TV Party

Deep in the bowels of CPN Studios, there lies a chamber only the greatest TV characters can enter – the funniest, the grumpiest, the maddest visages the television medium has to offer. There, we honor the breakout comic relief, the magnetically flawed protagonist, the one-time guest character that defines an entire series. This is where we hoard TV’s most valuable visages. This… is the Hall of Faces.This week, Allison and Clint are joined by their pals and confidantes Kris Vire (theater critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and elsewhere) and Joshua Davis to lounge out on the lanai and pick their favorite Golden Girl! The Emmy-winning sitcom about four older women embracing their second adolescence while living together in Miami is one of television's greatest treasures, so we decided to honor these esteemed ladies by making them battle it out for a spot in our Hall of Faces.Who will it be - Bea Arthur's sardonic Dorothy Zbornak? Betty White's ditzy Rose Nylund? Rue McClanahan's man-hungry Blanche Devereaux? or Estelle Getty's irascible Sophia Petrillo? We break down the lives, the loves, and the loungewear of television's greatest senior citizens, along with the latest TV news, picks of the week, and Bachelorette haiku. Timestamps:4:22 - TV News: Joss Whedon's Buffy reboot, Frances McDormand cast in Good Omens, Paramount TV president fired, American Horror Story season 8 title revealed, CATS movie(?!)16:10 - Picks of the Week:Kris: Parks and Recreation, "Leslie and Ben" (NBC)Joshua: So You Think You Can Dance (FOX)Clint: POSE, "Mother of the Year" (FX), Match Game (ABC)Allison: Trial and Error, "The Suitcase"/"The Timeline" (NBC)30:43 - Bachelorette HaikuHall of Faces: The Golden Girls33:20 - Introduction39:45 - Step One: Pick a CharacterClint: Sophia Petrillo (Estelle Getty)Joshua: Rose Nylund (Betty White)Kris: Dorothy Zbornak (Bea Arthur)Allison: Blanche Devereaux (Rue McClanahan)47:23 - Step Two: Best Episodes1:23:14 - Step Three: Final Vote1:24:54 - Picks for Next Week:Clint: Shark Week (Discovery Channel)Kris: Drunk History Halloween episode (Comedy Central)Joshua: Pose catch-up (FX)Allison: Sharp Objects, "Ripe" (HBO)Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

It's been a whirlwind week in TV, but the hosts of TV Party have you covered! Kate Kulzick joins Allison and Clint once again, this time to talk about the bold, controversial finale to the second season of Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale. What do the events of the finale mean for the future of Gilead? Have we lost some characters for good? And why didn't June get in the truck?! From underground Martha railroads to Bradley Whitford's love of Annie Lennox, we cover it all for you. We also dig into the whirlwind of this year's Emmy nominations (read more of our thoughts in this year's Emmys breakdown), from our biggest surprises (Kenan!) to our biggest snubs (no Crazy-Ex Girlfriend?!). But that's not all! Clint chats with the effervescent star of Somebody Feed Phil (and Everybody Loves Raymond co-creator) Phil Rosenthal about the importance of travel, the unexpected political weight of his show, and dispenses some much-appreciated relationship advice. Timestamps:3:02 - TV News: Sacha Baron Cohen, RuPaul talk show, Y the Last Man, Queer Eye and POSE renewals, longer season 4 for Crazy Ex-Girlfriend11:42 - Picks of the Week:Allison: Harlots, Season 2 Episode 2 (Hulu), Sharp Objects, "Dirt" (HBO)Kate: Pose, "Love is the Message" (FX), Queen Sugar (OWN), Claws (TNT)Clint: Anne with an E season 2 (Netflix), Somebody Feed Phil season 2 (Netflix)17:29 - Interview with Somebody Feed Phil's Phil Rosenthal31:52 - Bachelorette HaikusDeep Dive: The Handmaid's Tale Season 233:09 - Introductions/thoughts on the finale and season in general52:43 - Best/Worst episodes of the season1:01:36 - MVP Characters (Hard Mode: No Elisabeth Moss)1:11:13 - Emmy Nominations1:25:16 - Picks for Next Week:Clint: The Bold Type, "Betsy" (Freeform)Kate: Dietland, "Rad Fatties" (AMC)Allison: Trial and Error season 2 (NBC)Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

It's recurring guest Kate Kulzick's birthday, which means it's a perfect time for another installment of our regular segment Just Do This For Me!, in which one of our hosts or guests forces the others to watch a show of their choosing, and we talk about it on air.This time, we take a look at Cartoon Network's bubbly, infectious animated series Steven Universe, just in time for the show's big StevenBomb event! Kate (and her Gem of a sister Maggie) join Allison and Clint to talk about the show's incredible cult following, surprisingly nuanced grasp of serialized storytelling and groundbreaking LGBT representation. Oh, and the songs, of course. So many great songs.(Note: Some technical difficulties affected the audio quality of this episode, apologies for that. We'll be back to our sprightly, professional-sounding selves next week.)Timestamps:7:41 - Picks of the Week:Kate: Hannah Gadsby: Nanette (Netflix), Claws, "Scream" (TNT)Allison: The Bold Type, "Stride of Pride" (Freeform), The Handmaid's Tale, "Postpartum" (Hulu)Clint: GLOW, "The Good Twin" (Netflix), Pose, "Mother's Day" (FX)20:37 - Bachelorette HaikusJust Do This For Me!: Steven Universe21:38 - Introductions30:51 - Themes42:53 - Characters51:46 - Episodes1:05:57 - Music1:19:11 - The most recent StevenBomb1:35:30 - Picks for Next Week:Allison: Harlots season 2 (Hulu)Kate: Handmaid's Tale finale (Hulu)Clint: Sharp Objects (HBO), rewatching Babylon 5 (Amazon Prime)Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

