The Pilot's Lounge

🚨 The Nine-Nine says goodbye. One last heist. One last "NINE-NINE!" This week we're seeing if Brooklyn Nine-Nine stuck the landing with The Last Day: Part 2 . ✈️ Inside the lounge: One final Halloween Heist... because of course. Captain Holt and Jake deliver the emotional goodbye nobody was prepared for. Gina steals the show (and maybe some diamonds). Rosa, Terry, Boyle, Amy, Hitchc...

🚨 Nine-Nine! 🚨 This week we're heading to the 99th Precinct to find out if the Brooklyn Nine-Nine pilot is still an arresting piece of television. ✈️ Inside the lounge: Jake Peralta's first (and probably last) day of wearing a tie. Captain Holt's legendary entrance. Boyle's painfully awkward flirting. Rosa saying more with one look than most characters do all season. Why this pil...

🍰 Thank you for being a friend... one last time. It's time for The Landing as we revisit the emotional finale of The Golden Girls to find out if one of TV's greatest sitcoms actually stuck the landing. ✈️ On this episode: 💍 Dorothy finally gets her happy ending... and somehow still has time to roast Stanley. 😭 We relive one of the most emotional sitcom goodbyes ever (yes, we talk about...

🍰 This week we're heading to Miami to see if The Golden Girls still deserve a slice of cheesecake. ✈️ We break down the iconic pilot, meet Dorothy, Blanche, Rose and Sophia, debate whether Betty White and Rue McClanahan should've switched roles, and ask the important questions—why was there a gay cook who , and how many savage one-liners can Sophia deliver in 25 minutes? Plus, we look at...

🚨 This week we're exposing secret government assassins, attending a prison wedding, and watching David Rosen discover his backbone approximately five minutes before disaster strikes. ✈️ On this flight: Olivia Pope finally tries to clean up the biggest mess she's ever made... herself B613 comes crashing into the daylight after seven seasons of murder, coverups, and very intense monologues...

🚨 This week we're fixing problems, threatening U.S. Attorneys, and questioning every life choice that led us to fall for a married president. ✈️ On this flight: Shonda Rhimes hits the gas and never lets up Olivia Pope becomes the coolest person on television in under 3 minutes "Gladiators in Suits" enters the TV lexicon A murder mystery gets solved... kind of? Quinn gets the weirdes...

This week in The Pilot’s Lounge: we’re graduating with Kim Possible in the series finale “Graduation Pt. 2” 🎓🌎 🚀 Ron unlocks MONKEY POWERS 🌸 Drakken accidentally saves the world with flowers 😳 Shego and Drakken become… weirdly adorable? 🎓 Bonnie gets sent to summer school in front of everyone 💀 Mr. Barkin loses his car AGAIN We break down: How fans literally saved the show from ending early...

This week in The Pilot’s Lounge: we revisit the very first mission of Kim Possible — “Crush” (June 7, 2002) 🛰️ 💥 Kim saves the world 💀 Ron loses his pants immediately 🐀 Rufus becomes an icon 🎮 Dr. Drakken tries to steal… a video game factory? ❤️ Kim turns into a disaster around Josh Mankey We break down: Why this pilot weirdly aired out of order The INSANE voice cast The elevator pitch that cr...

This week on The Pilot’s Lounge , we’re talking about The Landing — the controversial Dexter finale, “Remember the Monsters?” Did one of TV’s most iconic antiheroes stick the landing… or fly straight into a hurricane? We break down the ending that had fans screaming at their TVs in 2013 and ask the important question: was Lumberjack Dexter really the best idea they had? In this episode, we discuss...

Welcome back to The Pilot’s Lounge —where we crack open TV pilots and ask: do they still land, or should they’ve stayed grounded? This week, we’re slicing into Dexter (Showtime, Oct 1, 2006), the show that somehow convinced America to root for a serial killer with a code. It’s dark, it’s weirdly funny, and it opens with a murder that feels… disturbingly reasonable? Yeah, we’ve got thoughts. In thi...

This week on The Pilot’s Lounge , we’re breaking down The Landing of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip — “What Kind of Day Has It Been” — aka the episode where Aaron Sorkin tries to land every plane at once . There’s a baby, a hostage crisis, a near-death experience, a workplace romance reboot, and somehow… still time for speeches. We dig into whether this finale is a triumphant sendoff or a beautiful...

From amateur stand up to professional burnout! On today's episode we discuss the concentrated style of Aaron Sorkin and one of he's quickest hits, Studio 60 on the Sunsets Strip. So whether you're making it hail up in Canada or confirming that there's no one in the spotlight on Sunset, sit back, relax and get ready for take off!

Sunday Calls & The Carlton Dance: The Fresh Prince Landing Lights out. In our Fresh Prince breakdown, we’re looking at "The Landing." From Carlton running through an empty house with his pants down to the tear-jerking "You’re my son" moment between Will and Uncle Phil, we cover it all. In this episode, we discuss: The Full Circle: Will’s fear of being the same "kid fro...

Did you know Will Smith used to lip-sync his co-stars' lines? Or that the "Earth, Wind, and Fire" joke was a nod to Quincy Jones? This week, we’re dissecting the Fresh Prince pilot. We cover everything from the legendary "Carlton Dance" origins to the heartbreaking story of the actress in the shower cap. It’s a breakdown of 1990 fashion, IRS debts, and the debut of one of T...

Tea is Garbage Water: The Ted Lasso Pilot Grab your "ussies" and adjust your "Believe" signs! This week, we’re dissecting the pilot of Ted Lasso . We’re talking Roy Kent’s "dick-punching" leadership style, Rebecca’s splintered cricket bat metaphors, and the "Major League" parallels we never noticed. We also debate our "Casting What-Ifs" (could you...

Welcome to The Pilot’s Lounge, the podcast where we revisit the very first episodes of your favorite TV shows and ask the question most networks probably should have asked: should this have made it past the runway? We’re Rick and Nathan—longtime friends, lifelong TV fans, and completely unqualified network executives—breaking down pilots scene by scene to figure out what works, what crashes, and w...