This week, things are getting weird. Weird like the true tale of the rise of the first male strip clubs in Welcome to Chippendales on Hulu. Weird like a teenage Wednesday Addams at school in Wednesday on Netflix. 1:33-17:45 Appetizers TV Dinner: Main Course: 18:45-27:28 Welcome to Chippendales (Hulu) 28:00- Wednesday (Netflix)
This week, Les chats with actor and singer Claybourne Elder. Claybourne guest-starred in the second season of The CW’s “The Carrie Diaries” and can currently be seen in “The Gilded Age” as John Adams. He’s also a featured artist on the new album Sondheim Unplugged: The NYC Sessions – Volume Three – the final installment of the monumental three-volume set dedicated to Stephen Sondheim. The series always presents Sondheim’s best-loved tunes, in addition to treasures from lesser-heard projects. Thi...
This week, we'd like to welcome you to our organization! There's the German can-do team of music production on Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin on Paramount+. There's the superhero training academy that is My Hero Academia on Hulu. And there's the sinister conspiracy of Cognito on Inside Job on Netflix.
This week, Les chats with actress Kimberly Dawn Guerrero! Kimberly will next be seen starring as Victoria Frost in the highly-anticipated ION holiday movie, "Dognapped: Hound for the Holidays". Her character is an egotistical social media influencer who wakes up one morning to find that her dog has been kidnapped overnight. In an effort to find the puppy before Christmas, Victoria’s long-suffering assistant Emily teams up with charming local vet and finds romance and some mystery... The movie is...
This week, it looks like trouble! There's the newly-divorced Fleishman in Fleishman is in Trouble on Hulu. There are the newly banned-from-parties crew in Sex Lives of College Girls season two on HBO Max. And there's a maybe-haunted ship on 1899 on Netflix. 1:20-30:55 Appetizers TV Dinner: 31:33-44:03 Fleishman Is In Trouble (HULU) Side Dishes: 44:03-52:54 Sex Lives of College Girls (HBO Max) 52:54- 1899 (Netflix)
This week, we're talking about changing locales. There are new offices and some bigger moves in the season 3 premiere of Mythic Quest on Apple+. There's mobster Dwight Manfredi moving to Oklahoma in Tulsa King on Paramount+. And there's Pawnee scout Eli Whipp moving from Oklahoma to Nebraska to join Lady Cornelia in The English on Prime. 4:44-24:45 Appetizers (TV Diaries) Main Course: 25:23-33:56 Mythic Quest (Apple+) Side Dishes: 33:56-46:00 Tulsa King (Paramount+) 46:35- The English (Prime)...
This week, Grant joins us for a bunch of shows that try and teach us to not take things for... Maybe it was something about not appreciating something's true value? I swear I had something for this. Like access to physical media in the Netflix series Blockbuster, relationships on HBO Max's White Lotus, or how a "true" fan can still find joy in a franchise long since creatively dead with Andor. Anyway. 3:05-39:35 TV Diaries and also Andor 42:50-55:40 White Lotus 55:40- Blockbuster...
This week, we've got a handful of shows bucking the trends of scheduling at their respective homes. Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities released two episodes a night on Netflix, rather than their usual binge model. Star Trek Prodigy returned for a second half of season one on Paramount+. And Disney+ dropped everything all at once with Tales of the Jedi. 2:28-25:05 TV Diaries 26:10-31:16 Star Trek Prodigy (Paramount+) 31:16-41:02 Tales of the Jedi (Disney+) 41:02-54:42 Guillermo del Toro'...
This week, is someone watching over us? The Peripheral on Prime has a variety of different watchers. American Horror Story NYC on Hulu asks the question of what might happen if a scary leather daddy was lurking in the shadows. And The Watcher on Netflix gives us Ryan Murphy's creepy as hell adaptation of a true story of real estate nightmares in New Jersey. 3:09-22:52 TV Diaries 23:33-33:26 The Peripheral (Prime) 33:26-40:00 American Horror NYC (Hulu) 40:00-52:00 The Watcher (Netflix) 52:32- Sta...
This week, Les chats with actor Jacob Buster. Jacob stars as one of the leads in Showtime’s highly-anticipated horror series 'Let The Right One In' inspired by the bestselling novel and its 2008 Swedish film adaptation. Jacob plays Peter, brother to Grace Gummer’s character Claire, a relationship that is brand new to the storyline. Check it out!
