Project Hail Mary

Project Hail Mary is the movie of 2026. Audiences are losing their minds over it. Critics are calling it a miracle. And yeah, we kind of love it too.

But in this week's epsidoe we also have questions.

This week we debate the big one: is Project Hail Mary genuinely earned, or is it the most expensive feel-good manipulation of the year? And what does it mean that a 2.5-hour sci-fi movie about astrophysics is somehow the most crowd-pleasing film since Top Gun: Maverick.

We also go deeper — because that's what we do here. Sci-fi has always been the genre that sneaks philosophy past the popcorn. 2001. Arrival. Interstellar. And now Hail Mary. Why is outer space where movies finally get permission to ask the big questions? 

It's a movie about a scientist. But it's really about what makes a life meaningful.