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The Toy Department – Episode 320

  By toyAdmin | November 4, 2022 - 4:15 pm | Uncategorized
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In Episode 320, Madden and Kolsky rush into things (because Madden has places to be!) so it’s right off the bat with:

  • The latest from The Challenge: Ride or Dies (1:15) where there was some TERRIBLE daily challenge strategy and some really interesting bigger game strategy to break down, plus the MVP and Burn of the week…
  • The Netflix film The Good Nurse (26:20) and how well it is executed… but also whether it’s worth the misery it induces…
  • The Stranger, also a film on Netflix (33:50), and how it is ALSO deeply depressing and largely a miserable time, though perhaps not quite as well-executed as The Good Nurse…
  • The return of HBO’s White Lotus (35:35) for a season two that has an awful lot of potential after an opening episode that’s heavy on set-up…
  • The BBC series Inside Man (39:40), which is available on Netflix, only four episodes long, and pretty excellent after two of them…
  • Homework for next Friday (41:10), including: the new sitcom Blockbuster on Netflix, the film Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (available FREE on The Roku Channel), the movie Causeway on Apple TV+, and OF COURSE the next episode of The Challenge: Ride or Dies…

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The Toy Department – Episode 271

  By toyAdmin | August 19, 2021 - 11:55 am | Uncategorized
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In Episode 271, Derek Madden and Matt Kolsky reconvene after a week off with a MASSIVE list of pop culture topics, including:

  • The just-completed HBO Max series The White Lotus (3:25) and how the soundtrack and the acting were both tremendous, even if our hosts had different views of the series overall…
  • HBO Max’s dating series FBOY Island (17:25) and how Madden and Kolsky received the show in tremendously different ways, though they agree that saying “F Boy” over and over again is a terrible idea…
  • A couple brief thoughts on Apple TV+’s Mr. Corman (25:45) and how neither host has much to say about it yet, but both are in to see where Joseph Gordon-Levitt takes this thing…
  • James Gunn’s Suicide Squad (26:20) and how it succeeded in being largely entertaining, even if there aren’t a lot of meaningful takeaways…
  • THE RETURN of The Challenge (34:35), and all the intrigue from the first two episodes of Spies, Lies and Allies — from the eccentric Romanians Emy and Emanuel to Hurricane Ashley and everything in between…
  • Homework for next Thursday (1:17:10), including: more of The Challenge: Spies, Lies and Allies, plus the Netflix documentary Untold: Malice at the Palace, the new FX (on Hulu) show Reservation Dogs and the Sandra Oh show The Chair (also on Netflix)…

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The Toy Department – Episode 267

  By toyAdmin | July 13, 2021 - 11:55 am | Uncategorized
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In Episode 267, Derek Madden and Matt Kolsky briefly debate who is responsible for their totally irrelevant delay in recording the episode before diving into:

  • The newly-available-on-the-CW show Wellington Paranormal (2:45) and whether or not the first two episodes are enough to warrant continued viewing…
  • The CW/HBO Max reboot of Gossip Girl (7:50), the pilot-y nature of the first episode and how it compares and contrasts to the original series…
  • Mike White’s new HBO show The White Lotus (29:10) and just how very much is going on in the first episode without necessarily giving you an idea of what’s going on, broadly speaking…
  • A handful of sports thoughts, from the NBA Finals (45:35) to ESPN’s mishandling of the Rachel Nichols/Maria Taylor debacle (52:30)…
  • Homework for next Tuesday (1:06:50), including: Season 2 of Never Have I Ever and the film Gunpowder Milkshake on Netflix, the new Hulu documentary McCartney 3, 2, 1 and LeBron’s Space Jam on HBO Max…

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