Appointment Television is a podcast about the TV you want to make time for. Every Thursday Margaret, Kathryn, and Andrew will revisit old shows, discover new ones, and debate everything from highbrow dramas to episodes of The Bachelor.
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Episode 346: The Curse and Lawmen: Bass Reeves (FINALLY)
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You know how sometimes you get a text or an email, and you say you’ll get around to it later, and you totally MEAN to get around to it later, and you even know that the person on the other end of the message KNOWS that you’ll get to it when you get to it, but then suddenly literal MONTHS have passed and it seems like it would be weirder to reply to…
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Episode 345: The Irrational Buccaneers (Good One/Bad One)
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In this week's episode, the gang is all here and we're discussing Margaret's Good One/Bad One Picks: The Buccaneers (good, theoretically) and The Irrational (bad, verily). In the episode, we mention this sweater: And also, somehow, against all odds, Mpreg Clippy, which I have linked in case any of you are self-loathing enough to wish to pollute you…
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Episode 344: Tossed Goosebumps and Scrambled Frasier (Good One/Bad One)
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Listener beware, you're in for a scare! This week we watch a horrifying scream-filled nightmare of a television episode, where characters toy with forces beyond their comprehension and exhume corpses that would best be left alone. We are, of course, referring to the Frasier reboot. We also watch the first episode of the new Goosebumps show, which i…
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Episode 343: Good One Bad One "Fall" 2023: The Pickening
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We're back again! This time with a "Fall 2023" edition of Good One Bad One, which we started recording pretty late in the season and have finally gotten around to releasing even later. (November hit hard this year, listener.) We've got a great lineup for you this season! Presenting the Good Ones: Apple TV+'s The Buccaneers Hulu's Goosebumps Showtim…
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Episode 342: Shop the final Citadel look!
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In which we finish our miniseries on Citadel and attempt to wrestle with what, exactly, we have brought upon ourselves.By Margaret H. Willison, Kathryn VanArendonk, and Andrew Cunningham
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Episode 341: Like Citadel episode 5, we cannot wrap it up
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Is watching this show not unlike descending into pure mindless sensation? Like a sensory deprivation tank, but as a TV show? Also why on earth does the Priyanka Chopra-Jonas character make these choices?! They're such bad choices!By Margaret H. Willison, Kathryn VanArendonk, and Andrew Cunningham
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Episode 340: Flashing back to Citadel episode 4 (w/ Tara Ariano!)
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Extra Hot Great co-host and TV critic extraordinaire Tara Ariano parachutes into our Citadel series this week, to help us break down exactly what is going on in all these flashback sequences where characters look and act exactly the same way they do in the "present day." This episode moves the season's main story forward by roughly 37 seconds.…
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Episode 339: Slowly losing our minds about Citadel episode 3
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It's so hard to remember any individual thing that happens in an episode of Citadel that I'm not sure how we keep sitting down and having a conversation about it, but our journey continues, flying forward with the inevitability of a super-spy on ski-boots.By Margaret H. Willison, Kathryn VanArendonk, and Andrew Cunningham
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Episode 338: Cutting to the liver with Citadel episode 2
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We gently encouraged you to tell us whether you wanted us to watch more of Citadel, and you gently encouraged us back, so here we are with another episode about this dumb, dumb show where nothing is as it seems but in a super predictable kind of way. We'll watch all six episodes of Citadel season 1 on Amazon, one at a time, posting on Thursdays(ish…
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We saved the best and the worst for last this year! Mrs. Davis is a little zeitgeisty and a little head-fake-y and a lot of fun, while Citadel kind of wants to be all of those things and isn't any of them? Also if three or four dozen of you tweet at or email us I guess we'll fuck around and watch the entire first season of Citadel, don't disappoint…
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Episode 336: The Last Thing the Diplomat Told Me
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In this week's (comically belated) episode, we're tackling Kathryn's Spring 2023 GOBO picks, the shoulder devil and should angel of the Mom TV genre: The Diplomat (good, currently streaming on Netflix) and The Last Thing He Told Me (preposterous, not in a fun way, currently streaming on Apple TV+). In addition, we take some time off from discussing…
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Episode 335: Am I Being Rise of the Pink Ladies?