We've hit the halfway mark of 2018, so it's time to sit down and take stock of the damn good year in TV we've had thus far. Clint and Allison are joined by regular contributors Dominick Suzanne-Mayer and Kate Kulzick this week to break down some of the best TV shows and performances of the past month - with a special shoutout to Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Steven Canals' incredible work on FX's POSE. (We also do our best to process that humdinger of a Drag Race finale.) If that's not enough for you, we also re-cap our top ten (technically, eleven) TV shows of the year so far! What do you think of our picks? Is there anything we missed? Let us know!You can read our official list here, but if you want to hear us rhapsodize further (and repeatedly, gleefully butcher the One Day at a Time theme), we've got you covered. Timestamps:2:39 - TV News: Danny McBride/John Goodman HBO show, reboot of Daria8:01 - Episodes of the Month/Week:Dom: GLOW, "Work the Leg" (Netflix) / Succession, "Sad Sack Wasp Trap" (HBO)Allison: Dietland, "Y Not" (AMC) / Queer Eye, "God Bless Gay" (Netflix)Kate: Claws, "Cracker Casserole" (TNT) / The Break with Michelle Wolf, "Entertainment Explosion!" (Netflix)Clint: Westworld, "Kiksuya" (HBO) / The Expanse, "Congregation"/"Abaddon's Gate" (Syfy)30:23 - Drag Race Drop-In42:27 - Episode of the Month (consensus): POSE, "The Fever" (FX)51:41 - Performances of the Month:Consensus: Billy Porter, POSE; Zahn McClarnon, WestworldDom: Hannah Gadsby, Nanette (Netflix)Allison: Mishel Prada, Vida (Starz)Kate: Joy Nash, Dietland (AMC)Clint: Alfre Woodard, Luke Cage (Netflix)1:00:27 - The Best TV of 2018 So Far2:02:03 - Picks for Next Week:Dom: Sir Mix-A-Lot's House Remix (DIY), The 2000s (CNN)Allison: Sharp Objects (HBO), A Very English Scandal (Amazon)Kate: Steven Universe: Heart of the Crystal Gems (Cartoon Network)Clint: Somebody Feed Phil season 2 (Netflix)Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Freeze all motor functions - it's another episode of TV Party! Allison's consciousness is trapped in robot heaven this week, so Clint pulls single-host duty with Caroline Siede and Jacob Oller to talk about Westworld's beautiful, dense season two finale "The Passenger," and the season as a whole.The finale left us with a lot to discuss: Where does Westworld go from here? Did we need all those twisty timeline shifts? Has the show fully abandoned its Western premise, and is that a good thing? We touch on those things, James Marsden's incredible cheekbones, and the concept of a robot heaven on the moon, so come question the nature of your reality with usDon't worry, we also talk about some other TV stuff this week, from the politics of Netflix's rebooted Queer Eye to our resigned sadness at NBC's Timeless getting the boot for good. Allison also appears from a previous timeline to give us a snippet of her interview with The Handmaid's Tale writer Yahlin Chang about the shocking timeliness of her episode "The Last Ceremony" (look out for a full version later this week). Timestamps:2:19 - TV News: Timeless canceled (again), The Terror season 2 renewal, pulling The Proposal episode after sexual assault allegations8:01 - Picks of the Week:Caroline: Queer Eye season 2 (Netflix)Jacob: The Great British Baking Show (PBS)Clint: The Handmaid's Tale, "The Last Ceremony" (Hulu); The Expanse, "Fallen World" (Syfy)15:05 - Interview with The Handmaid's Tale writer Yahlin Chang20:04 - Bachelorette Haikus Deep Dive: Westworld22:18 - Introduction/thoughts on the season29:15 - Discussion of the season 2 finale37:52 - Costumes/visuals46:29 - Score48:46 - Language52:52 - Best/worst episodes of the season1:08:13 - MVP Characters1:18:20 - Hopes for season 31:22:37 - Picks for Next Week:Jacob: Sharp Objects (HBO)Caroline: Luke Cage season 2 (Netflix)Clint: The Expanse, "Congregation"/"Abaddon's Gate" (Syfy)Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

With the end of the second season of FX's kaleidoscopic, surrealist superhero show Legion, Allison and Clint bring on Alex McLevy from The AV Club to discuss its highs and lows - from Aubrey Plaza's beautifully cagey performance to the season's slow pace. Plus, we break down some of our favorite images of the formally ambitious show, and some of the more interesting side characters we hope get more focus in season 3.Sandwiched in between our discussion like so many of Noah Hawley's nested dreamscapes, Dominick Suzanne-Mayer also materializes to discuss our picks for this past week, and what we're looking forward to next week, from Queer Eye to Strange Angel.Timestamps: 1:40 - TV News:Chris Hardwick allegations, Lucifer renewed at Netflix, AT&T/Time Warner merger, American Horror Story season 8 crossover11:20 - Episodes of the Week:Allison: The Bold Type, "Feminist Army"/"Rose Colored Glasses" (Freeform) Dom: Strange Angel, "Augurs of Spring" (CBS All Access), Drake's "I'm Upset" video Clint: The Expanse, "Dandelion Sky" (Syfy), Stoneman Douglas drama kids singing at the 72nd Tony Awards ceremony (CBS), The Staircase (Netflix)24:27 - Bachelorette HaikusDeep Dive: Legion Season 2 26:16 - Introduction/finale discussion 45:41 - The visuals of season 254:49 - MVP (Episodes) 1:00:36 - MVP (Characters)1:13:44 - Picks for Next Week:Allison: Pose, "Giving and Receiving" (FX), Luke Cage season 2 (Netflix) Dom: Lucha Underground (El Rey) Clint: Queer Eye season 2 (Netflix), Drunk History, "Heists" (Comedy Central)Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Over dozens of seasons of television, from Nip/Tuck to Glee to American Stories both Horror and Crime, super-producer Ryan Murphy has created his own cottage industry of ambitious, theatrical, cards-on-the-table melodramas featuring some of the best actors and actresses in TV. This week on the pod, Allison and Clint go it alone to count down fifteen of Murphy's greatest collaborators, from established character actresses to lantern-jawed hunks, to Oscar winners of all persuasions. Along the way, we share our thoughts on the tragic passing of Anthony Bourdain, spit some deadly bars about this year's bizarre season of The Bachelorette, and more. Timestamps:7:39 - TV News: Anthony Bourdain, Game of Thrones prequel series, Atlanta season 3 renewal, Keiynan Lonsdale's departure from the Arrowverse, and more21:02 - Episodes of the Week:Clint: Sense8 finale (Netflix), Steven Universe (Cartoon Network)Allison: The Last O.G. finale (TBS), Dietland premiere (AMC)29:39 - Bachelorette HaikusRyan Murphy's Most Valuable Players33:10 - Who doesn't qualify, who didn't make the list38:00 - Part I:15. Dot Jones14. Jamie Brewer13. Kate Mara12. Connie Britton11. Cuba Gooding, Jr.51: 14 - Part II:10. Finn Wittrock9. Kathy Bates8. Denis O'Hare7. Frances Conroy6. Lily Rabe5. Evan Peters4. Darren Criss3. Angela Bassett2. Jessica Lange1. Sarah Paulson1:36:55 - Picks for Next Week:Allison: The Bold Type season 2 premiere (Freeform), Strange Angel premiere (CBS All Access)Clint: Voltron: Legendary Defender season 6 (Netflix)Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Deep in the bowels of CPN Studios, there lies a chamber only the greatest TV characters can enter – the funniest, the grumpiest, the maddest visages the television medium has to offer. There, we honor the breakout comic relief, the magnetically flawed protagonist, the one-time guest character that defines an entire series. This is where we hoard TV’s most valuable visages. This… is the Hall of Faces.For our fourth entry in the Hall of Faces, Allison and Clint (with Kate Kulzick in tow) celebrate the host of spies, killers, and handlers in FX's recently completed series The Americans with a fierce debate - does only one of the Jennings deserve to get in, or do we say "why not both?"Who else gets in? Martha? Claudia? The mail robot? Like the show itself, the latest TV Party takes its cast on some breathtaking twists and turns, with more than a few difficult, world-shattering decisions to make. While we're at it, we weigh in on the exhaustive, week-long controversy surrounding Roseanne's cancellation, start our season-long segment of Bachelorette haikus, and much more!Timestamps:4:28 - TV News: Roseanne-gate, Lethal Weapon cast infighting, Samantha Bee, Heathers, Legion renewal, and more20:47 - Episodes of the Week:Kate: Michelle Wolf: Nice Lady (Netflix), The Americans, "START" (FX)Clint: Pose, "Pilot" (FX); The Expanse, "It Reaches Out" (Syfy); The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, "Party Monster: Scratching the Surface" (Netflix)Allison: The Americans, "START" (FX); JR Smith and LeBron, Vida (Starz)40:47 - Bachelorette HaikuHall of Faces: The Americans43:42 - Discussion of format54:36 - Characters we left out1:02:59 - Round One - Choose the CharacterKate: Martha HansonAllison: Elizabeth JenningsClint: Phillip Jennings1:18:27 - Round Two - Debate 1:23:06 - Picks for Next Week:Allison: Dietland (AMC), Vida (Starz)Kate: Sense8 finale (Netflix); premiere of Marvel's Cloak & Dagger (Freeform); Queen Sugar (OWN)Clint: Sense8 finale (Netflix)Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

