The podcast’s year-ending Best Of extravaganza concludes this week with Simon and Kate’s picks for just about everything other than their Top 20s. Categories range from Best Performance, Best Cinematography, and Best Original Score to more niche categories like Best Shipping Moment, the Life Vest Award (performance/element singlehandedly buoying an otherwise terrible show), and the ...
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The podcast’s year-ending Best Of extravaganza begins this week with Simon and Kate’s picks for the Best TV Series of 2014, focusing on their Top 10 shows, but expanding to cover 22 different highlights of the year in television. Simon and Kate go show by show, talking about what prompted them to include, or exclude, ...
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With the year’s television winding down, our last regular podcast of the 2014 features a particularly light group of episodes. First Kate gives a quick genre roundup, including the midseason finales of The Flash, Arrow, Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD. Then we look at the week’s comedy, including the midseason finale of Jane the Virgin, a ...
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Series are heading to their midseason finales, giving us fewer shows to discuss this week on the podcast. First we look at some of the comedies, including another holiday Bob’s Burgers and the return of Jane the Virgin. Then Kate talks some genre, including the much-hyped The Flash/Arrow crossover, and we round out the week ...
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Thanks to Thanksgiving, it’s a (comparatively) light week of TV on the podcast. First we kick things off with a little reality talk and the comedies, including a marathon of Adventure Time, and then we talk genre and drama, including the aptly-titled episode of The Newsroom, “Contempt”. Afterward, Dr. Paul Booth joins us to discuss ...
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As a midseason capper, “Coda” was a bit of a mixed bag. Rick attempts to negotiate with Dawn for the lives of Carol and Beth, while Gabriel makes a shocking discovery of his own. “Coda” has some nice moments, but overall it was an unsatisfying end to the first half of season five. To help ...
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Edited on 6/3/19 to correctly reflect Emily VanDerWerff's name. Unfortunately, the audio for this podcast still contains Emily's deadname.