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It's that time of year. Tune in to hear the 10 best episodes and 10 best shows of the year! Shows watched in 2025: Missing You Going Dutch Doc The Pitt American Primeval Shifting Gears Prime Target Sakamoto Days Paradise Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Common Side Effects Apple Cider Vinegar Cassandra Asura Good Cop/Bad Cop Zero Day Suits LA Pantheon Running Pointe Daredevil BA Long Bright River Dope Thief Adolescence Happy Face The Studio MobLand The Last Anniversary The Bondsman...

It's that time of year. Tune in to hear the 10 worst episodes and 10 worst shows of the year! Shows watched in 2025: Missing You Going Dutch Doc The Pitt American Primeval Shifting Gears Prime Target Sakamoto Days Paradise Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Common Side Effects Apple Cider Vinegar Cassandra Asura Good Cop/Bad Cop Zero Day Suits LA Pantheon Running Pointe Daredevil BA Long Bright River Dope Thief Adolescence Happy Face The Studio MobLand The Last Anniversary The Bondsm...

For our last review of 2025, we check in on the pilot of Ciudad de Sombras (City of Shadows), the Spanish crime series based on the novel El Verdugo de Gaudí, set in Barcelona in 2010. The series opens with a public murder staged at a Gaudí landmark, pulling disgraced detective Milo back into the force while he’s still reeling from personal trauma and stuck with a new partner. On the podcast, we break down the hard-boiled tone, our crime-thriller comparisons, the show’s not-so-subtle promotio...

The Abandons is Netflix’s new Western, created by Sons of Anarchy showrunner Kurt Sutter and set in the 1850s Washington Territory, where devout rancher Fiona Nolan (Lena Headey) and ruthless mine owner Constance Van Ness (Gillian Anderson) collide over land, power, and the fate of their families. On the podcast, we discuss the 50-minute pilot, from the cattle wildfire to the Romeo-and-Juliet love story. We also talk Sutter’s exit from the show, the rumored extra-long “Sutter cut” of the pre...

What is dead may never die… wait, wrong show, but same concept. It’s December 2025 and Spartacus is back on Starz with Spartacus: House of Ashur, a sequel that takes one of the most hated villains in the show’s run, resurrects him from hell, and hands him everything he’s ever wanted. If that sounds weird, it very much is. On the podcast, we discuss the first two episodes, how they compare to the original series, and the familiar mix of stylized dialogue, gratuitous nudity, and slow-mo carnage...

“Livvy Sees the Doctor” is the eighth installment of Watson’s 20-episode second season. It’s written into the contract of every hospital drama that there must be a hostage episode, and this was theirs. On the podcast, we discuss Fitz, a troubled vet whose daughter has been bounced from misdiagnosis to mystery illness for months on end. Not anymore. Strapped into a handmade explosive suit with a dead-man’s trigger, Fitz is demanding answers. Between twists, wild medical leaps, neck stabs, and...

There’s a new streaming service out called The Network, and it just dropped a new series, The Artist. Set in 1906 Rhode Island, the show follows Norman and Marian Henry (Mandy Patinkin and Janet McTeer), a powerful but couple in a rocky marriage whose estate becomes ground zero for a murder mystery. Part upstairs/downstairs drama and part absurd comedy, it brings a modern, loosely improvised energy to period TV in a way that sits somewhere between The Great and Dickinson. The ensemble include...

Ted Danson is back undercover in Season 2 of A Man on the Inside. Charles finds himself posing as a professor at Wheeler College. Throughout eight episodes he investigates clues like a burned painting, a missing laptop, a fountain pen, and a full staff of liberal arts teachers. On the pod, we break down the best moments, the red herrings, Project Aurora, and standouts like Mary Steenburgen, Gary Cole, and David Strathairn. We also talk the Good Place connections, the Julie–Vanessa-Apoll...

Do you know where your kid is? All Her Fault is Peacock’s new eight-episode thriller based on Andrea Mara’s Sunday Times bestseller. The series moves the story from Dublin to Chicago and shifts the book’s multi-POV structure into a tighter mystery led by Sarah Snook, Jake Lacy, Abby Elliott, Michael Peña, Dakota Fanning, and Sophia Lillis. In this podcast, we unpack the big changes from page to screen (the gender-swaps, expanded storylines, and the reworked timeline), the performances, ...

We've all seen the shirts, now there’s a show. I Love LA is HBO's new half-hour comedy about a codependent friend group in 2025 Los Angeles. Rachel Sennott stars as Maia, an associate talent manager whose life is derailed when her chaotic best friend and influencer Tallulah (Odessa A’zion) lands in LA. Across the first three episodes, we discuss the shows satire, the performances (Josh Hutcherson, Jordan Firstman, Leighton Meester etc...), and how it stacks up against series like Girls, Insec...

