The Prestige TV Podcast - 'The Morning Show' S2E2 Recap

Episode Date: September 27, 2021

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I'm here with Amanda Dobbins. Amanda, are we being honest with each other now? Are we being honest? Absolutely not. What is happening? Uh-oh. Uh-oh. It's time for the terrible theme song.

What is this theme song? Have we ever talked about this? No, and also just the various dots colliding and then splitting again. Wait, is this like, what genre is this? Is this a song that would be played on the radio? What's going on here? Can we talk about the music on this show for a second? There's some violin going in?

I don't get it. I don't get anything about this show. I love watching it. Let's talk about the music, though. So obviously Apple has a huge budget in. general. And they're spending a lot on music. But it's, they just play these weird songs for like five minutes at a time instead of actually like writing through some of the drama. Have you noticed that every other episode just ends with like intense dramatic montage to implacable cover of song that

you've maybe heard that's sort of like the theme song. And it goes on for like nine minutes at such a volume that if you perhaps happened to nod off while we're watching a certain episode, you're immediately woken back up. By a montage. Exactly. And someone just like yelling really loudly just about some about I don't know what. So I mean, at least they're using their budget, I guess. I think the reason both of us love this show is it's so ridiculously and incorrectly

lavish in so many different ways, including with the, with it feels like. they, Apple just studied the algorithms of all these shows that worked. And one of the things that came was like, just put everybody in a big dinner party or a big party sequence or a big house with lots of people. Near the end of the show, have a montage and make sure you show all the characters and they're all like looking off into the distance. Overspend on all locations. Overspend on small parts. Like Will Arnette's playing an agent and Will Arnett's like a star. He's like barely on the show. Hussamunage had his. own TV show. He's like the ninth lead on the show. It's, it's, it just, it makes me laugh,

but I still enjoy watching the show. I can't help it. I liked it too. I think you texted me and said that this episode was like more coherent than the first. It was like maybe they got some things together. And I would agree. I understand what's going on in season two, right now at least, which is primarily a lot of rich people arguing about contracts for an extended period of time. Well, and then Steve Carell filming an indie movie in Italy. That's right. He's filming a Me Too indie movie about cancel culture with a very small budget. They just had enough way to do one outdoor scene and run a house for him.

Right. So here's what I read is that obviously Steve Krell, because of COVID, was not in Lake Como, which is where they're supposed to be set. So they filmed that that house is somewhere in California. A lovely home. Apparently like a former monastery. Sure. Why not?

And then they like sent a drone to do the exteriors. but you're right that the infamous like gelataria scene, which they just yell gelataria like eight times. God bless them, actually, is definitely just like studio lot plus one European pharmacy sign to make you feel like you're in Europe. Right. Well, I wonder, did they stumble on a new way to save money on shows

that they could throw the money on other ridiculous things? But like, if Apple had had its way, no COVID, Steve Carls definitely in Lake Como. And they're definitely splurging on the Italy. scenes. I mean, splurging, but they weren't able to do it. Which I have no problem with in terms of, I would love to watch Steve Carell, like in Italy on lavish sets on my prestige TV. However, why is Steve Carl still on this show? It's a great question. Do you want to answer that now? Because we have three plots. Let's do Steve Curl now. Okay. I don't know why he's on the show. He's,

we spent the whole season establishing that he's a bad person. But season two is about, what happens to you if you're a bad person and you have a lot of money, but then what's your next year of your life look like? I guess that's what... So it's hard not to think about Matt Lauer the entire time you're watching this, right? Yes, because this show was originally based on Brian Stelter's book about the Today Show. And then after the Matt Lauer allegations came out, they had to kind of redo everything, including why Steve Krell was still on the show.

So I guess in this episode, what they're setting up with Steve Krell is like the what happens to a bad person afterwards. But also, so there's this ridiculous showdown at the gelataria where a YouTuber is like, you ruined my gelato, which is like a real sentence that she says. And it's pretty funny. But then, of course, naturally, an Italian documentarian, I believe comes to his defense. My girl from Rain Man. Yeah.

While also singing like the Italian fashion. like national him or whatever, sure, normal stuff. But and the scene, like, I thought the scene was hilarious, but maybe it's like a little uncomfortable if you think about everything they did to develop Mitch's character in season one. But here's my theory. I think that he and the documentarian are obviously going to become friends. And she's going to be like, let me do a story on you and like what happens afterwards.

