Today's Episode

Catching Lightning is a new docuseries on SHOWTIME about a UFC fighter behind the largest bank heist in modern English history. The show includes never-before-heard prison phone calls with Murray, as well as security footage from the heist. On this podcast, we review Part 1 of the 4 part series, reference the reviews, and play some games. Tune in and take a listen!

"Hiding Hand Principle," is the title of the first installment of a new, seven-part series on Netflix called Transatlantic. The show is based on a book that fictionalizes the real accounts of an American agency in France during WW2, the Emergency Rescue Committee (ERC), which worked to help refugees escape the Nazi controlled Europe. On this podcast, we discuss our thoughts on the show,...

Tiny Beautiful Things is a new Hulu series starring Kathryn Hahn as a writer who reluctantly becomes a popular advice columnist during a period of turmoil in her life. The story is loosely inspired by Cheryl Strayed's life, using her collection of "Dear Sugar" essays were published back in 2012. We discuss the pilot, the best and worst parts, and run through some trivia. Enjoy, and...

A unique spin on The Joe Schmo Show, Amazon is offering a new reality television hoax show on it's free platform, Freevee, called Jury Duty .  The eight-episode series follows the Ronald Gladden, a 29-year-old man, unaware that he is surrounded by actors and that the case he's been called to serve on is entirely fake. On this podcast, we chalk down our top five favorite things and five l...

Beef  is a new, ten-episode series on Netflix produced by A24. The dramedy stars Steven Yeun and Ali Wong in a road rage revenge story/social satire. The first episode is titled after a quote by Werner Herzog, "The Birds Don't Sing, They Screech in Pain". The full installment is about 40 minutes long, and has been met with critical acclaim from critics all over. Tune in as we determ...

The 1978 musical romcom starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, Grease , which spawned a sequel forty years ago, now follows up with a prequel series on Paramount+.  The first two episodes of Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies have a combined runtime of an 100 minutes, and on this podcast we break down what worked and what didn't, our rating, and some background trivia on the Grease world...

Join us as we discuss a little known Canadian drama called Essex County, which just released its third episode Sunday, April 2nd. Along with breaking down the plot, we play some trivia games and give out our rating. The show is based on collection of graphic short stories by Jeff Lemire and tackles themes of loss, family, and identity through a set of interconnected families. It stars Molly Parker...

Tune in as we discuss  the first three episodes of the BBC/FX miniseries, Great Expectations . Adapted from Charles Dickens' 13th novel, and written by Steven Knight ( Peaky Blinders ), the show is a dark coming of age story following Pip Gargery as he grows up in the early 1800s and tries to navigate the complexities of love, social status, and his own identity. In our conversation, we compa...

Royal Crackers is an Adult Swim animated comedy created by Jason Ruiz. The pilot we’re talking over is titled "Crumbling Empire." Aside from discussing the our thoughts on the plot, we play some trivia games and compare this sitcom to others in the same field. Welcome to Today's Episode!

Today we discuss the first episode of Netflix’s docuseries Emergency NYC, a spin off/continuation of Lenox Hill, which came out March 29th. The episode we are examining is 40 minutes and titled “You’re not Alone.” It follows the lives of emergency responders across the city. In this podcast, we answer questions, play some games, and share what we learned. Enjoy and welcome to Today's Episode....

Unstable is a father-son workplace comedy streaming on Netflix. The eight-episode series dropped Thursday, March 30th. It is about an eccentric billionaire, and head of a successful biotech company, who loses his wife and starts acting erratically. This ultimately leads him to reconnecting with his son, Jackson.  The small cast is led by real life father-son duo Rob Lowe and Jown Owen Lowe, and wa...

The Big Door Prize , Apple TV's new plausi-supernatural-comedy-drama that takes a page right out of Black Mirror's playbook, about a little town and a new mysterious machine which manages to upend the mundane lives of the citizens of Deerfield, came out March 29th. The cast includes IT Crowd alum, Chris O’Dowd, first season BMS alum Gabrielle Dennis, as well as newcomers Sammy Fourlas an...

You don’t have to have ever seen Riverdale on The CW to know the show is an over the top, convoluted, absurd teen drama that makes the plot from Lost look like a straightforward roadmap. Not only is the series infamous for its ridiculous storytelling, this year, in their final season, the writers opted to reset everything, mind wiping the characters, sticking them back in high school, and transpor...

