In Episode 92, Matt Kolsky and Derek Madden waste no time with pleasantries as they jump directly into:
- A heated debate over the second season of Netflix’s Stranger Things (0:45) and whether it is in fact any good at all…
- The new Noah Baumbach film The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (27:15) and whether it qualifies as bad-time entertainment or somehow rises above that distinction…
- Madden’s experience at the Arcade Fire concert (38:40) and how all things must end…
- The 2017 World Series (48:10), the compelling storylines and the future of baseball…
- The series finale of HBO’s The Deuce (58:55), Kolsky’s confusion over the length of the season and the storytelling style of David Simon and company…
- The first two episodes of season eight of The Walking Dead (1:06:30) and how the show seems to have lost its direction and momentum…
- Homework for next week (1:13:30) including: the new (apparent) network sensation The Good Doctor, the also-about-an-autistic-character Atypical, and finishing Netflix’s Mindhunter before an interview with Stacey Roca, the actress who plays Nancy Tench…
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