And she's going to totally screw him over. Yeah. Yeah. That's my guess. That was my theory as well. Okay. All right. What I liked about the gelato scene was this is a show that tried to be really sensitive about

the Me Too culture in season one, right? Yeah. Now in season two, they've introduced cancel culture. Sure. And the ramifications of that and tried to juggle both of those things in this scene. And they, I thought that character was funny, the gelato lady who was trying to get them in trouble. It's like everybody in the show is completely over the top. So if you're going to have the, you know, 20-something who's,

trying to mess with Steve Correll and have her friend video. Like, why not go for it? But then that's going to make everybody under 30 watching the show really mad. How dare they do that? But it's like, this is what the show is. Everybody's a lunatic on the show. Totally. I'm all for making fun of annoying people on the internet and elsewhere.

But I agree that the balance in this episode, well, it's dangerous to not like follow through already in the same episode with the documentarian being like, no, no, I got to. it, even though that's obviously what they're setting up. I guess one of the reasons this was a compelling episode, and it was, was there's some nuance with the Correll thing, right? Because, like, when you're watching anything, you can watch a documentary about the worst person in the world.

You can watch a horror movie. Like, at some point, if a character's on the screen, you're going to try to empathize with the character, at least a little bit. So you watch this guy sitting sadly in the gelato thing with his life ruined, and you're like, oh, man, that's Steve Correll. He seems down in the dumps. Like, they're, they're toying with you with this character in a really interesting way. I'm not against it.

Totally. And they do another montage before where they're showing his, like, sad, glamorous life in Italy. And he's zooming into his kid's birthday party. His birthday hat. And in that moment, Steve Corel is doing peak. Steve Corell, you love me from the office. I'm like, you know, the American every person second only Tom Hanks.

You feel bad for me. Which I agree. You're right. They're playing with our associations of, of him and that character and how we receive these things. Do I totally trust the show to land this experiment? We do not. We do not.

Like 0%. So that's alarming. And then the other thing, which I actually... Hold on with Steve Karel, they're very careful about not bringing back the girl who ends up dying in season one, basically because of her whole interaction with him. So that, instead of like showing the family, like a sad scene where we would see some, the family now dealing with the wreckage of what happened. And then you go to Lake Home and you're like, fuck this guy. They're very careful about not doing that. So we're kind of sucked in by him a little bit.

Right. And even the way that they're introducing the wrongful death lawsuit and they bring in the like the evil network guy at the end. Yeah. So I thought the best part of like writing in this episode was the $119.2 million dollars. Which they drop in as the settlement that Fred's, Micklin fancy his golden parachute the network the old network executive right and so fast forward to to the last scene where billy crudup is dealing with the the wrongful death long suit and the family's demand and they've asked like exactly for 119.2 million dollars his exact settlement amount and so and what happens to billy crudip speechless for the first time in 12 episodes poor guy he's caring so much he really is he's on my podcast

by the way. I can't wait. I'm so excited. Number one Bill Simmons podcast episode of the year for me. Thank you. But it's, they're implying that it's Steve Carrell's character who's involved, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yes. So, I mean, interesting. Like, and I get, I don't know whether they're trying to do redemption or you, I don't know what they're going to do. I'm nervous of whether they can pull it off. I assume season two ends with him getting shot and maybe we don't know if he got murdered or not. Because the show all bets are off. I thought you were going to say I assume season two ends with him like back in the anchor chair, which I still don't you think in their hearts that like that's what they really want because they just want to go back to like Jennifer Anderson and Steve Karel in the chairs

like they imagined the show at the very beginning. It's very possible. Nothing could be ruled out with this ridiculous show. Also like they've done a terrible job of establishing. I guess we're just going to spend. this entire season two in June, February and March of 2020, as COVID is evolving. Because they have that scene when they're talking about what they should cover. And it's like, we can't cover COVID.

We're not wasting time on that. So I guess we're going to have like, and I can't wait because this show, you know, we'll handle it in the most ridiculous way possible. Like episode six, the person who's really sick in the office. Oh, boy. And maybe the montage of all the people watching this person sneeze and cough. and like, it's like giving the show a live grenade to just hold. It could explode over the entire show.

As you were talking, I was just imagining Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon in full unnecessary hazmat suits just running around this studio. Made by Chanel. Exactly. Which is not. I just, I don't want it, but obviously I really want it. We're going there. We're going there.

