This week, as the voting members of the Television Academy have the ballots in their hands, we look at the Supporting performance races across Drama, Comedy, and Limited Series. As always we close with the flash forward to the media we’re most anticipating in the upcoming week. Thanks for listening and thank you, in advance, for subscribing and rat…

Awards Daily’s Clarence Moye sits down with 3 Body Problem star Jovan Adepo (Watchmen, Babylon) to discuss his character’s, Dr. Saul Durand, emotionally complex journey through season one. Check out AwardsDaily.com for more on 3 Body Problem! The post ‘3 Body Problem’ Star Jovan Adepo Takes a Quiet, Laid-Back Approach To His Emotionally Tortured Ch…

It’s one of our favorite podcasts: Television Academy! Hear Our Pleas! Joey, Megan, and Clarence each give recommendations for performances, series, etc. for the voting members of the Television Academy to consider as the 2024 Emmy voting window kicks off today! As always we close with the flash forward to the media we’re most anticipating in the u…

Likely seeing what they had late into the Emmy cycle, HBO snuck in the Jessica Lange-starring The Great Lillian Hall at the very end of the 2024 Emmy cycle. Lange plays legendary Broadway actress Lillian Hall who unusually struggles to remember her lines during rehearsals for her hotly anticipated revival of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard. This week …

Emmy voting starts June 13, 2024. That’s a lot of television for the voting members of the Television Academy to consume before casting their votes on the 2024 Emmy season. Since we at the Water Cooler Podcast are such kind people, we thoughtfully offer our final recommendations on the Emmy season. What series would you like for the Television Acad…

The 2024 Emmy race seemed fairly established a few weeks ago. Netflix’s The Crown, FX’s The Bear, and FX’s Shōgun all seemed poised to sweep their various races. However, growing discontent with the Drama races and a perceived weakness in frontrunner The Crown perhaps spurred networks with limited series to seek placement within the Drama race. A f…

We had a lot of content to keep us busy last weekend, and we’re recapping all of it on this week’s Water Cooler Podcast. First up, we’ve all seen Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine’s The Idea of You, now streaming on Amazon Prime. Described as “Harry Styles fan fiction,” the film offers Hathaway as a 40-something mother who embarks on an affair w…

This week, the Water Cooler breaks down Netflix’s Baby Reindeer, which has exploded onto the streaming world and grew exponentially in viewers week to week. Starring Richard Gadd based on his own one-man show, the limited series explores the real-life events of an unexpected relationship between Donny Dunn (Gadd) and Martha Scott (Jessica Gunning) …

We’re back together at the Water Cooler this week to review the newest season in an old favorite. Andrew Jarecki’s The Jinx first aired in 2015 and provided an amazingly in-depth and compelling look into the life and mysterious deaths surrounding millionaire Robert Durst. As the series ended with a seemingly shocking confession, audiences have sinc…

We’re still one down this week, and this week it’s Megan! Never fear, Joey and Clarence carry on with a discussion of film and television. On the film side, they review Alex Garland’s divisive box office winner Civil War. Then, on the TV front, they cover Netflix’s gorgeously photographed Ripley and the “high-class trash” that is Starz’s Mary and G…

Investigation Discovery’s Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV has been the talk of social media for the last few weeks. By confronting the long-buried secrets of several sexual predators on set during the Golden Age of Nickelodeon, the series, directed by Mary Robertson and Emma Schwartz, made us all look back at […] The post Quiet at the Cooler…

The 2024 Summer Movie season is just around the corner. To prepare, Clarence has constructed an epic Summer Movie Preview quiz for Joey and Megan. Who will wear the trivia crown for the upcoming season? As always we close with the flash forward to the media we’re most anticipating in the upcoming week. Thanks for […] The post 2024 Summer Movie Prev…

This week at the Water Cooler, we’re springing (we love a pun) into the final gasp of the 2024 Emmy season. Late February / early March typically emerges as the prime window to launch television series. It allows voting members of the Television Academy to absorb newer series and keep them fresh in their minds […] The post TV Reviews: Springing Int…

We’re saying goodbye to the 2024 Oscar season this week at the Water Cooler. Megan just returned from attending the 96th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theater, so we thought it would be an interesting experiment to compare experiences watching at home and watching in the room. We review the highlights and lowlights of the […] The post Oscars Telecast…

This week, we dive into the eagerly anticipated HBO limited series The Regime. Starring Kate Winslet, the Stephen Frears-directed satire takes the audience into an unnamed European country in the grasp of an unstable authoritarian regime. The series seems to have polarized both audiences and critics alike on its tone and performances, so we weigh […

We kick off the podcast with a look back at the weekend’s big guild awards – the Producers Guild Awards and the Screen Actors Guild Awards. What do the winners tell us about the 2024 Emmy race? Then, we launch into our first analytical look at the 2024 Emmy season, starting with the Limited Series […] The post Emmys 2024: Surveying Current and Upco…

Megan rejoins the Water Cooler to give us an update on her recent trip to the SCAD TV Fest. Then, we revisit this weekend’s best Super Bowl commercials and the buzzy movie trailers that debuted during the game. Finally, Megan leads a conversation about Peacock’s Ted, a prequel (limited?) series to the 2012 film of […] The post Talking ‘Ted’ and the…

We’re talking cats and swans this week at the Water Cooler but sadly without Megan. First up, Joey and Clarence briefly discuss the Grammys ceremony and the online aftermath where the claws were most definitely out. Then, we take a look at Matthew Vaughn’s latest film Argylle, featuring a bevy of stars including Bryce Dallas […] The post The Claws …

This week, the full roster of Team ADTV joins the Water Cooler to review the 75th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony. We talk about our favorite moments, our disappointments, and whether or not three series should dominate the entire evening.Plus, we look forward to the 2024 Emmy season and hypothesize what will start to fill […] The post 2023 E…

This week, we dive into our favorite films of 2023 as they stood when we recorded (more on that in the podcast). We also quickly predict what we think will win the television categories at the 2024 Golden Globes, airing Sunday on CBS. Programming note: we will not record next week. Look for our latest […] The post 2024 Golden Globes TV Predictions …