This week we've got some experts showing off their skills. The high school basketball coaches and their proteges in season 2 of Big Shot on Disney+. The parents of famous demon hunters, Dean and Sam, in The Winchesters on The CW. And there's the crew of paramilitary mercenaries on The Professionals, also on CW. Plus, of course, She-Hulk shows us how it's done with a pretty perfect finale and Star Trek Lower Decks is back in the holodeck in our double desserts. 3:41-35:00 TV Diary 37:03-41:54 Big...
This week we're talking about some scary stuff! First, Les & Nick discuss their Kickstarter web-series, HENCHIN' ( www.henchin.com ), which is fundraising now and stressing them out! Then there's Marvel's first foray into black-and-white horror with Werewolf by Night on Disney+. There's Mike Flanagan's first foray into YA with Midnight Club on Netflix. There's the surprise return of the hilariously nihilistic Avenue 5 on HBO Max. And there's the first appearance of Leap-Frog and Daredevil on...
This week, we're talking about some Fractured Families! The dysfunctional lawyer/doctor/disgraced PI at the center of So Help Me Todd on Paramount+ takes center stage, but we're also talking about the second season of Mighty Ducks Gamechangers on Disney+, which sees the father figure depart because of a contract dispute, but the new dad Josh Duhamel is there to join the show!
This week, we're talking about more than you can chew. Netflix has two offerings, with Ryan Murphy taking another bite at his gluttonous Netflix deal with the famous cannibal in Dahmer and scientists exploring the human (or maybe not human) genome and creating a were-chupacabra in The Imperfects. Then there's the three episode premiere of Andor, which has some of us wondering if maybe Star Wars bit off a bit more than it could chew, or if maybe it just bites? Then we'll stretch our food metaphor...
This week, Les chats with actress, singer, and dancer Jenni Barber. Jenni has appeared on Broadway in Annie, The Nance, The Performers, as Glinda in Wicked, and many more productions. Other theatrical credits include As You Like It and The Tempest for The Bridge Project, directed by Sam Mendes. Television credits include “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” "Master of None," “Elementary,” “Smash,” and as Lisa Heffenbacher in the Emmy Award-winning “The Electric Company.” Jenni has recorded many audioboo...
This week, like Jack on Lost... we've got to go back! We've got our main shows from Hulu this week. There's the time-traveling journey of Quantum Leap. There's the return to a beloved family sitcom in Reboot. The boys are back in Atlanta after their world tour in the final season of Atlanta. Plus we've got our double dessert with She-Hulk and Harley Quinn.
This week, we're talking about some shows late in their run, all about fighting. The penultimate season of Cobra Kai on Netflix, where the fights include karate, pepper-eating, and waterslide racing. And the final season of The Good Fight, where Robert and Michelle King are really leaning into the surreal weirdness of their strange lawyer show. 1:58-23:45 TV Diaries 24:26-36:32 Cobra Kai 36:56-44:51 The Good Fight Dessert: 44:51-52:25 She-Hulk 52:25-57:38 Harley Quinn 57:38- Trek Lower Decks...
This week, we're traveling to some exotic locales. We've got Hell and adjacent dimensions in Little Demon on Hulu. We've got strange new worlds in Star Trek Lower Decks on Paramount+. We've got Middle-Earth on Rings of Power on Prime. And we've got a dank basement in The Patient on Hulu. In addition, we've got our regular rotation of Harley Quinn, What We Do In The Shadows and She-Hulk for dessert! 2:12-14:28 TV Diary 15:14-22:47 The Patient (Hulu) 22:47-29:12 Little Demon (Hulu) 29:36-35:33 Sta...
This week, it's our 400th episode! We have put together our Top 400 episodes, and we're going to run through them. Sort of. 2:25-29:15 TV Diary 30:25- Top 400
This week, we're talking about black sheep relatives! There are the usual cast of bad family from Westeros in House of the Dragon on HBO Max. There are the sisters involved in a murder conspiracy in Bad Sisters on Apple+. And there's Chris Estrada's new show, based on his life and his family, in This Fool on Hulu. Plus we've got triple dessert in the form of a bonus episode of The Sandman and a new episode of What We Do In The Shadows and an episode of Harley Quinn we haven't talked about yet! 2...
This week, we've got stories of a diverse cast of characters from all walks of life! There's the Indian-American cast of Never Have I Ever season 3 on NETFLIX, the exceptionally queer League of Their Own on Prime, the return of indigenous comedy hit Reservation Dogs on HULU, and of course, the green lawyer contingent represented on She-Hulk on Disney+. Plus we've got double dessert as we talk about Harley Quinn and What We Do In The Shadows! 1:55-22:27 TV Diary 24:05-72:26 Never Have I Ever (NET...
