Amanda continues her quest to watch every British panel show ever created, while Sarah ventures over to the (QUITE) dark side of the internet to take in all of HBO Max's Into the Storm. We come together to offer thoughts on the British import Staged, a very funny capsule of quarantine life (well...for celebrities)that tries, for better or worse, to…

Yes, that's right, Amanda finally took Sarah's advice and watched Search Party. And now she's wondering what took her so long, because it really is as great as Sarah said. Why doesn't anyone ever *listen* to us?!If you haven't watched it yet, do yourself a favor and plow through all four seasons on HBO Max, then come back and join us for this episo…

Once again we disappeared for a few weeks, but really isn't it more fun this way? To never know *quite* when to expect us, dropping a few months worth of frantic viewing habits in your laps? Maybe things will get more consistent in 2021 - don't get your hopes up. This week, a shocking turn of events where SARAH likes the British (...ish) melodrama-…

You are cordially invited to a very royal (or alternatively, British) podcast episode, in which we talk at length about how to wish someone a nice holiday during a pandemic, why Amanda has held onto a certain birthday card for years, and what American mothers liked about Princess Di.Oh! And TV. Lots of TV. We have a range of queen-....adjacent? sho…

Halloween, a full moon, the election, the Supreme Court....the Scaries Per Minute (SPM) (patent pending) rating for this week is off the charts. Luckily, Sarah and Amanda are back to distract you with a WEALTH of television they've been watching over the past month. From British comedy found only on YouTube to the new season of Fargo, plus wait - c…

No, not Sarah + Amanda (although that's also a heavenly match), but Netflix + yet another massively entertaining dating show. The streamer's Indian Matchmaking is certainly elevated from the likes of Love is Blind - it's a look at the work of Sima from Mumbai, a powerhouse matchmaker. The show has some dynamite personalities and is a fascinating lo…

We've got a monster episode for you, so chances are you've seen at least one of the shows we're talking about. If not, well, there's a real range of recommendations to choose from, though you'll probably need HBO. Or is it HBO Go? Wait — HBO Max, that's the one. But, uh, not Peacock.Teenage girl skateboarders. Unsolved mysteries (some of which seem…

We're back, and better than ever! Or at least the same as ever! Sarah has emerged from the experience of giving birth with strong opinions about the last two seasons of The Sopranos, and Amanda found Hulu's The Great to be, well, pretty great. HBO's Run and Netflix's Never Have I Ever get mixed reactions, and then we talk about a whole bunch of oth…

We're three for three here — three episodes in on three new seasons of television, which is an absolutely fascinating fact if weeks of self-isolation has given you the Brain Scramblies, too. Sarah and Amanda talk about the first three eps of the new season of Insecure, the first three eps of the hilarious new season of What We Do in the Shadows, an…

Quarantine, week....could be four, could be fourteen, who's to say anymore? COVID remains bad for essentially every aspect of life except for television consumption, so we've still got you covered there. Amanda takes a dive into the world of British competitive pottery throwing (I mean have you ever heard of something MORE Amanda?), Sarah catches u…

Well, this episode was a long time coming thanks to a certain Boob Tuber's uploading failure (Amanda, we're talking about Amanda). But the good news — and let's be honest, we could all really use some good news — is that there might be another episode coming sooner than usual, thanks to the enormous amount of staying-inside-and-watching-telly we're…

By Amanda Teuscher and Sarah Wides

By Amanda Teuscher and Sarah Wides

By Amanda Teuscher and Sarah Wides

By Amanda Teuscher and Sarah Wides

Sarah goes deep into the Bon Appétit Cinematic Universe (tm) and is, by the way, still riding a high from Chris Morocco liking her BA sausage and corn nut stuffing on Instagram. She continues the food theme by discussing Japanese anthology series Midnight Diner, and stays in Tokyo with the at-times sweet but probably problematic Queer Eye: We’re In…

We have to get a few things out of the way before we talk about the promising first half to Bojack Horseman's final season. We watched a few episodes each of Living With Yourself, The Hook-up Plan, and Castle Rock, and they're ... fine, but we haven't gotten much further than that ("meh" things come in threes). But we have good things to say about …

After Sarah takes a brief dive into the utterly bizarre Transparent Musical Finale, Sarah and Amanda discuss a number of women-fronted crime shows, including the UK's Scott & Bailey and Netflix's Unbelievable. A story about the investigation of a serial rapist told through a distinctly feminist lens, Unbelievable isn't without its flaws, but nearly…

Check, check, 1, 2, 3 — Yep, Amanda's mic sounds way better this episode. Maybe that's why we went a little long — or maybe it's because the Emmys were this week and we have our usual measured takes. Sarah watched half of it, and Amanda watched none, but that won't stop of from being excited for PWB!We also talk about Undone, the new Amazon show us…