We are reliving COVID through the morning show. It is happening. Oh, God. The other two big plots were, oh, I got to say, I really liked Rain Man Lady. What's her name? Valerie Galino? Yeah. I liked her speech about, you're constant all day, everyday comfort.

We all have to bow and bend over. And she really went for it. She was going for like a best supporting actress. It was great. It was good to see her again. I really enjoyed her in Rain Man. Biggest thing for us, the two of us personally, in the relationship we've had now since really 2015.

In our love for Reese Witherspoon. where you were going. Oh, God, Bill. Reese's back. Rees is back to being Reese. She's got her hair back. She's got her legally blonde bitch face back. She does. She totally bitch-faced Jennifer Aniston at the end of the dinner party. They cut to her

and she did that turn face she does. She got a couple big... The scrunches up, kind of. Yeah, the scrunch up. Yeah. She had a couple scenes where she got to yell at people. It was great. Rees, I think,

realized season one was not a flattering season for her as an actress and really double down. She looks like herself again. I'm back in. Let me ask you something. Our girl. Reese Witherspoon, I love you so much. Our hero.

You're our number one. I'd like to ask you something about Bradley Jackson, who's her character. Ridiculous name. I think in the running for one of the worst developed characters in TV history. Ever. Does she have an accent or she doesn't? She doesn't have an accident anymore. Remember all of her family drama that we had to spend

so much time on in season one. Where is that family? Maybe we'll find out on like episode seven. Anyway, we'll never know. So just Bill, a 40-year-old accomplished professional woman. 40. We have no idea what her age is. I think she's 32.

No, they say 40 when Billy Crudup is hiring her, you know, and they like shut down Barneys for the night. But they still make her seem like a young whippersnapper. I mean, it's tough. A 40-old woman who is in a prominent. position on the national news disappears from her job for three weeks. Probably going to be covered somewhere. Right. On the Internet.

Does she still have her job at the end of it? I would say no. We only have seen like NBA players do this. I'm just going away. I'll see you guys later. And even there, do they ever really miss the games? I think they were, I thought they were just always calling in being like, I'm not coming to practice, like find me a new team.

I'm going to unravel this even further. Bradley Jackson. 40-year-old had done nothing in her career and then handpicked by the completely insane Alex, played by Jennifer Aniston, who just one night at some banquets. Like, here's my new co-host. Nobody has any idea. They're on the show for three weeks. They're three weeks together.

Three weeks. I agree. And then they both melt down. Amistin goes off. She goes to Maine to write her book on some beautiful cabin. Bradley Jackson stays with Hassan Minaj and the ratings go in the tank. And then she leaves for three weeks and the network's like, we've got to save this. We really had something special.

You did? What was special? It makes no sense. I don't understand it at all. They would have fired her when she took one sick day. They would have been like, cool. We don't have to pay Bradley Jackson anymore. This is great.

I mean, I don't want to jump too far ahead until we're talking about Jennifer Aniston's character. But I'm not convinced that like the Jennifer Aniston is the one that, like, that Jennifer Aniston is the one that gets fired after everything that happens with, I mean, she has to leave, I guess, because she's sort of like indirectly involved. Yeah, she's got the Mitch stuff. And there's like the book by Marsha Gay Hardin that they keep, you know, referencing her whatever. But I just, I need more clarity on what happened after that television broadcast because everyone, people just start applauding Jennifer Aniston when she walks into the building. And I just, I don't get it.

Is she like Cheryl Sandberg after Leanin came out is crossed with, I don't know, a name of feminist icon? But why? Why did why was that how this played out? I have no idea because as I remember, it was in fact Reese Wetherspoon's character who like did all of the reporting. Yeah, right. And found everything out. I don't know.

It doesn't make any sense to me. Why wasn't that what she was yelling at her when they were hanging out in the hallway? Like, why was it you? Why wasn't it to me? I did everything. You did nothing. I agree. But instead, they're mostly yelling about how they, like,

Jennifer Anderson's not a good friend, which as she points out, Teresa Ruther's Boone, we worked together for three weeks. I thought that was pretty rational on Jennifer Anderson's part. Yeah. But also she undermined the whole show because they're like, oh, yeah, you work together for three weeks. Why are the West Network so desperate to save this? I just think what a three weeks it was, though.

