Parasite Movie Review, Troll 2 & a Waifu Dating-Sim Disaster

Spoiler warning for Parasite: recorded in January 2022, Henrique Couto and Michelle finally compare reactions to Bong Joon Ho’s Academy Award-winning thriller. Michelle is struck by the humiliating “basement smell,” the flood and the working family returning to serve their employers immediately after disaster. The hosts examine how the poor Kim family lies its way into jobs yet proves capable of doing them, while the wealthy Park family is neither innocent nor a simple collection of villains. Their discussion centers on class, aspiration and the film’s refusal to make desperation morally tidy.The movie talk branches into Snowpiercer, Okja, Cobra Kai and the circular exchange between Japanese manga, anime and international film. Then Henrique discovers the Italian sword-and-sorcery Ator series with the audience before revisiting Troll 2, Claudio Fragasso’s famously strange story of vegetarian goblins turning people into plants. The hosts react to selected clips, including Grandpa Seth, the family’s poisoned meal and the immortal argument over hospitality.During the livestream, the YouTube feed is briefly interrupted after the Troll 2 excerpts. Henrique interprets it as an automated copyright action and argues that their commentary should qualify as fair use; the episode does not independently establish which rights holder or system caused the interruption. That confusion preserves the original notes’ point that watching Troll 2 clips created platform trouble, while keeping a 2022 incident from becoming a current claim about YouTube or MGM.The final act is a search for a “waifu simulator” that becomes an impromptu playthrough of Katawa Shoujo. Instead of quick dating choices, Henrique finds a long visual novel about Hisao, a teenager with a heart condition who transfers to Yamaku Academy for students with disabilities. He reads through the hospital backstory while Michelle chooses the library over an intrusive question about a classmate. The game’s disability language and the hosts’ improvised jokes can be insensitive; the segment is presented as a chaotic artifact of the livestream, not a medical or disability resource.LinksEmail the hosts: [email protected]