The SHOW Show: with Sweets & Slaney

Contrasting bleakness with optimism in this week's pairing! "Maid" stars Margaret Qualley as a single mother down on her luck, who takes a job as a house-maid. "The Wonder Years" is a reimagining of the 80's classic dramedy, and takes place in 1968 Alabama. Also chats about the return of Red and Kitty Forman, the surprises of Kim K hosting SNL, whether or not Memo is a good title for a movie witho...

On the hot-seat this week: BJ Novak's satircal anthology series, "The Premise," and the new Netflix horror series, "Midnight Mass." Also chats about a very soft launch for the new SNL season, the prime of Cameron Crowe, new conclusions in the Zodiak investigation, and much much more! Tweet your thoughts to @ShowShowPodcast.

No question, the biggest show of the week is Netflix's brutal action-horror series "Squid Game." And also, kind of quietly, Apple TV+ released their fantasy epic based on Isaac Asimov's "Foundation." So we talked about those two. Also chats about where Fast Times at Ridgemont High fits in today's culture, the baffling Super Mario movie, the top-streamed Netflix Originals, and much much more! Tweet...

We firmly avow that no previously-stated commitments to an in-house policy prohibiting the analysis of television productions involing Ryan Murphy were breached in the making of this podcast. Any discussions of American Crime Story: Impeachment, or other Murphy productions, were candid and divergent from the traditional Show Show Podcast format. Chats about The Emmys though! Also, the Fantastic Be...

Two very different vibes in the shows of focus this week! "Awkwafina is Nora From Queens" just started its second season so we went back and laughed through the pilot. "Scenes From a Marriage" has zero laughs but is a noble modernization of the 1970's Bergman piece. Also chats about Sweets' new novel "Short Mercy," Slaney's over-exertions, the untimely passings of several awesome stars, and much m...

Introducing the debut novel by Colin Sweets Arsenault, Short Mercy, available now. Amazon stock is scant, but Indigo ships. Buy local when possible! Links here: https://www.colinsweets.com/ Thank you SO much in advance for your support.

A new kind of story-telling covered on this week's Showsh, via a fairly thorough chat about Kanye West's much-antipated new album, "Donda." More traditionally, we also watched the pilot for "Only Murders in the Building" which is a crime-comedy starring an unlikely trio of likeable folks. Also chats about the big Jeopardy oust of the week, the commodification of dating in 90's teen movies, Brookly...

A couple shows with really solid casts up for discussion this week. "Nine Perfect Strangers" is Nicole Kiman and Liane Moriarty joining forces for another eerie suburban ensenble drama. "The Chair" is Sandra Oh running the English department of a rickety old university. Also chats about the self-hiring and self-firing of a certain complicated game show exec, expectations for The Matrix Resurrectio...

Two beloved creators bring us new shows this week, and both are funny with some definite weight. "Mr. Corman" is written, directed by, and stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and is about a fifth grade teacher who struggles with anxiety. "Reservation Dogs" is Taika Waititi's new ensemble crime-comedy, co-created with Sherlin Harjo, and features four Native American kids living on the reservation and tryin...

Hey, look! We did another century. Big thanks to the team from Jade Explains a Thing for all their contributions this week. Lots to look back on from the last hundo episodes, and it's an absolute pleasure to do so. In additional to the retrospect, also chats about The White Lotus, the Jeopardy twist, ScarJo V. Mickey, Brendan Fraser getting his due, and much much more! Tweet your thoughts to @Show...

Both hot-seat shows this week are about surgeons, and that's just about the extent of their commonality. "Schmigadoon" is a fantasy musical/comedy on Apple TV+, and "Dr. Death" is a podcast-turned-limited-series that dramatizes the real life misdoings of an evil medical practitioner. Also chats about the prospect of a new Kanye album, the pleasant surprise of A Quiet Place: Part II, an entirely di...

Sweets here to get all his thoughts on the record, having just completed his first Mad Men binge. It's long overdue, of course, and if you have any more sophisticated thoughts, or thoughts that have germinated over the last 6 years, you can always tweet @ShowShowPodcast! Spoilers abound as Sweets recaps the entire seven-season run, and muses on his feelings about what was "pitched" to him as one o...

Looking at the first ever Disney Pixar TV series (unless you count the 2D Buzz Lightyear of Star Command), "Monsters At Work," on Disney+! Also chats about Ted Lasso and Bo Burnham cleaning up Emmy noms, Space Jam 2 not having the best critical outlook so far, Anthony Bourdain being brought back to life, and much much more! Tweet your thoughts to @ShowShowPodcast!

