Today's Episode

The Vision (Paul Bettany) is back in Marvel Television’s VisionQuest , the third and final installment in the trilogy after WandaVision and Agatha All Along . With all his old memories but none of the emotional connections that came with them, this Vision has spent the past few years tending bar and hanging out in a mansion inside his own head. His housemates are a collection of old AI programs th...

CBS keeps up its love of supernatural sitcoms with Eternally Yours , a new comedy from the creators of the hit U.S. version of Ghosts . Charles and Liz are vampires approaching their half-millennium anniversary, but unfortunately, their marriage has hit a serious rut. Think Young Frankenstein after the honeymoon phase has worn off. Set in present-day 2026, things get even more complicated when the...

Mike Flanagan takes on another Stephen King novel with this year’s series adaptation of Carrie on Prime Video. This modern retelling has all the familiar ingredients, blood, anxiety, and all, but expands the story beyond its titular character by giving the surrounding ensemble their own personal demons. On the podcast, we break down the premiere, “First Period,” and discuss this new take on Carrie...

Netflix’s new miniseries East of Eden kicks off with a self-contained pilot telling the stories of the Trask brothers. Adam and Charles, raised by their demanding father, Cyrus, tackle adolescence in the late 19th century before being split up—one to the military, one stuck on the farm. Fast forward to 1899 when a reunion provides the possibility of final peace, just as a bloodied Cathy Ames crawl...

Today we discuss the first two episodes of the freshly imported Mackenzie Crook series Small Prophets . Pearce Quigley plays Michael, a man with a missing girlfriend whose aging father introduces him to the one means he may have to figure out what happened to her: homunculi. The series is part workplace comedy, suburban deadpan, and fantasy. On the podcast, we discuss the mind and idea behind the...

Brothers , Apple TV’s new buddy-buddy bromance meta-comedy, stars Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey as semi-fictional versions of themselves and tackles the very real rumor that they may actually be half-brothers. On the podcast, we break down the first two episodes, “On the Road” and “The Hunt,” which bring the Harrelson family to Matthew’s Texas ranch and send Woody searching for answers a...

On the podcast, we break down the first two episodes of MGM+’s new true-crime drama American Hostage, starring Jon Hamm: “My Town Indy” and “McMahon, Martinis & Madness.” The series, based on a scripted podcast of the same name, revisits the 63-hour standoff through the eyes of radio journalist Fred Heckman, who finds himself caught between reporting the story and trying to save a man's l...

Netflix’s new Polish miniseries The Doll, adapted from Bolesław Prus’s 19th-century novel, has all the features of a traditional period drama: pretentious wealth, class inequality, risky investments, war, and women being pressured into marriage. Beneath the fancy costumes and horse-drawn carriages, however, lies a surprisingly violent and chaotic climax that deserves some discussion. On the podcas...

Inspired by the graphic novel Berlinoir, Hulu’s new German vampire thriller City of Blood takes place in a dystopian Berlin where the wealthy live beneath a climate-controlled dome. Estranged sisters Bea and Phoebe reunite after 15 years, only for Bea to discover that her sister is involved in an illegal blood trade. On the podcast, we break down the first episode. We discuss the show’s best quali...

Released early on YouTube, Adult Swim’s latest series, The Terrors of Jordan Mendoza , is a live-action horror alt-comedy hosted by Steve Buscemi. It stars the titular Jordan Mendoza as he flips through sketches ranging from weird to completely deranged. On the podcast, we break down the 11-minute premiere, “Had This Crazy Dream.” We discuss Mendoza’s internet-driven comedy career, the show's...

For our 73rd review of the year, we’re checking out Apple’s latest drama, Last Seen , starring Patrick Brammall as a former detective still haunted by the disappearance of his daughter Mags. On the podcast, we break down the first two episodes, “Last Seen” and “The Call,” discuss the grief, mystery, small-town secrets, and the insane amount of leeway Ian seems to get from the supportive community....

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, and apparently it was also time for another adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities . MGM+ and BBC One’s new four-part miniseries stars Kit Harington, Mirren Mack, and François Civil in a heavily reworked version of Charles Dickens’ 1859 novel. The premiere, “Recalled to Life,” throws Lucie Manette, Charles Darnay, and Sydney Carton together almost i...

Fred Has Problems is the latest animated comedy from Steve Dildarian, creator of The Life & Times of Tim and Ten Year Old Tom . The series is released directly on YouTube, about one episode a month. On the podcast, we concentrate on the fourth episode, “Fred Nailed My Wife in the Pumpkin Patch,” which starts with a hazelnut allergy and leads to an office countersuit requiring penis slings and...

As Adult Swim turns 25, Robot Chicken returns with a new 23-minute special filled with familiar characters, celebrity voice cameos, and Dr. Huhnmörder himself. On the podcast, we look back at how Robot Chicken got its start, dig into trivia, Adult Swim history, Seth Green’s career, and the network’s upcoming slate. We also highlight the best and worst parts of the special to determine whether it d...

Colin from Accounts is back for its third and final season, picking up three years after Ashley and Gordon’s relationship fell apart. They’ve both moved on with new partners and new goals, but plenty of unresolved feelings rise to the surface as fate throws them back into the same room. On the podcast, we discuss the first six episodes of the season, covering the plot’s funniest and cringiest mome...

Netflix’s latest Swedish drama, Blood Sacrifice , revolves around a serial killer who likes luring police officers to empty homes in the middle of the night and killing them. Thomas Berg, a detective with the Stockholm police, takes on the case right before his 45th birthday and soon realizes the murders may be connected to another supposedly solved case. With the investigation hitting roadblocks,...

Tires is entering its junior season, a feat in itself considering Netflix's short leash. The sitcom stars Shane Gillis, Steve Gerben, and Thomas Haden Church as Shane, Will, and Phil, the owners of a chain of auto shops in West Chester, Pennsylvania. At the heart of the show is their attempt to make the business succeed. Jumping into the third season, we discuss the first three episodes, “It...

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....

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...

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 a...

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 coa...

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’Doyl...

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 compl...

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 t...

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,...