What the corpus says about Arthurian legend

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Arthurian legend and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about Arthurian legend and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:16:36 · Mallory Rubin (0.80)] The Natural ↔ Arthurian legend · lineage · Roy is king, Wonderboy is Excalibur; the Fisher King, Percival and the Grail also fit. · "Wonder Boy is Excalibur."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 1:46:33 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] The Natural ↔ Major League · programming · Major League and Field of Dreams are the next two Rewatchables. · "we're going to be doing Major League and Field of Dreams over the next couple weeks."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 1:46:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Natural ↔ Bull Durham · programming · Bull Durham is being saved for a magical time (heard as Boulder). · "Boulder, we're saving for when it's a really magical time."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:10:12 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Natural ↔ Field of Dreams · lineage · The Natural's ending, a catch with your son, echoes the wheat-field catch in Field of Dreams. · "And the concept of when I have a son someday will have a catch and then we'll be playing in the backyard."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:13:28 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Bernard Malamud ⇒ The Natural (the host's read) · lineage · The film is adapted from his 1952 novel, but its ending is very different. · "Written in 1952 by Bernard Malamud."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:13:33 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Eddie Waitkus ⇒ The Natural (the host's read) · lineage · The novel borrowed from the 1949 shooting of Eddie Waitkus of the Phillies. · "Borrowed from this bizarre shooting of Eddie Waitkiss in 1949 in the Phillies"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:14:00 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Shoeless Joe Jackson ⇒ The Natural (the host's read) · lineage · The book's ending, with a boy saying it ain't true, Roy, is a clear Shoeless Joe Jackson rip-off. · "which is a clear shoeless Joe Jackson, rip off thing."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:14:21 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Odyssey (Homer) ⇒ The Natural (the host's read) · lineage · The movie maps onto Homer: Roy is Odysseus, Harriet and Memo play siren/Calypso figures, Iris is Penelope. · "So basically it's Roy Hobbs is Odysseus."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:25:37 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Natural ↔ Major League · lineage · The 80s baseball movies (The Natural, Field of Dreams, Major League) follow the old-school rags-to-riches arc, Rocky as a baseball team. · "the natural field of dreams, major league with the old school kind of start to finish, rags to riches, rocky as a baseball team"
[speaker] Mallory Rubin · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · Devoted to the Friday Night Lights show and cares most about its marriage, character work and Texas setting. Loves a high school football film, small-town Texas and Billy Bob; a sucker for Kyle Chandler, Tammy and Eric. Can't stand the film leaving Sharon unused. · stances: The TV show can't be matched, but that does not slight the film; Coach Taylor's speeches beat Coach Gaines's; The film needed a Gaines marriage sex scene; The reboot must stay in Texas; Cruise would make a deranged, mesmerizing Gaines
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Arthurian legend; name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Arthurian legend itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.