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Put on your fedora and eat a sandwich loaded with a jar of jalapenos, because it's time to talk Fringe, the cult X-Files knockoff with a mad scientist, a cow, Pacey from Dawson's Creek and more.

Finally, 130-odd episodes into this podcast, we're talking about the twisted mind of Ryan Murphy. We've picked the terrible show that launched a career of other terrible shows, Nip/Tuck, which dives into the world of plastic surgery with sledgehammer subtlety. We're talking cartel pedophile fratricide. We're talking outrageously poorly aged trans plotlines. Serial killers are involved. This man is...

Coming at the crest of a wave of unasked for TV adaptations of movies, it's TNT's Snowpiercer, based on the Bong Joon-Ho movie which itself is based on the French comic about class war on a train that circumnavigates a frozen Earth. The guy from Clipping/Hamilton is here. Jennifer Connelly is here. There's a polycule train car. You get the idea.

Everybody lies, and therefore everybody deserves to be berated and tortured by a lunatic. It's the world of House, M.D.! What if Sherlock Holmes called you an idiot while shoving objects up your ass? And also introduced you to the trip-hop stylings of Massive Attack? Apparently that makes for a huge hit!

This week we're contributing to gifted kid discourse as we discuss Malcolm in the Middle, a sitcom that broke conventions and seemed to actually get the working class. Also we have a digression about the Harlem Globetrotters.

Hug it out, because this week we're talking about the most 2004 show ever made, Entourage. Everybody you know from high school who only talks about crypto now was into this show. Are we?

This week we're getting into the ultimate neurodivergent detective show, the highly acclaimed USA series Monk! It's a charming and whimsical delight with a weirdly grim ending and boatloads of Guys.

This week we are looking at some nihilistic Gen X nonsense in the form of Celebrity Deathmatch, a show that has certainly never attempted to be clever, pleasant to watch, or arguably even funny. Truly a product of its era in a way that few shows can ever claim. Also a lot of side talk about EA College Football 25.

We're back in the shonen anime well to discuss recent NFL player favorite Hunter x Hunter, a show where millions of people apply to like...hunt for stuff. It's hard to really explain.

Middle America, you have a lot to answer for. We're looking into the dreaded spinoff of the Big Bang Theory, a prequel about the life of famous annoying asshole Sheldon Cooper before the events of the show. It's sort of like The Wonder Years but more focused on bad representations of autism.

This week on the show where we review shows we're reviewing Review, the show within a show except that it's actually the whole show. Please rate us 5 stars but don't destroy your life like Forrest.

At this point it is the podcast's stance that FX is the best network, further cemented by the recently departed indigenous comedy-drama Reservation Dogs. The most purely good show we've watched in a while!

It's real I Love the 80s Vibes in here as we cover Knight Rider, a shockingly entertaining show about the car that the most annoying guys of the modern age think that they have.

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Let's remember some Z-Fighters. We honor the late Akira Toriyama as we get into his most famous creation, Dragon Ball Z. Stephen doesn't know/remember anything from watching it as a kid so this is mostly a lot of proper nouns. But you'll love it because Goku is there.

For the first time in 99 episodes, we're going to Ireland, as Stephen tries to explain and understand the success of cult favorite web-series-turned-TV-show Hardy Bucks.

Travis has selected his favorite show of the 2020s, the sadly departed comedy docuseries How To With John Wilson. Join us as we discuss sad Spring Break parties, mail thievery, and men doing various bizarre things to their genitals among many other examinations of the human condition.

We're trekking up to Canada for the recently wrapped cult favorite Letterkenny, a show that is basically a joke machine with occasional plot.

We've finally broken the seal on what Matt would call "internet videos," entering the world of streaming with Ted Lasso, the most unnecessarily discussed show of the last decade.

Do you remember when The Rock was young?

The international tour takes us to Rome for Paolo Sorrentino's bizarre HBO dual miniseries, The Young Pope and The New Pope. On the surface it's the tale of Jude Law as a sexy but conservative American pope and John Malkovich as his more liberal British successor, but in reality it's one of the strangest shows to air on American television.

It's time for Teen Nick once again as we learn about the goopiest show in the history of a network famous for covering people in slime. It's The Secret World of Alex Mack, a kids' superhero show with weirdly adult anti-corporate themes and also the first screen appearance of Jessica Alba.

Ring in the new year with the show thought to have killed feminism: Ally McBeal. You know about the hallucinated dancing baby, but what about the hallucinated fet play Clintons?

The international series takes us to France for...anime? Ian has chosen Code Lyoko, a truly baffling show from the end of our childhoods, half of which takes place in a digital world with hideous CGI animation where our large-headed heroes fight a malevolent AI. Andeveryonetalkslikethis.