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Kermode & Mayo’s Take

Is SAVAGE HOUSE Richard E. Grant’s most unhinged role yet?

04 Jun 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

0.217 - 13.293 Mark Kermode

Now, Mark, you were telling me the other day about this Saley eSIM app. Which one was that? Well, the one I just install on my phone before I go abroad so that I can save loads of money on roaming and data charges when I'm there.

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13.594 - 33.245 Simon Mayo

Ah, yes, it's dead simple. Install the Saley app on your device and choose a data plan. There are multiple plans in over 200 destinations available at some of the best rates online. Then follow the instructions on the app to install the eSIM and it'll be activated instantly on arrival. So I don't have to buy a new SIM card when I get there? Nope, there's no queuing at a dodgy airport kiosk.

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33.265 - 38.627 Simon Mayo

A Saley eSIM only needs to be installed once, and then you use the same one for each country you visit.

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38.692 - 38.952 Mark Kermode

Great.

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Chapter 2: What are the highlights of the Masters of the Universe review?

38.972 - 41.736 Mark Kermode

Does it let me skip all the other queues too?

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42.016 - 62.938 Simon Mayo

Well, funnily enough, with Saley Ultra, you can enjoy VIP travel perks like airport lounge access, fast track services, priority support, advanced online security, and much more. You'll be telling me we've got a voucher code next. Oh, yes. And don't forget to apply the code TAKE, T-A-K-E, at checkout to get a 15% discount. Fabio Cementilli.

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63.218 - 65.504 Unknown

Big heart, big voice, big laugh.

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65.744 - 75.769 Simon Mayo

A rock star hairstylist who drove a Porsche. He was like a wizard behind the chair. The killers came for Fabio in his own backyard.

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Chapter 3: What insights can we gain from the Box Office Top Ten?

76.036 - 78.299 Unknown

You can't rationalize it. You can't figure it out.

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78.539 - 81.363 Mark Kermode

There was rampant speculation about everything.

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81.383 - 106.371 Simon Mayo

But every wild theory was wrong. Because the truth was even more unbelievable. Is anyone hearing what I'm hearing? And even more heartbreaking. The uncertainty of not knowing is a form of agony. From Sony Music Entertainment and Novel, this is Cut, Color, Kill. I'm Jonathan Hirsch. Cut, Color, Kill is available now on The Binge.

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107.334 - 115.071 Simon Mayo

Search for it wherever you get your podcasts to start listening today. Subscribers to The Binge can listen to all episodes, all at once, ad-free.

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Chapter 4: What does Richard E. Grant reveal about his role in Savage House?

120.248 - 129.844 Mark Kermode

Before we begin, a quick reminder that you can become a Vanguardista and get an extra episode every Thursday. Including bonus reviews. Extra viewing suggestions.

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129.864 - 132.469 Simon Mayo

Viewing recommendations at home and in cinemas.

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132.609 - 137.036 Mark Kermode

Plus your film and non-film questions answered as best we can in Questions Shmestians.

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137.056 - 144.028 Simon Mayo

You can get all that extra stuff via Apple Podcasts or head to extratakes.com for non-fruit related devices.

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144.008 - 178.508 Mark Kermode

There's never been a better time to become a Vanguardista. Free offer now available wherever you get your podcasts. And if you're already a Vanguardista, we salute you. Well, for five points, Mark, welcome to the show, by the way. I'm welcoming you to your own show, but, you know, host, contributor, and so on. You get five points.

179.93 - 189.844 Mark Kermode

If you can guess which medieval job is currently being undertaken in my house. Medieval job?

Chapter 5: How is Savage House portrayed as a satirical drama?

190.533 - 190.834 Mark Kermode

Yeah.

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190.934 - 198.006 Simon Mayo

I mean, I'm using the term loosely. Have you put child three in the stocks and have you paid someone to throw apples at him?

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198.587 - 199.829 Mark Kermode

No. No.

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200.25 - 203.615 Simon Mayo

Okay. Is it the installation of sewage?

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205.619 - 207.181 Mark Kermode

No, it's not that.

Chapter 6: What comedic elements are explored in the Laughter Lift segment?

207.402 - 212.17 Mark Kermode

Nor is it the installation of our missing Rembrandt. Okay. Is it to do with the pox?

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213.432 - 215.475 Simon Mayo

It could, well, you're getting closer.

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Chapter 7: How does the latest Scary Movie compare to its predecessors?

216.015 - 224.806 Simon Mayo

Okay, someone is having a course of leeches applied because of an outbreak of the pox.

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225.347 - 238.663 Mark Kermode

Well, we might all get the pox as a result of whether this gentleman is going to be successful or not. And the answer is, of course, he's a rat catcher. Oh, have you got a rat? Well...

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238.643 - 267.587 Mark Kermode

I suspect more than one and I suspect quite a few dead ones because you'll be very glad that you're not staying in our house at the top of the house where the Australian Californians are because the house stinks of what I suspect is either decaying rat or rat urine or decomposing rat or something. Few flies in the house and, you know, this is feeling a little bit like the plague, yes.

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268.31 - 270.353 Mark Kermode

We had a rat. Want to come round?

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270.393 - 298.306 Simon Mayo

No. We had a rat that got its way into the little porch above our front door, and we were away, and child two was in the house on their own, and they heard scratching noises. And if you know, the way that the exorcist begins is that the child hears... And the next thing, it's levitation and spinning heads and vomit.

299.568 - 307.019 Simon Mayo

And then we had to have the whole porch taken apart in order to find said rat, which was not dead, was very much not dead.

307.299 - 307.64 Mark Kermode

Oh, really?

Chapter 8: What listener correspondence adds depth to the episode's themes?

307.76 - 326.991 Mark Kermode

Well, I suspect this one is. So this morning when I was just going through the script and doing some prep for Richard E. Grant, who's our guest on the show today, we had the smell of rats and there were foxes in the garden. I was thinking, this is just... London, you've changed. Just horrendous.

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327.152 - 328.759 Simon Mayo

Have you got urban foxes in your garden?

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329.02 - 354.983 Mark Kermode

We had two this morning, yeah. Do they howl? The worst sound in the world is when they're kind of scared or challenged or something. They sound like a baby is being attacked and they wail and howl at three in the morning. And there is so much vermin knocking around these parts. What we need is a cleansing operation or the hunt. Actually, if there was an Islington hunt, maybe that would...

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354.963 - 379.932 Simon Mayo

Sort it all out. When we were in the New Forest, there was a peacock that would go and nest in a tree. Not nest. It would go and sit in a tree. And a peacock calling sounds like a child in distress. It goes, help! And it would echo across the- It actually says help, does it? Honestly, what it sounds like, I'm sure that the top production team could find the sound of a peacock going, help!

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379.952 - 392.324 Simon Mayo

And it would whistle across the wild and windy moor like the voice of Cathy come home wanting to be let in at the window. It was most distressing. It was borderline Monty Python.

392.905 - 409.179 Mark Kermode

Bring out your dead, all of that. I'm not dead, help! Anyway, on the show, assuming I don't pass out from the rat fumes, there is a rat in our kitchen. What am I going to do? We're absolutely right. What are you reviewing later?

409.44 - 417.472 Simon Mayo

Well, I'm going to feast on rat, obviously, later on. We're going to be reviewing the new live action Masters of the Universe. Didn't know we needed it, but there it is.

418.113 - 418.213

Nope.

418.193 - 430.498 Simon Mayo

There's a new Scary Movie movie. It's Scary Movie, a.k.a. Scary Movie 6. And also Savage House, which brings us to our particularly special guest.

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