Join us in the Wasteland as we spend the entire episode discussing the latest prestige video game adaptation: Amazon Prime Video’s Fallout.

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• 🧭 Where to Watch: Amazon Prime Video
• 🗓️ Release Schedule: All 8 Episodes Available Now
• ✅ Renewal Status: Renewed for Season 2
• 📚 Related Titles: Based on the Fallout franchise of games
• 🤩 Starring: Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, Walton Goggins, Kyle MacLachlan
• 🎬 Created By: Jonathan Nolan (Director/Executive Producer) and Lisa Joy (Executive Producer)

• 🚨 Spoilers for the first 5 episodes: Starting at 0:58

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• 'Fallout' Nabs 65 Million Viewers in First Two Weeks of Availability – Joe Otterson, Variety
• Boosted by the Fallout TV Show, Fallout 76 Sees Over One Million Players in a Single Day - IGN – Wesley Yin-Poole, IGN
• ‘Fallout’ Looks Certain For Season 2 With $25M Tax Credit Award & Relocation To California; ‘NCIS: Origins’ Among Shows Receiving Incentives – Dominic Patten, Deadline
• Amazon’s Fallout show gets the postapocalyptic vibes exactly right – Ash Parrish, The Verge
• Fallout premiere: A bloated but promising start to the nuclear apocalypse – William Hughes, A.V. Club

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It’s been 2 years since the “Netflix Correction” and we’re here to correct the record: How did Netflix become the sole survivor of an industry-wide crisis kicked off… by Netflix itself? We’ll take stock of the changes that helped solidify Netflix’s place at the top of the streaming food chain and what that means for the future of the little guys.

And speaking of little guys: Peacock! Comcast is eager for their streamer to offset the never-ending losses in their cable TV division, and guess what? It might be working?!

Plus it’s the most jam-packed edition of Daily Show Host(s) Watch yet!

It’s so much podcast we had to push the review of Fallout to next week! But you can get caught up on Amazon Prime Video now (we’ll be reviewing episodes 1-5).

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• Peacock Quarterly Loss Narrows to $639M as Streamer Hits 34M Subscribers – Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter
• ‘Law & Order: Organized Crime’ Moving to Peacock for Season 5 – Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter
• ‘Daily Show’ Audience Has Stuck Around Since Jon Stewart’s Return – Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter
• ‘The Daily Show’ Signs Up Josh Johnson, Troy Iwata & Grace Kuhlenschmidt As Correspondents – Peter White, Deadline

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This week we’re playing hide and seek with the ever-talented Tom Ripley (Andrew Scott) in the new Netflix original series Ripley. He’s a conman traipsing through the black-and-white vistas of the Italian coast (let’s call it shabby chic) in this prestige adaptation of the classic novel.

But first!

• Chris plays hide and seek with the Hulu content buried in the new Hulu Hub on Disney+ (it’s like Hulu, but worse!)…
• Dianne breaks down the big network TV vibes coming to Max…
• And all of us marvel at the $40 million Disney spent fighting off an activist investor (that’s a whole 1.5 episodes of She-Hulk!).

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• 🧭 Where to Watch: Netflix
• 🗓️ Release Schedule: All 8 Episodes Available Now
• 📚 Related Titles: Based on The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith (Novel)
• 🤩 Starring: Andrew Scott, Dakota Fanning, Johnny Flynn
• 🎬 Created By: Steven Zaillian (Writer/Director/Executive Producer)

• 🤫 Light spoilers for first 2 episodes: Starting at 37:57
• 🚨 Major spoiler for episode 3: Starting at 51:00 This spoiler is mentioned in most of the show’s reviews.

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• Disney D-Day: Bob Iger Celebrates Board Battle Win & End Of “Distracting Proxy Contest”; Nelson Peltz “Disappointed” Then Tries To Spin It Into A Win – Dominic Patten, Deadline
• DirecTV, Dish Back Fubo in Disney-Fox-WBD Sports Streaming Fight – Lucas Manfredi, The Wrap
• It’s true: people like leaving their TVs on in the background – Emma Roth, The Verge
• Streamers Are Rediscovering the TV Procedural – Josef Adalian, Vulture
• ‘FBI’ Trio Renewed At CBS With Flagship Series Scoring Three-Season Deal – Peter White, Deadline
• Ripley review: Mr. Ripley is as talented as ever – Matt Schimkowitz, A.V. Club (Contains Spoilers!)

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