The SHOW Show: with Sweets & Slaney

Two more Netflix originals on the pod, this week! The new season of "Love" went up last Friday, so we'll cover that. Also "Lovesick," the British formula sitcom also known as "Scrotal Recall." A rather impassioned discussion is had about the gravity of the word 'love' in general. The show gets pretty real couple times this week, actually! As always, there are plenty of other side stories! Tweet yo...

It's the Noah Hawley Show Show this week (who'da thunk?). "Legion" totally breaks the mould and proves that comic-book TV doesn't have to be so formula-driven. "Fargo," which has its third season beginning next month, is a bit of a different beast as well. As always, there are plenty of other side stories! Tweet your thoughts to @showshowpodcast!

Shows about inter-dimensional time travel are what's up this week! "Doctor Who" (as tackled from the start of the revived series) is a huge under-taking, but we went in blind and chatted about what we saw. The other show is "Rick & Morty" and has very few additional similarities. Also included is a check-in on the Infinite Bookclub (special credit to The Decemberists for the opening music), discus...

Two brand new babies for this week's podcast, and both of them premiered on HBO, this past Sunday. First covered is the Apatow-helmed "Crashing," with Pete Holmes, perhaps best-known for the You Made it Weird Podcast (special thanks for the opening clip, featuring a Sweets name-drop). Second up is the spooky and chatty "Big Little Lies," starring some of Hollywood's top leading-ladies. Plus, Slane...

Full disclosure, this is not an episode of The Show Show! Slaney's on some beach somewhere, and Sweets is snowbound. But a sad thing happened in the world of Canadian media and story-telling today, and this seemed as a good place as any to get out some of those feelings. Please enjoy some thoughts on a hero of the form, the wonderful Stuart McLean. Tweet your thoughts to @showshowpodcast!

If pressed to name one, it would seem the theme of this week's podcast is literal blood-lust... The hot new one is Netflix's zombie-comedy, Santa Clarita Diet, with Drew Barrymore. The "classic" is True Blood, which the Hollywood Reporter risked their entire reputation listing as one of the 100 greatest shows of all time. JK... Although, not really. Plus, chats about the Superbowl, SNL, mid-Winter...

Both of this week's shows of focus are Amazon-orginals (these are interesting times)! The first is the critically-acclaimed Transparent. The other is Woody Allen's long-awaited television foray: Crisis in Six Scenes. Sweets and Slaney also test out a new way of making sure everybody's up to speed on the episodes of discussion! Plus, the Superbowl, La La Land, Trump, and as always, plenty of other...

What's more classic TV than the family sitcom? Perhaps the best two on television right now involve one, who's lead actress just won a Golden Globe, and another which has already made its way onto the almighty Top 100 list! Aside from Black-ish and Modern Family, there's also the Oscar nominations to cover, but as we know, there weren't a whole lot of surprises there. As always, there are plenty o...

Sweets realizes a long-time longing with Netflix's new adaptation of Lemony Snicket's "A Series of Unfortunate Events." The other whacky, dark action-comedy in the hot-seat is the latest development of Douglas Adams' "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency." Also some pre-inauguration talk, a decent helping of pretentious literary talk, and as always, plenty of other side stories! Tweet your thou...

Talk of the Golden Globes broadcast took up so much time, there was only room enough to cover one pilot this week. But it was an odd one! "The Young Pope" is just catching on. There's definitely something there - let's find out what it is. As always, there are plenty of side stories! Tweet your thoughts to @showshowpodcast! Enjoy!

Somehow, our year-in-review/year-of-anticipation show managed to completely over-look the latest Netflix thriller to catch people's attention. There's a very good chance "The OA" is going to be the next Stranger Things, so get in on it while it's still new. The classic covered is perhaps the origin of suspense in TV: "The Twilight Zone." We also go over some of the Golden Globe nominees before thi...

No new pilots to discuss for this special New Year's Eve edition of the Show Show. Instead, we offer you a year-in-review for 2016's television offering. What's just as exciting is what's to come in the New Year! As usual, there are lots of side-stories! Tweet your thoughts to @showshowpodcast! Have a fantastic and safe count-down! See you in 2017!