The Beast in Me, Netflix’s new character-driven thriller, centers on two powerhouses: Claire Danes as novelist Aggie Wiggs, still reeling from the loss of her son, and Matthew Rhys as Nile Jarvis, the suspiciously famous new neighbor who may or may not have killed his wife. The two form an uneasy frenemy dynamic that quickly spirals into consequences. On the pod, we talk about the show’s long road to screen, key trivia, smart comparisons, what sets this series apart, the pilot’s best moments,...

We’re covering Death by Lightning, Netflix’s four-episode retelling of President James Garfield’s assassination. Michael Shannon and Matthew Macfadyen tackle Garfield and the man hanged for killing him, Charles Guiteau. The series mixes political drama, medical tragedy, and historical recreation. Having read Destiny of the Republic, we hold the show to account: what it gets right, what it condenses, and what it flat-out invents. We break down the highlights (the 36-ballot convention, sharp li...

Apple’s latest sci-fi series, Pluribus, from Vince Gilligan, picks up right where Breaking Bad. This time, instead of meth meth, humans are addicted to swapping saliva and rewriting our DNA. In true Twilight Zone spirit, the outbreak unfolds through the eyes of Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn), a fantasy author with rare immunity to the global hive-mind consciousness. On the pod, we unpack the best and worst moments, the realisticness of the scenario, the cameos, comparisons, theories, and of cour...

We cover Robin Hood on MGM+, the gritty new take on the legendary outlaw that trades green tights for darker realism. Set in 1186, before King Richard’s crusades, it stars Sean Bean as a morally murky Sheriff of Nottingham and newcomer Max Woolf as Rob of Loxley, whose father’s execution sparks a familiar rebellion. We talk through the first two episodes (“I See Him” and “A Heinous Devil”), from fairy lore and CGI stags to English politics, over-ripe dialogue, and the long wait Rob's journey ...

Apple’s latest thriller starts with relatively small stakes: a house explosion with one survivor, a young girl named Dinah, catches the notice of an Oxford art conservator played by Ruth Wilson (The Affair, His Dark Materials). On her search for the child’s whereabouts and the suspicious circumstances around the blast, she enlists the help of a two-headed detective agency. That’s where the conspiracy takes hold, the bodies start adding up, and the other main character, Zoë, played by Emma Tho...

BOO! It is back. Well… not Pennywise, not yet. But if the first and last ten minutes of this new Stephen King prequel series teach us anything, it’s that you don’t need Bill Skarsgård to show Derry, Maine as a full-blown nexus of evil. Kids should probably skip this one, but fans of horror should not. On the podcast, we break down the 53-minute pilot: plot points, expectations, standout moments, comparisons, reception, and the weird trivia we picked up along the way. I’ll say right off the ba...

The title that just won’t die, go figure. This version of Lazarus stars Bill Nighy and Sam Claflin, and although it’s a British production, it’s helmed by one of America’s most prolific authors, Harlan Coben. The premise is simple: a psychologist who can speak to the undead is morally bound to uncover the truth behind how they met their ultimate ends. If you’ve ever seen a ghost story before (Archive 81, The Haunting, Tru Calling, etc.) you know exactly what you’re signing up for. Tune in to...

Based on a short story by Katherine Heiny, DMV is CBS’s new workplace comedy starring Harriet Dyer, Tony Cavalero, and Tim Meadows. The first two episodes establish a world built around everyone’s favorite pastime: waiting in line and eavesdropping on the hundreds of angsty drivers about to take their tests, renew their plates, or get that weird star on their ID. On the podcast, we cover the plot, trivia, and comparisons. The show is directed by Trent O’Donnell and written by showrunners Dana...

The Resurrected is a Taiwanese revenge-thriller on Netflix. We cover the first two episodes (“Execution Day” and “Resurrection Day”). Shu Qi and Sinje Lee play Wang Hui‑chun and Chao Ching, two grieving mothers who resurrect Chang Shih‑kai, a convicted scam ringleader, for just seven days to make him pay. One daughter lies in a coma, the other was cremated, and the ritual only works under strict rules. The show opens with a bizarre ritual, then layers in crime, horror, and moral reckoning. We...

On this podcast, we cover the pilot of The Chair Company on HBO, created by Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin. Tim plays Ron, a mall development manager whose chair collapses post-speech, setting off an absurd chain of paranoia, corporate dread, and possible conspiracies. Think Curb, The Curse, and a dash of Severance, though goofier. We talk performances, oddball supporting characters, possible HR nightmares, fan-favorite bits, and our theories. The comparison list isn't short and we also throw in...