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Episode 226: Chatting about Dickinson with creator Alena Smith Jan 09, 2020

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A first for the ol' ATV crew this week! We chat briefly about Dickinson, which is far away the weirdest, funniest, strangest, best thing you can watch on Apple TV+. And then we're joined by its creator Alena Smith, a TV veteran who talked to us about the show's juxtaposition of period setting with modern vernacular, the experience of making a show for Apple, and about the big Dickinson-Cats crossover happening in Season 2. (Kidding! Or are we??)

ATV Re-Run: Listener Q&A Week Jan 02, 2020

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Happy 2020, everyone! We're taking a week off, but just in case your resolution involved listening to more of us, we've dug up a classic episode from our archive! In episode 90, our first listener Q&A, we A some of your most pressing Qs (from 2017). Most of these answers are probably still applicable! Most of them.

Episode 225: A Christmas Prince 3 - The Royal Baby Dec 26, 2019

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It's a Boxing Day miracle! As we do every year, we revisit the kingdom of Aldovia (now with much more about its history and geography revealed) to spend time fixing the simple and improbably Christmas-oriented problems of its royal family. This year, Aldovia needs to ratify a treaty with a neighboring fictional kingdom to avert war, and Queen Amber gives birth to a bouncing baby four-month-old.

SHOW NOTES:

Christmas Prince 3: The Royal Baby on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81029841

Our first Christmas Prince episode: https://atvpodcast.com/post/168783737692/episode-121-a-christmas-prince

And our second: https://atvpodcast.com/post/181075876090/episode-171-a-christmas-prince-2-the-royal

Episode 224: Mailbag and Lodge 49 Book Club part 3 Dec 19, 2019

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Because we received some feedback on our Perfect Harmony segment, we dedicate the first part of this episode to discussing exactly what we mean when we say "bad one," and also we chat about Margaret's southern accent. (We do not celebrate Margaret's southern accent as anything other than "very entertaining to listen to.")

Next, it's Lodge 49 book club! This week: crushing debt, anxiety about the future, capitalism, socialism, parasites both metaphorical and literal.

Episode 223: A Decade of Television, Thoughtfully Considered Dec 12, 2019

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These WILL make sense in context.

This week, you get exactly what's on the tin as we, first among our kind in this novel approach!!, mark the decade's end by reflecting on the decade's #content. Which means:

We talk a lot about the challenges of novelty New Year's Eve sunglass design in the 2010s
We talk about how TV technology has changed with time!
Andrew shares helpful charts and infographics about how TV size has changed and how size and distance from the TV correlate.
We share some of our favorite shows of the decade, and why!
And Margaret cries, OBVIOUSLY!

We hope you enjoy it, pals. We love you guys.

Episode 222: Have you heard the good news of Baby Yoda and Lodge 49 book club 2 Dec 05, 2019

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We return to The Mandalorian, because when we first discussed it, none of us knew about the great gift of Baby Yoda. The problem with this discussion is that Kathryn is the one who wanted to raise it, and then she leaves to deal with a childcare issue, and neither Andrew nor Margaret have seen The Mandalorian. Nevertheless they persist!

Following that situation, we return to Lodge 49 for a lively conversation about what happens when you find a corpse in your lodge that is *definitely* not a mummy.

Episode 221: Watchmen Good, Perfect Harmony Bad Nov 28, 2019

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Hello everyone! To mark Thanksgiving, we your intrepid TV podcast hosts have gathered to discuss our final round of good one/bad one. This week it's Andrew's picks. We start with the good, HBO's Watchmen, and then continue on to the TURKEY (get it!!) of NBC's Pitch Perfect Harmony. No pauses indicating our inability to remember that show's actual title have been edited out. Come, join us, and find out why Jesus is the TRUE Eye of the Tiger. Discussed in the show:

Damon Lindelof wondering whether he's cursed for making Watchmen
Brian Grubb's "A Few Relatively Straightforward Questions About Watchmen"
And the early ratings for Game of Thrones on HBO

Episode 220: Fall TV update and Lodge 49 book club 1 Nov 21, 2019

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We come to you with some fall TV updates, which you should probably note are less updates than they are "things we were thinking two weeks ago and it turns out we'd probably have different things to say about them if we recorded it last night but we didn't!" The reason this segment is still coming to you is so you can hear Kathryn have an absolute meltdown over the word midichlorian.

Then, it's the first installment of our Lodge 49 book club! We're discussing the pilot, which is dreamy and sad and funny and perfect.

Episode 219: Good One/Bad One Continues with Emergence and Carol's Second Act Nov 14, 2019

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A fun thing you might not know about our *process* is that, as we record the episodes, we're supposed to pop notes into a thread in our Slack that contain, say, links to articles we mention in the podcast or notes about audio issues like "For some reason in the last two minutes of the podcast, Kathryn's mic cuts out almost entirely and like you can do your best to fix it, but there's really no way to, IDK." But this week's show notes thread contained only the following:

So here we all are together, just hanging in there, trying to make it better. Tune in this week for nothing pertaining to Weird Al, but much pertaining to: the progression of Andrew's baby's cuteness, babies who are worried about their social security, what a difference truly great actors make to the quality of your puzzle box mystery show, what age and wisdom can teach YOU, and oh so ever so much more. Please do @ us with any suggestions for lyrics to "Syndicated," and get ROLLING on our new TV Book Club: Lodge 49, which AMC cancelled the VERY DAY we recorded.

Episode 218: Good One Bad One returns with Evil and Almost Family Nov 07, 2019

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Hooray for good TV shows! Booo for bad TV shows! This week we're talking about FOX's Almost Family and CBS's Evil - see if you can guess which is the good one and which is the bad one! Hint: the bad one involves a show making light of medical sexual assault.

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