Our bullshit, of course, being Australian mysteries and wry but warm British comedies. The Great British Bake-Off is back in session, complete with awkward innuendo and a contestant who somehow popped out of a Pacific Sunwear catalogue circa 1998! Our hosts revel in the absolute delight that is the UK's This Way Up (a big bonus: Amanda shares her I…

Oh, the show is about hunting MINDS, m-i-n-d ... that makes a lot more sense! But is it worth getting back into the game of tracking serial killers for a second season of Mindhunter? Sarah has the verdict. Amanda jumps back in the ring for a third season of GLOW, and is here to tell you that it's good if you JUST STOP BINGING EVERYTHING FOR GOD'S S…

Sarah is convinced that if last summer's HBO sleeper hit was Succession, maybe this summer's is Euphoria, an intoxicating (see what we did there?), glittery show about extremely cool teens. Will it make you feel old? Probably. Are there still feelings and experiences you can relate to? Also probably! Amanda checks back in with a previous pick of he…

Sometimes, a show's second season don't end nearly as well as it starts, and you wonder, "Why didn't she destroy the train set earlier?" and also, "Why?"Sometimes, you aren't even sure whether you'll watch a show that's coming back after years away, but you wind up saying, "Hey, that was fun!"And sometimes, a show is the third season of Stranger Th…

Ok it's easier to lose track of time as the days get longer, so it has been a full MONTH since we last talked TV, but my what a month it's been. Sarah hits you with micro-reviews of a few different shows and tries with a not-great amount of effort to get you into at least one of the new Black Mirror episodes. Amanda follows that up with a check-in …

Some bad news this week: Sarah broke her promise and started watching Chernobyl, and ABC is definitely *not* bringing back that one show. We talk about the sadness of Jared Harris and the terrors of 1986, and then move from Ukraine to Laguna Beach. No, not to talk about that reality show; we're talking about the Netflix series Dead to Me, a show ab…

I mean, we'll see what the next six months throw at us, we're not ones to doubt the power of Peak TV, but....yes, it almost certainly is. We discuss the devastating genius of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's limited series, which will make you cry, laugh, and gasp all in the same scene (occasionally the same *sentence*). Seriously folks, don't sleep on this …

Were you missing anthropomorphic cartoon animals dealing with serious issues as much as we were? You're in luck, because Lisa Hanawalt, the illustrator and producer of Bojack Horseman, has a new Netflix series about two birds, Tuca and Bertie, and it's one of our favorites of the year. If you haven't watched it yet, well, nothing is stopping you (b…

One of our favorite (but criminally under-appreciated!) shows comes to a satisfying end, albeit an end that Amanda managed to watch all out of order. Oh well, there's always the next Rachel Bloom project, hopefully coming to us sooner rather than later. What We Do in the Shadows continues to get better and better, and Killing Eve kicks off its seco…

In case you can't get enough of the machinations of self-serving and occasionally inept politicians, Veep is back for its seventh season! We discuss why the show has remained a favorite (and maybe even a comfort?) during this particular political era, and Amanda also talks about another show well-suited to these times: Superstore, a workplace comed…

This week, we bid farewell to Catastrophe, which is such an absolute gem of a show, one that has always been brutally, painfully honest but hysterically funny about the highs and low lows of marriage and parenthood. Then we say hello to a newcomer, Hulu's Shrill. We wish the series could have had more time to unfold, but it's a delight for many rea…

TV isn't always easy (see: Leaving Neverland) but it can often provide valuable insight into the stories you didn't fully comprehend decades ago (see: Lorena). We talk about those two docu-series, but don't worry — we lighten things up with John Mulaney hosting SNL and a Broad City episode about meeting a Holocaust survivor (really, it's funny!). P…

Do you remember the "creaky door" sound of someone signing on to AOL Instant Messenger? What about, say, making out during the movie Wild Things? The band B*Witched? If the answer is yes, you definitely need to check out the first season of Hulu's Pen15, and if the answer is no....well, you should still watch this sweet, hilarious, cringe-worthy sh…

Sweet birthday baby! If you haven't yet watched all of Russian Doll, stop what you're doing and watch it (maybe even twice). Then come back here for our discussion of Netflix's new show starring Natasha Lyonne. Plus: Sarah discovers that serial killers aren't so nice, even the "allegedly" hot ones, and Amanda learns more about the Troubles in Irela…

Let's talk about SE-ok, ok, we're not going to do the song. But this IS a week of sexy British comedy-dramas, or drama-comedies, or whatever the parlance of our times determines them to be. We talk about Netflix's "hit" Sex Education, which projects a fun fantasy world where male friends talk honestly about their sexual anxieties and '80s neon prin…

