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The Toy Department – Episode 300!!

  By toyAdmin | May 20, 2022 - 12:13 pm | Uncategorized
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In Episode 300 (!!!) Madden and Kolsky have too much to talk about for idle banter, so it’s directly into:

  • The series finale of Ozark (0:45) which has Kolsky DEEP in his feelings…
  • The return of Hacks on HBO Max (28:20) and the specific lane that it fills to great effect…
  • The new album A Light for Attracting Attention (32:05) from The Smile, the newest project from Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood (featuring a tremendous drummer named Tom Skinner)…
  • Kendrick Lamar’s new album Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers (36:30) and how Kendrick continues to make compelling, interesting, deep music, warts and all…
  • The latest from The Challenge: All-Stars 3 (54:15), the mystery of potential replacement players and how some competitors need to lock in or go home…
  • The last Top Chef: Houston episode before a venue change (1:10:55), and the no-good-very-bad week that ended one lovable chef’s run…
  • Homework for next Friday (1:25:05), including: more Top Chef: Houston, more of The Challenge: All-Stars 3, Amazon’s new The Kids In The Hall series, the Hulu series Conversations with Friends and a check-in on Better Call Saul after its mid-season finale…

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The Toy Department – Episode 291

  By toyAdmin | March 4, 2022 - 5:56 pm | Uncategorized
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In Episode 291, Madden and Kolsky return from a Kolsky-forced hiatus to celebrate (or denigrate) all the pop culture they consumed while away, specifically:

  • The premiere of Top Chef Houston (2:25) and who the guys fell in love with in the first episode, plus thoughts on the first elimination and potential favorites to win…
  • The second season of The Righteous Gemstones (23:15) and how Madden is enjoying a slight shift in content…
  • The end of AppleTV+’s The Afterparty (24:55) and how ultimately it’s just a really good hang, even if it’s not always laugh-out-loud funny…
  • Season two of Euphoria (29:00) and how both hosts love this completely insane and wildly unbelievable show…
  • A quick take on The Girl Before (45:30) and how its particular brand of psychosexual melodrama is less than totally appealing…
  • A few thoughts on the Oscar-nominated film The Power of the Dog (47:00) and how neither host found it enjoyable, but for very different reasons than Sam Elliott…
  • Netflix’s new sensation Inventing Anna (52:15) and how it’s a very Shonda Rhimes show with some great acting and a fascinating story to tell…
  • The utterly “meh” Soderbergh joint Kimi (53:30) and how somehow it’s an empty enough effort to make both hosts indifferent towards Zoe Kravitz…
  • Potential future homeworks (55:30) Superpumped: The Battle for Uber and the Apple TV+ show Severance, directed by Ben Stiller; but those go on the back burner for now because we have…
  • Homework for next Friday (57:10), including: HBO’s Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, the Oscar-nominated movie Nightmare Alley, the return of the original Law & Order and the new Prime Video cartoon The Boys Presents: Diabolical…

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The Toy Department – Episode 208

  By toyAdmin | April 9, 2020 - 10:53 pm | Uncategorized
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In Episode 208, Derek Madden and Matt Kolsky discuss the younger Kolsky’s new walking ability before moving on to:

  • This week’s episode of Top Chef (3:35), how Derek’s fantasy team is falling apart and the Mount Rushmore of potential winners…
  • This week’s episode of The Challenge: Total Madness (23:05) and how it left the guys wanting more of the show’s mainstays…
  • The HBO Sports documentary The Scheme (38:05) and how the main takeaway was an embarrassing job by federal authorities…
  • The Netflix sports documentary Screwball (48:15) and how it told an insane story in an interesting and enjoyable way…
  • The film The End of the Tour (56:15) and how it’s a heck of a good watch if you like watching a couple of dudes talk for two hours…
  • The old Showtime/Spike Lee pilot Sucker Free City (1:00:10) and how it makes you long for a series that never happened…
  • The end of the third season of Netflix’s Ozark (1:03:40) and how wonderful and entertaining a show it continues to be…
  • Homework for next week (1:12:35), including: new episodes of Top Chef & The Challenge, the return of Killing Eve, the fourth season of HBO’s Insecure, the new HBO series Run, FX/Hulu’s new Cate Blanchett show Mrs. America, and the Netflix comedy Brews Brothers…

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