This week, Les chats with actor on the rise Theodore Barnes. Theodore can currently be seen starring in the BET+ comedy series “The Ms. Pat Show." Theodore shines as Junebug, youngest son of Patricia "Ms. Pat" Williams. “The Ms. Pat Show” season two premieres on August 11, 2022 on BET+. Theodore can also be seen as Brian Walls on ABC’s hit series “The Goldbergs,” and was a series regular lead on Netflix’s “Prince of Peoria.” We discuss how he found acting, what he loves about comedy, and much mo...
This week, Les chats with actress Lily Brooks O’Briant, a versatile rising performer whose talents have catapulted her into leading roles across both the stage & screen at just 16 years old. This fall, Lily Brooks can be seen fronting the new Apple TV+ series “Life By Ella” in the title role of Ella McCaffrey. The series follows Ella as she returns to school after beating cancer with a brand-new perspective, excitement for what the future holds, and a major “seize the day” mentality, ready t...
This week, it's the Dream episode! We're talking about Sandman on Netflix, but also, the only things we're talking about this week are things we love! Sandman, plus double dessert in the form of Harley Quinn on HBO Max and What We Do In The Shadows on Hulu! 1:54-17:56 TV Diary 17:56-42:25 Sandman (Netflix) 42:45-47:18 Harley Quinn (HBO Max) 47:18 - What We Do In The Shadows (FX/HULU)
This week, it's the Eat Bang Kill Time Travel Tour! We've got time travel in the adaptation of Image's Paper Girls on Prime! We've got Neil Patrick Harris's gay rom-com Uncoupled on Netflix! And we've got the long-awaited and very welcome season 3 of Harley Quinn on HBO Max! 2:18-13:58 TV Diary 13:58-35:09 Power Rankings 36:51-45:21 Paper Girls (Prime) 45:42-50:40 Uncoupled (Netflix) 50:40-Harley Quinn (HBO Max)
This week, a title homage to the Flarenomenon, a show only Les and I remember because it scarred us for life with how bad it was. The shows this week aren't that bad, but they're both pretty odd. We've got American Horror Stories Season 2 on HULU, and Rap Sh!t on HBO Max. Check it out! 2:43-35:10 TV Diaries 37:00-42:21 American Horror Stories (HULU) 42:41- Rap Sh!t (HBO Max)
This week, we're talking about a bunch of shows involving life after death. First, it's the dead horse of an IP in Netflix new 'Resident Evil' series. Then, it's those crazy kids and their attempts at human transmutation (the fools!!) and resurrection in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. Finally, we wrap it all up with an evening at the Nadja's vampire nightclub in 'What We Do In The Shadows'. Kyle, Nick and Les hold it together sans-Randy in a TV Dudes episode to DIE for! 2:22-24:30 TV Diaries ...
This week we're talking about Unusual Jobs! You've got professional psychics on Maggie on Hulu. You've got boy band DJs on We are CVNT5 on Crackle. And we've got dessert in the form of the final Ms. Marvel on Disney+. 1:44-23:32 TV Diary 23:32-35:10 Stranger Than Fan-Fiction 36:30-44:22 We Are CVNT5 (Crackle) 44:22-51:03 Maggie (HULU) 51:40- Ms. Marvel (Disney+)
This week, Les chats with Anja Taljaard, star of the new sci-fi film Glasshouse. A dystopian fairytale, Glasshouse tells the story of a family surviving during a plague that causes dementia, where memory is the most precious commodity and rituals are a lifeline. Anja plays Evie, one of the sisters in the family, and brings a poignent strength to the role. We discuss the audition and making of the film, her journey into acting, and much more. Glasshouse is a frightening, beautiful film, and will ...
This week, Les chats with Kelsey Egan, writer and director of the sci-fi feature Glasshouse. In addition to writing and directing, Kelsey has worked professionally as a stunt performer, AD, producer, VFX producer and actress. Her credits include Warrior, Raised by Wolves, Bloodshot, Maze Runner: The Death Cure, The Dark Tower, The Crown, Eye in the Sky, The Giver, Zulu, Mad Max: Fury Road, Strike Back and District 9. A dystopian fairytale, Glasshouse is the first film in a three-picture grounded...