Yes, we know award shows don't matter, but these days isn't it refreshing to get righteously indignant about things that don't matter? Among the eye rolls (Kominskyyyy!! *shakes fist*) were some real high points, so we're going to focus on those. We're back in the new year after a three week break, so we have some catching up to do. Sarah fills Ama…

In which we comb back through 12 months of Google docs to answer the age-old question: what the hell did we watch this year, anyway? Only in the year 2018 can one have watched approximately 40 different television shows and still feel you've barely skimmed surface of what's actually out there. Stay tuned to find out what was the best of the best, w…

What does it say about us that we, like Eleanor Shellstrop, find John Travolta's egregious attempt to say Idina Menzel to be utterly hilarious? Or that we think parental neglect in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel could be well-served if it were handled humorously? From fantastic mid-season finales to intense Italian coming-of-age drama to fast-talking co…

Did you know there's an explicitly queer, body-positive, gender-fluid re-boot of She-Ra: Princesses of Power currently airing on Netflix? Well, Amanda knew, and she's here to tell you that it's not just wonderfully inclusive, it also has the benefit of being *good*. Sarah gives a "meh" and a "zuh?" to the new season of Room 104, and Crazy Ex-Girlfr…

Sometimes, the place you think is heaven turns out to be hell, and sometimes the place you expect to be terrible turns out to be, well, enriching, funny and ... charmingly/vaguely Canadian. It's an episode chock-full of likable people and hilarious characters, and we're not just talking about Sarah and Amanda. Plus, we're dreaming of traveling to g…

Netflix doesn't have another Stranger Things installment to bore us with quite yet, so instead they've debuted two spooky new series just in time for our favorite time of year (and our first anniversary!)- The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and The Haunting of Hill House. How do they stack up? Well...let's say not all scares are created equal. In o…

There's finally one tiny bright spot on the network television landscape once again, and no, it's not God Friended Me (the actual name of a show currently airing on CBS) — it's The Good Place! Where my Tahani-Jason shippers at? Sarah gives an ... unenthusiastic endorsement to Netflix's Maniac, but Insecure ends the season on a high note after a mid…

This week, we're getting REAL. We're talking about the high points of season 5 of BoJack Horseman (which are sorta also the low points?) and how it, a cartoon about a deeply flawed male anti-hero, manages to be a perfect show for the age of #MeToo. Meanwhile, the second season of American Vandal makes us very glad we didn't have social media when w…

The Emmys had their all-time lowest viewership, and it's not hard to see why. The hosts were boring, the jokes were awkward, and — wait, how is that different from any other awards show telecast? Sarah has ... feelings about that Marvelous Mrs. Maisel sweep, while Amanda's mostly here for the snark, and, of course, to drag Game of Thrones. We talk …

Is Sarah going to tell Amanda why Jessica Biel murdered that guy in 'The Sinner'? Is the season of 'The Great British Baking Show' that just arrived on Netflix still as charming and soothing with new hosts and a new judge? Can Sarah sing like Lady Gaga in the 'A Star Is Born' trailer? The answer to at least one of those questions is yes!Shows discu…

Everything we're watching right now is scary and sad — why is that? From the ravages of dementia (paranormal dementia?) in Castle Rock to the...whydunnit murder mystery The Sinner to the deeply unsettling ending to Sharp Objects, this week is not exactly awash in puppies and rainbows. At least there's Insecure, which might be in a bit of a slump, b…

The Hulu show Castle Rock provides us with a lot of eerie set-up, a great cast, and some pointed commentary on the American private-prison industry. But come on, show, just scare the pants off of us already! This episode, we demonstrate both how little we know of Stephen King's work and how much we like saying "Skarsgård," and talk about a French s…

This week, we're mainly talking about HBO's adaptation of Sharp Objects, and It checks our boxes for a)utter creepiness, b)hot detective, and c)Patricia Clarkson, but what does it all add up to? Also, Sarah and Amanda check in with the larger-than-life personalities of Pose and ... Desperate Housewives?(Yes, Amanda watched it; no, we're not kidding…

It may surprise you to learn that We Have Some Opinions about the Primetime Emmy nominations, announced last week. Why the fork did they so overlook The Good Place? Do they know there are other shows besides Handmaid's Tale? Why is Stranger Things nominated for best drama? Is "Supporting Actor in a Drama Series" the most boring category? Award show…

OK, we're not really pitting The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace against each other (well, maybe Sarah is), but we do think that Alias Grace is not to be missed. Don't make our mistake and not get around to watching it for another six months! The writing, acting, and directing are all incredible—and all done by women, would ya look at that! We also…

What do women wrestlers in the 1980s have to do with women forced to endure rape and give birth while living in a patriarchal theocracy? We could probably make some important feminist comparisons, but for now we'll just say they're both the subjects of two second-season shows we're talking about this week. Let's talk about what it takes to survive …