Last week gave us one of the best stretches of television in recent memory so unsurprisingly, there is plenty to discuss on the podcast. First we dive in with the comedies, including a preview of Undateable, then we jump to the genre series, including a preview of pirate drama Crossbones, and we wrap up our ...
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Welcome back to This is Our Design! If you've been one of those people asking for an unnecessarily long discussion of the Hannibal finale recorded by three insane people, you've come to the right place.
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It’s finale-palooza this week on the podcast, with seven different TV shows airing season or series finales. After some upfronts talk and listener feedback, we dive in with the comedies, including the pilot for The Maya Rudolph Show and the Legit and Bob’s Burgers finales. Then Kate takes a look at the finale of The ...
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This week on our Game of Thrones podcast, Sound On Sight contributor Sean Colletti joins us to discuss “Mockingbird,” the seventh episode in the fourth season of the series. Written by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, and directed by Alik Sakharov, “Mockingbird” features several excellent moments — but is it enough to hold us over for ...
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This week, we're actually giving you the equivalent of two episodes just in case next week's podcast gets pulled for being too graphic for network podcasting. We can't make any promises.
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This week, Sound On Sight Games Editor, Mike Worby, joins us to discuss the sixth episode of the fourth season of Game of Thrones titled “The Laws of Gods and Men.” Over the past few weeks we’ve talked a lot about the supernatural and mystical elements of the show, but this week centred around the ...
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There were a handful of premieres and finales this week, which while nothing compared to the deluge that will come next week, nonetheless give us plenty to discuss on the podcast. We kick things off with somewhat morosely, with Kate predicting doom for herself in the Televerse Amazing Race pool, then break down the comedies, ...
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Topics include Viewer Response Theory and the Death of the Showrunner, how sympathy functions in relation to antagonists in Hannibal and ideas of time reversal coupled with parenthood. So, nothing very in-depth or anything like that.
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It’s yet another full week in television, with two big premieres and finales giving us plenty to discuss on the podcast. First we look at the comedies, including the finale of Review and the premiere of Louie. Then we talk a little Amazing Race, before getting into the genre series, including Supernatural’s back-door pilot and ...
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This week on our Game of Thrones podcast, we sit down and discuss the fifth episode of Season 4, “First of His Name”. We are now midway through the season and there’s a lot to talk about, so here to join us in the discussion is guest Randy Dankievitch from ProcessedMedia. Playlist: Sunset Rubdown – ...
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This week, David Bax of Battleship Pretension drops by to talk all kinds of "Naka-Choko." Topics of the discussion include point of view, understanding, sympathy, empathy, Michael Pitt as Mason Verger and uneventful sex scenes.
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