#70 – True Detective: Sports Country

The one where time is a flat circle, especially when it comes to Hulu.

We’re closing the case on our Cozy (and/or Spooky) Winter Mysteries Tour with this winter’s buzziest, prestige-iest detective show: HBO’s True Detective: Night Country. Premiering a decade after the original season— with a whole new creator and showrunner— it’s a show that poses the question “So, like, what is a True Detective, man?” [Insert your best McConaughey voice here.]

But first! Will cartoon villain David Zaslav ruthlessly murder Coyote vs. ACME… again?! Can Taylor Swift save Disney+? Can hastily retooling a Moana streaming series as Moana 2 save Disney’s holiday box office? Can anyone explain what Bob Iger is talking about?? And whoops! They made a Sports Hulu!

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📺 Review: True Detective Night Country

🚨 Spoiler Alert: First 2 Episodes (starting at 36:38) 🚨

  • Total Episodes: Anthology, 6 Episodes
  • New Episodes Drop: Sundays at 9 PM ET (through February 18)
  • Where to Watch: HBO (Streaming simultaneously on Max)
  • Related Titles: True Detective (2014)

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#69 – Practicing French with Clive Owen and Corporate Polyamory with Carrie Bradshaw

The one with some suggestions for season 2 of She-Hulk.

It’s week two of our Cozy Winter Mysteries Tour and we’re headed to the south of France for vintage cars, red wine, and a whole lotta Clive Owen (literally) in Monsieur Spade.

But first! The Marvels hits Disney+ just as new questions plague the future of the MCU’s streaming plans (RIP our beloved She-Hulk: Attorney-at-Law) and we try to unravel Max’s decision to give arch-rival Netflix the keys to Carrie Bradshaw’s kingdom.

All that plus a thrilling installment of BUNDLE WATCH. It’s an episode of Streamageddon you can’t afford to miss!

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📺 Review: Monsieur Spade

🚨 Spoiler Alert: First Episode (starting at 31:16) 🚨

  • Total Episodes: Limited Series, 6 Episodes
  • New Episodes Drop: Sundays (through February 18)
  • Where to Watch: AMC+
  • Related Titles: The Maltese Falcon (1941)

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#68 – Mandy Patinkin’s Cozy Winter Mystery Cruise

The one with cable TV, baby!

The streamers have decreed: Winter is time for cozy mysteries and hard-boiled detective hijinks! We’re investigating this intriguing trend, starting with a review of Hulu’s new series Death and Other Details, starring Mandy Patinkin and a slew of beautiful people who will make you go “I think I know them from something!”

But first!

  • The 2023 strikes come back to haunt us… with good news?!
  • Has our (late) night watch come to an end? We’re here with the most unexpected edition of Daily Show Host Watch yet.
  • And is Netflix just, like, cable now? Hit the proverbial bong with us and get ready to have your mind and/or budget blown by the latest moves from the streaming king.

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📺 Review: Death and Other Details

🚨 Spoiler Alert: First 3 Episodes (starting at 35:32) 🚨

  • Total Episodes: 1 Season, 10 Episodes
  • New Episodes Drop: Tuesdays (through March 5)
  • Where to Watch: Hulu

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#67 – New Year, New Marvel: Echo (Plus Amazon, Paramount, and Other Kingpins)

The one where we pour one out for the crew of the Revenge.

Whoops, we accidentally predicted the future too well in our last episode! So we’re back to catch up on the doom and gloom at Paramount+, the mass hysteria surrounding Amazon Prime Video’s turn to ads, and more news from the past month.

Then we’ll make the case for why Marvel’s new “Spotlight” series Echo breathes new life into their struggling TV formula… if you can make it through the first 25 minutes of franchise-mandated flashbacks.

Plus it’s a new year, so it’s time to get your streaming house in order. We’ll help you budget with the return of our awards-pending advice segment Add/Keep/Cancel.

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📺 Review: Echo

🚨 Light Spoilers: First 3 Episodes (starting at 42:35) 🚨

  • Total Episodes: 1 Season, 5 Episodes (all released)
  • Where to Watch: Disney+ and Hulu
  • Spinoffs: Hawkeye (Disney+)

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#66 – 2023 Streaming Superlative Spectacular!

The one where we hand out the participation awards.

It’s our Second Annual Streaming Superlatives Spectacular! Featuring your favorite yearbook-inspired awards plus a host of new categories generated by the true star of 2023: ChatGPT.

Plus we predict which streaming service won’t survive the new year (spoiler alert: the headlines already indicate we might be right!).

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🏆 The Categories:

🥇 Round 1: The Extremely High School Superlatives

  • Life of the Party
  • Class Sweetheart
  • Class Clown
  • Best Couple (Platonic or Romantic)
  • Best Glow-Up (aka Most Improved)
  • Best Hair and/or Best Dressed
  • Most Likely to Succeed
  • Returning Champion (Best Returning Series or Character)
  • “Miss Congeniality” (The Best Show We Didn’t Review)

🥈 Round 2: The Best Ofs (and Worst Ofs)

  • Throwback of the Year (Best Reboot, Revival, etc.)
  • Franchise of the Year
  • Biggest Surprise of the Year
  • Biggest Disappointment of the Year
  • Villain of the Year (Real Life or Fictional)
  • Best Finale (Season or Series)
  • Best Thing You Watched This Year (In Any Medium/Genre)

🥉 Round 3: The Streaming Service Showdown

  • The Most Overrated Streaming Service of 2023
  • The Most Underrated Streaming Service of 2023
  • The Streaming Service You Couldn’t Live Without in 2023

🔮 And Finally… Predictions!