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Daisy May Cooper's Am I Being Unreasonable is fascinating and strange and maybe (probably) doesn't work? Particularly because we all get into an argument about who we're supposed to be sympathizing with and why! But one thing's for DANG sure, and it's that Am I Being Unreasonable is a more interesting and successful show than Grease: Rise of the Pi…
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Episode 334: Good One Bad One Spring 2023 Edition: The pickening
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We're back gang!! This time we pick through the spring 2023 TV season to find shows to hang our hopes and our anti-hopes on. Next week! Prepare to watch Am I Being Unreasonable on Hulu and (ugh) Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies on Paramount+.By Margaret H. Willison, Kathryn VanArendonk, and Andrew Cunningham
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Episode 333: Good One Bad One Pt. 3, Quantum Daily
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It is our final GOBO of this run, in which we discuss NBC's Quantum Leap and ABC's Alaska Daily. We promise to send you out on much skepticism about the wisdom of building a new Quantum Leap machine, and also a few thoughts on The State of Journalism.By Margaret H. Willison, Kathryn VanArendonk, and Andrew Cunningham
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Episode 332 - Good One, Bad One Pt. 3, Andor and So Help Me Todd
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Star Wars TV shows need to learn how to do episodes. So Help Me Todd is, so help us, not our worst-ever watch, even though it's very goofy and stupid. Classic bad one!!By Margaret H. Willison, Kathryn VanArendonk, and Andrew Cunningham
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Episode 331: Good One Bad One, Pt. 2, Das Vampire Boot
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Hello poppets! You're in for a treat with this one, posting up juuuust in time for everyones' commute home from work. We gather together to discuss Margaret's GO and BO: Reboot (GO) and The Vampire Academy (BO) and the vast majority of the episode is us trying in vain to figure out the vampire rules of a poorly written show to which we may or may n…
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Episode 330: Good One Bad One Rings of Dragons
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Have you heard? People love giant fantasy series! They really do. Or at least, they definitely WATCH giant fantasy series, and whether or not they love them is maybe beside the point? In any event, we're doing a free space Good One / Bad One episode to discuss both House of the Dragon and The Rings of Power, which are your two choices for overstuff…
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Episode 329: Good One/Bad One Fall '22 Edition: The Pickening
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Ah, the promise of a new TV season. Maybe one of the premieres will be one of your new favorites! Maybe you'll watch something so bad that you can make yourself mad years later just by thinking about it. The world is alight with possibilities! We're back for a FIVE-episode fall engagement! This week we'll announce our picks, and next week we're goi…
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Episode 328: GOBO '22 Pt 4 - Lovestruck High and Strange New Worlds
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We wrap up this season's round of Good One/Bad One with one entirely predictable bad one (Amazon's Lovestruck High) and one pleasantly surprising good one (Paramount+'s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds). See you in the fall!By Margaret H. Willison, Kathryn VanArendonk, and Andrew Cunningham
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Episode 327: GOBO '22 Pt 3 Candy and The Time Traveler's Wife
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This is, fundamentally, an episode about life's most existential questions. Some of those questions are fairly simple: what is good TV? How many shows about the same true crime murder is too many shows? Some of those questions are much more complicated, like "if a time traveler poops in the woods and Steven Moffat is the showrunner and he changes t…
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Episode 326: GOBO '22, Pt. 2 -- Our Flag Means Death and The Courtship
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This week, Margaret reopens her Queer TV Quorner to discuss OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH and then inflicts THE COURTSHIP upon Andrew and Kathryn. Its vastly superior predecessor Regency House Party is also discussed.By Margaret H. Willison, Kathryn VanArendonk, and Andrew Cunningham
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Episode 325: WE’RE BACK/Spring 2022 Good One/Bad One
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Did you miss us? Whether you did or not, we’re back again with our spring 2022 edition of Good One/Bad One, along with some notes about what we’ve been watching while we’ve been gone. GOOD ONES: Our Flag Means Death: https://play.hbomax.com/series/urn:hbo:series:GYf3LzwJV98JifQEAAAAO Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: https://www.paramountplus.com/show…
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You don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here. SHOW NOTES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGytDsqkQY8By Margaret H. Willison, Kathryn VanArendonk, and Andrew Cunningham
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Episode 323: FATHER CHRISTMAS IS BACK, BABY
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This week we watched the unredeemable mess that is Netflix’s Father Christmas Is Back, starring Frasier from the show Frasier. You’ll miss us when we’re gone.By Margaret H. Willison, Kathryn VanArendonk, and Andrew Cunningham
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In this week's episode, we take our final dive into the Ask Box while it's still Appointment Television's ask box. Himbos, endings, and what we would do with nigh unlimited funds are all discussed, among other things. And Margaret barely even cries, it's really impressive how brave she is.By Margaret H. Willison, Kathryn VanArendonk, and Andrew Cunningham
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It's the final SYMBOL [final countdown riff goes here]. It's got everything - it's got death! It's got pyramids! It's got degrees, but not celsius or fahrenheit degrees, some OTHER degrees! It's got resonance, and kissing (terrible kissing), and oh yes - it's got symbols.By Margaret H. Willison, Kathryn VanArendonk, and Andrew Cunningham
