Jim is back on his feet for The Pitt Season 2, Episode 3, and the season keeps hitting harder than expected. A.Ron calls this the most emotional episode so far, as worry mounts for Louie and patience wears thin with Santos. Plus, Dr. Robbie’s midlife crisis is officially in high gear.
Jim is under the weather for The Pitt Season 2, Episode 2, so Jason from Podcastica scrubs in alongside A.Ron to keep triage moving. Between red, yellow, and green tags, the guys wrestle with ER chaos, tough calls, and a show that makes it very hard to stay on topic.
Triage is back in session in The Pitt Season 2, Episode 1. Dr. A.Ron and Nurse Jim rate cases by severity and lean into the controlled chaos that makes this show so compulsively watchable.
A.Ron didn’t want to watch The Pitt. The patrons made him. Over Christmas. And now here we are. Turns out, he loved it. This episode is our Season 1 recap and Season 2 preview, as Jim and A.Ron break down the show’s unlikely journey from obligation to obsession.
This semi-autobiographical film written and directed by Kenneth Branagh is a touching story of a Belfast family and community set against a backdrop of “the troubles”. It features great performances by kids, grown-ups, and bastions like Judi Dench. Even in the dark times, there is humor and heart all backed by the fantastic Belfast native, Van Morrison.
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Catch our rundown of Barry Season 3 (HBOMax), The Offer (Paramount+), Winning Time (HBOMax), Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Paramount+), and Atlanta (Hulu). Hear our takes on shows that we’ve enjoyed and our hope for the newest Star Trek show.
This show makes us mad, in a good way. We’re getting a wider scope of the issues ingrained in the BPD and the bad police policy implemented decades ago that just kept getting worse over the years. Follow us on our episode breakdown by topic as we dissect the multiple characters, nuances, and layers of this show. One of our deep dives focuses on Hersl and the perverse incentives in this system.
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We’ve got hopes as high as the budget. HOTD caps their budget at a humble $20 million per episode. Meanwhile, Bezos goes full tilt funneling $500 million into The Rings of Power. For comparison, Peter Jackson made the LOTR trilogy with an average of $94 million per movie, modest by today’s high fantasy standards. Fans of fictitious languages, HOTD will have something to tickle your articulators. Will TROP and HOTD be friends, or fight on the streaming playground? Who knows, maybe they’ll both be bad and we can commiserate on Reddit.
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This time we talk about the first season of Peacemaker and whether James Gunn should take over the DCU as well as the first 6 episodes of Righteous Gemstones season 2. Then Jim talks about the Apple TV+ 80’s aerobics show, Physical, A.Ron rants about The Gilded Age, and we finish up with a fan-made Star Trek series called Star Trek Continues.