The sun's out, the temperature's rising, and yet another month of TV has come and gone - and the hosts of TV Party are ready to send it off in style! Film editor Dominick Suzanne-Mayer joins us once again to weigh on everything we saw (and some we didn't see) in May. (The short version: if you haven't watched Killing Eve, get on that shit what's wrong with you.)Along with our effusive praise for BBC America's spy-thriller smash hit, we dig deep into the news of the week (including some surprise renewals and exciting casting decisions) and pile more onto our pre-existing love for FX's The Americans and HBO's Barry and Westworld. In the meantime, NBC is doing Hair as a live musical, and we simply don't know what to do with that information. Add to that a murderer's row of geek-outs over space operas, wrestling and kiddie cooking competitions, and it's just another week of delightful mayhem on TV Party. Timestamps:2:00 - TV News: The Expanse renewed by Amazon, John Malkovich as Hercule Poirot(!), Mike White & John Hennigan joining Survivor, Damon Lindelof's Watchmen casting announcement23:39 - Episode of the Month:Consensus: Killing Eve, "God, I'm Tired" (BBC America)Dom: Barry, "Chapter 8 - Know Your Truth" (HBO)Allison: The Americans, "The Summit"/"Jennings, Elizabeth" (FX); Westworld, "Akane No Mai" (HBO)Clint: The Expanse, "Delta-V" (Syfy)48:53 - Performances of the Month:Consensus: Matthew Rhys/Keri Russell, The Americans (FX)Dom: Jodie Comer, Killing Eve (BBC America)Allison: Rinko Kikuchi, Westworld (HBO)Clint: Tracee Ellis Ross, Black-ish (ABC)1:08:58 - What We Missed:Clint: Masterchef Junior finale (Fox); Picnic at Hanging Rock (Amazon)Dom: NXT (WWE Network)Allison: Cobra Kai (Youtube Red)1:19:04 - Next Week in TV: Dom: Succession premiere(HBO)Allison: Pose premiere (FX)Clint: Reverie pilot (NBC)Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Some weeks, you just want to dispense with the usual grind and try something new. In our case, that meant doing a live, loose After Party at Hotel Moxy in downtown Chicago as part of the opening week of the Moxy SoundOff Podcast Series!For this special episode, Allison and Clint go it alone in a two-person podcast booth, entertaining a lobby full of fans and passersby with a speed round of back-and-forth on the best Xs in TV history. What's the best season finale? Series finale? Pilot (first episode or person who flies things)? Just how hot can a closed-off podcast booth get on a warm summer day with no ventilation? We've got answers to all those questions and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Clint's been temporarily displaced from time, so this week Allison is joined by co-pilot Kate Kulzick (and special guest Carly Lane, contributing editor for Syfy Wire) to talk about the stellar season 2 of Timeless! NBC's time-travel adventure show just finished a rip-roaring, entertaining sophomore season after being barely rescued from cancellation, with all the history jokes and fetching period costumes you can shake a stick at. In the wake of Timeless' jaw-droppingly delicious season finale, our resident Clockblockers dig deep into their favorite episodes of the season, the MVPs of the show, and Carly's incredible Syfy Wire piece on how the show(along with perennial TV Party fave Outlander) explores historical witch-hunts. Strap in, steal some petticoats from a clothesline and zip through Timeless with us - along with more renewal chat, and discussions of The Americans, Killing Eve and The Handmaid's Tale.Hey, NBC. #RenewTimeless, would you please?Timestamps:3:20 - TV News: Final seasons for Jane the Virgin, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and iZombie, Ann Dowd's response to the White House Correspondent's Dinner, Jordan Peele's Nazi show, Guillermo del Toro going to Netflix17:34 - Episodes of the Week:Kate: The Americans, "The Summit" (FX)Carly: Killing Eve, "Take Me to the Hole" (BBC America)Allison: The Handmaid's Tale, "Seeds" (Hulu)Deep Dive - Timeless Season 2:44:05 -Season 2 finale chat, "Chinatown"1:06:34 - Discussion of Carly's piece on Timeless, Outlander and TV's treatment of historical witch-hunts 1:16:19 - Favorite Episodes:Kate: "The Day Reagan Was Shot"/"The General"Carly: "Hollywoodland"/"The King of the Delta Blues"Allison: "The War to End All Wars"/'Chinatown"1:37:06 - MVP:Carly: Abigail Spencer, costume designer Mari-An CeoKate: Malcolm Barrett, Writing/research teamAllison: The entire supporting cast (Sakina Jaffrey, Paterson Joseph et al.), visual effects team1:56:50 - Picks for Next Week:Kate: Killing Eve finale (BBC America), The Break with Michelle Wolf premiere (Netflix), The Terror finale (AMC), Tig Notaro: Happy to Be Here (Netflix)Carly: The Expanse, "Delta-V" (Syfy)Allison: The Americans, "Jennings, Elizabeth" (FX)Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

In this world of Peak TV, summer isn't the boring slog it used to be - there's a veritable smorgasbord of highly-anticipated debuts, returning favorites, and critical darlings showing up on our screens the next few months to keep us all on the couch and away from the beach. This week on TV Party, Allison and Clint (along with Dominick Suzanne-Mayer) break down some of the shows they're looking forward to the most this summer, in conjunction from our gargantuan rundown of the 30 shows we're looking forward to this summer. From Stephen King Extended Universe shows (Castle Rock) to dark comedies about fashion and murder starring Julianna Margulies (Dietland), we've got you covered, along with more puns than you can shake a stick at.(Note: if you're in Chicago, TV Party is doing a live show at Hotel Moxy this Wednesday, May 16th, from 4-6pm. Tickets are free, so come, grab a drink, and watch Allison and Clint talk TV while sitting in a glass box!)Timestamps:2:58 - TV News: The week's slate of cancellations16:13 - Picks of the Week:Dom: Barry, "Chapter 7 - Loud, Fast, and Keep Going" (HBO)Clint: The Expanse, "Triple Point" (Syfy)Allision: Killing Eve, "I Have a Thing for Bathrooms" (BBC America)Consensus: Atlanta, "Crabs in a Barrell" (FX)Summer TV Preview:34:43 - Promising Upstarts: Dom: Castle Rock (Hulu), Fahrenheit 451 (HBO)Clint: Dietland (AMC), Picnic at Hanging Rock (Amazon)Allison: Vida (Starz), The Tale (HBO)54:13 - Solid Contenders: Dom: Strange Angel (CBS All Access), The Great British Baking Show (PBS)Clint: Luke Cage (Netflix), Arrested Development (Netflix)Allison: The Bold Type (Freeform), Harlots (Hulu)1:17:09 - Top Picks:Clint: Sense8 finale movie (Netflix)Dom: GLOW (Netflix)Allison: Pose (FX)1:32:30 - Announcement: Live Show at Hotel Moxy1:34:25 - Picks for Next Week:Allison: The Americans, "The Summit" (FX), Little Women (PBS), Timeless season 2 finale (NBC)Dom: The Royal Wedding with Cord and Tish! (HBO)Clint: Brooklyn Nine-Nine, "Jake and Amy" (Fox)Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

