Welcome to Six Damn Fine Degrees. These instalments will be inspired by the idea of six degrees of separation in the loosest sense. The only rule: it connects – in some way – to the previous instalment. So come join us on our weekly foray into interconnectedness!

Jason fights the Hydra (courtesy of Ray Harryhausen) in 1963’s Jason and the Argonauts (Video source: Movieclips.com).

Matt was right of course in his latest instalment: the fact that this series of articles, amazingly, is close to reaching its 300th iteration comes down to the fact that our handful of writers and podcasters just simply can’t stop coming up with free (and often wild) associations for the upcoming week: from John Garfield to Garfield the cat, from camp cinema to Bill Camp, or from Christopher Lee to Metallica. Every entry almost immediately begets a next one, sometimes going down completely unexpected avenues and joining personal favourites with life-long trauma, latest reviews with childhood memories or quasi-philosophical reflections with pulp explorations. Every post-recording conversation spawns the stuff for three more episodes and two new series on average. Our team of baristas has really become the Hydra on film, popping up with a new head each time one thinks the topic at hand has been exhausted.

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