they are forced off the road by a mysterious force, the wolf man. They struggle to make it safely to the home where the spend their first night fighting this demon creature. Tune into the show to find out what Andrew and Ted thought of this Prime Video acquisition.
This week, as the guys look towards Halloween, Andrew and Ted sit down to discuss the Netflix original thriller series "Wayward", starring Mae Martin, Toni Collette, Alyvia Alyn Lind, and Sydney Topliffe. Deputy Alex Dempsey (Martin) and their wife move to the sleepy little town of Tall Pines, Vermont to raise their yet born child. Little did Deputy Dempsey know that the town is not only home to a reform school for wayward high school age children but the reform school itself is wayward as it's academics are geared to brain washing the children. If that wasn't enough, the towns people, majority former students themselves, are protecting the school from outside inquiries ... such as deputy Dempsey who is bend on exposing the school after finding out about what it is doing.
This week Andrew and Ted sit down to discuss this Mark Wahlberg starring streaming original feature by Prime Video. Parker (Wahlberg) is a professional high end thief with his marks and potential scores being a little bigger and classier (if that is even a thing when it comes to robbing) than your average bank heist. In "Play Dirty", Wahlberg and his team knock over a horse racing track but things go south when they have an unexpected visitor while exiting the heist and then things go even further south when one of his crew members double crosses the team by killing all but one (Parker) and keeps the cash from the track heist all for themselves. Parker now has to track that person down, recover the cash, and make his long-time partner's wife (played by Gretchen Mol) whole after he was murdered by this turncoat. Tune into to find out what Andrew and Ted thought of this action / drama feature.
This week Andrew and Ted discuss the Netflix Colombian born original mystery / thriller series "The Guest". In this soap meets 50 Shades of Gray 20 episode series ... a couple at the beginning of trying to save their marriage, after he has had an affair, is thrown a curveball when an attractive woman that the wife met while traveling solo on a vacation comes knocking at their door late one night.
This week Andrew and Ted sit down to discuss what they thought of the first two episodes (out of 8) of the new Netflix original series "Black Rabbit", starring Jude Law and Jason Bateman. This drama / suspense follows two brothers (Law & Bateman) as they struggle with their personal lives as well as each other. While both struggling, personally, Bateman's character seems to be in deeper as he is trying to escape his past with some shady characters while Law's character is struggling chasing a dream. Their lives intertwine as their bonds as brothers, now that both parents have passed, hold onto what semblance of family remains as one (Law's character) is now dragged into the mess of the other (Bateman's character).
This week on "Streaming Without A Paddle", Andrew and Ted sit down to discuss the Prime Video original feature "Last Breath" ... starring Finn Cole, Woody Harrelson, and Simu Liu. Based on the true story of deep-water diver Chris Lemons. Lemons (Cole) and his dive partner David (Liu) are 300+ feet below the surface of the ocean in a dive to replace a faulty gas valve when their ship loses it's gps position hold capabilities that cause the divers to be pulled from their work location. Lemon's umbilical cord is severed leaving Lemons on the bottom of the ocean. Once the captain and crew are able to regain manual positioning hold David (Lui) returns to the sight to retrieve Lemon. Found lifeless on top of the underwater manifold David brings Lemon back to the diving bell where he is given mouth to mouth by the dive leader Duncan (Harrelson). Amazingly Lemon starts breathing again after being without oxygen for nearly 30 minutes.
This week on the show Andrew and Ted discuss the newly released feature "ARCADIAN", starring Nicolas Cage, Jaeden Martell, and Maxwell Jenkins. In a post-apocalyptic world Paul (Cage) is trying to raise his two boys Joseph (Martell) and Thomas (Jenkins) in a world where these subterranean creatures are forced hibernate underground during the day and rule the nights above ground as they burrow up looking for food. It's a nightly game of wits.
This week Andrew and Ted sit down to discuss the Apple TV original from Spike Lee "Highest 2 Lowest", starring Denzel Washington and featuring Jeffrey Wright, Aubrey Josesph, A$AP Rocky, Ilfenesh Hadera, and Dean Winters. Record executive / label founder David King's (Washington) son and friend are kidnapped. The kidnappers mistakenly release King's son, who is the kidnapping target, and keep his best friend who just happens to be David King's driver / personal assistant Paul Christopher (Wright). Pressure mounts on King who must make the decision to put up $17.5 million ransom to free Paul's son. Tune into the show to find out what Andrew and Ted thought about this Spike Lee Joint.
This week Andrew and Ted sat down to discuss the romance feature "The Map That Leads to You" starring Madelyn Cline and KJ Apa. Texas girl Heather (Cline) and two of her girlfriends (Connie, Sofia Wylie and Amy, Madison Thompson) take time to "budget travel" across Europe before Heather has to return to the US / home to start her new job in finance in New York city. While traveling by train Heather meets Jack (Apa) and while initially there is no interest their paths cross again as Jack kinda of followers her to a night club where they strike up a conversation and subsequent friendship. Over the next couple of days, as Amy's wild side leads Heather to kind of lean on Jack for support, they quickly develop a purely mental attraction as their intellectual competitiveness draws them closer. They soon succumb to the physical attraction they have subsequently developed. Heather having delayed her return to the states by week to continue her tryst with Jack is left flying home solo after Jack ghosts her at boarding time. Tune into find out what Andrew and Ted thought as well as to find out who between the two seems to be the bigger romantic.
This week Andrew and Ted discuss the Netflix original "Night Always Comes", starring Vanessa Kirby (Lynette). Lynette has a single night to raise 25k in an effort to save her family home from being repossessed. A night that turns into a moment of desperation that ultimately turns into a night of crime. Tune into the show to find out what they thought.