We attacked the typical format pretty loosely, for this week's Show Show. We specifically studied three classic Christmas TV specials: "A Charlie Brown Christmas," "A Muppet Family Christmas," & "How the Grinch Stole Christmas." But all sorts of other Christmas themes worked their way in - and not JUST Christmas (though if you care to Listen to Sweets' Christmas novella, here's a link [http://tiny...

There's no shortage of shows about families! But it's a broad spectrum, as evidenced by this week's pairing of shows. The hot one moms everywhere are lovin' is "This is Us." The classic is "The Brady Bunch." Coincidentally, both pilots featured somebody who recently had a rather sudden death... Such is 2016, I suppose. As usual, there are lots of side-stories! Tweet your thoughts to @showshowpodca...

The sitcom that unveiled the great comedic genius of Robin Williams is under the microscope this week! Mork & Mindy is kind of a show about unlikely duos, so it seemed as good a fit as any for our buzz-worthy show of the week: Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party (yes, that is strange). As usual, there are lots of side-stories! In fact, it was another Show Show of late starts. Tweet your thoughts...

The show people are buzzing about this week happens to have ended eight years ago. But with it's reboot kicking off, on Netflix, this Friday, Gilmore Girls had to be explored. Golden Girls just has a similar name and is also a television classic. Otherwise, the two shows, in this podcast, have very little in common, other than that girls are centric to both - though (see title), HBO's "Girls" wasn...

Both of the shows covered in this week's podcast are cult classics from Comedy Central. Both have been lauded for having a lot of balls in the face of constantly-troubling social climates. One's still on and the other was barely on at all, and yet both of them have been especially relevant this week. Dave Chappelle hosted SNL, so we chatted about the institution Chappelle's Show was, and South Par...

As power shifts on the political thrones of our planet, this week, we covered royalty on the podcast. The buzz-show is The Crown. To contrast it starkly, we chose The Fresh Prince (get it?) of Bel Air as the other, which also provided an opportunity to explore why one should or shouldn't trust Will Smith. As part of the typical side-track, Slaney brings up a fabulous video that dissects David Fost...

Wow. There was a whole lot of off-topic chat in this week's Show Show! Naturally, even an election that's not our's is going to take some conversational precedent when it's this big and this eminent. In the spirit of there being two presidential candidates seeming to basically be default appointees, we've selected two shows about a protagonist who becomes POTUS by default - Veep and Designated Sur...

Back with a couple hot ones, and evokers of some pretty powerful emotions! Yes, we chat about The Walking Dead, including some of the scandals of the most recent season premiere, but don't worry, there's a fair warning built into the show, telling you exactly when to duck out and avoid spoilers. The other one is Black Mirror... Which left Sweets a mess. Couldn't spoil it if we tried! As usual, the...

The hot-button show this week is HBO's Westworld - originally a movie written by Michael Crichton, now a series executive produced by JJ Abrams and Jonathan Nolan. It's got a sweet cast and a totally mind-bending premise. The classic is The West Wing. The two shows have very little in common but we really wanted to call this episode "West Show Ever." As usual, there are lots of side-stories! Tweet...

In the spirit of Luke Cage, we took on the genre of all shows SUPER, for this week's podcast. The other show we focussed on heavily was Arrow, which premiered its new season tonight. But naturally, a whole discussion about Marvel and DC and their various places in entertainment unfolds. As usual, there are lots of side-stories! Tweet your thoughts to @showshowpodcast! Enjoy!

Safe to say this is a tough one to tackle in just one episode. So, we came at it very personally! Sweets and Slaney have a good chat about their experience with the greatest comedy institution of all time. As usual, there are lots of side-stories! Tweet your thoughts to @showshowpodcast! Enjoy!

A few episodes ago, we made our predictions for who would win TV's most coveted prize this year. On Sunday night, we got the results! In this episode, Sweets and Slaney chat about the 68th Annual Emmy Awards, Kimmel's hosting job, and the general sense about the broadcast. As usual, there are lots of side-stories! Tweet your thoughts to @showshowpodcast! Enjoy!

Once again, going off the list of classics and chatting about two of the shows folks have been water-cooler-ing about in the last month or so. Full disclosure, we were pretty cramped for time and decided to release the podcast unedited. We think it worked alright! As usual, there are lots of side-stories! Tweet us your thoughts to @showshowpodcast! Enjoy!