We learned about abortion. We learned about, we learned about the Mee too movement. We learned about coal miners. We had a fire. What a three weeks. But they really do present the morning show and even those three weeks. But really the whole team, like it was like it was the office, like the beloved American office that people rewatch over and over again to spend time together, like a lovely workplace

family. I don't feel any connection to the love between any of these people. Yeah, none of them even, we've never really seen them hang out. Yeah. In any sort of friendship way, have a glass of wine at a hotel bar, nothing. It's very strange. Well, Reese's back. She even got to have the line,

I'm not going to be your fucking sidekick. I'm going to be your equal. You know, Reese was like reading the script and check that. Like great stuff. Yes. Yes. Great. Love it.

Aniston, to me, it's like watching, we both love, we love women's tennis. Serena the last few years where it was still Serena, but she was kind of grueling her way through these majors and just looked totally put out. what didn't have the same kind of energy or effervescence. And you're just like, man, Aniston, I don't know what she's trying to do in this show. I wouldn't call her performance electric.

She's put out. She's exasperated. She, they haven't taken advantage at all of how funny she is in some of these movies, TV shows like we talked about last week. Her character sucks. I don't like her character and I don't know why they did this to her. Well, again, I think it's a little bit she was cast to be,

what, like Katie Couric in like a workplace drama where everyone's just fighting for power. And then. So you say she was miscast. Yeah. Well, yes, I think everybody was miscast or they were cast for a different show. Like I do think they put this entire thing together thinking they would make an entirely different show in season one. And then again, they thought they were going to make an entirely different show in season two. And now they have to all be sitting around the table arguing about whether they should cover

coronavirus, which I feel like is just like the writer's room show, like writers room dialogue, like copy and paste it into the actual show. Like, should we make this about coronavirus? I'm not sure. I don't know that much about it. Put that in final draft. We wrote these other scenes already. But so I don't know if she's miscast or they just, she doesn't get to do what they thought

they were going to do with her. But I agree. She's just. Can we say both? Yeah. Maybe both. I think she's fun when she's being. imperious. And if this show could be a little more fun, if they didn't have to cover Me Too and

COVID to super serious subjects, then I think there would be a little more room for her to be doing kind of a parody of, you know, rich, successful lady and actually be sort of funny. But it's not just rich successful. She's icy. And I'm not sure Aniston can play icy. So it's like, and I don't know who the right person would be. But, you know, like who in her age range, give or takes seven years. But it's like, it's basically like the Sigourney Weaver working girl role, right? Yes, great reference. Thank you so much for understanding.

I did that just for you. Yeah, it was really, yeah, I appreciate it. It's got to be somebody that I just feel in their core is not a good person. And Aniston cannot play that. She's always going to want to be likable. And so that, that one piece is always going to be missing with her. And I don't know who could have done that. Well, they're bringing on Julianna Margulies later in this season.

Isn't that incredible? Like, there's still more famous people to come on the show. But that is- Also, how many shows can she be on? Does she just see shows that have expensive budgets and she jumps on them? I think so. In between, like, writing memoirs, which is apparently something that she did. I haven't read it.

But she can do I see, right? And I think- Oh, she can do ICS. Yeah, she can do ICSys. I mean, they had to CGI or in the final scene with that, the lady from the good wife. So maybe they'll have fun with that. But I agree that it puts Aniston in a weird place

because she ultimately, she's likable. That's why she sells all the skin creams and stuff. You know, people just want to be like Jen for Aniston. And I think instead of being mean and icy, her solution is just to seem exasperated. She's exasperated and overwhelmed. And that's kind of what she does with this character. And like she goes back, she ends up on the wrong floor.

And it's, ah, ah, ah. And that's kind of what her character does in every scene. And then now they're trying to redeem the character by having her rehire Mark Duplass. Which is, well, let's talk about him. Why? Terrible character. Didn't like him last season. Was good.

Was good. Was good. Was good with him off the show. And then he does, he has to do the thing where he's talking about his girl that he found. my fiance or whatever. She makes me a better person. It's like, why are you making this guy worse? You've already completely undermined the character.

We weren't supposed to like him in season one, right? He was supposed to be someone who was like maybe grappling with some morals, but ultimately, like face the consequences of his actions. Natural exit. Corporate lackey. Totally. Like goodbye. Now you live in New Jersey or similar.

Are we supposed to assume that's New Jersey where he has a lovely home? Right. He's coaching. He's going to coach you soccer and have. have three kids. Right. But then, and also he and Alex hated each other, Jennifer Anderson's character out. Like, it's a double betrayal, right? At the very end of season one. And I would say it takes him about 10 seconds to be like, sure, I'll come work for you again. I know it's true. It sounds great. Alex, let's write it back. We're not friends and we backstabbed each other.

