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Episode 265: Never Have I Ever TV Book Club, Pt. 2 Oct 15, 2020

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In this lightly frankensteined episode, we discuss both a piece critical of Never Have I Ever (in a segment recorded last week), episodes 2, 3, and 4 of Never Have I Ever, and the myriad glories contained in what shall from here on out be known as The Lost Tapes (recorded just last night). And, as a bonus, we have a snippet of a song from a band to which Andrew so kindly introduced us last night.

ATV Re-run: Revisiting 80% Television and an Exceptionally Dumb Procedural Oct 08, 2020

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Thanks to a change in our recording setup last week, the episode we intended to release today (our next TV Book Club installment on episodes 2, 3, and 4 of Never Have I Ever) does not exist. INSTEAD, we are bringing you a rerun of a Golden Oldie: the team recommends their favorite shows for watching with only 80% attention and then, then. Then we dedicate ourselves to dunking on a terrible procedural you probably forgot existed: Deception, where the world's top magician uses his sophisticated understanding of SLEIGHT OF HAND to solve major crimes that inexplicably demand said expertise. We hope you enjoy this trip down memory lane and will be back with our regularly scheduled episodes next week.

SHOW NOTES:

Sports Night: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165961/

Justified: http://www.fxtv.com.au/justified

Elementary: https://www.cbs.com/shows/elementary/

Pitch: https://www.fox.com/pitch/

Timeless: https://www.nbc.com/timeless?nbc=1

New Girl: https://www.fox.com/new-girl/

Terriers: https://tv.avclub.com/terriers-perfect-one-season-run-defied-description-ma-1798246162

Deception: http://abc.go.com/shows/deception

Episode 264: The Pandemmys Oct 01, 2020

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The quarantine Emmys were ... good?? We are as shocked as the next person, but we spend most of this episode discussing what made the socially distanced pandemic awards version of the Emmys so much more compelling than the regular version. Afterwards, we turn to a brief conversation about the role of seasonality in TV plotting, which is mostly an excuse for Margaret to mourn about the cancellation of Stumptown. Stumptown! Why were you taken from us!

Episode 263: Objectivity in criticism doesn't exist, and Never Have I Ever TV Book Club Sep 24, 2020

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We answer some questions from our vaunted Tumblr ask box, which Margaret swears she won't get upset about but then she totally does. It leads to a discussion of how important objectivity is to reviews and whether it exists at all (hint: it isn't and it doesn't). Then, we talk about the first episode of Netflix's Never Have I Ever, a teen comedy that is definitely narrated by tennis legend John McEnroe.

SHOW NOTES:

Ask Us Questions On Tumblr, You Cowards: https://atvpodcast.com/ask

Never Have I Ever: https://www.netflix.com/title/80179190

John McEnroe Gets Mad, This Is Just One Of The Times When This Happens, Also When Are We Getting A Movie Where Matthew Rhys Plays John McEnroe, I'm Just Saying, No That Shia LeBeouf Movie Doesn't Count: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ransFQVzf6c&t=4s

Episode 262: Bad One..... Good One??????, Fall 2020 Sep 17, 2020

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This week we have: sad dirgeses about two recently announced cancellations, bad one picks from the fall TV lineup in which we have the deepest confidence, good one picks about which we're.... like..... IDK.... maybe!!!??!?! about, more uncertain squeaky uptalk than you can shake a stick at, and a full minute of Margaret explaining a driving game called cows that anyone other than Margaret would surely have trimmed out of the episode, but it's too late for you hos as neither responsible host was here to intervene. Links of pertinence:

Venture Bros. cancellation
High Fidelity's cancellation, Alison Herman's thoughtful observations on the shortening lifespans of streaming TV shows, and the creators' interview about where they intended to take Season 2.
Kathryn's Bad One
Margaret's Bad One
Andrew's Bad One
Margaret's Good One
Andrew's ... goood one???????
and Kathryn's Good.... one?
And!! Our new TV Book Club: Netflix's Never Have I Ever, watch the pilot for next week!

And, last but never least, please enjoy John Brown's portrait from the National Portrait Gallery, one of Margaret's very favorite works of art.

Episode 261: Escape to Gilligan's Island Sep 10, 2020

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Inspired by the absurd, impossible inescapability of 2020, we decide to take a trip to TV past. A fateful trip. A three hour tour, if you will. (Okay fine, this episode isn't quite that long.)

First we have a chat about our own personal histories with Nick at Nite, and then turn to the bizarre phenomenon of Gilligan's Island. At one point, the fact that the castaways are able to bake a pie renders Kathryn speechless for over a minute.

Episode 260: The WFH VMAs and Lovecraft Country Sep 03, 2020

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This week, we talk about the bizarre experience of watching a COVID-era awards show (in this case, the VMAs), and then we talk about the first episode of HBO's Lovecraft Country. It's a horror show that is surprisingly tolerable for people who don't normally like horror! And it's an interesting way to deal with the fact that HP Lovecraft's work is both foundational to the sci-fi genre AND written by a deeply racist dude.

SHOW NOTES:

Kathryn on the uncanny valley VMAs: https://www.vulture.com/2020/08/vmas-2020-took-place-nowhere.html

Lovecraft Country on HBO: https://www.hbo.com/lovecraft-country

Episode 259: Lower (NOT Below) Decks and Fall TV Aug 27, 2020

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On this week's episode we discuss CBS All Access's most recent addition to its Star Trek universe of shows, Lower Decks, which is different from the Bravo reality TV show BELOW Deck contrary to... one of your hosts' expectations-- bet you can't guess which!! HOWEVER, according to Kathryn, the two have more similarities than you might expect! THEN we branch off into an omnibus of Fall TV we're anticipating and at least one show Andrew would like to leave at the bottom of the Marianas Trench. In said omnibus, we discuss the following:

Fargo, S4
The Next Marajuana Millionaire
The Undoing
The Bachelorette, which has been subject to Some Shenanigans!!! this upcoming season
The Crown, S4
City So Real
PEN15. S2
Miss Scarlet and the Duke
Star Trek: Discovery
Leslie Jones's Supermarket Sweep (and our aspiration to be the first ever three person team on said show)
The Bridgertons

Episode 258: Fast topics and a very important TV v TV Aug 20, 2020

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It's a round robin of short topics this week, including Harley Quinn, why is Louis CK back, the joys of watching Perry Mason get fucked into the crevice between a bed and the wall, and whether Lovecraft Country is too scary for wimps.

Then, Andrew and Kathryn go head to head in the important debate of our time: are the title credits of Babylon Berlin actually a DVD menu screen?

Episode 257: Corona TV Sports and Supermarket Sweep (w/ Craig Getting) Aug 13, 2020

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Friend of the show Craig Getting joins us this week to explain what the deal is with televised sports in this time when, really, no one ought to be playing any kind of sports at all. Then, in anticipation of the Supermarket Sweep reboot, we talk about some of the episodes of the old show that went up on Netflix not that long ago. SHOW NOTES:

This is just how sports audiences look now: https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/26/21339029/virtual-baseball-mlb-nba-fox-sports-coronavirus

Supermarket Sweep on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81289176

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