Rabbit Hole begins like many heist shows and crime dramas, then it evolves into something more twisted and mind bending. In this review, we tackle the premier episodes now streaming on Paramount+. The main character, John Weir (Kiefer Sutherland), plays a man on the run, trying to figure out who is after him. The show hosts a big cast and packs a lot in 80 some minutes. Tune in to hear us flesh it...

The Night Agent is an American action-thriller television series created by Shawn Ryan ( The Shield, Lie to Me ) based on the novel of the same name by Matthew Quirk. It premiered on Netflix on March 23, 2023. The first episode is titled “The Call."  On this podcast, we discuss the plot, the upcoming possible writers strike, and give our rating. Tune in and enjoy!

Digman! is an animated comedy created by Neil Campbell and Andy Samberg, starring Andy Samberg doing a Nicolas Cage impression of a down and out archaeologist looking to revive his career and reputation. The pilot we’re discussing is 22 minutes long, came out March 22nd on Comedy Central, and is executively produced by The Lonely Island. Tune in to hear our break down of the episode. Enjoy!

Agent Elvis is an adult animated action-comedy series created by Priscilla Presley and John Eddie. The show embellishes the real life events of Elvis’s career with a completely invented narrative that the man was actually a spy in disguise.  It spans from 1968 to 1973, close to the same period as our other recent podcast review, Endeavour. Tune in to hear our take on the 10 episodes, some strange...

Koala Man is an Australian-American animated series streaming on Hulu, consisting of 8 episodes and starring Michael Cusack, Sarah Snook, Demi Lardner, and a host of other well known comedians. The show is about a guy named Kevin who dresses up in a Koala suit to protect the small town of Dapto. Things get wonky fast. We cover the full first season. Tune in and enjoy!

AMC and Bob Odenkirk have teamed up, once again, for a 40-minute comedy drama called Lucky Hank .  The pilot we’re discussing was written by the series co-creators Paul Lieberstein and Aaron Zelman. The plot revolves around a sarcastic English professor teaching unexceptional kids at an unremarkable college, frustrated with his lack of career success after living under his fathers shadow all his l...

Extrapolations is a show exploring the imminent future of humankind if we continue on the current trajectory of global heating through our emission of greenhouse gasses. The series premiered last Friday, on Apple TV+, with three episodes. It stars Daveed Diggs, Sienna Miller, Kit Harrington as well as surprising guest stars like Meryl Streep, David Schwimmer, and Mathew Rhys. Tune in to hear our p...

We review the final season of Endeavour , the British detective drama created by Russell Lewis as a prequel to the Inspector Morse series. Endeavour first aired in 2012 and followed the early career of the eponymous detective in the 1960s, solving fictional crimes around Oxford University. The series has been widely acclaimed for its gripping storylines, strong performances, and attention to perio...

Today we’re looking at the full first season of History of the World, Part II, the sequel to Mel Brooks’ cult classic 1981 comedy History of the World, Part 1. The eight episode Hulu series premiered March 6th, and collectively features over 100 comedians, most of which have turned up in other shows we’ve reviewed, BUT the wildest thing about this project is that it is narrated by 96-year-old Broo...

When you die in school, you stay in school. That's the basic premise of the Paramount+ new streaming show, School Spirits. The show stars Cobra Kai  alumnus Peyton List as Maddie Nears, a student who dies in the boiler room of her high school and is left with the mystery of discovering the cause of her own death. Easy comparisons would be shows like Veronica Mars, Ghosts, and Dead Like Me . O...

Rain Dogs is a British series airing on HBO about a woman and her daughter struggling to survive on no income, no prospects, and no place to stay. Despite the massively depressing circumstances, the show works as a situational comedy because it’s characters are impervious to shame, and absurd enough not to get bogged down in their problems. The pilot of Rain Dogs is titled: "It’s Hard to Be a...

Daisy Jones & The Six is a miniseries based off the 2019 best seller of the same name, written by Taylor Jenkins Reid. The show is loosely based on Fleetwood Mac, following the rise and fall of a fictional rock group in the 1970s. The three segments we’re looking at are titled: “Track 1: Come and Get it, Track 2: I’ll take you there, and Track 3: Someone Saved My Life tonight.” Tune in and Enj...