Project Hail Mary Episodes

The Bad Dads return from a slightly chaotic break for Project Hail Mary, the Ryan Gosling-led adaptation of Andy Weir’s sci-fi novel. Before getting to the film, there is catch-up chat about Sidey and Reegs seeing The Streets at Alexandra Palace, Sidey’s Malta holiday being far too hot to properly enjoy, and some family hotel movie nights that included a MonsterVerse binge and the alarming discovery that Raiders of the Lost Ark can apparently be dismissed as boring after half an hour. The conversation moves into Ryan Gosling, partly because Comic-Con has thrown up fresh talk of him circling Ghost Rider and a new Star Wars project. Sidey and Cris make the case for Gosling as an unusually reliable modern movie star: someone who can handle glossy blockbuster material like The Gray Man, stranger mood pieces like Only God Forgives, and more vulnerable work like Lars and the Real Girl. That makes him a good fit for this kind of accessible, problem-solving sci-fi. The dads frame Projec…