  • The Streaming Service Least Likely to Survive 2024 (we swear we recorded this before the headlines told us that we’re probably right!)

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#65 – The Curse, Deja Vu, and Showtime’s Demise!

The one with even more bundles.

The holidays are here but we’re cursed with more streaming news for you!

  • Find out the exciting new bundle of the week!
  • Experience deja vu with the news of Showtime’s confusing rebranding!
  • And you’ll never guess where Disney’s synergy is headed next!

Plus we review the first two episodes of Nathan Fielder’s The Curse. (You might not want to listen to that part with the kids…)

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📺 Review: The Curse

🚨 Spoiler Alert: First 2 Episodes (starting at 11:52) 🚨

  • Number of Seasons Overall: 1 (Season in Progress)
  • Where to Watch: Sundays on Paramount+ with Showtime
  • Content Warning: Descriptions of sex acts!

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#64 – Fargo, Hulu, and Disney’s Wheel of Synergy

The one where we’d like to buy a vowel, Pat.

The holidays are here and Bob Iger is celebrating by stuffing Hulu into the Disney+ stocking (some exceptions may apply). We’ll prepare you to answer your relatives’ streaming questions with everything you need to know about the historic level of Disney synergy sweeping the nation:

  • Dianne walks us through the new Hulu Hub on Disney+
  • Chris confesses his love for (Disney’s) Doctor Who and (Disney’s) Wheel of Fortune
  • And we’ve got your one-stop guide to all five seasons of FX’s Fargo (streaming now on Disney’s Hulu Hub!)

Plus, updates from every corner of the Disney universe: From ABC to Pixar to Star Wars to Marvel. Even NatGeo makes an appearance! That’s right, Disney owns National Geographic, too!

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📺 Review: Fargo (Season 5)

🚨 Spoiler Alert: The First 4 Episodes of Season 5 (starting at 1:08:51) 🚨

  • Number of Seasons Overall: 5 (Season In Progress)
  • Where to Watch: Tuesdays on FX (Next Day on Hulu)
  • Where to Stream Past Seasons: Hulu
  • Spinoffs: Yes, it is!

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#63 – Bundles, Bachelors, and Marvels, Oh My!

The one where we get our bundles on!

Streaming bundles are all the rage these days! From Verizon’s new Netflix/Max deal to Instacart’s groceries and Peacock combo (a real thing, we swear!). Join us as we navigate the murky waters of the great big Bundle-verse and who knows? Maybe you’ll find a bundle of joy along the way.

Plus we’re revisiting this fall’s strike-fueled hit: The Golden Bachelor. And stick around at the end for our discussion of everything that went wrong (and right!) with The Marvels.

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📺 Review: The Golden Bachelor (Season Finale)

🚨 Spoiler Alert: All Episodes (starting at 36:16) 🚨

  • Renewal Status: Almost definitely renewed for season 2
  • Where to Watch: ABC and Hulu
  • Spinoffs: It’s Bachelor Nation, Baby. Everything has spinoffs.

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🎬 Bonus Review: The Marvels

🚨 Spoiler Alert for the full movie (starting at 1:03:32) 🚨

  • Where to Watch: It might still be in a few theaters, but you’ll have to hurry!

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#62 – All Killer, No Filler… But Also THE Killer (On Netflix)

The one where we’re thankful that David Zaslav has never called us his best friends.

We’ve got sizzling Thanksgiving episode stuffed full of news, gossip, and… America’s favorite game show?!

  • First: Will lackluster AI protections sink the SAG-AFTRA deal?
  • Then we raise a glass to the latest victim of the streaming wars: Showtime Anytime.
  • Speaking of Paramount-related news: IT’S DAILY SHOW HOST WATCH! (Second timers edition!)
  • But wait, there’s more! Because after that we feast on an irresistible helping of David Zaslav news.
  • And finally: We head the big (enough) screen and stream the new Netflix movie The Killer featuring Michael Fassbender as the titular assassin, framed by David Fincher’s direction.

All that, plus: Can you out-score Dianne on a post-strike edition of Renewed or Canceled?! We’ve got 12 shows across TV and streaming that have been hanging in the balance for months now. (Spoilers in the links below!)

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📺 Review: The Killer (Movie)

🚨 Light spoilers only! (starting at 51:10) 🚨

  • Where to Watch: Netflix

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#61 – Did Loki Stick the Landing?

The one with all the spoilers.

Our long national nightmare is finally over!

(Are we referring to the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike or the Loki finale? You’ll have to listen to find out!)

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📺 Review: Loki Finale

🚨 Spoiler Alert: All Episodes of Loki, also the last Ant Man movie, also probably some other Marvel stuff (starting at 20:49) 🚨

  • Number of Seasons Overall: 2 (All Episodes Available)
  • Where to Watch: Disney+
  • Spinoffs: If a Spinoff is a Spinoff of a Spinoff is it actually called a Spinsoff?

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