I feel like the series is so far pretty good. Kind of trashy but with some fun central performances. Probably should be 8 episodes instead of 10. I was surprised just how down on this series Andy and Chris were on it.
Male Loneliness Epidemic Apex??
Totally baffling. Two of the best performances you’ll see on TV this year. Both should get Emmy noms. Dark, heavy, gritty, thought provoking, mysterious, interesting, 5x better than Baby Reindeer. HBO. Makes no sense they wouldn’t break down this show. Are there some uncomfortable scenes? Sure. But how can they skip this one after watching trash like Landman and Friends and Neighbors and raving about Euphoria and the gay hockey show? The Beast in Me? Come on guys. You will love this show, guaranteed.
Edited: to replace Widow’s Bay with Beast in Me since I honestly haven’t watched the former (generally love Matt Rhys though, the Americans is all time)
Hey guys,
Ben Gibbard is the frontman of the band Death Cab for Cutie and a friend of Andy's. They've been doing interviews together for 20 years now, which sounds like an incredible series of conversations - but I'm having trouble finding a record of these online.
So far I know of a review and three interviews, two might be lost media:
If anyone has access to the missing ones, I'd appreciate some help putting together this 20-year interview series. Are there any other Andy/Ben interviews I can read or listen to?
Thanks a lot,
Vin
I really love the show. But it’s focused too much monster of a the week and not addressing the lore well enough. They literally dug up the town’s founder and didn’t compare notes at all with what’s going on. They could’ve at least had him give them a couple tips or background on what happened. With the boogeyman, at least one scene of acknowledgement from the townspeople or follow up with the mean girls would’ve been nice. Or a hint of what woke him up. Everyone is talking about this show with theories and the show never provides answers.
Just gotta give it up to the boys. After listening to them discuss the Euphoria finale, not that there was any doubt, but the boys still got it. I thought that was such a great discussion about a show that never worked for me personally. But, I found their read of the show as a whole and the specifics of Rue's fight with addiction to be thoughtful and illuminating.
Show these guys some love, cause they still got it.
Have been listening (and reading andy's columns on banshee) to the boys since the hollywood prospectus days ... and will probably always tune in for as long as they do this
But I can't lie it's been a rough stretch! 50% of the pod in the past two months has been them performatively covering Euphoria (joanna and rob are guilty of this too but my expectations are far lower for them). Season 3 of this show is not only objectively bad, but it's blatantly obvious that neither chris nor andy actually like it either, and it makes for a miserable listen.
It's annoying that 10 hours on-air have been spent covering something they dance around clearly disliking, when they couldn't even get past watching two episodes of something fresh and auteurish like DTF St. Louis ... in fairness they've given love to Widow's Bay which is well-deserved, but my point is it's so unnecessary to spend the bulk of the pod talking about something that's clearly past-its-peak engagement slop.
Putting this out there because I think others feel this too - I go back and listen to the boys covering Le Bureau or the Watchmen ... and it's just night and day the energy and enthusiasm and clear passion they have!
TLDR please please please spend more time talking shop about tv / pop culture you actually love! Hell we would gladly take 45 minutes of cr and andy after dark, over performative coverage of euphoria!
I was ambivalent about Yellowstone. I recently hate/love watched through most of it. That got me primed for the new Taylor-verse offerings.
I feel like Dutton Ranch cut the wheat from the chaff, kept the best parts of Yellowstone and made significant improvements by adding Annette Bening and Ed Harris to the cast.
Bening is a total delight as the heavy. They could’ve built this whole show around her and in a way they have. She’s having a hell of a year. If you haven’t checked out the bride, it’s worth it just for her mad scientist performance.
Marc Menchaca is pretty good too. It’s his best role since Ozark, I think.