Today's Episode

The highly anticipated HBO DCU series just premiered on Sunday. Starring Kyle Chandler as Hal Jordan and Aaron Pierre as John Stewart, the pilot takes us through 30 years and covers everything from aliens to bar fights to militias in Nebraska.

On the podcast, we run down the 50-minute pilot’s best moments, touch on some of the Green Lantern history, and root through our most relevant comparisons. We also discuss the reception,...

Before The Shards was an FX series, it was a novel. Before it was a novel, it was a podcast. And before all of that, it was Bret Easton Ellis looking back at his final year of high school in 1981 Los Angeles and wondering what life would have been like with a serial killer. 

Ryan Murphy’s latest series follows a teenage Bret as his senior year at an elite prep school is disrupted by the arrival of mysterious new student R...

When New York Mets fan Annie Jacobson discovers that her adoptive father, played by the other Duplass brother, has been hiding letters from her deceased grandpa, Annie flies to Canada to find out what Sterling Point is all about.

On the podcast, we break down the pilot, “But I Just Took an Ambien.” The episode runs about an hour, so our advice is to watch it first if you’re also planning to take an Ambien. For many...

It’s back! One of Apple TV’s most successful series apparently couldn’t let a good thing end, and fans are bound to welcome it with open arms.

This 4th season reset kicks off in the United States, years after Ted left Richmond. He is now working at a supermarket and cheering on his son at soccer practice, not football. Then, out of the blue, Rebecca, Keeley, and Higgins arrive with an offer to coach Richmond’...

With no shortage of cartoon comedies, President Curtis does not endeavor to distance itself from its very successful parent show. It simply reveals that craziness can happen outside the Sanchez family, something many viewers of the original series are already aware of, while giving us a new group to root for: the White House staff, cyborg Roe Banks, and half-leprechaun Special Agent Francis O’Doyle.

On the podcast, we review t...

Loosely inspired by the 1987 thriller Black Widow, Furious follows Alice Black (Emmy Rossum), a former NYPD detective turned FBI rookie, as she connects a suspicious string of murders to a sex trafficking case from 2012. The cat-and-mouse story is less of a whodunit and more of a character-driven, trauma-centric, psychoanalytical look at two former victims whose lives have been redefined in completely different ways as a result of ...

The Big Bang Theory has entered the multiverse. Stuart Fails to Save the Universe places comic-book store owner Stuart Bloom at the center of a post-apocalyptic, low-budget, CGI-heavy adventure.

In the pilot, “Spoiler: Gary Dies,” Pasadena is overrun by giant moths. Instead of fighting Godzilla, Stuart is tasked with reversing an experiment gone wrong after an alternate version of himself visits the store and explains th...

Apple TV+’s new crime thriller, Lucky, is a limited series starring Anya Taylor-Joy and loosely based on Marissa Stapley’s 2021 bestselling novel. Luciana Armstrong, a.k.a. Lucky, is a lifelong grifter who finds herself betrayed, broke, and scrambling to stay ahead of the FBI and a dangerous crime boss who happens to be her mother-in-law.

On this podcast, we discuss the first three installments, from Lucky’s escape...

This year’s golf comedy doesn’t star Owen Wilson, but it does star his Frat Pack brother, Will Ferrell, and his actual brother, Luke Wilson. If you watched Happy Gilmore 2 on Netflix and kept your subscription, you should be able to tune in to The Hawk.

The first episode follows Lonnie Hawkins (Ferrell) as he desperately tries to win the final major he needs to complete a career Grand Slam. Between proving he still has t...

When J. Jonah Jameson takes time off from the Daily Bugle to run the mob, he can’t help but draw the attention of the Italian Mafia, the FBI, and the IRA in The Westies.

The series marks the latest crime drama from Narcos and Godfather of Harlem creator Chris Brancato. Though it only loosely adheres to the truth, there is no shortage of subplots and familiar names pulled from history.

On the podcast, we discuss the first two ep...

Netflix loves its Westerns. This week, it released a new adaptation of Little House on the Prairie. Beginning in post–Civil War America, the series follows Charles and Caroline Ingalls, their daughters Mary and Laura, and their dog Jack as they leave Wisconsin, travel to Kansas, and attempt to build a new life on the prairie.

The pilot we watched is called “Independence.” On the pod, we break down each of our pros ...

Sparks of Tomorrow, is Kyoto Animation’s new steampunk anime based on the light novel 20 Seiki Denki Mokuroku. Set in an alternate early-20th-century Kyoto where steam power dominates and electricity is nowhere to be seen, the pilot follows a cynical young tinkerer and a sake brewer’s daughter as they uncover the mysterious Electrical Catalog.

On the podcast, we discuss the pilot episode, “The Electric Boy,” ...

Today, we’re talking about My Two Cents, or Due Spicci, the third chapter in Zerocalcare’s Netflix run about Zero, his friends, his anxieties, and the armadillo in his head giving questionable advice.

On the podcast, we discuss what makes this Netflix show distinct, what each of the main characters is faced with, the growth from short episodes to near-hour-long chapters, and the show’s messy genre mix. We also disc...

It’s that time of year again: a popular 2010s animated show is revived and pushed out to the masses with the promise of nostalgia. Warner Bros. already has its plate full of Adventure Time content (with Fionna and Cake being a massive hit), which makes Adventure Time: Side Quests feel less like a surprise and more like an inevitability. On the podcast, we're heading back to the early days of Ooo as we review the first four ep...

HBO and Larry David are back in business with another pursuit of enthusiasm. Produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground and co-created by David’s longtime collaborator Jeff Schaffer, Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Almost History of America is not only a mouthful, but arrives on the precipice of the U.S. 250th anniversary.

On the podcast, we discuss the half-hour pilot, “Livingston,&rdquo...

Our favorite penguin is back for Season 2 of Apple’s surprise sci-fi noir, Sugar. Jumping into this season cold, we discuss the first episode, “Home Away From Home.” In the episode, Colin Farrell’s character buys Humphrey Bogart’s house, gets his car stolen, reveals his powers at a dog park, and throws last season’s cliffhanger out the window.

On the podcast, we run down comparisons, trivia, chara...

Crewmates/Beans unite. Six years after becoming the most downloaded game online, in the middle of the pandemic, during a time when many became obsessed with sneaking “sus” into every sentence — Among Us has finally been released on Paramount+. The 10-episode series is brought to us by Owen Dennis, who previously showran the acclaimed Infinity Train series and also storyboarded for Regular Show, which also just cam...

What if Jack Reacher got a teaching degree? Teach You a Lesson is a new Netflix hit K-drama based on a webtoon with multiple names. On the podcast, we discuss the pilot. The premise is simple: what if there were a department authorized to take down bullies in schools?

We follow Na Hwa-jin as he shows up unannounced to root out corruption and bad behavior. Along the way, we discuss facts about the show, the cast, the response so far,...

Listed as a British “wrong-com,” the first episode of Alice and Steve covers the inciting incident that sets up the premise of this six-episode series. You probably already know Jemaine Clement and Nicola Walker, just like we knew Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne going into Platonic. The difference is that this one leans confidently British, with a plot that veers more toward sharp awkwardness than anything particularly heartw...