A movie on the showsh this week! "Dead Poets Society" is one of those films that neither of us could really explain not having seen. But we both always wanted to, and our feelings afterward were slightly different from expected. Also chats about the new season of I Think You Should Leave, the on-going Tarantino press tour, a certain unfortunate conviction overturned, and much much more! Tweet your...

We were very keen to see Annie Murphy in something less fuzzy-wuzzy than her wonderful role on Schitt's Creek, and "Kevin Can F*** Himself" is definitely that. The other show of focus this week was the DC Comics adaption of "Sweet Tooth" on Netflix. Also chats about the stakes of Luca, Conan's final week, the conversational pressures of haircuts and dental appointments, and much much more! Tweet y...

Hot in the house, so we took the pod to the back deck and had lots to catch up on. "Loki" is the newest MCU/Disney+ rig, and "Hacks" is the third Jean Smart show of the last 18 months. Also chats about how the Beatles are good (did you know?), Batman's apparent coital stagnations, whether or not the streamers lie about their numbers, and much much more! Tweet your thoughts to @ShowShowPodcast!

What even IS comedy? What are genres? What are labels? Who cares? Bo Burnham's new special is some kind of wild and it resulted in a long and in-depth discussion on this week's pod. Also chats about the Friends Reunion, the prospect of a Wedding Crashers sequel, the best comedies of the century so far, and much much more! Tweet your thoughts to @ShowShowPodcast!

Lots to catch up on this week, including the pilots for Topher Grace's big return to network sitcoms, with 'Home Economics,' and the Peakcock post-girl-group comedy, 'Girls5Eva.' Also chats about where Jurassic Parks stands with people now, the vibe Adam Duritz tends to give off, Wonka, the loss of one of the great drummers of a generation, and much much more! Tweet your thoughts to @ShowShowPodca...

As I write this blurb, I realize we never came back around to discuss the turmoil at the HFPA. Dang, and I so wanted to commend Cruise for giving back those trophies. Next time, I guess. Instead we talked about Kate Winslet's HBO turn on "Mare of Easttown." Also chats about John Mulaney's very public personal life, the growing cast of Knives Out 2, the ending of a certain daytime talk show reign,...

The wonderful world of Michael Schur brings us another funny show about small town bureaocrats happlessly trying their hardest: Ed Helms stars in Rutherford Falls. The other show of focus this week is Freeform's Cruel Summer, which tells an eerie story about a teenage girl's descent into public ruin after she's linked to a local tragedy. Also chats about why the Oscars didn't work, the stunt-casti...

We've been relegated back into isolation! Thankfully, still able to bring you a pod about Prime's "Made for Love," starring Cristin Milioti, and John Stamos' new joint, "Big Shot," on the pl005. Also chats about the Oscars this weekend, How I Met Your Father, the return of Master of None, and much much more! Tweet your thoughts to @ShowShowPodcast!

Could be a tricky night's sleep after watching the first episode of "Them" on Prime. But that's what we do on the pod, and it was the new show of the week! Also chats about the push for Levar to host Jeopardy, the zealousness of Bridgerton's slate, a certain discouragable purchase of Colin's, and much much more! Tweet your thoughts to @ShowShowPodcast!

We really dropped the ball in failing to pair last week's hockey show with this week's hockey show. Nevertheless, this week it's Beartown, alongside Nasim Pedrad's new comedy, Chad. Also chats about leaving final impressions, the RJP departure from Bridgerton, the mortality of Citizen Kane, and much much more! Tweet your thoughts to @ShowShowPodcast

Together we've completed a full surveillance of the entire Ducks extended universe, up to and including the new series on Disney+. Some stuff doesn't hold up as well as you'd hope. Other stuff can pleasantly surprise you. Also chats about Slaney's completion of the Dry Quarter, video rentals, the developments of both big murder-mystery franchises, and much more more! Tweet your thoughts to @ShowSh...

So much ground to cover this week, including the debuts of two of the biggest and most cinematic shows of the year so far. "The Stand" is on CBS All Access and Amazon Prime, and is a modern adaptation of Stephen King's 1978 post-apocalyptic epic. "TFATWS" is, of course, the second MCU series to hit the pl005. Also chats about the Cinnamon Toast Shrimp debacle, the je ne sais quoi of Driver's Licen...