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Episode 176: Bandersnatch and Sparking Joy Jan 17, 2019

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Netflix has us wrapped up in its warm, all-enveloping tendrils again this week - first, a chat about the choose-your-own-adventure-style Black Mirror outing Bindersplitch, and then we clean up our act with Marie Kondo.

SHOW NOTES:

How Butterspread came together: https://www.wired.com/story/black-mirror-bandersnatch-interactive-episode/

Other, possibly better, Twine-based text adventures: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/power-to-the-people-the-text-adventures-of-twine/1100-6402665/

Video Games Did It Better: https://www.slashfilm.com/black-mirror-bandersnatch-criticism/

WOW LOTTA BUMPERSTINK LINKS THIS WEEK: https://www.vulture.com/2018/12/black-mirror-bandersnatch-all-endings-explained.html

What happens when a whole city KonMaris all at once: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-and-off-the-avenue/the-marie-kondo-effect-reaches-beacons-closet

Episode 175: Killing Eve book club part 2 Jan 10, 2019

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We love Killing Eve so much that our entire episode is a book club spectacular. In this episode we discuss episodes 3, 4 and 5 of Killing Eve, and only immense restraint keeps us from spending the whole time quoting every line from each episode just so we can marvel at it again.

Episode 174: TV superlatives and 2019 TV resolutions Jan 03, 2019

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Our year end/year beginning extravaganza is here, and we're doling out the fake awards left and right! We go over genres like "best statement necklaces" and "time my mom was most right," before continuing on to talk about how we want to watch TV better in 2019.

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Sisters (the TV show): https://www.netflix.com/title/80994108 The Durrels in Corfu: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/shows/the-durrells-in-corfu/ HBO's Barry: https://www.hbo.com/barry Who What When Where Wine shirt: https://www.etsy.com/listing/647913474/who-what-when-where-wine-chidi-good Killing Eve: https://www.hulu.com/series/killing-eve-c9d3b601-54db-42d1-a1ed-8950cea491b1 Prue Leith on her love of necklaces: https://prue-leith.com/my-love-of-necklaces/ Kathryn on Last Man Standing: https://www.vulture.com/2018/09/last-man-standing-is-unexpectedly-warm.html Superstore, again: https://www.hulu.com/series/superstore-727810b8-e54b-4f01-9381-a79ab5661bf7 GLOW: https://www.netflix.com/title/80114988

Episode 173: Motion Smoothing and Killing Eve book club part 1 Dec 27, 2018

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Here at Appointment Television, we want you to ring in the new year the best way we know how: by making sure you've turned off motion smoothing on your and every other television you have access to. Accordingly, Andrew does a deep dive into what exactly motion smoothing is, and we all talk about how unexpected it was to find Tom Cruise as our guide to this question. Then it's time for a festive holiday book club: Killing Eve!! We talk about the first two episodes this week, and spoiler, we really like them.

Episode 172: Dirty John and Winter 2019 Television Dec 20, 2018

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This week, Margaret watches some television! And tells Kathryn and Andrew about it. Then, we go through a list of the winter 2019 shows that we're the most excited to see.

Episode 171: A Christmas Prince 2 - The Royal Wedding Dec 13, 2018

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In the long-awaited follow-up to our recap of A Christmas Prince from last winter, we bring you a full episode of coverage on A Christmas Prince 2: The Royal Wedding. We were deeply concerned that the Netflix Christmas movie would fail to live up to the, um, glories of the first one. But never fear - it is just as silly and awkward and nonsensical as the original.

Episode 170: Good One Bad One - Sabrina and New Amsterdam Dec 06, 2018

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This week, we finally hit the last of our good and bad fall TV shows: Netflix's The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and the NBC medical drama New Amsterdam. We don't come away loving either of them?? But that's how it goes sometimes.

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On Nick Bakay, fellow Kenyon alum and voice of the original Salem: http://bulletin-archive.kenyon.edu/x1071.html

New Amsterdam sucks: https://www.vulture.com/2018/09/new-amsterdam-nbc-review.html

New Amsterdam still sucks: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/11/new-amsterdam-nbc-show-physician-distrust-bellevue/576712/

Episode 169: Final chapter of The Newsroom book club Nov 29, 2018

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We sweep toward the ignominious end of our book club of the first season of The Newsroom! No one is particularly happy to be here, but we are *extremely* happy it's done.

Episode Classic: A Re-Run of our Favorite TV Themes Nov 23, 2018

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Happy Thanksgiving! Please enjoy this entry from our archives, an episode where we discuss standalone episodes and our favorite TV theme songs.

Episode 168: Bad Interfaces, Good Content (Salt Fat Acid Heat and Patriot Act) Nov 15, 2018

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In this week's show we complain for exactly as long as we want about the terrible bewildering interfaces we all need to use to watch TV right now, and then we talk about some good shows you should watch: Samin Nosrat's Salt Fat Acid Heat, and Hasan Minhaj's Patriot Act.

SHOW NOTES:

Samin Nosrat's "beauty uniform": https://cupofjo.com/2018/10/samin-nosrat-beauty-uniform/

The Patriot Act/Queer Eye Crossover Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFhRONeopbQ

How Hasan Minhaj fits into our culture of performative dunking: https://www.npr.org/2018/10/29/661624301/hasan-minhaj-breaks-through-dunk-fatigue-with-patriot-act

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