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Episode 117: Tiny House Hunters and Stranger Things 2 book club part 2 Nov 23, 2017

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This Thanksgiving, we're grateful for our Patreons, one of whom forced Andrew to watch an episode of Tiny House Hunters and then share that experience with us. It's pretty amazing. We continue along in our Stranger Things 2 book club, and discuss such things as: does Radio Shack still exist? And, why would you keep a baseball bat covered in nails in the trunk of your car?

Finally, stay tuned at the end for some brief yelling about motion smoothing.

Episode 116: A busy TV November and our favorite women who make TV Nov 16, 2017

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This week's episode is all about the somehow weirdly busy November TV schedule, and then we boost the work of some of our favorite women working behind the camera (and why that's important).

Episode 115: TV recommendations and Stranger Things 2 Book Club Nov 09, 2017

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Surprise! It's a new TV book club! We're returning to the world of Hawkins Indiana to talk about Stranger Things 2, and in this episode we consider the first three episodes of the new season. Before we get there, though, we run through a few personalized TV recommendations that've come in the ATV mailbag lately. For instance: what should you watch with your parents this Thanksgiving?

Episode 114: Bad dicks, good dicks, and American Vandal Nov 02, 2017

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This week we really lean into the whole dick thing - first, we have an (admittedly couple weeks old) discussion about the ever-widening aftershocks of the Weinstein sexual assault allegations. Then, on a funner note, we talk for like half an hour about how much we love American Vandal.

Episode 113: The good Mayor and the idiocy of the crowd Oct 26, 2017

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This week we're continuing our "good fall TV / bad fall TV" voyage with some really, truly, exceptionally bad TV: CBS's Wisdom of the Crowd, a show so bad that it decided the best way to solve crime was to invent a worse version of reddit. Before we get there, though, we take a look at a much more promising new series - The Mayor. Who could've thought a campaign run as a joke would actually be a funny premise in 2017!

Episode 112: Return to the mailbag and farewell to Kings Oct 19, 2017

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This week we jump back into the mailbag to chat about, among other things, queer TV couples and other stuff we missed in previous episodes. Then we say a fond-ish farewell to NBC's Kings, a one-season wonder that nevertheless lasted way longer than it had any right to.

Episode 111: Patreon, bad fall TV, and Star Trek Discovery Oct 12, 2017

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The big news this week is the launch of our patreon! We would so appreciate your support to help us continue this podcast, and let us keep improving and growing. But just as important is the first installment of our fall TV 2017 good show/bad show selection. As you may have guessed, Me, Myself & I is not a good show, but you'll need to tune in to find out how we feel about the new Trek.

Episode 110: One-season wonders and Kings S01E07-10, with special guest Jackson McHenry Oct 05, 2017

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Vulture editor and Kings enthusiast Jackson McHenry joins us this week for a discussion of our favorite one-season TV shows, those poor creative projects that made it to the screen but just couldn't hang. And speaking of, we move on to episodes 7, 8, 9, and 10 of our TV Book Club on NBC's 2009 drama Kings.

Episode 109: Amazon is not great at making TV, but Rob Lowe is Sep 28, 2017

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After some recent announcements from Amazon on its TV programming future, we talk a little about how it seems to have no idea what it's doing, and why you can't just decide to make the next Game of Thrones and expect that to happen overnight. In more successful TV news, we then chat about a series called The Lowe Files. This essentially involves us just repeating lines from The Lowe Files.

Episode 108: A Grand Discussion of Grand Designs and Kings S01E03-06 Sep 21, 2017

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This week we spend some extra time waxing poetic about a show we've only mentioned in passing so far—the long-running Channel 4 home renovation show Grand Designs. After that, we return to the land of Gilboa for our continued tour through NBC one-season wonder Kings, a series that ran for exactly as long as it probably should have.

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