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Episode 320: Wheel of Time and Peacock's Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol Part 4
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Andrew has watched Amazon's Wheel of Time adaptation, because you don't read a 14-book fantasy series and not watch the TV adaptation. Then, the three of us are whisked back to the magical world of Dan Brown, where everyone is always in on the scheme and all the evil masterminds are named "Zachary."By Margaret H. Willison, Kathryn VanArendonk, and Andrew Cunningham
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On this week's show, two reoccurring segments: the first return of "We Were Wrong About-- OR WERE WE?" (subject this time: Apple TV PLUS) and the final iteration of The Old Type about, inevitably, I Love Lucy. We discuss the episode "Lucy Does a Commercial" (which we all watched together) and then in turn the episodes "Lucy Thinks Ricky is Trying t…
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Episode 318: Netflix numbers and Peacock's Dan Brown's Lost Symbol part 3
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In this episode of ATV, Robert Langdon visits a quarry, and that is how we know that this show was our destiny! Also featuring: bad arm casts, Dell desktops, pyramid tops, masonic squares, CIA psychics, and some Netflix metrics reporting!By Margaret H. Willison, Kathryn VanArendonk, and Andrew Cunningham
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Episode 317: Nailed It Succeeding Succession
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On today's episode: Andrew and Kathryn spoil one particular scene of the new season of Succession for Margaret (terminally behind on all television) in a segment Andrew's eloquently dubbed "Jesus CHRIST, Kendall Roy," resulting in what we must assume is a record number of shell-shocked "oh BOY"s for any single episode of the podcast. Then we introd…
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Episode 316: Peacock's Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol TV Book Club, eps 2 and 3
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This week we continue our final TV Book Club selection, carefully studying and then improbably deciphering the ancient secrets of episodes 2 and 3 of Peacock's Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol.By Margaret H. Willison, Kathryn VanArendonk, and Andrew Cunningham
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This week's episode is mostly a conversation about some important podcast business things. We love you all so much, and we hope you'll forgive us for all the many thoughts and feelings and also some truly bad pretend podcast titles that are all stuffed in here. We expect to hear from many of you lovely weirdos in the tumblr box, and we will treasur…
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On today's episode, we examine the last of our Fall 2021 Good One-Bad One pairs: Foundation, on Apple TV+, which is a perfectly acceptable good one, and La Brea, on NBC, which proved much more fun to chat about than it was to watch (please don't watch it). Join us as we answer the big questions: WHO at NBC is in the pocket of big tar pits? If you'd…
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Episode 313: What we’d watch on Paramount+
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If you subscribed to Paramount+ (née CBS All Access) for one month, what would you watch? Our answer to this question is complicated by the fact that Paramount+ actually has a back catalogue, but the short version is that you should start with Evil and work your way out from there.By Margaret H. Willison, Kathryn VanArendonk, and Andrew Cunningham
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Episode 312: Our Problems With Jon Stewart's Problems
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It's the second installment of 2021's fall Good One / Bad One, this time discussing the new FOX drama The Big Leap, and Apple TV+'s news/comedy/journalism/the fact that we don't know what to call it is part of the problem here/discussion show, The Problem With Jon Stewart. In this episode, Margaret has many problems with Stewart, Kathryn and Andrew…
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Episode 311: Y: The Lost Symbol (Good One, Bad One #1)
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In today's late-because-of-water-heater-chaos episode, we discuss three key things: The origin of the name Peaky Blinders (in which Margaret and Andrew each invent new terms) The pilot of Hulu's new adaptation of Y: The Last Man (which Margaret likens to this extremely timely and relevant cultural property) And then the gonzo excellence of Peacock'…
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Episode 310: Good One Bad One, Fall 2021 Edition
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This year's crop of fall shows is small but potent. Look forward to watching each of these good and/or bad shows with us over the next few weeks. This is an episode that MOST of us came prepared for. SHOW NOTES: Y: The Last Man on Hulu: https://www.hulu.com/series/y-the-last-man-9fb2d79b-1280-48be-b185-f989b9c9519a Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol on Pe…
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Episode 309: A Ted Lasso S2 mid-season roundtable
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Although Margaret could not be with us for this episode, when it was time to check in with season two of Ted Lasso we knew that we'd be in capable hands with our friends Christina Tucker and Sophie Brookover. They join us this week for a conversation about the ups and downs of both Ted Lasso and Ted Lasso discourse, and they have a couple recommend…
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Episode 308: Only Podcasts in the Building
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We're back, glory be! On this week's episode we're discussing a shocking revelation in the world of children's TV programming, the debatable delights of Doc McStuffins, and the absolutely established joys of Hulu's new original series Only Murders in the Building (with its gloriously Ephronian setting).…
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ATV Rerun: Someone made Andrew watch Dr. Facehands
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There is also a second segment to this episode, in which Andrew, Margaret and Kathryn all pitch imaginary TV shows about good journalism, and as per usual Margaret has an eerie number of truly fantastic TV ideas. But the main event here is that a patron forced Andrew to watch a truly awful TV show called Do No Harm aka Dr Facehands, and it was magn…
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ATV Rerun: TV Chemistry Fight Fight Fight!
