network TV – The Toy Department

In Episode 288, Madden and Kolsky have a little laugh about the sadness of missing The Challenge before getting networky with:

The underwhelming How I Met Your Father on Hulu (2:20) and how it’s super networky, despite being a streaming-only show, and mediocre-at-best…
The more enjoyable Abbott Elementary on ABC/Hulu (8:25) and where it succeeds, though mileage may vary person to person on really loving it…
Fox/Hulu’s Pivoting (13:15) and the irrepressible charm of its cast…
The new Duplass joint Somebody Somewhere on HBO (20:25) and how nice it is to have the brothers back in their sincere, heartwarming wheelhouse…
The beginning of the final season of Netflix’s Ozark (29:00) and how the stakes just keep getting higher on a really great TV program…
Some thoughts on arguably the greatest weekend of NFL playoff football ever (40:55) and where we’re headed now that it’s down to the final four…
Homework for next Tuesday (59:15), including: Single Drunk Female on Freeform/Hulu, the film The Last Duel (now on HBO Max), The Afterparty on Apple TV+ and Netflix’s new Kristen Bell show The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window… plus hopefully another great weekend of NFL Playoffs!!

In Episode 184, Derek Madden and Matt Kolsky are on the clock for a quickie so they dive right into:

The first network TV show of the week, as The Good Place (2:40) returns for it’s fourth and final season…
Network TV show 2 — Stumptown (8:30) starring the charismatic and convincing Cobie Smulders…
Wrapping up network TV with Mixed-ish (16:50), a thoughtful comedy about race in America…
The new film Hustlers (23:20) and how it does a phenomenal job of exactly what it sets out to do (and also DAAAAAAMN J-Lo!!)…
Homework for next week (30:35), including: Netflix’s Sacha Baron-Cohen drama The Spy (seriously, we’re really gonna watch it this time), the new season of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the return of Big Mouth on Netflix, the new Diego Maradona documentary on HBO, plus the show The Politician and the Between Two Ferns movie (both on Netflix)…

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