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TV Watchers... it's SEASON 2 OF OZARK!  We are on the super Acela OZARK fast track! This time,  we discuss "Reparations" and "The Precious Blood of Jesus".  Listeners, we have a functional Marty and Wendy team, working together to make this casino plan a reality. Ruth's daddy, Cade, is out of jail and being creepy. Cartel lawyer shows up looking for the missing Del -...

TV Watchers,  we're wrapping up  season 1 of OZARK with a deep dive into the last three episodes!  We get a flashback to the happier and not so happier days when the Byrds made their fateful decision to go all in on money laundering for the cartel. Which immediately turns out to be a bad decision. Ruth chooses team Byrd which puts her at odds with her uncles.  Marty renews his prescription to...

On this week's OZARK: can a creepy undercover FBI agent and his hillbilly bf beat the odds and start a bait and tackle shop?? TV Watchers, this is just one of the twists and turns that have us on the edge of our seats in episode 7 of season 1: "Nest Box"!  As Petty and Russ make plans that can't possibly come to fruition, our favorite Langmore, Ruth, visits her very sinister da...

We're halfway through Ozark Season 1, and this time we're focused on everyone's favorite teen crime queen, Ruth Langmore! She goes through with her plan to take out Marty even though she's really ambivalent about it.   Marty's taking hits from all sides as the Snells smack him down over building the church and Rachel/PJ finds out he's cooking the Blue Cat's books...

Hello TV Watchers!  After a brief pause to chat about Ted Lasso Season 2, we're back on OZARK with episode 5 of season 1, "Ruling Days".  We get things kicked off with a most unwelcome gift left by the Snells at the Byrde's dock: the body of Bobby Dean. Good riddance, BD! Of course, everyone in town thinks Marty is responsible... not that they're too concerned about it.  ...

TV lovers, it's finally making time to talk about Ted Lasso Season 2! It's our wrap-up extravaganza and we leave no topic unexplored!  We're wondering why we now hate Nate,  if we like Rebecca and Sam together, and why it feels like it takes too long for the season to kick into gear.  Also, how many presents do Rebecca and Ted really have time to give out (and how bad is that Christ...

Hello, TV watchers! This week, we're chatting about episode 4 of the first season of "Ozark" - "Tonight We Improvise" - which happens to be the TV is Awesome motto! The tension is starting to ratchet up as Dell questions Marty about where his millions are. Paxil Marty needs to go into overdrive, and he drafts Ruth to help him steal a safe from Bobby Dean's office.  We...

TV watchers, this time we're talking about the third episode of Ozark (no 's') season 1, "My Dripping Sleep"! Beware:  Charlotte's got a mean right hook, and she's going to use it, even if it means not getting that job at the Blouse Barn.  FBI agent #2 offers what seems like a good deal to Marty and Wendy who can really come together as a united front when they h...

After a short summer hiatus, we are back talking all things TV! This week, we cover the second episode of OZARK Season 1: "Blue Cat". It features Paxil Marty at his most "Paxily" as he confronts the Langmores in their lair with only a pocket knife and his persuasive skills to defend himself. But before that, Wendy puches him in the face; we meet Ruth Langmore, a very smart and...

TVIA fans, we're starting a new show! This week, we begin our deep dive into the first season of OZARK with a discussion of episode 1: "Sugarwood".  First of all, why is it OZARK and not OZARK S ??  We're also wondering if Jason Bateman might be underplaying it a bit too much (why no tears, Jason?), will they give the amazing Laura Linney more to do, hooker that look "TV p...

This week, we're talking everything "Hacks"!  It's a deep dive into the buzzy first season of HBO Max's hit comedy starring the incomparable Jean Smart.  Along the way, we marvel at Jean Smart playing her own wax figure, wonder why Deborah doesn't get Twitter famous, question how Ava's joke got her canceled, and cringe over where they leave things in the big clif...

It's the first anniversary of TV is Awesome, and we're launching our second season with an episode our (and everyone's) favorite new series, "Ted Lasso"!  We talk about how much we LOVE these characters, how the show always zigs when you think it's going to zag, 'ussies', Roy Kent's egg socks, how two guitarists from KISS are a 'Frehley' (not...