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Andrew and Margaret return to the skeptical and often controversial Kathrynth Circuit Court for a TV versus TV debate: what duo has the most TV chemistry? Kathryn makes a decision sure to infuriate truly everyone; please know that your hate mail will be received calmly and disregarded quickly. They then turn to a discussion of how chemistry works o…
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With five weeks of Ted Lasso remaining and no new Schmigadoon to watch, we suspect many of you might be looking for some new way to make the most of your Apple TV+ subscription. So, for our first Summer Hiatus Rerun, we're sharing the interview we did with Dickinson creator Alena Smith in January, 2020. Consider this our pitch for letting a little …
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Episode 307: Evil, Feel Good Book Club Finale, and a summer hiatus
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We take a brief detour into the wacky world of Robert and Michele King to talk about how Evil Season 2 is going, then we do some fantasy casting of Broadway actors in Kings' projects before wrapping up our Feel Good TV Book Club. Also: we're taking a break! We'll be posting some reruns over the next few weeks and we'll see you all in September. EVI…
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Episode 306: Which one of us would suck least on Survivor?
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This is episode two of our Feel Good book club, where we discuss episodes 3 and 4 of season one. Serious topics are considered, including: does George still suck as much, what is Mae's stand-up actually like, and also how is Lisa Kudrow *this* good at her job? But before we get there, we bring up a topic that requires careful, detailed thought. Whi…
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Episode 305: Screaming Services & Ted Lasso
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On this week's episode, we introduce a new segment (name TBD) where we tell you how to get the most out of one month with any minor league streaming service. In honor of Ted Lasso's season 2 premiere last Friday (a glorious event to which we devote some time and attention), we've focus our first session on Apple TV+. Come for the earnest advice, bu…
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Episode 304: Feel Good, Pt 1 plus Hot Q's and Cool A's
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On this week's episode we begin our TV Book Club on Netflix's Feel Good, a show where extremely charming queer people make exceptionally poor decisions, but first: we answer some questions from our Tumblr ask box. Margaret goes long on the subject of library school, we all discuss the scam of terminal master degree programs (recently documented mor…
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Episode 303: White Lotus and the final Bold Gripe
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RIP to The Bold Gripe, a segment we loved briefly and too well. You'll never guess what those goofy media types are up to in the finale! After we fully dunk on that whole situation we turn to the new HBO series The White Lotus, a show about rich people at a fancy resort but most importantly: a show with Jennifer Coolidge in it.…
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On this week's episode of Appointment TB, we present unto you: CHAOS. Our exceptionally loose agenda is Andrew discusses Patreon Supporter Gerald's $7 pick, the late and sometimes lamented GCB and Margaret invites viewers to return to her Queer TV Qorner by mentioning some exclusively gay content in Marvel's Loki and finding a very particular queer…
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Episode 301: The Bold Gripe returns and EGBO book club finale
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You are *not* going to believe what happened on The Bold Type. It's the kind of thing you can see coming in retrospect, and yet it is so fully implausible that our minds are truly blown by it. Then we chat about Everything's Gonna Be Okay, a show we continue to love so, so much.By Margaret H. Willison, Kathryn VanArendonk, and Andrew Cunningham
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On this week’s episode, we celebrate reaching 300 episodes by talking about a bunch of other shows that have also reached 300 episodes! We also talk about Supernatural for what feels like an eternity; we’re not apologizing for it but we do think you should be aware of it going in. SHOW NOTES The Simpsons on Disney+: https://www.disneyplus.com/serie…
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