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Episode 236: Derry Tweets and Spring 2020 Good One Bad One Mar 19, 2020

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This week, for some reason we open the episode by talking about a tweet for ten minutes (though it DOES lead to a fruitful recounting of our past juvenile delinquencies). Then, we return to one of our most reliable content mines, digging up good ones and bad ones from the spring 2020 TV calendar to watch and discuss later.

SHOW NOTES:

The tweet: https://twitter.com/LisaMMcGee/status/1237785183631413248

Run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jwEiXdJGKM The Plot Against America: https://www.hbo.com/the-plot-against-america Mrs. America: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIpTIPKTOkU Council of Dads: https://www.nbc.com/council-of-dads

The Bachelor Presents: Listen to your Heart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bachelor_Presents:_Listen_to_Your_Heart

Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? https://www.vulture.com/2020/01/who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire-reboot-jimmy-kimmel-host.html

Episode 235: Babylon Berlin and Bojack Horseboy Mar 12, 2020

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For this episode we're joined by our lovely friend Kamille Washington to discuss the final season of Bojack Horseman, a show that even animation-phobic Kathryn has to admit is pretttttttty good. First, though, Kamille and Andrew kindly offer Kathryn a place to briefly and enthusiastically yell about Babylon Berlin.

Episode 234: Love is Blind but Standalone Episodes Look Gr8 2 Us Mar 05, 2020

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Margaret choosing blindness while watching Love is Blind

In today's episode, we talk, of course, about Netflix's terrible, wonderful new reality TV show Love Is Blind because Margaret's brainworms demanded it, and Andrew indulgently complied. THEN, we move on to discuss the unusual-- and excellent-- standalone episode of Apple TV+'s new video game development sitcom, Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet (aka Mythic Raven: Banquet Quest) and how different kinds of standalone episodes function narratively within the runs of their respective shows. For, as Andrew points out, the absolute, first-ever time.

Kathryn had, predictably, written a number of great pieces on all of the above subjects for Vulture. Please enjoy her essays on:

on the gorgeous-- perhaps un-replicable-- messiness of this first season of Love Is Blind
the questionable hosting levels of Obviously, Nick Lachey and his wife Vanessa, who looks like she was famous before she was her wife, but for what, we will never recall nor research.
and, last but not least, standalone episodes within the runs of High Fidelity and Mythic Banquet: Questlove's Raven

And, for the true diehards: when Craig claimed our wheels were up and when our wheels were, in fact, up.

Episode 233: High Fidelity with Overdue LIVE at Kenyon College Feb 27, 2020

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This week's episode is our recent live show crossover event with Overdue at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. The Appointment Television and Overdue crews gather together to discuss the recent TV adaptation and compare it to the book from which it (and the film, and the ill-starred musical) sprung. Whether we figure out the relative superiority of books or TV as competing artistic formats is left up to the listener.

Episode 232: Margaret's Queer TV Qorner Feb 20, 2020

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In a truly impressive and unusual turn of events, Margaret does a startling amount of homework to bring us a glimpse at some of the most interesting queer TV out there right now. Sadly she insists on calling this the "queer TV qorner" even though "qorner" is an objectively unlovely word to look at. We give particular focus to Showtime's Work In Progress, which is new and especially great.

Episode 231: Appreciating Evil and boldly going with Picard Feb 13, 2020

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This week we revisit CBS's Evil, the Good One/Bad One entrant that has burrowed into our brains this year. Then, continuing down the CBS All Access rabbit hole, we talk about the first episode of Picard and how it will and won't please fans of The Next Generation.

SHOW NOTES:

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

Picard: https://www.cbs.com/shows/star-trek-picard/

Episode 230: Off The Deep End with The Morning Show Feb 06, 2020

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THIS WEEK, we have some special treats for you!

First, as our improbably long bumper will inform you, we have a live show in Ohio coming up on Thursday, February 20th! Andrew, Kathryn, Margaret, and Andrew's other podcasting family Craig Getting (with whom he makes the exceptionally popular book podcast for teens, Overdue) are going back to the college that made us (summoned, perhaps, by a calling bell*) to debate the all-important question: which is better, TV or books? The show will start at 7:00 PM and end at 8:30 PM and you can find all further information right here: bit.ly/booksortv

Now with THAT out of the way, our second surprise! Andrew is only to be found in the first 6 minutes of today's episode, after which he is replaced by our beloved pal Christina Tucker of The Unfriendly Black Hotties, Pop Culture Happy Hour, and Autostraddle to discuss her deranged darling, The Morning Show. Is it good? Why does it think UBA sounds like a real TV network? Why is Christina so obsessed with Jen Aniston??? How would Christina rank all of Jen's breakdowns in this first season? Tune in and find out!

*(Andrew is in this video, 5 points to Gryffindor if you can spot him)

Episode 229: In defense of weekly releases Jan 30, 2020

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This week, the first order of business is a rundown of shows ending in 2020, and a plea to any listener who actually knows what's happening on Supernatural to please tell us about it. (Very briefly).

Then, inspired by shows like Watchmen, Succession and with a gimlet eye cast toward The Witcher, we talk about weekly release schedules in the time of the Netflix binge. Weekly releases: we like them! And not just because we don't have time to binge shows on the weekends anymore!

Episode 278: Bonnet Watch 2020 [airhorn sound] Jan 23, 2020

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Andrew's baby started throwing up on him mere minutes before we were supposed to record so we present to you: Margaret and Kathryn's BONNET WATCH. It's about period shows where people wear bonnets. Certainly, this makes it easier to appreciate what Andrew adds to or subtracts from the podcast.

SHOW NOTES:

Sanditon: https://www.vulture.com/2020/01/sanditon-review-jane-austen-pbs-masterpiece.html

The Good Lord Bird: https://www.sho.com/the-good-lord-bird

Bridgerton: https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/bridgerton-shonda-rhimes-netflix/

Fun facts about John Brown: https://npg.si.edu/learn/classroom-resource/john-brown-1800-1859

Episode 227: Lodge 49 TV Book Club Comes To A Close Jan 16, 2020

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This week, we bring our discussion of Lodge 49's first season to a close, talking over episodes 7, 8, 9 and the complete and utter collapse of capitalist structures they represent. In the process we also touch upon: Bruce Campbell's most famous film role (his cameo at the beginning of the movie Congo, of course), the two types of people you find in corporate training seminars, the questionable efficacy of suicide threats as a debt reduction strategy, and the undeniable elan of flinging a silicone boob push-up at your former manager. We hope you've enjoyed hanging out with Ernie and Dud as much as we have.

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