This week, Allison and Clint (along with Kate Kulzick) are joined by New York drag queen extraordinaire Sutton Lee Seymour to discuss that most hallowed of RuPaul's Drag Race holidays - Snatch Game! Together, we discuss the tops, bottoms and everything in between for season 10's iteration of the classic Drag Race challenge, and also hearken back to Snatch Games of yesteryear. Along the way, we find new ways to gush about BBC America's Killing Eve, gab about the remixed fourth season of Arrested Development, and get a crash course in Steven Universe lore from Kate. Timestamps:2:41 - This Week in TV:Kate: The White House Correspondents' Dinner; Killing Eve, "Sorry Baby" (BBC America)Clint: Arrested Development Season 4 Remix: Fateful Consequences (Netflix); The Goldbergs, "Opportunity of a Lifetime" (ABC)Allison: The Americans, "Rififi" (FX); Adam Rippon on Dancing with the Stars (ABC)19:55 - Deep Dive: Snatch Game32:55 - Season 10: tops, middles, bottoms1:15:29 - Snatch Games of Yesteryear1:46:32 - Next Week in TV:Allison: Little Women (PBS); Patrick Melrose (Showtime)Kate: Steven Universe, "Can't Go Back/A Single Pale Rose" (Cartoon Network); Atlanta finale (FX)Clint: Safe (Netflix)Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Even with our breathless TV coverage every week, a few great things are bound to slip through the cracks. To that end, Allison and Clint (along with Dominick Suzanne-Mayer and Jacob Oller) halt and catch up to everything we missed over the month of April!Along the way, we also point out some of the month's greatest hits - from Atlanta's superb "Teddy Perkins" to the one-two punch of beautiful performances from Atlanta's Brian Tyree Henry and The Handmaid's Tale's Elisabeth Moss. Timestamps:2:20 - TV News:The Cosby verdict, Stranger Things season 3 promo, Colin Jost and Michael Che hosting the Emmys13:17 - Episode of the Month: Atlanta, "Teddy Perkins" (FX)27:48 - Picks of the Month:Jacob: Aggretsuko (Netflix)Dom: Andre the Giant (HBO)Allison: The Americans, "The Great Patriotic War" (FX)Clint: The Handmaid's Tale, "June" (Hulu)45:29 - Performance of the Month:Consensus: Tie - Brian Tyree Henry, Atlanta (FX), Elisabeth Moss, The Handmaid's Tale (Hulu)Dom: Bill Hader, Barry (HBO)Allison: Sandra Oh, Killing Eve (BBC America)Jacob: Brandon Victor Dixon, Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert (NBC)Clint: Parker Posey, Lost in Space (Netflix)1:08:38 - What We Missed:Clint: LA to Vegas (FOX)Jacob: The Terror (AMC)Dom: NXT Takeover: New Orleans (WWE)Allison: Howards End (Starz)1:24:41 - Next Week in TV: Jacob: James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction (AMC)Dom: John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous Live at Radio City (Netflix)Allison: RuPaul's Drag Race, "Snatch Game"(VH1)Clint: Good Girls, "Remix" (NBC)-- Clint WorthingtonSenior Staff Writer, Consequence of SoundCo-Host/Editor/Producer, TV Party PodcastCo-Host/Editor/Producer, AlcohollywoodCo-Host/Editor/Producer, Nathan Rabin's Happy CastChicago Independent Film Critics Circle, 2016-Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

For the latest After Party, Allison and Clint serve up their full, uncut interview with Kirsten Nelson, who played young Mrs. Landingham in The West Wing's seminal episode (and You Get Hoynes! namesake) "Two Cathedrals." Together, they talk about what it was like filming the episode, meeting writer/producer/pinch-hitting actor Lawrence O'Donnell on set, and the impact of the episode on The West Wing and our contemporary cultural landscape in general. Take a listen!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

This week on TV Party, Allison and Clint are joined by two of TV Party's finest Cabinet members (Kate Kulzick and Caroline Siede) to kick off our new recurring segment on perfect, ambitious episodes of television, You Get Hoynes!We couldn't very well do this segment without celebrating the episode it was named after - The West Wing's spellbinding season two finale, "Two Cathedrals." From Martin Sheen's bravura speech to God in the National Cathedral, to the flashbacks of young Jed Bartlett's relationship with the recently-passed Mrs, Landingham, to the ongoing question of whether Jed will seek a second term, it's a masterful hour of Peak Aaron Sorkin television we take great pleasure in discussing in detail - presumably while continuously walking down the halls of CPN Studios. Along the way, Allison and Clint also provide a snippet of their interview with young Mrs. Landingham herself, Kirsten Nelson. Take a listen!Timestamps:3:27 - TV NewsGrey's Anatomy renewed, RIP Harry Anderson, the Allison Mack and Robbie Turner controversies14:02 - This Week in TV:Clint: Black-ish, "Fifty-Three Percent" (ABC)Caroline: For the People, "World's Greatest Judge" (ABC)Allison: Legion, "Chapter 11" (FX)33:08 - Kate: Jane the Virgin, "Chapter Eighty-One" (CW) (SPOILER ALERT)You Get Hoynes: The West Wing, "Two Cathedrals" (NBC)37:57 - Why this episode?46:00 - Episode Synopsis49:35 - Writing1:20:32 - Performances1:31:36 - Interview w/Kirsten Nelson (Young Dolores Landingham) (full interview to come in this week's After Party)1:36:32 - Direction and Cinematography1:43:24 - Score and Music1:55:01 - Next Week in TV:Caroline: Crash Course (Youtube) and Westworld, "Journey Into Night" (HBO)Allison: The Americans, "The Great Patriotic War" (FX); Dirty Computer (MTV)Kate: Premieres of Into the Badlands (AMC) and Archer: Danger Island (FX)Clint: The Expanse, "Assured Destruction" (Syfy)Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

