Apr 29, 2022

This week, we're looking at past trauma! The final season of Better Call Saul is all about family trauma and what it does to people on AMC+. Roar on Apple+ has various explorations of trauma. Russian Doll on Netflix explores the nature of generational trauma through time travel. And Moon Knight on Disney+ gets dark in...

Apr 22, 2022

This week, we're gonna slow it way down. There's the deliberately paced tale of an American journalist in Japan in Tokyo Vice on HBO Max. There's the tale of bad cops and an unlucky athlete in 61st Street on AMC+. And there's another contender for worst show of the year in Netflix's Anatomy of a Scandal. Plus... Marc...

Apr 15, 2022

This week, we've got a lot of people doing some interesting work. There's the pioneering cooking show of Julia Child on Julia on HBO Max. There's cartoonist-turned-sneaker-activist Keef Knight on the second season of Woke on HULU. There's factory worker turned pro bowler Tom Smallwood on How We Roll on Paramount+. And...

Apr 15, 2022

This week, Les chats with Mike Cabellon, from NBC's hit comedy series Mr. Mayor. Mike plays Chief Strategist Tommy Tomás on the show, opposite Ted Danson and Holly Hunter. Mike can also be seen on shows including “Orange Is the New Black,” “High Maintenance,” and “Crashing,” as well as guest appearances in...

Apr 8, 2022

This week, we're talking about failing expectations. There's the difficulty of being the perfect super soldier in HALO on Paramount+. The difficulties of being burned out or failed spies on Apple+'s Slow Horses. Or the difficulties of being insane narcissist capitalists on WeCrashed, also on Apple+. And of course we've...