Mark is enthusiastic about Neil Gaiman's latest The Ocean at the End of the Lane. We also discuss whether Brad Pitt is entitled to a victory lap for his adaptation of a show-favourite novel, Max Brooks' World War Z. We cover: Our initial discussion of WWZ Brad Pitt eating The Vanity Fair article 'Brad's War' J. Michael Straczynski Matthew Michael Carnahan Damon Lindelof The details of the film's original third act The ultimately futile buffness of Matthew Fox Steven Soderbergh's Contagion Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane The Graveyard Book Coraline Miracleman Sandman - Gaiman writing his way out of the series remit, not least of which includes the series' setting in the mainstream DC Comics shared fictional universe Good Omens Violent Cases