If there's one thing you can count on here at TV Party, it's that we take every single opportunity to dump effusive praise on our favorite piece of superhero schlock on the airwaves right now - The CW's deeply wacky time-travel smorgasbord DC's Legends of Tomorrow. If you're not watching it, you're missing out on something special: Vikings worshipping a Tickle Me Elmo-like fuzzy toy. Neal McDonough in a silly Javier Bardem wig. A young Barack Obama chased by a murderous psychic gorilla. It's just.... so much of everything you never knew you wanted. Now that Legends has finished its third season (which you can already find on Netflix), Allison and Clint - along with fellow superfan Kate Kulzick - take a few minutes out of their day for a very special After Party to discuss the wild, wild season 3 finale. Along the way, they pinpoint the many ways the season as a whole has seen the show solidifying its irreverent tone and giving its game cast of underrated performers new things to do - and new historical figures to save. Take a listen!Timestamps:8:57 - Discussion of the season 3 finale, "The Good, The Bad and the Cuddly"22:07 - Season 3 discussionLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Deep in the bowels of CPN Studios, there lies a chamber only the greatest TV characters can enter – the funniest, the grumpiest, the maddest visages the television medium has to offer. There, we honor the breakout comic relief, the magnetically flawed protagonist, the one-time guest character that defines an entire series. This is where we hoard TV’s most valuable visages. This… is the Hall of Faces.With The Handmaid's Tale premiering its second season on Hulu on April 26th, Allison and Clint bring on Kate Kulzick of The Televerse and AV Club staff writer Gwen Ihnat to revisit the home of Elisabeth Moss' biggest Peak TV role, Mad Men! Which member of Sterling Cooper/SCDP/SCP makes it into our Hall of Faces - is it Peggy Olsen? Don Draper? Betty Draper? Joan Harris? Listen and find out!Along the way, we also discuss the wigs and workroom drama of the latest Drag Race, Tig Notaro joining Star Trek Discovery, and the premieres of Killing Eve and Lost in Space. Timestamps:3:57 - TV News: Peabody nominees, Tig Notaro joining Star Trek Discovery, NOS4A2 series order at AMC, Kyle Chandler cast in Hulu's Catch-2215:59 - This Week in TV:Kate: RuPaul's Drag Race, "The Last Ball on Earth" (VH1)Clint: Lost in Space (Netflix) (hon. mention: The Expanse, "Fight or Flight" (Syfy))Gwen: New Girl, "About Three Years Later" (FOX)Allison: Killing Eve, "Nice Face" and "I'll Deal With Him Later" (BBC America)Hall of Faces: Mad Men38:00 - Introduction41:09 - Backups53:15 - Main Picks1:18:28 - Who Would NOT Have Made the List1:22:04 - Favorite Moment1:31:38 - Picking the Winner1:42:22 -Next Week in TV:Gwen: Riverdale, "A Night to Remember" (CW)Allison: Laurie Metcalf's guest turn on Supergirl, "Schott Through the Heart" (CW) Kate: season finales of Jane the Virgin and Black Lightning (CW)Clint: Westworld, "Journey Into Night" (HBO)Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

In this bonus After Party, Allison and Clint sit down for a minute to talk about the Crazy Ex-Girlfriend live show!Along the way, they both have a pleasant chat with Josh Chan himself, Vincent "Vinny" Rodriguez III; Clint lives through the live show vicariously through Allison; and Allison speaks to Donna Lynne Champlin (Paula on Crazy Ex) about the show's highlights, the rehearsal process, choreography, and more. Timestamps:5:37 - Interview with Vincent Rodriguez III39:46 - Allison's Reflections on the Live Show51:50 - Interview with Donna Lynne ChamplinLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

For our inaugural installment of our recurring segment Just Do This For Me!, first-timers Allison and Clint step into the ring with seasoned WWE veterans LaToya Ferguson and Dominick Suzanne-Mayer for their very first WrestleMania! Together, they discuss all the bone-crushing mayhem, surprise upsets, and camptastic outfits of WWE WrestleMania 34. Suffice to say, we're all #TeamNicholas over here.Along with that, the panel gushes about Brooklyn Nine-Nine's beautiful bottle episode "The Box," delve more into the mastery of FX's Atlanta, and finally find out why that Legends of Tomorrow episode is titled "Guest Starring John Noble." Timestamps:2:16 - TV News: The Simpsons responding to The Problem with Apu, David Simon's new series, the CW renewal slate, the High Fidelity reboot12:12 - Picks of the Week:Dom: Atlanta, "Teddy Perkins" (FX)Clint: DC's Legends of Tomorrow, "Guest Starring John Noble" (CW)LaToya: Brooklyn Nine-Nine, "The Box" (FOX)Allison: Killing Eve, "Nice Face" (BBC)37:11 - Just Do This For Me! WWE WrestleMania 3443:01 - Initial reactions from the newbies (Allison, Clint)49:38 - Favorite matches59:09 - General discussion1:20:03 - WrestleMania's place in the wrestling world1:25:39 - Questions from the experts (Dom, LaToya)1:38:58 - Final thoughts1:42:50 - Next Week in TV:Dom: Chef's Table: Pastry (Netflix)Clint: The Expanse season 3 premiere (Syfy), Lost in Space (Netflix)LaToya: The Challenge: Vendettas reunion episode (MTV)Allison: RuPaul's Drag Race, "The Last Ball on Earth" (VH1)Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

For this bonus episode, we asked Time Out Chicago theater critic Kris Vire to tell us what was a-happenin' with NBC's excellent addition to the live televised musical canon, Jesus Christ Superstar Live In Concert. Kris and Allison get into what worked (hint: a lot!), what didn't, and how well Ben Daniels' Pontius Pilate would do on RuPaul's Drag Race. We also wax rhapsodic about Brandon Victor Dixon, Sara Bareilles, John Legend, John Legend's cheekbones, and the rest of this (mostly) excellent cast.Worried we might not have enough expertise musically? Everything's alright, yes, everything's fine, because the great Kate Kulzick joins us to discuss the orchestration in "Gesthemane," among other things. Thanks to Kris and Kate for joining us, and thanks to costume designer Paul Tazewell for all those deep v-necks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

For this spook-tacular episode of TV Party, Allison and Clint venture deep into the bowels of the Consequence Podcast Network studio! There, The Loser's Club hosts Randall Colburn and Michael Roffman lie in wait to help them discuss our picks of the most frightening moments in television history.Whether it's the existential horror of Twin Peaks: The Return's Woodsman, or the simple tension of Walter and Skyler White's scuffle over a kitchen knife in Breaking Bad, television's greatest shocks come in many forms, and we're here to discuss them all, as well as what makes a great TV scare in the first place. Along the way, the crew also discusses Donald Glover's acrimonious split from Marvel over his Deadpool series, the premieres of AMC's The Terror and HBO's Barry, and the return of FX's The Americans for its final season.Timestamps:1:55 - TV News: Donald Glover leaving Deadpool, "I Want Your Cray-Cray" Jessica Jones Pop-Up VideoThis Week in TV:5:58 - Michael: Barry, "Chapter One: Make Your Mark" (HBO)9:36 - Clint: Santa Clarita Diet Season 2 (Netflix)12:56 - Randall: The Challenge! (MTV)19:17 - Allison: The Americans, "Dead Hand" (FX); The Terror (AMC)The Scene Who Knocks:Backups:24:55 - Clint: The human mural, Hannibal, "Kaiseki" (NBC)27:48 - Michael: Zeebo, Are You Afraid of the Dark, "The Tale of Laughing in the Dark" (NICK)30:09 - Randall: Laura Palmer screaming, Twin Peaks season 2 finale (ABC)33:41 - Allison: Lucy gets stabbed, ER, "Be Still My Heart" (NBC); Bolero, Legion, "Chapter 7" (FX)35:47 - What Makes a Good TV Scare?The List:44:56 - First glimpse of the creature on the wing, The Twilight Zone, "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" (CBS)47:45 - The reveal of Mrs. Peacock, The X-Files, "Home" (FOX)52:51 - The floating boy, Salem's Lot (CBS)56:15 - Knife fight between Walter and Skyler, Breaking Bad, "Ozymandias" (AMC)1:00:59 - Disembodied heads of Punky's friends, Punky Brewster, "The Perils of Punky: Part 2" (NBC)1:06:36 - "Got a light?", Twin Peaks: The Return, "Part 8" (SHO)1:11:12 - "I don't have a car," Six Feet Under, "That's My Dog" (HBO)1:15:06 - Sky is possessed and starts repeating the others, Doctor Who, "Midnight" (BBC)Next Week in TV:1:19:29 - Clint: DC's Legends of Tomorrow, "Guest Starring John Noble" (CW)1:20:20 - Randall: WrestleMania 34 (WWE)1:23:03 - Michael: Legion season 2 premiere (FX)1:24:05 - Allison: Killing Eve (BBC America)Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