Let's do this again. They had to like make some time for like the lingering wordless close up on the fiance who's just like standing in the background of the foyer being like, this isn't a good idea. And then he's like, I'll do it. Yeah. I'm not sure what her motivation was that scene, but she, because I didn't know if she was giving her the approving nod or the, what the fuck are you doing? It wasn't clear. They didn't give her a close up either.

They're like, you're not worth it. I'm surprised with this show that it wasn't like Viola Davis playing the way for, you know, three seconds. Aniston did say, I have a dog now, so I have to take him for a walk. I thought there was a weird parallel of Alex who now has no men in her life and Aniston, who seemingly has no men in her life either. And it was like this like loneliness of the super wealthy, attractive woman in her late 40s, early 50s who basically doesn't need men anymore. Right. And Jennifer Aniston herself also really does love her dogs. Lots of dog content on

Instagram. Right. It's worked that out. I'm surprised they haven't made a cameo on this show. So if you had to power rank it, Reese is in the best. situation for season two. I'm just saying her, her as an actor, actress, like, just like she's going to have the most fun, it seems like. I think you got to put crude up at number one still. Well, crude up, but yeah, he's, I'm not even counting him. Yeah, I'm just saying between Reese, Steve Correll, I think, I have no idea why I still

the show, but his Italy journey I'm ready for. I wish it was directed by who's the guy who did call me by your name or whatever, Luca, whatever his name is. Yeah. Yeah, I think they should add him direct the Italy things. Why not? They have the money. Here, look at Tavs. Here's some cash. And then Anniston's in the worst part. But we, we didn't cover the dinner scene.

Crudapu, I just, I think they were like, how can we improve this character? Make it more hyperbolic. I haven't turned up. At one point in the dinner scene, he goes, these two women, they changed the course of history. Did they? They're a show for three weeks together. What history was changed? What is different about America without these two women? What did he have to say the first episode? This is the battle for like our souls of eternity or something. It was on that level. They really, they realized that he was the best thing working.

I think only because like he wanted Emmy. And so now they're writing at least two ridiculous scenes for him in every episode. He fires the lawyer near the beginning. That was great. The lawyer makes the inappropriate NDA thing. And Billy Group's like, hey, you're fired. You're out.

So he gives a toast at one point. Talks about how great everything's going to be. Nobody at the table likes each other to show shows radio to the tank. He's been fired and got his job back somehow. We're still not positive how? Still no idea.

Holland Taylor calls in for about 90 seconds, if that, to tell him to do something he doesn't want to do, which he then doesn't do. Well, she also has classic line. Yeah. You don't want to get in a pissy match with me.

All I do is piss. Another one, where Reese, check that one when she got the script. It's a good one. Great. Great stuff. I'm excited for the Marshall Gay-Harden book

who's the last thing I'll leave you with. So they have a couple good things they're dangling for us. One is clearly Rain Man Lady is going to score over Steve Carell. I'm just waiting for that one. They might even have a couple episodes where it seems like they like each other,

but I think she's got some sort of ulterior motive. Yes, she says it's a story. Yeah, she's got an opportunity. By the way, Amanda and I have not seen any other episodes other than these two. So I know there are some people out there that have seen all the episodes, but we have not. The book is going to be fantastic.

The lawsuit, you know, lawsuits on TV shows like this can be effective or not effective, but I'm at least interested to see how it plays out. The $119.2 million was a good flourish. Right. It seems like they're going to use the lawsuit as a way to go after the Fred Micklin character and maybe make it like a little more public, which, you know, might be unseemly. But yeah, it's interesting. It's going after the proxy super rich white media executive is never a bad idea in the show.

And then for two episodes, same, we only have 80% of the season left. We have no love interest for Reese or Jennifer Anderson. Nothing. Nothing on the horizon. No chemistry. Nothing. Well, except for, and I'm nervous to say it, Billy Crudeup, who is exploring chemistry with both of them. I don't think that this is a good idea for the show or for the characters.

show that that's exploring Me Too and cancel culture? Which is exactly why I'm like, oh, no, this is what they're going to do. In a way, I'm like, oh, this will be great. And in another way, I'm like, oh, this is a disaster, which is really the morning show in a nutshell. Do you think they'll say the whole, there's chemistry with him and Reese, but they can't act on it? Because it's not right. She would have to quit the show for them to pursue this. Will we have that episode?

