Appointment Television

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Episode 246: Appointment Television Presents: Listen to Your Run May 28, 2020

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hello hi yes hello guess what hi we finally did our last good one/bad one combo!!!!!! for the spring season!!!!! we put it off for so many weeks BUT THIS WEEK wasn't one of them, so here it is! OUR EPISODE! We talk about The Bachelor: Listen to Your Heart (not worse than Cancel of Dads, but LONGER) and Run (ultimately not as good a one as we hoped by god, Merritt Weaver is so beautiful, so do we even care?). Join us to learn how chamber ensemble music camp is like The Bachelor, whether Margaret's gaydar is working, and how long Margaret will attempt to communicate non-verbally before recalling she is making a podcast and must instead articulate her thoughts.

Episode 245: What We Do In The Shadows S2 and Twilight Zone Bangers May 21, 2020

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The second season of What We Do in the Shadows is one of the precious few shows left that still has new pre-pandemic episodes rolling out every week, so we talk about how great it is. Then, it's back to the Twilight Zone, to watch some all-time series high-watermarks (S03E08, S01E08, S05E03).

What We Do in the Shadows (Hulu): https://www.hulu.com/series/what-we-do-in-the-shadows-0b10c46a-12f0-4357-8a00-547057b49bac

Vulture's 50 best Twilight Zone episodes: https://www.vulture.com/article/twilight-zone-best-episodes.html

Episode 244: Summer TV preview and socially distant TV May 14, 2020

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Did you know there will still be some TV this summer? There will! Not very much, but the summer won't be a complete content desert, and we're going to run through a few of the things we're hoping will give us some welcome summer distractions.

We also talk about the Parks and Rec reunion episode. We were not big fans, alas, but we use it as a springboard to talk about what we think works about this kind of sad event TV and whether anyone really wants a Very Special Covid Episode. (We think probably not.)

Episode 243: Timed Gripes and Twilight Zone TV Book Club Episode 2 May 07, 2020

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This week we return with another mind-blowing visit to The Twilight Zone, with a special (coincidental) emphasis on stories where women are driven mad by happenstance. Also we have small complaints we just gotta get off our chests ok???

SHOW NOTES:

Stumptown: https://abc.com/shows/stumptown

The Last Dance: https://www.espn.com/watch/catalog/2806434b-1deb-4c5c-aae0-04b1ab8eebf7/the-last-dance

The Bold Type: https://www.hulu.com/series/the-bold-type-45c40273-0742-4324-af23-db4a484b3af3

Vulture's list of The Twilight Zone episodes: https://www.vulture.com/article/twilight-zone-best-episodes.html

Episode 242: Good One, Bad One-- Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and Mrs. America Apr 30, 2020

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Hello, fellow quaranitine madness sufferers, and welcome to the latest ATV.

Is Margaret once again recording with the wrong mic this week? She sure is, and she blames Zoom. She's not sure what Zoom has to do with it, but she's still confident they're at fault.

We also talk about the new Who Wants to Be a Millionare? and the myriad ways in which it's the worst. We debate if any Late Night Jimmy other than Kimmel could have saved it. Margaret's mic? It's the still the wrong on this whole segment!

AND THEN we talk about Mrs. America! Margaret's mic remains bad but her ability to pronounce Schlafly and Abzug on her very first try is so impressive that maybe you'll stop noticing.

At the end of the episode, Andrew suggests that we might edit part of the show so that it flows more smoothly and Kathryn, bless her shining head, says "....we'll see."

You will see that we didn't, proving that once again, Kathryn is always right.

Episode 241: We are now entering The Twilight Zone (also Quibi) Apr 23, 2020

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This week we roll out a new a new TV book club, the top 10 episodes of The Twilight Zone! We definitely told you about this book club in previous episodes, and we gave you plenty of warning this was coming on our social media feeds. If you're feeling at all gaslit about that, keep in mind that it's very thematically in keeping with a book club on The Twilight Zone.

Before we dig into our first Twilight Zone episode (season 4's "On Thursday We Leave For Home"), Kathryn shares some brief thoughts on Quibi.

Episode 240: We Had Enough Time On Our Hands To Watch Dr Pimple Popper Apr 16, 2020

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This week we talk about the things we have been watching since we've been stuck in our houses with our televisions. And then, appropriately, we talk about the TLC reality show Dr. Pimple Popper. We also talk about Law & Order SVU a lot? Which is confusing to Andrew but clearly he's out of his element and should be forgiven for it.

SHOW NOTES:

Mrs. Maisel: https://www.amazon.com/Marvelous-Mrs-Maisel-Season/dp/B06VYH1GF7

Batman: The Animated Series: https://www.dcuniverse.com/videos/batman-the-animated-series/65/season-1

Evil: https://www.cbs.com/shows/evil/episodes/

The Bold Type: https://www.hulu.com/series/the-bold-type-45c40273-0742-4324-af23-db4a484b3af3

Stumptown: https://www.hulu.com/series/stumptown-70cc8703-43db-4d87-96ae-146a4ed81d3f

Law & Order SVU: https://www.nbc.com/law-and-order-special-victims-unit/episodes

Dr. Pimple Popper: https://www.tlc.com/tv-shows/dr-pimple-popper/

Episode 239: Good One, Bad One Jr. Apr 09, 2020

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In solidarity with the many parents in our audience currently navigating the... joys... of having their children with them all the time, Margaret and Andrew handed the reigns over to Kathryn this week for Good One, Bad One Jr. We got to watch one good show that her 2-and-6-year old love and one bad show they love. We also took this as a chance to reflect on the shows of our youth, the wild origin story ascribed to the titular ghostwriter of the PBS show Ghostwriter, the myriad ways that both Muppet Babies and Ghostbusters misrepresented the more adult brands from which they were derived, why Rockapella appeared to be the only acapella group on Napster, and the two genders of childhood in the early 1990s: enormous calf-grazing baggy shorts and tiny bike shorts.

Episode 238: Cancel of Dads Apr 02, 2020

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In our first Good One / Bad One segment of the spring, we bring you a relatively thoughtful conversation about David Simon's Plot Against America and then a very, very, very silly one about NBC's new series Council of Dads.

Episode 237: Frankenshows & Flirty Dancing Mar 26, 2020

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In today's episode: first, we are joined by a special guest! Our pal Kamille Washington (AKA Kamillio) is tapping in again, this time to liberate Kathryn from the burden of watching Fox's newest absurd reality TV show, Flirty Dancing. In addition to discussing this very dumb and very pure program, Andrew, Margaret, and Kamille design their own Frankenshows out of the discarded parts of reality TV shows past, and:

Nearly end one dear friendship of many year's existence by means of a very bad (but also inspired???) joke
Discuss how we would use an illegal knife barge
Observe all the narrative theory you did NOT learn thanks to Kathryn's absence
Ponder what Jenna Dewan No Longer Tatum's hair smells like
And, at the episode's very end, hoist one's self on one's own petard by dragging a person who may have posted an episode of the show at 9 AM instead of 6 AM only to forget to post the very next day's show until 1 PM (!!!!)

Hopefully, you find all of the episode as satisfying as Margaret found the very last bit.

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