For this bonus episode, we follow up on last week's Rank and File on the 25 Greatest Teens in TV History with Allison's full interview with Isabella Gomez, who made our list as Elena Alvarez on the recently-renewed Netflix sitcom One Day at a Time! Together, they talk about what makes a great TV teen, working with Rita Moreno, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

It's a TV party of two this week, as Allison and Clint go it alone to walk the latter through his very first episode of RuPaul's Drag Race. What did he think of the show? Will Shantay he stay, or sashay away from it altogether? After that, the host talk about some exciting TV news, the blurring lines between streaming films and television (in wake of the Cannes ban on Netflix flicks), the finale of American Crime Story, and more. Slap on your wig, put on your face, and let the podcast play!Timestamps:6:04 - TV News: Monty Python headed to Netflix, Margot Robbie's women-led Shakespeare seriesThis Week in TV:15:30 - Consensus: RuPaul's Drag Race Season 10 Premiere (VH1)39:23 - Clint: Brooklyn Nine-Nine, "Safe House" (FOX)42:36 - Allison: The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, "Alone" (FX)56:30 - Last Week, This Week: "A History of Women's Pain" (feat. Laurie Metcalf) on Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (TBS) Overly Specific Thing of the Week:58:52 - Clint: Dark Corporate Synergy of the Week: Good Girls shop at Superstore's Cloud 9 (NBC)1:01:13 - Allison: Natural 20 of the Week: Constantine's D&D Campaign on DC's Legends of Tomorrow (CW)Next Week on TV:1:08:50 - Allison: Barry (HBO), The Terror (AMC)1:11:34 - Clint: Trust (FX)1:14:47 - Discovery Special of the Week: The Curse of Civil War Gold (History)Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Whether they're counterculture iconoclasts or hilariously uptight, heroes or villains, teenagers have had a long history as some of television's most important and indelible characters. But who stands out among the crowd? For this special, extra-long episode, Allison and Clint (along with Dominick Suzanne-Mayer and Caroline Siede) lock themselves in their rooms with nothing but a telephone and a Lisa Frank binder to figure out who the greatest teenagers in TV history may be. Along the way, we also hear from Alone Together's Esther Povitsky on the characteristics of on-screen teens, and a few words from One Day at a Time's Isabella Gomez on her character's inclusion on the list!(Special thanks to writers Kate Kulzick and LaToya Ferguson for helping curate this list!)Timestamps:3:33 - What Makes a Great TV Teen?6:03 - Interview with Alone Together's Esther Povitsky on TV Teens15:33 - Who Did We Leave Off the List?25:46 - Honorable MentionsThe List:31:02 - 25. Sally Draper (Kiernan Shipka), Mad Men24:38 - 24. Steve Harrington (Joe Keery), Stranger Things37:39 - 23. Paris Gellar (Liza Weil), Gilmore Girls40:41 - 22. Jan Brady (Eve Plumb), The Brady Bunch43:40 - 21. Elena Alvarez (Isabella Gomez), One Day at a Time (featuring interview excerpt with Gomez)50:43 - 20. Ryan Atwood (Ben McKenzie), The OC53:21 - 19. Zoey Johnson (Yara Shahidi), Black-ish and Grown-ish55:25 - 18. Carlton Banks (Alfonso Ribiero), The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air58:50 - 17. Korra (Janet Varney), The Legend of Korra1:01:54 - 16. Shawn Hunter (Rider Strong), Boy Meets World1:06:11 - 15. Jake Sisko (Cirroc Lofton), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine1:11:57 - 14. Daria Morgendorffer (Tracy Grandstaff), Daria1:15:16 - 13. Eddie Haskell (Ken Osmond), Leave It to Beaver1:18:55 - 12. Matt Saracen (Zach Gilford), Friday Night Lights1:23:32 - 11. Angela Chase (Claire Danes), My So-Called Life1:27:32 - 10. Arthur "The Fonz" Fonzarelli (Henry Winkler), Happy Days1:32:32 - 9. Audrey Horne (Sherilynn Fenn), Twin Peaks1:35:39 - 8. Alex P. Keaton (Michael J. Fox), Family Ties1:39:39 - 7. Lindsey Weir (Linda Carellini), Freaks and Geeks1:45:01 - 6. Arya Stark (Maisie Williams), Game of ThronesThe Top Five:1:52:22 - 5. Finn the Human (Jeremy Shada), Adventure Time1:55:15 - 4. Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar), Buffy the Vampire Slayer1:58:36 - 3. Boadie Broadus (J.D. Williams), The Wire2:01:07 - 2. Kevin Arnold (Fred Savage), The Wonder Years2:04:06 - 1. Veronica Mars (Kristen Bell), Veronica MarsLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

