film noir – The Toy Department

In Episode 383, Madden and Kolsky bicker about who bears more responsibility for their bizarre technical difficulties before jumping into:

This week on The Challenge All-Stars 4 (2:10) and old heads showing their muscles…
The latest from Top Chef Wisconsin (24:35) with a rough week for some good chefs and some badly cooked meat…
Michael Douglas’s turn as Ben Franklin for Apple TV+ (45:10) and whether the resulting Franklin makes enough of statecraft to have a worthwhile show…
Colin Farrell’s turn as a noir-style private detective (52:40) and what exactly seems to be going on in a broader sense on the Apple TV+ show Sugar…
The documentary Steve! (57:15) and the wild and crazy (and suddenly serene) life of Steve Martin…
Netflix’s new film Scoop (1:04:45) and the choice to tell a story the Prince Andrew story through the lens of “journalism”…
Homework for next week (1:10:20), including: more Top Chef Wisconsin, more of The Challenge All-Stars 4, HBO’s new Sunday night centerpiece The Sympathizer and Amazon Prime Video’s Fallout adaptation…

In Episode 189, Derek Madden and Matt Kolsky briefly discuss Tiffany Haddish’s Netflix offering They Ready before settling in for:

The new Edward Norton film Motherless Brooklyn (3:00) and whether it is too complicated for its own good…
The return of The End of the Fucking World on Netflix (11:30) and how it continues to be oddly and undeniably charming…
HBO’s new show His Dark Materials (17:45) and whether it is too fantastical for Madden to seriously entertain…
The end of HBO’s The Deuce (32:40) and how David Simon has crafted another deep and powerful piece of television entertainment…
A check-in on MTV’s The Challenge (53:45) and all the madness that makes it the best reality show running (and swimming, and hammering)…
Homework for next week (1:07:05), including: probably some more discussion of The Challenge, hopefully the premiere of the Star Wars show The Mandalorian on Disney+, the new cycle of Patriot Act on Netflix and the film Jojo Rabbit…

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