Episode 291. We conclude Apple April by watching season one of the Apple TV+ espionage drama, Slow Horses. MI5 agents who have notorious failures but who aren't incompetent enough to be fired are demoted to Slough House, an outpost where they do menial tasks under the command of the misanthropic Jackson Lamb. This team of misfits has a chance to prove themselves when they stumble upon a kidnapping conspiracy that may have been orchestrated by one of their own M15 bosses. We discuss how the show builds on its ensemble cast and knows exactly when to give you more time with a supporting character, the balance of dumb mistakes with genuine clever spycraft, and a scene where Gary Oldman farts that will make all dads stand up and clap.

• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:04) - Welcome and banter
• (04:05) - Non-spoiler thoughts on Slow Horses s1
• (13:52) - Housekeeping
• (20:04) - Spoilers!! Slow Horses s1
• (01:00:49) - Review Show Bingo
• (01:07:32) - Recommendations
• (01:15:29) - What we are discussing next episode
• (01:19:35) - Outro

Episode 290. It's Apple April, where we're exploring content from Apple TV+. This week is the first season of Hello Tomorrow!, a 2023 workplace dramedy set in a retro-futuristic world. Jack Billings left his family behind to become a traveling salesman for Brightside, a timeshare development on the moon. When his son unknowingly attends one of his sales seminars, he decides to take the boy under his wing as a new employee, waiting until the right moment to reveal that he's his long-absent father. This isn't Jack's only secret, and the moon might not be the ideal destination he promises. We discuss the show's themes of hard truths vs. gentle lies, what it means to believe in a dream and fake it until you make it, the impressive production design, and robot hands.

• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:04) - Welcome and banter
• (04:03) - Non-spoiler thoughts on Hello Tomorrow!
• (15:40) - Housekeeping
• (19:05) - Spoilers!! Hello Tomorrow!
• (01:20:54) - Review Show Bingo
• (01:24:15) - Recommendations
• (01:37:11) - What we are discussing next episode
• (01:42:26) - Outro

Episode 289. We're discussing Jordan Peele's 2019 horror film Us, about a family whose beach house is invaded by horrifying dopplegangers of themselves, after the mother survived an encounter with one of them when she was younger. We discuss the puzzling origin of these doubles and the unnerving abruptness of the movie's ending, dream logic, liminal spaces, and buff nerds.

• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:04) - Welcome and banter
• (01:35) - Non-spoiler thoughts on Us
• (13:41) - Housekeeping
• (17:21) - Spoilers!! Us
• (01:05:04) - Review Show Bingo
• (01:13:16) - Recommendations
• (01:21:27) - What we are discussing next episode
• (01:24:37) - Outro