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Water Cooler: Happiest Season, Gone Girl, Soul, How To With John Wilson, Primal, Flying Drones, Tesla, The Flight Attendant, Ted Lasso, Possessor, Avengers Campus

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By Peter Sciretta

On the December 2, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss what they've been up to at the Water Cooler.

At The Water Cooler:

  • What did you do for Thanksgiving?
  • Peter: Ate some food from honey baked ham at home the day before and went to Knotts Taste of Merry Farm on Thanksgiving.
  • Brad: Cooked and exchanged food with my parents, relaxed
  • Ben: Went to my parents' patio and ate
  • HT: Cooked and had a small dinner at my cousin's.
  • Chris: Nothing! 
  • What we've been Doing:
  • Peter bought a drone and flew his DJI Mavic Mini 2 for the first time. Also he went to the Downtown Disney preview of Avengers Campus merch and purchased a Spider-Bot.
  • Brad went to a drive-thru Christmas lights display
  • Ben celebrated Vince Guaral-day
  • What we've been Watching:
  • HT and Peter saw Happiest Season on Hulu.
  • Jacob and HT watched Gone Girl.
  • Brad and Chris watched Soul and Promising Young Woman.
  • Peter watched the first few episodes of The Flight Attendant on HBO Max and started following Pompsie on Youtube.
  • Jacob watched Ted Lasso, Possessor, Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight, and uh, Hubie Halloween.
  • Chris watched The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit trilogy and Moonstruck. 
  • Brad watched the first season of Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal, old episodes of The Price Is Right.
  • Hoai-Tran watched Tesla.
  • Ben finished How To With John Wilson and season 5 of Lost, watched Birds of Prey, and watched Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead.
  • What we've been Playing:
  • Jacob can now talk about the latest Unmatched set: Little Red Riding Hood vs Beowulf.

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