Blank Check with Griffin & David

We picked Blank Check because it treats filmographies as whole arguments, not hit lists. Griffin Newman and David Sims work through a director’s entire catalog—miniseries length, no rush—and the show’s real subject is how auteurs change, compromise, or break across decades of studio pressure. The hosts digress into personal history and dumb jokes, but those tangents build the rapport that lets them say exactly when a film fails and why. The result is a back catalog that rewards linear listening: you hear two critics construct a worldview one film at a time.