295 - Valentine's Day Special: Sugar Babies: A Cautionary Tale

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Significantly upping the ante from last year's pornographic Valentine's Day special (which reviewed 1972's Deep Throat), this year the show is taking on a much more modern porn movie. Including Diminisodes and the intros for classic episode re-releases, Sol has told Allen about this movie in detail several times now. But does Sugar Babies: A Cautionary Tale live up to the hype?

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Films covered in this episode:
Sugar Babies: A Cautionary Tale
Allen: ✰ ✰
Calvin: ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 40%

286 - Valentine's Day Special: Deep Throat

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We've finally done it. We've finally cut all pretenses and just covered an outright hardcore porn film for Valentine's Day. Hey, porn movies are still movies, guys.

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Films covered in this episode:
Deep Throat
Allen: ✰ ✰
Calvin: ✰ ✰
Sol: ½
Overall score: 30%

275 - Valentine's Day Special: Showgirls (with Calvin Dyson)

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Sol is single again, so the sex anecdotes are plentiful. Oh, also, we talk about Showgirls because our Patreon supporters voted for it.

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Films covered in this episode:
Showgirls
Allen: ½
Calvin: ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰
Overall score: 27%

245 - Valentine's Day Special: Eyes Wide Shut (with Calvin Dyson)

Guest: Calvin Dyson

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It's Valentine's Day so things are about to get sexy. But it's also a Kubrick episode so things are probably also about to get cold and meticulous and obsessive. Phwoar!

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Films covered in this episode:
Eyes Wide Shut
Allen: ✰ ✰ ½
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Overall score: 60%

193 - Valentine's Day Special: Boogie Nights (with Calvin Dyson)

Guest: Calvin Dyson

Films covered in this episode:
Boogie Nights
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Overall score: 70%

Diminishing Returns forges somewhat new ground, this week. Over the past three years, we've brought you a trilogy of dare-we-say hilarious and insightful "sex episodes", supposedly covering The Fifty Shades of Grey Trilogy. This is year four and we're out of Fifty Shades crap to talk about, so instead, he's fictional pornstar biopic Boogie Nights, as voted for by our Patreon subscribers!.

Does covering a good film ruin the fun? No... Surprisingly, this episode is sexy as hell.

141 - Fifty Shades Freed (with Calvin Dyson)

Guest: Calvin Dyson

Films covered in this episode:

Fifty Shades Freed
Allen: ✰ ½
Calvin: ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ½
Overall score: 30%

The Diminishing Returns' annual Valentine's Day special sees out the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy with a look at Fifty Shades Freed. As ever, it's more of an excuse to talk about sex than a real celebration of (very bad) cinema.

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88 - Fifty Shades Darker

Films covered in this episode:

Fifty Shades Darker
Allen: ✰ ✰
Calvin: ✰ ½
Sol: ½
Overall score: 27%

Our Fifty Shades of Grey episode went down so well that we figured we kind of had to cover the next one, what with Fifty Shades Freed coming out.
Consider this the second in part of a new Valentine's Day tradition where the Diminishing Returns gags sit down and give away far, far too much personal information.

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Episodes in the Fifty Shades of Grey series:
"Fifty Shades of Grey"
"Fifty Shades Darker"

36 - Fifty Shades of Grey

Released 06/02/2017

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In which we learn far more than anybody wanted about the show's three hosts and what they choose to do with their bodies. With the impending release of Fifty Shades Darker, the Diminishing Returns gang take a look at Fifty Shades of Grey - the book and the film - and, as usual, pitch their own ideas for the sequel.

As if 50 Shades and the hosts' sex-lives weren't enough, the discussion also repeatedly turns towards Kelsey Grammer for some reason, culminating in a bonus pitch at the end; this time, for an episode of Frasier.

Films covered in this episode:

Fifty Shades of Grey
Allen: ✰ ✰
Calvin: ✰
Sol: ½
Overall score: 24%

Episodes in the Fifty Shades of Grey series:
"Fifty Shades of Grey"
"Fifty Shades Darker"

We review Fifty Shades Darker in:
"Review of the Year 2017: Part 1"

Cut material from this episode's recording session can be heard in:
"So It's Come to This: A Diminishing Returns Outtakes Show"