Normal People – The Toy Department

In Episode 301, Madden and Kolsky are dealing with the world in their own ways and also by focusing on the toy department of life, specifically:

The return of the Kids in the Hall (2:25) and how their stuff is just as good and funny as it was the first time around…
A check-in on Better Call Saul (10:55), the guys’ reactions to the first half of the final season and expectations for the final six episodes…
The Hulu series Conversations with Friends (23:50) and how it is from the same vein as Lenny Abrahamson’s previous series Normal People, which is to say very deep and interesting…
The latest from The Challenge: All Stars 3 (35:30) after an epic elimination and an unwelcome addition to the cast…
The penultimate episode of Top Chef: Houston (51:00) and the incredibly high level of cookery that has characterized the last few weeks…
A few thoughts on the NBA (59:55) as we head towards a likely Finals matchup between the Celtics and Warriors…
Homework for next Friday (1:13:00), including: the finalé of Top Chef: Houston, more of The Challenge: All-Stars 3, the Rhys Darby stand-up special Mystic Time Bird on Amazon Prime, the HBO Max show Our Flag Means Death and Disney+’s new Obi-Wan Kenobi show…

In Episode 212, Derek Madden and Matt Kolsky dive right into:

This week’s restaurant wars episode of Top Chef (1:40) and the unsuspenseful upset that it delivered…
This week’s episode of The Challenge (17:10) and the many dangers of Total Madness…
Two more episodes of The Last Dance (34:50) and the singular maniacal drive of Michael Jordan…
The return of Showtime’s Billions (52:40) and whether there’s enough growth to keep the show’s momentum going…
HBO’s new skater show Betty (56:15) and whether a pilot episode with no pilot can grab your interest…
Upload on Amazon Prime (1:00:40), where it falls short and why it remains a reasonably enjoyable watch…
Hulu’s new show Normal People (1:04:20) and its unique, perhaps novelistic style…
Homework for next week (1:08:10), including: new episodes of Top Chef & The Challenge, two more episodes of The Last Dance, finishing this season of Brockmire, the second season of Dead to Me and Jerry Seinfeld’s new stand-up special (plus HBO’s new show I Know This Much is True, which was not mentioned)…

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