It's a special bonus episode in which Lisa and Ken attempt to answer some of the big unanswered questions that have come up over the course of re-watching The Leftovers! We went to Reddit. We went to Google. We went to YouTube. Folks, we've done the research! Do we have the answers? Tune in to find out. [TV is Awesome Episode 32] Hosts: Lisa Carroll Tremblay and Ken Cornwell  Producer: C...

Listeners, we have come to the moment we've been looking forward to - and maybe also dreading a little - the SERIES finale of The Leftovers! In the "The Book of Nora", we get answers to everything... well, no, not really. It wouldn't be The Leftovers if everything was answered. BUT, we do get furious biking, fantastic old age makeup, a lovely hippie wedding in the outback, a li...

It's a very special BONUS episode on everyone's favorite new crime drama and mystery limited series, "Mare of Easttown"!  We talk about the accents (of course); the fabulous Kate Winslet, Jean Smart, and Julianne Nicholson; poor Zabel (Evan Peters); the wisdom of sending your daughter off to college across the country alone in her Prius; and how Meryl Streep wore a bathrobe to...

We're just one episode away from the series (!) finale of THE LEFTOVERS, and we've reached one of the most iconic! In "The Most Powerful Man in the World", Kevin once again makes his way back to the Cecil Hotel Bonaventure Purgatory for some adventures with possibly dead people.  Like Meg and Patti!  But not Donna Moss from THE WEST WING because she's awake now.... we&apos...

Okay, we know Laurie is certifiable, but we find out she's also "Certified" in the sixth episode of The Leftovers Season 3!  Secrets are spilled and lives are changed as we get ever closer to the "flood" which may or may not be real.  In this Laurie-centric ep, we get an unexpectedly great team up with Nora (and Matt!), a moving, but nonsensical story about a baseball game...

It's Matt vs. Laurie on the way to Aussie land in episode 5 of The Leftovers season 3: "It's a Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt World".  People, we're getting closer and close to the series finale, and this episode is jam packed! A lion sex cult on a ferry to Melbourne, Matt dropping metaphorical bombs,  a literal bomb (or a missile) launched by a very naked Frenchman, and an appear...

It's the 4th episode of The Leftovers   Season 3 - "G'Day Melbourne", and it's a rough one! Kevin and Nora face some hard truths about their relationship.... and listeners, we are NOT HAPPY about seeing their relationship implode. The trouble starts when our favorite couple jets off to Australia. Nora's not telling Kevin the whole story about why they're going (c...

We get a whole episode devoted to former Chief of Mapleton Police, Kevin Garvey Sr., in the third episode of The Leftovers, Season 3. Listeners, we're HERE FOR IT! Grandpa Kevin is up to some crazy stuff in Australia like getting stranded in the Outback, accidentally killing a perfectly nice aboriginal shaman, listening to tapes of Kevin Jr., ace reporter, and getting bitten by a poisonous sn...

We're catching up with Nora in episode 2 of season three, "Don't Be Ridiculous"! She's doing great everybody! Except, maybe she's not - which we find out when a trip to interview a not-departed Mark Linn-Baker (!) of "Perfect Strangers" fame leads her to a heartbreaking visit with Lily and a heart-to-heart with Erika. Nora reveals how and why she broke her a...

We have LOTS of thoughts about things going on in media this week, so we had to bring you a very special bonus episode of TV is Awesome! First, we talk about the "Reply All" controversy and try to parse out just what was going on behind-the-scenes at Gimlet HQ. Then, we discuss our current obsession, the Netflix True crime series, "Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel"...

Listeners, we've reached season 3 of The Leftovers ! In "The Book of Kevin,"  the action picks up 3 years after the events of "I Live Here Now," and everyone is happy, happy, happy! Except that Lily is nowhere to be seen, The West Wing's Donna Moss is leaving, Laurie and John are together (yuck) and scamming people (of course), and Kevin has a regular practice of near...

Meg's plan goes into action with a bang in the finale of The Leftovers Season 2 - "I Live Here Now"! Meg is skulking around the campgrounds with Tommy in tow while Kevin finds himself back among the living after being dead for 8-hours... and that's just the start! It's an episode full of surprises and revelations including the return to consciousness of The West Wing'...

It's the return of a character we didn't even know we wanted back, Meg (!) in the penultimate episode of The Leftovers - Season 2 - "Ten Thirteen".  Yes, listeners, our sweet Meg has returned, and she's taking no prisoners. We get a little rewind on her relationship with her mother, see what drove her to join the Guilty Remnant, and what turned her into the really scary Me...