Tasting Menu

Tasting Menu

Each week we discuss what’s currently on our mind in entertainment, and then one of the hosts recommends a sample of pop culture we love for us to discuss.

Episodes

June 9, 2025 142 mins

Appetizers: Étoile's cancellation, Psycho Killer music video, Friendship, The Phoenician Scheme, Ballerina, Doctor Who, Hacks, Adults, Overcompensating, The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy, the state of Final Fantasy

 

Main course: ER - "Hell and High Water" (1995)

 

Next time: Next to Normal (2008) (plus the 2025 Great Performances episode showcasing it)

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Appetizers: Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, Thunderbolts*, Andor season 2, Murderbot, Poker Face season 2, Elsbeth season 2, Ghosts season 4, Duster, Taskmaster season 19, The Blue Prince, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage

 

Main Course: Life is Strange (2015)

 

Next Time: ER - "Hell and High Water" (1995)

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May 5, 2025 111 mins

Appetizers: A Eulogy for Polygon, Greta Gerwig's The Magician's Nephew, Lena Dunham and Carly Rae Jepsen's 10 Things I Hate About You musical, Sinners, Andor season 2, The Rehearsal season 2

 

Main Course: Étoile - Season 1 (2025)

 

Next Time: Life is Strange (2015)

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Appetizers: Mythic Quest's cancellation, Hacks, Yellowjackets, Doctor Who, Dying for Sex, The Pitt

 

Main Course: The X-Files - "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" (1995)

 

Next time: Étoile (2025)

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April 7, 2025 111 mins

Appetizers: Avengers: Doomsday, Nintendo Switch 2, Mayhem - Lady Gaga, Severance, The Studio, Mythic Quest, Assassin's Creed: Shadows

 

Main Course: Doctor Who - "The Romans" (1965)

 

Next time: The X-Files - "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" (1995)

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March 24, 2025 101 mins

Appetizers: Mickey 17, Righteous Gemstones season 4 premiere, The Pitt, Watson, Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective, Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii

 

Main Course: Buffy the Vampire Slayer - "Band Candy" (1998)

 

Next time: Doctor Who - "The Romans" (1965)

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March 10, 2025 96 mins

Appetizers: The Academy Awards, Thunderbolts*, The Traitors

 

Main Course: Red Dwarf - "The End" (1988) and "Polymorph" (1989)

 

Next Time: Buffy the Vampire Slayer - "Band Candy" (1998)

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February 24, 2025 91 mins

Appetizers: Avatar: Seven Havens announcement, The Pitt, Clean Slate, Big Boys, Metaphor: ReFantazio, Yellowjackets, Dropout TV

 

Main Course: Farscape - "Crackers Don't Matter" (2000)

 

Next Time: Red Dwarf - "The End" (1988) and "Polymorph" (1989)

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February 10, 2025 113 mins

Appetizers: The possible Buffy the Vampire Slayer revival, Update on Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, Patrick Wolf's "Dies Irae", The Traitors US season 3 (spoilers up to episode 7), Common Side Effects, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man

 

Main Course: Dawson's Creek - "Beauty Contest" (1998)

 

Next time: Farscape - "Crackers Don't Matter" (2000)

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January 27, 2025 125 mins

Appetizers: Greta Gerwig's Narnia movie, the Nintendo Switch 2 reveal, Severance, The Traitors, Dimension 20: Dungeons & Drag Queens, Laid

 

Main Course: Patrick Wolf's The Bachelor (2009)

 

Next time: Dawson's Creek - "Beauty Contest" (1998)

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January 13, 2025 101 mins

Appetizers: Nosferatu, Nickel Boys, The Fire Inside, the Abbott Elementary/Always Sunny crossover

 

Main Course: Oxenfree (2016)

 

Next time: Patrick Wolf's The Bachelor (2009) and Lupercalia (2011)

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December 29, 2024 95 mins

Appetizers: Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey news, Wicked update, Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim, A Complete Unknown, the Dynasty Typewriter Star Wars prequels live script reads, Slow Horses, Interior Chinatown, A Man on the Inside

 

Main Course: Supernatural - "Mystery Spot" (2008)

 

Next time: Oxenfree (2016)

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December 15, 2024 124 mins

Appetizers: Fantasian: Neo Dimension, Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, UFO 50, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, Dimension 20: Misfits & Magic

 

Main Course: Pride (2014)

 

Next time: Supernatural - "Mystery Spot" (2008)

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December 1, 2024 113 mins

Appetizers: Wicked, Gladiator II, 2024 Oscar race, Dragon Age: Veilguard, Dune: Prophecy

 

Main Course: Carly Rae Jepsen's The Loneliest Time (2022) & The Loveliest Time (2023)

 

Next Time: Pride (2014)

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Appetizers: Pokemon Gold and Silver anniversary merch, the upcoming Christopher Nolan movie, Florence Pugh's career, Very Important People season 2, Invincible Fight Girl, Pokemon TCG Pocket, Ranma 1/2 (2024), Junior Taskmaster

 

Main Course: Gilmore Girls - "They Shoot Gilmores Don't They?" (2002)

 

Next time: Carly Rae Jepsen's The Loneliest Time (2022) and The Loveliest Time (2023)

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November 3, 2024 105 mins

Appetizers: Discussion on the Wicked movie (again), Gladiator II, Dan Da Dan, Star Trek: Lower Decks plus the state of Star Trek in general, and Life is Strange: Double Exposure

 

Main Course: Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - "The Mysterons" and "Winged Assassin" (1967)

 

Next episode: Gilmore Girls - "They Shoot Gilmores, Don't They?" (2002)

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October 12, 2024 102 mins

Appetizers: Discussion on Wicked (2024), The First Omen (2024), Immortality (2022), and From (2022-)

Main Course: Justified - "Fire in the Hole" (2010)

 

Next episode: Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - "The Mysterons" (1967)

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