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OK, as it's noon, here we go. We are visiting the world of Ian Fleming as interpreted by his friend Roald Dahl. Don't bother reading the original book. It has very little to do with this film. We're watching...

Wait so you already made the pick and you're just not telling us now?

Who among us hasn't imitated a carnie for attention?

You are a twisted person. I'm going to need lots of booze for this terrifying adventure. I can't wait!

Soooo... are you waiting for us to guess or is there a certain time you're just gonna tell us?

Oh I see how it is

Good morning all! Now...

I just want to say, because I haven’t already, I’m really looking forward to this one. I’ve never seen it before.

well that makes sense then. I've been resisting pulling the trigger on Stitcher Premium (again) but I may have to

It’s only available on Stitcher Premium under the Pee Cast Blast festival banner. I haven’t listened to it since it came out, but I remember it being really good. Doug Benson was the guest.

That's a Stitcher Premium only unfortunately. Because it was part of a podcast festival they never released it from behind the paywall.

Mama Mia! Here We Go Again? Sorry I can't deal with Bronson's "singing"

It’s in my watch list already

Roald Dahl? I don't think You Only Live Twice is a musical but I'll watch it again.

Your picture is a clue. The creator of that story had a hand in my pic. (Cameron, you are disqualified under the advisor rule. Sorry.)

One thing that didn't get brought up and I hoped would was that weird scene where Rebecca Ferguson meets up with Harry Hole at that restaurant, which even though it is closed (as some guy yells to her when she comes in the open door of the closed restaurants), Harry Hole is eating a meal there. Harry Hole asks her if she's hungry and she says she is and he pushes his plate towards her and his sausage is cut up into small pieces. She just looks at it and the camera pans in on the meat and the scene ends. What the hell?

My favourite detective series (both books and TV) is Inspector Morse, which takes place in the murder capital of the UK, Oxford. I do have a theory about why these series do so well - apart for the general appetite in the world for a certain model of murder mystery - I think it is a culture processing trauma from the Second World War, and as others have pointed out, I think there is definitely a certain amount of authors trying to explain how unremarkable white men take their anger out on women (usually. Sometimes it is more about economic class. But usually sexism too.) So sometimes they become a kind of literary bellwether for a cultural shift. I read the first Wallander novel recently - it is from the early 90s, I think - and its subplot about Nordic suspicion of immigrants was all too relatable still. I didn't watch this movie either, I'm sure I will eventually. It sounds awful. Maybe I'll watch Insomnia again (the original one). Or John Sayles' Limbo.

My read on this film was super misogynistic. It basically seemed to me like some Men's Right's Activist, anti-choice, trying to be pro-dad BS. You all have already addressed the whole Oleg situation, and the rampant distrust of women who are all promiscuous and lying to the men about who are the fathers of their kids. But there was some real anti-choice messages (and I feel like the director was kind of muddled in whether he was pro-choice). For example, we know that Chloe Sevigny had an abortion just before she died, and when she's on the phone with the Snowman, she says something about, "it wasn't your child, it was mine" and her "twin" made some comment about "she got rid of the baby." Also, so I understand (could be wrong?) the Snowman was actually the "pregnancy doctor" which I took to mean "abortion doctor." I attributed the awkward phrasing to the English translation? And wasn't JK Simmons giving money to the fertility clinic that was performing the abortions? The whole thing felt like a mess of men being pissed about not having reproductive control over women's bodies. When that control is lost, and when women prove themselves slutty liars, they're knocked off. Here comes hero Michael Fassbender who steps up into a father's roll KNOWING he's not Oleg's biological dad, and they really drive that point home. The main message of Snowman seems to be: Fathers = AWESOME; Women = lying sluts who deserve to die. Except Charlotte Gainsbourg (?) I have feelings about The Snowman, and none of them good. Glad I didn't pay to watch it. I didn't know about Fassbender's history with women, or I'd probably have skipped this all together.

I have a question about the number of balls in a snowman. So as the majority of us are from North America and if we were asked to draw a snowman we'd draw a three balled snowman. Head, body, and legs. However, as I soon discovered after moving to Japan, not every country does this. In fact Japan and Korea both do two ball snowmen, head and body. Throughout the film we see nothing but two ball snowmen. The killer even uses a two ball snowman as his calling card. Yet, if you look at the original Norwegian book cover and movie poster they use a three ball snowman. From what I gather Norway is a three ball snowman country. However, the director of the film and a lot of people involved in it are British and England is a two ball snowman country. Were they unaware of this fact? Did they see the original stuff and just ignore it? Or does Norway go both ways when it comes to snowman balls?

I also didn't see the movie but that's because I'm trying not support media with abusers in it. And Michael Fassbender has a history of domestic abuse. It makes me so uncomfortable .