For their latest trick, Allison and Clint (along with their lovely assistants Dominick Suzanne-Mayer and Caroline Siede) patter about ABC's newest, weirdest magician/cop procedural, Deception! Is it secretly amazing, or does it just providethe illusion of quality? Or is it both? Along the way, our hosts also celebrate John Oliver's deep dive into Bitcoin, discuss the premiere of NBC's painfully earnest musical theater drama Rise, and talk about Syfy's upcoming superhero prequel series Krypton (featuring an exclusive interview with the show's star, Cameron Cuffe).Timestamps:This Week in TV:Consensus: Deception (ABC)20:15 - Caroline: For the People  (ABC)22:43 - Allison: Timeless, "The War to End All War" (NBC)26:52 - Dominick: Superstore, "Amnesty" (NBC)30:07 - Clint: Wild Wild Country (Netflix)32:23 - Last Week This Week: John Oliver's Bitcoin segment on Last Week Tonight (HBO)36:40 - TV News: Claire Foy/Matt Smith's salary inequities on The Crown, The Clarissa Explains It All reboot43:34 Secret Pearson: This is Us (NBC)Overly Specific Thing of the Week:49:45 - Clint: Car Disposal Gag of the Week - Mae Whitman's Bluetooth call from Good Girls, "Borderline" (NBC)52:38 - Caroline: Legend in Skinny Jeans of the Week: Bernadette Peters in Mozart in the Jungle (Amazon); Worst In-World Casting Choices of the Week: Rise (NBC)56:37 - Allison: Jumpsuit for the Gods of the Week: Andrew's red confection on American Crime Story (FX); Destroy My DVR Moment of the Week - VH1's Drag Race DVR slipup59:09 - Dominick: Climactic Cameo of the Week: Michael Vick on Atlanta, "Moneybag Shawty" (FX)Next Week in TV:1:01:21 - Allison: Station 19 (ABC)1:03:42 - Caroline: American Crime Story finale (FX)1:04:17 - Clint: Krypton pilot (feat. interview w/star Cameron Cuffe)1:17:02 - Dominick: Barry premiere (HBO)1:18:42 - Discovery Special of the Week: Love at First Flight: The Journey Begins, "First Impressions" (Lifetime) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Hot off the heels of TV Party's induction of Jessica Jones' Kilgrave into the Hall of Faces last week, our intrepid hosts (Allison, Clint, Kate Kulzick of The Televerse) dig into the first few episodes of Marvel's Jessica Jones season 2! Does it hold up to the show's stellar first season? How does JJ fare in David Tennant's absence? Take a listen and find out!Along the way, our caffeine-deprived heroes discuss everything from Neal McDonough's fabulous Javier Bardem wig on Legends of Tomorrow, to the nightmare fuel provided by last week's X-Files, to the surprisingly nuanced discussion of racial bias in dating from Grown-ish. Timestamps:THIS WEEK IN TV:2:37 - Consensus: Marvel's Jessica Jones Season 2, Episodes 1-3 (Netflix)18:47 - Clint: Grown-ish, "It's Hard Out Here For a Pimp" (Freeform)22:42 - Kate: DC's Legends of Tomorrow, "No Country for Old Dads" (CW)29:58 - Allison: Atlanta, "Sportin' Waves" (FX)34:41 - Last Week This Week: "Hamilton Polka" and Weird Al/LMM on Fallon (NBC)41:30 - Drag Race Drop-In: RuPaul's Drag Race All-Stars 3 (VH1)49:48 - TV News: BBC's His Dark Materials miniseries announcement, Jon Favreau's Star Wars seriesOVERLY SPECIFIC THING OF THE WEEK:55:32 - Clint: I Know That Guy! of the Week - Nailed It! (Netflix)57:39 - Kate: Nightmare Fuel of the Week - Mr. Chuckleteeth from The X-Files, "Familiar" (FOX)59:47 - Allison: Wig of the Week - Damien Darhk's Javier Bardem Wig from Legends of Tomorrow (CW)NEXT WEEK ON TV:1:01:59 - Allison: Rise premiere (NBC)1:03:32 - Kate: The return of Bob's Burgers (FOX), The Flash, "Run, Iris, Run" (CW)1:05:31 - Clint: Brooklyn Nine-Nine spring premiere, "Safe House" (FOX)1:07:23 - Discovery Special of the Week: Mysteries at the Museum, "Million Dollar Dinner, Thing in the Woods and Cornstalk Colonel" (Travel Channel)1:10:45 - Spoiler Chat: Marvel's Jessica Jones Season 2 (up to episode 7)Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Deep in the bowels of CPN Studios, there lies a chamber only the greatest TV characters can enter – the funniest, the grumpiest, the maddest visages the television medium has to offer. There, we honor the breakout comic relief, the magnetically flawed protagonist, the one-time guest character that defines an entire series. This is where we hoard TV’s most valuable visages. This… is the Hall of Faces.For this sophomore entry in the Hall of Faces, Allison and Clint are joined by The Televerse's Kate Kulzick and TheAndrewBlog's Andrew Bloom to see if any of the characters in Marvel's gargantuan, nine-show interconnected TV show universe deserve a spot in the pantheon. Will it be David Tennant's devious Kilgrave or Hayley Atwell's badass Peggy Carter? Jon Bernthal's bloody-sexy Frank Castle, or Alfre Woodard's conniving Black Mariah from Luke Cage? Strap on your Infinity Gauntlets and listen to find out which (if any) made it into this extremely legitimate, not-at-all-made-up canon!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Hot off the heels of this year's Oscars, Allison and Clint are joined by The AV Club's Caroline Siede and CoS' Dominick Suzanne-Mayer to talk about the highs, lows, and hard-won jet skis of the 90th Annual Academy Awards. Was Jimmy Kimmel the right host for the night? Did the right movies win? What movies should have been nominated in the first place? The hosts also dig into socially-conscious documentary theater with HBO's Notes from the Field, speculate on the last-minute rescheduling of Paramount's Heathers reboot, and more!THIS WEEK IN TV:01:25 - Consensus: The 90th Annual Academy Awards Ceremony (ABC)32:30 - Caroline: Waco, "Day 51" (Paramount Network)34:18 - Dominick: Atlanta, "Alligator Man" (FX)37:01 - Allison: The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, "Descent" (FX)38:59 - Clint: Notes from the Field (HBO)REBOOT REPORT:42:46 - Paramount Network Pushing Back the Heathers Reboot (Paramount Network)47:04 - Drag Race Drop Zone (RuPaul's Drag Race All-Stars 3 (VH1))OVERLY SPECIFIC THING OF THE WEEK:49:20 - Clint: Drunken Karaoke Wham! Cover of the Week - DC's Legends of Tomorrow (CW)51:07 - Caroline: Best Example of How Chadwick Boseman Is Becoming T'Challa in Real Life of the Week - Oscars red carpet coverage (ABC)52:58 - Dom: Best Extremely Uncomfortable Fake Honesty of the Week: American Crime Story (FX)55:34 - Allison: Best Boilerplate Interrogation Scene That's Secretly Amazing Because It Features Bill Camp: The Looming Tower (Hulu)NEXT WEEK IN TV:57:53 - Allison: Collateral (Netflix), Jessica Jones (Netflix)59:39 - Caroline: The Bachelor finale (ABC)1:00:38 - Dom: OJ Simpson: The Lost Confession (Fox)1:02:20 - Clint: Hard Sun (Hulu)DISCOVERY SPECIAL OF THE WEEK:01:03:07 - Gold Rush: White Water, "The Graboid" (Discovery)Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Joining Allison and Clint in-studio this week is The Televerse's Kate Kulzick! Together, this group of misfits gush about Legends of Tomorrow''s slap-happy time loop episode, express their dismay at the lackluster state of RuPaul's Drag Race All-Stars 3, and muse on the potential of Netflix's Lost in Space reboot!Along the way, our intrepid hosts discuss the appeal of Doctor Who's slick new logo,' dig into the power and significance of CNN's Town Hall with the students, teachers, and families of Parkland, and figure out what a buddy cop show called Fast 'n Loud would look like. Enjoy!EPISODE GUIDE:2:40 - This Week in TV: Expanse Season 3 Premiere Date, SNL TV Hosts, Tiffany Haddish and Michelle Wolf's Dope Hosting GigsLAST WEEK IN TV:13:54 - Consensus: DC's Legends of Tomorrow, "Here I Go Again" (CW)29:27 - Follow-up: RuPaul's Drag Race All-Stars 3 (VH1)37:33 - Kate: CNN Town Hall with Parkland Survivors48:11 - Allison: Ugly Delicious, "Fried Chicken" (Netflix)53:59 - Clint: Seven Seconds (Netflix)REBOOT REPORT:57:22 - Lost in Space (Netflix) Date Announcement TeaserOVERLY SPECIFIC THING OF THE WEEK1:02:26 - Clint: Awkward Reading of a Decades-old AOL Chatlog of the Week - The Mortified Guide (Netflix)1:05:10 - Kate: Production Actually Giving a Damn of the Week - Tala Ashe's Real Violin Aptitude on Legends of Tomorrow (CW)1:13:06 - Allison: Logo That Made Me Gasp of the Week: Reveal of Doctor Who's new logo (BBC)NEXT WEEK IN TV:1:15:50 - Allison: Anna Deavere Smith's Notes from the Field (HBO), The Looming Tower (Hulu)1:19:01 - Kate: Series premiere of Good Girls (NBC)1:22:55 - Clint: Season 3 premiere of UnREAL (Lifetime) and Ash v. Evil Dead (Starz)DISCOVERY SPECIAL OF THE WEEK:1:24:36 - Street Outlaws: vs. Fast N' Loud: Build to Mega Race Gear 4 (Discovery)Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Allison and Clint are joined their very own Friendtopia - The Televerse's Kate Kulzick and The Televoid's LaToya Ferguson - to settle for Allison's list of the 25 greatest songs from the first three seasons of CW's cult hit musical comedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend! Together they generalize about men, calculate the math of love triangles, and investigate the buzzing from the bathroom while singing the praises of Rachel Bloom and Aline Brosh-McKenna's infectious blend of musical satire, pop-music parodies and deeply relatable psychological yearning. Plus, there's a song that features the word 'penis' twenty-six times!(Note: Clint's audio cuts out halfway through, so that's why he's a little quiet in the back half.)Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