I mean, we have to at some point, right? They've already just been shrieking at each other on New Year's about how I thought we were friends, but then we're not friends anymore. And I'm not coming into work. I was doing my fake Reese, whether there's been Southern accent there. Thank you so much. So, like, why else do they keep teasing out this fake friendship between these two people? They were never friends at any point. And they never really had one scene that was convincing in any way. And it just seemed like in season when Reese was mad that she lost the coin flip for blonde hair. Exactly.

I hit the season two. She's like, I'm taking my blonde hair back. We didn't really talk about the hallway scene. I guess we could end there. That was actually a really fun scene. It just like Reese got her mojo back, I feel like Little Fires everywhere. She lost her mojo a little bit.

Season 1 morning show lost her mojo a little bit. And now Reese is back. Big Little Lize, Reese. All she was missing was the big glass of shardin. Yeah. And at the risk of, you know, undermining feminism or whatever, isn't the reason we're watching a show with Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon in competing roles to ultimately watch them yell at each other.

Like we were we were waiting for this and they were not really doing it. I will say it's really long. It's a really long scene. And this show really tends to just stuff in like three more pages of dialogue into every scene than it's like totally necessarily. But yeah, they go for it. I thought they both made good points. Well, she was like, I'm going to compete on that, your fucking sidekick. And Aniston says, compete, they compete.

It's like, all right, I guess this is on. We're competing. And there's a little like real life stuff. Like, do we think, do we think Jan and Reese are like close buddies? I'm going to say no. No. I think they're kind of the work friends that send like overly florid emails and are like, oh my God, it's so good to see you.

did you have the best weekend, you know, you know, like the West Side type of friendship. Yeah, there's like maybe a social media post for somebody's big birthday. Exactly. That's like brokered through the various assistants because none of them actually run their social media. But I think they're nice to each other. This is Reese's company that does the show. So there is a little like, if it ever came to it, it's like, well, you're lucky I cast you and we pay you two million an episode or whatever. What do we think they make per episode? At least two million, right? They do. It was reported. I think they each make $2 million per episode.

What do you think Will Arnette made to go? I'm not sure. I'm going to talk in a low voice. I'm doing my 30 rock guy again. For exactly one scene while I sit on the floor. Well, that book will be good for you. What is he doing? And Hassan Monash, what is he doing? Why is he in this? The scene between Hassan Minaj and Jennifer Aniston was the most nonsensical of the entire show. I don't even know. Why was she mad at him?

What did he do? I have no idea. He just took an open job. I have absolutely no idea. I don't get it. This is a ridiculous show. I can't wait for season for episode three. You and I, I don't know if we're going to recap season.

We're going to come back midseason maybe, right? That's the right thing to do. And we do this every week, but I do have to let you know, I was informed that there's a big twist in episode three by Julia Lippins. So maybe we're back next week. Yeah, she tried it. I don't know what it is. I cut her off, but we'll see.

I was also informed by. Nora Princeati that she loves this show. So if we do come back for episode three, maybe we'll bring her in to spruce it up. She'll be like our Hassan Minaj. We'll just start screaming at her for no reason. Let's get more a better character developed than that. Nor deserves better.

All right. So we'll see how big the twist is. The show comes out on Friday. It's exciting. It's still really hard to find on Apple TV. Hey, Apple TV. If you're going to spend 50 million an episode, I should be able to click on the Apple TV thing

and it'll come right there and I could pick up what episode. Like, why do they make it so hard? I don't know. No, I have to search for it every time. I'm like, come on. I'm a devoted fan. Give it to me on the home screen. HBOMath.

I'm rewatching Succession right now, and I'll come back to the episode I missed, and all of a sudden, I'm three episodes back. I'm like, what? It's just on episode six. Why am I back to episode three? Work on all your algorithms. Okay.

All right, so we might be back next week on the prestige TV pod. This is produced by Steve Allman, and we have Ted Lassow, Van and Chris. Oh, wow. Oh, yeah. And then some other good ones, too. I watched five episodes of Midnight Mass with my daughter who loves that stuff. And I think we're going to have to do an episode on that on this feed at some point.

Not with me because I don't understand anything that's going on. I haven't ever watch it. But it's good. It's really good. It's a little religious. But yeah. All right. Amanda, it's great to see.

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