"What The Hell Is This Show?" is the question that Nick Bleeker and John Taggart ask every single week as the pair find themselves sharing their favourite (and least favourite!) television episodes with no context whatsoever!
On the FINAL episode of Feast for Thrones, Nick invites John and Jess (FINALLY) onto the show to do a mega breakdown of the final episode of the show. Every single tidbit is captured, so settle in and enjoy the LONGEST episode we've ever done!
On an extended edition of the pod, we've got STRUCTURE! John and Nick dissect and dive in deep on the positives (lol) and the plot holes and terrible character moves of "The Bells"!
Nick revisits his childhood to see if he can rediscover of animated TV series!
John is back to see out the series with Nick! We've got a late episode thanks to Nick's schedule being fucking awful, BUT we also have an incredibly healthy and excellent chat about the disappointment of "The Last of the Starks"!
In the biggest episode of Thrones to date, Nick and Sampson sit down and try to recover from the sheer destruction of "The Long Night"!
John heads out to the southern states of the US to get a little sweaty!
ANOTHER Small Council joins the show this week in a HUGE return from the Bitch of Westeros! PLUS, the arrival of Liz, The Mad Queen and Ser Saz, the Queen of Cats. The gang sit down to discuss episode 2 of season 8 and drop some book knowledge!
John drops ANOTHER period drama on Nick's plate!
GAME OF THRONES IS BACKKKK! So Nick is joined by two Maesters of the Realm, John and Jazz, to discuss the premiere episode of season 8!
Nick drops another rapid, biting political comedy for John to suffer through (OR DID HE!)
We're BACK! Maester John joins the show to discuss season 7, the season 8 marketing and our favourite, least favourite and most bonkers theories!
John has been waiting to discuss Natalie Dormer on a show for too long, so he tricks Nick into watching The Tudors so he can talk Dormer for 35 minutes! (Not really, we discuss lots of history and the show too!)
We're back for 2019! John gets all Tom Clancy on us and sits down to watch John Krasinski being very attractive in the action packed Amazon Prime show JACK RYAN!
WHOA, one of us actually ran with a recommendation! Nick found himself totally binging MITHC and LOVING it so instead of a show recommendation, him and John discuss what they love about the show!
John hits Nick with some more insane British comedy on Netflix!
Nick fires back with some VICIOUS British political humour in the form of the brilliant The Thick of It. Does John love it? You'll be surprised to hear the answer is-- WE AIN'T TELLIN' YA!
John introduces some royalty onto the show as him and Nick blast through the unbelievably funny series The Windsors.
Things get tasty this week as Nick invites John over for a tasty (non-human, we promise) meal which turns out to be the season 2 finale of Hannibal!
John finds himself looking a bit meta as Nick shows him two of the strongest episodes of Comedy Channel's Review.
It's comedy time on the show as John throws down an underrated and too-early-cancelled BBC show which is lead by a remarkable performance from Olivia Colman.
John announces he's seen one of the best episodes of television this week and guess what? It's THIS episode! Listen as he and Nick discuss alternative realities, the themes of belief and trust and whether we even understand the show in the first place!
We have our first REJECTION has John cheekily trolls Nick late on a Wednesday night into watching an episode of a Turkish soap opera that takes itself WAY too seriously!
On this week's episode, we take on our first comedy! Well, "comedy" given Barry is a rather dark show that has, like, kinda funny bits in it.
John BAMBOOZLES Nick with a stunning piece of television that honestly didn't make a lot of sense to Nick. In this episode, the pair delve deep into the mind of David Lynch to try and contextualise everything about Twin Peaks!Produced by Fireside Favourites
On this week's episode, Nick is sick and John finds himself working alongside the CIA in a bid to prevent a terrorist attack!
On this week's episode, John walks Nick into Nazi occupied America to see if he too would enjoy the TV SHOW set there!
On this week's episode, Nick explores the romantic fantasy world of Outlander and comes out of the experience with surprising feelings!
On the very first episode of the show, John finds himself wandering through the crazy organised crime of Narcos while Nick watches on with glee after John finds himself in a daze of confusion!
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