This week, Clint and Allison are joined once again by SyFy and Paste's Jacob Oller (and the absentee picks of lost-but-not-forgotten co-host Kate Kulzick of The Televerse) as we break down the Crazy Ex-Girlfriend finale, Netflix's new '90s nostalgia show Everything Sucks! and gush about the return of The CW's galactically silly superhero show Legends of Tomorrow. Along the way, we also celebrate Drunk History's take on sex ed history, salute the brave students of Parkland in their public TV appearances, and nitpick about which version of "Way Down in the Hole" works best for The Wire. Enjoy!2:17 - TV NewsThis Week in TV:11:27 - Consensus: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend finale, "Nathaniel is Irrelevant" (CW)33:08 - Jacob: The Wire, Season 3 (HBO), All the Pieces Matter: The Story of the Wire36:40 - Allison: The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (FX); DC's Legends of Tomorrow, "Daddy Dahrkest" (CW)41:00 - Clint: Everything Sucks! (Netflix)Last Week This Week: The Rundown with Robin Thede (BET)Overly Specific Thing of the Week: Kate: The Children Are Our Future of the Week - the televised public reactions (and political action) of the students of Parkland, Florida in the wake of the Parkland shooting48:25: Allison: Shopping Spree of the Week - Anissa, Black Lightning (CW)49:50 - Jacob: Best Trailer That Made Me Wanna Go Back and Watch a Whole Series of the Week - Voltron: Legendary Defender (Netflix)51:40 - Clint: Horny Lovebirds, But Also Scientists of the Week: Drunk History (Comedy Central)Next Week in TV:53:15 - Clint: Seven Seconds (Netflix)54:32 - Kate: Amazing Race finale (CBS)55:30 - Allison: RuPaul's Drag Race All-Stars 3 (VH1)1:01:17 - Jacob: The Tick season 1, part 2 (Amazon)1:03:02 - Discovery Special of the Week: Moonshiners: Sour Mash UnfilteredLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

This week, Allison and Clint are joined by Jacob Oller (Paste Magazine, One Perfect Shot, Syfy Wire) to finally react to This Is Us' dramatic Super Bowl episode - and the reveal of Jack's actual death. In the episode, our hosts also celebrate some transcendent fierceness on RuPaul's Drag Race All-Stars, dig into the turn-of-the-century pseudoscience of The Alienist, and debate whether or not Queer Eye's Netflix reboot is a welcome update to the self-improvement show, or mere exploitation of Trump-era social issues with a glossy makeover. Grab your triple-layered wigs and a fuckton of cats, and take a listen!EPISODE GUIDE:Last Week in TV:4:51: Consensus - This Is Us, "Super Bowl Party" (NBC)19:16: Clint - Season 2 of The Expanse (SYFY)23:31: Allison - RuPaul's Drag Race All-Stars 3 - "The Bitchelor" (VH1)28:10: Jacob - Black Lightning (CW); The Alienist (TNT)Reboot Report:37:11: Queer Eye (Netflix)Overly Specific Thing of the Week:53:13: Clint - Freelance Flashback of the Week (Black-ish) (ABC)54:50: Jacob - Super Bowl Tide Commercial of the Week - Tennis Ad (NBC)57:03: Allison - Fuckton of Cats of the Week: "Fuckton of Cats" (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) (CW); Guy Who Had a Great Week of the Week: Cody Fern (The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story) (FX)Next Week in TV:59:50: Consensus - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Finale - "Nathaniel Is Irrelevant." (CW)1:01:14: Clint - DC's Legends of Tomorrow mid-season premiere (CW)1:05:10: Allison - Classic Doctor Who (BBC, Britbox)1:06:23: Jacob - This Close (Sundance Now)Discovery Special of the Week:Mysteries & Scandals: "Michael Jackson & Anna Nicole Smith - Bad Medicine" (OXYGEN)Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Deep in the bowels of CPN Studios, there lies a chamber only the greatest TV characters can enter - the funniest, the grumpiest, the maddest visages the television medium has to offer. There, we honor the breakout comic relief, the magnetically flawed protagonist, the one-time guest character that defines an entire series. This is where we hoard TV's most valuable visages. This... is the Hall of Faces.For our very first Hall of Faces, Allison and Clint are once again joined by Julie Starbird (Podlander Drunkcast) and Caroline Siede (The AV Club) to determine which (if any) of The Good Place's roster of delightfully absurd characters will occupy the inaugural spot. Will it be Chidi? Janet? Michael? Even Mindy St. Clair? Hear us battle it out, while also figuring out just how the heck the Hall of Faces even works!​Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Every so often, a podcast comes along that makes you reconsider the possibilities of the medium - a show so innovative, entertaining and downright transcendent that it changes you on a fundamental level. And also, there's TV Party.For this first episode, Allison and Clint are joined by Podlander Drunkcast's Julie Starbird and The AV Club's Caroline Siede. Together, the fearsome foursome talk about last week's Good Place finale, the majesty of Lily Tomlin in Netflix's Grace and Frankie, and more!This Week in TV:Consensus: The Good Place, "Somewhere Else" [season finale] (NBC)Clint: Altered Carbon (Netflix)Allison: Great Performances, "Nas Live from the Kennedy Center: Classical Hip Hop" (PBS)Julie: Grace and Frankie season 4 (Netflix)Caroline: Grey's Anatomy, "Personal Jesus" (ABC)Last Week, This Week: Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, "Sam's Rescue Farm for Government Workers" (TBS)Overly Specific Thing of the Week:Clint: Guac Joke of the Week (The Good Place, Superstore) (NBC)Allison: Unexpected 11 o'Clock Number at the Start of an Episode of the Week (Dr. Akopian's opening number, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) (CW)Julie: Sashay of the Week (RuPaul's Drag Race All-Stars 3, "Sour Milk") (VH1)Caroline: Underappreciated Comedic Lead of the Week (Lily Tomlin, Grace and Frankie) (Netflix)Next Week in TV:Consensus: Star Trek Discovery, "Will You Take My Hand?" [season finale] (CBS)Clint: Return of Black-ish (ABC)Allison: American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace (FX) Julie: Maya Angelou - And Still I Rise (PBS)Caroline: This Is Us Super Bowl Episode (NBC)Discovery Special of the Week: Killing Fields: Murder Isle, "The Hunting Grounds"Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Travel through this week in TV with Consequence's televisual savants: Allison Shoemaker and Clint Worthington; along with a rotating cast of writers, critics, and exciting people. Don't touch that dial! We also do deeper dives into the boob tube with special segments and highlighted discussions.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy