WGA – The Toy Department

In Episode 356, Madden and Kolsky are both exhausted and threatening each other with falling asleep mid-sentence as they prepare to discuss:

This week’s episode of The Challenge: USA Season 2 (2:15) and how the change to an individual game changed the dynamic in the house…
A trip to the movie theater to see Barbie (22:55) and how Greta Gerwig snuck a feminist text into the brains of the masses…
Adam Sandler and family in the Netflix movie You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah (35:15) and how it’s the most Jewish teen comedy our hosts have ever seen (and also very enjoyable)…
The surprising and intense Special Ops: Lioness (45:55) and how the Taylor Sheridan/Paramount+ galaxy continues to be more than expected…
Some disparate thoughts on the various Hollywood strikes (50:45) and some of the issues at hand…
Homework for next week (1:03:15), including: another episode of The Challenge: USA Season 2, The Changeling on Apple TV+, the second season of Welcome to Wrexham on Hulu and another season of The Morning Show on Apple TV+…

In Episode 351, Madden and Kolsky get right into things after some apologies for not completing their homework, covering:

Netflix’s new mediocrity The Out-Laws (1:10) and how the new Netflix creative model seems to be flailing at best and outright failing at worst…
Marvel’s new series Secret Invasion (9:35) and how, once again, one of our hosts liked the Marvel stuff better than the other (lol) along with a discussion of Disney+ and its major properties…
A rave review for season two of The Bear (26:00) and just how few TV shows are operating at that high of a level…
A wrap-up of season six of Black Mirror (32:45) and how the new season doesn’t quite follow the traditional Black Mirror formula, to varying degrees of appreciation from our hosts…
A few minutes on The Challenge and Top Chef (49:30), the two show favorites that will be returning relatively soon…
Homework for TWO weeks from now (55:30), including: the new Negro Leagues documentary The League (available to rent digitally), the Wilt Chamberlain doc Goliath on Showtime/Paramount Plus, the BJ Novak movie Vengeance on Amazon Prime Video, the return of Justified on Hulu and the Wham! documentary on Netflix…

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