The Toy Department – Episode 216

In Episode 216, Madden and Kolsky are once again compelled to briefly address the issues of the day before spinning off into less pressing concerns:

This week’s penultimate episode of Top Chef (7:50) and how a stacked final stacks up…
This week’s episode of The Challenge (23:40), the many dramas of Dee Nguyen and the prospects for the home stretch of this season…
HBO’s new series I May Destroy You (41:05) from Michaela Coel and how interesting it appears at first blush…
ESPN’s latest 30 for 30 doc Be Water (44:10) and whether it does its subject (Bruce Lee) justice…
The new Run the Jewels record (56:15) and its potential place as a soundtrack to what is hopefully a pivotal time in history…
Homework for next week (1:03:25), including: the season finale of Top Chef, another Challenge episode, ESPN’s new 30 for 30 Long Gone Summer about Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire, the new Spike Lee joint Da 5 Bloods, and the new Judd Apatow/Pete Davidson collab The King of Staten Island…