Crossing Streams

It's another yearly tradition on the Crossing Streams TV podcast feed: Craig Elsten and Liddy Loree hunker down to plan the coverage roadmap for 2022, offering you dozens of suggestions for the Most Anticipated Shows of 2022. Some of our all-time favorites are coming back after a COVID hiatus, but there are several new shows that have our attention too! Get out your notepads and get ready for an i...

Craig Elsten, Liddy Loree and Drew Steck kick off the New Year with what is now their 3rd Annual Crossing Streams Platform Review. We go in detail on the top-10 streaming platforms available in the U.S. right now, from price and catalog to interface and value. What's the most used platform? What's the best value? What's the one you forget you pay for? And if you had an under-$50 budget to put toge...

Craig Elsten and Liddy Loree are back with Crossing Streams' fourth annual Top-20 Shows ranking. 2021 brought back a number of shows shut down due to COVID in 2020, stacking the field. Craig and Liddy discuss a couple of special exemptions, then go through their honorable mentions, shows 20-11, and the Top-10!

Craig Elsten and Ken Gartin have covered the MCU Disney+ shows and movies all year, and come back together to finish the job. Did the Hawkeye finale deliver, or disappoint? How would you rank the five Disney+ MCU shows in 2021? How about the movies?

Craig Elsten and Ryan Phillips get together before the holidays to talk about the latest present from HBO Max: Station Eleven. How can it possibly be that a show based around a global pandemic could have captured our hearts like this? We'll give you a No Spoilers segment to try and convince you to watch, then a full segment on episodes 1-3, and another on episodes 4-5. There is no before!

Craig Elsten is rejoined by Marisa Cali for a bit of a departure on the Crossing Streams feed, as we recap the finales of two of the longest-running reality TV competition shows out there, Survivor 41 and The Challenge 37: Spies, Lies and Allies. First off, why do Craig and Marisa watch these two shows, and if you haven't, what might they offer you? Then, they go deep on the finales, and the winne...

Craig Elsten, Beau Lynott, Justice Parman and Corey Stewart are together one more time in 2021, this time gathered in-person at the Fall Brewing Co. South Park tasting room, to break down the season three finale of Succession on HBO. (Audio quality is intermittent at times due to the live broadcast, our apologies.) Who wound up on top at the end of the season, and took home the final #1 Boy rankin...

Craig Elsten and Liddy Loree both loved "What We Do in the Shadows", but didn't get around to a season 3 recap podcast...until now! We couldn't let 2021 go by without reviewing one of the very best comedies on TV. How did WWDITS manage to avoid the complacency trap and put its characters in very interesting places heading into next season? Who was the beating heart (ironic, for a vampire) of seaso...

Craig Elsten, Beau Lynott, Justice Parman and Corey Stewart reconvene to dig into one of the most emotionally violent and cruel episodes of Succession in the three seasons of the show's run: S3E8 "Chiantishire". Is love even a real thing on Succession? Is Kendall...dead?? What about Shiv's soul, is that dead too? We've got a lot to get to, including the audio from our two featured scenes, and this...

Craig Elsten is re-joined by Liddy Loree to talk about two new shows with big promise in a Crossing Streams "First Look" (minimum spoilers). First up, 'Yellowjackets' on Showtime, airing on Sunday nights. It's a puzzlebox with great star power, but some questions remain. Then, (34:00), a look at The Wheel of Time, which has some 'Lord of the Rings' vibes, but has engaged our hosts well through the...

Craig Elsten, Beau Lynott, Justice Parman and Corey Stewart are back to review the best episode so far of season 3 of Succession, and perhaps the best episode yet in the series' run. "Too Much Birthday" is the funniest and saddest episode of the year. We take you through the key discussion topics, a scene-by-scene episode review with featured scene audio, and our weekly category winners.

Craig Elsten is joined by his MCU/Star Wars correspondent Ken Gartin to talk about the opening two episodes of the final Disney+ Marvel TV show for 2021, Hawkeye. Have the show runners been able to capture the fun of the Matt Fraction comic run? Then (29:00), Craig and Ken take a look at a very different MCU property, Marvel's "Hit Monkey" on Hulu. Last but not least (50:30), some talk about a pro...

Craig Elsten is joined by Justice Parman on this week's episode of Full F*&^ing Beast to go through a hallmark episode of Succession, Season 3 Episode 6 "What It Takes". What's Shiv's fundamental mistake in dealing with her father, Logan Roy? What's up with Logan and Kerry? We break down the biggest storylines and take the biggest scenes in detail, then offer our weekly category winners!

Craig Elsten is joined by Steven Woods from the "Ben and Woods" radio program on 97.3FM in San Diego to discuss two gritty dramas: American Rust (Showtime), and the first two episodes of Mayor of Kingstown (Paramount+).

We continue to recap the best show on television in 2021 week-by-week on Full Fucking Beast, this week taking on Season 3 Episode 5 of Succession. Craig Elsten, Beau Lynott, Justice Parman and Corey Stewart go scene-by-scene through the episode, outlining major themes and going in detail on the biggest scenes of the week. Then, the guys give out their weekly winners for #1 Boy, Best Insult, Bigges...

Craig Elsten, Beau Lynott, Justice Parman and Corey Stewart are back to sift through the biggest themes and biggest scenes from Season 3/Episode 4 of the best show on television, Succession. Why is "writing the unspoken" one of the key elements to Succession's success? Also, we replay the audio of the biggest scenes of the show, recap scene-by-scene, and offer our weekly awards such as Biggest Ins...

One of the pleasant surprises of 2021 is Only Murders in the Building, a show that was set up to be overdone and hacky, but wound up finding a sweetness and avoiding getting *too* campy. Craig Elsten and Liddy Loree reconvene to discuss (without spoilers, then with) what made Only Murders better than expected, and the greatness of that finale!

Craig Elsten, Justice Parman and Corey Stewart are back for another weekly installment of Full F*^%ing Beast, your Succession Season Three recap podcast! The battle lines have been drawn in the Roy family and Logan will manipulate whoever he needs to in order to win his power struggle against Kendall...but do his power tricks work against the federal government? And while Kendall feels like no one...

Last year, we kind of liked The Morning Show, or at least thought it was trying to say something interesting. Then, season two came along. Craig Elsten and Rebecca Lawson Gennaro do their best to explain what's gone wrong in season two, how the show can't pick on a solid topic to be about, and veers into weird and sometimes actively bad story and character choices. We hate-watched the show so you...

The Full F*^%ing Beast panel is back for a deep-dive recap of Episode 2 of the third season of Succession! Find out why FAMILY is the #1 theme for the second episode, and how familial ties are preyed upon throughout the episodes, especially sibling rivalries! Catch our top-two most important scenes from this week's show. Then our categories: #1 Boy, Biggest Insult, Biggest Move, Cringiest Cringe,...

Craig is joined for the first time by Chappell, podcast host for #RHAP. First, they talk about Chappell's new podcast he is hosting with Rob Cesternino called "Nothing but Netflix". Then, a full review of the fascinating horror/spiritual drama, "Midnight Mass", airing on Netflix. We start with a non-spoiler segment, then get into the very big spoilers after the break (24:10)! Lastly, Craig and Cha...

Craig Elsten, Beau Lynott, Justice Parman and Corey Stewart are back to go scene-by-scene through Season 3 Episode 1 of Succession. Who was this week's #1 Boy, who had the Best Insult, Best Move, Cringiest Cringe and more! Categories, clips and the best lines from a great week of television.

Ted Lasso's second season was one of the most anticipated television programs of 2021. Did it live up to expectations, or were the expectations unfairly set? Craig Elsten and Marisa Cali reconvene for their third Ted Lasso podcast of the season, going through each of the storylines they liked, and the ones they (really) didn't like.

The most anticipated show of 2021 is here, Succession Season 3 on HBO, and we are breaking out our Succession coverage into its own podcast on the Crossing Streams feed! Each week through the season, Craig Elsten is joined by official Crossing Streams Succession Correspondent Beau Lynott, LA filmmaker/writer Justice Parman, and San Diego legend Corey Stewart to break down the funniest, darkest and...

Craig Elsten is joined by resident film buff and Marvel/Star Wars expert Ken Gartin for a wide-ranging episode of Crossing Streams. First, the guys tackle the David Chase-directed Sopranos film prequel, 'The Many Saints of Newark', which has its hits and misses, and a lot to discuss. Then, the guys dive into what made Disney+'s 'What If?' a bit underwhelming, and the lessons it could stand to lear...