Welcome to TV Break, where Pop Break’s Podcasts Editor Alex Marcus is joined by editor-in-chief Bill Bodkin, and TV Columnist Josh Sarnecky to talk about the happenings in television.
Here’s the format of the show:
The Best Thing I Saw on TV Last Month – Alex, Bill, & Josh talk about a show/episode/event they liked from the last month including HBO’s The Penguin, Disney Plus’s Agatha All Along, and Apple TV+’s Slow Horses.
News Break – Alex, Bill, and Josh parse through all the lessons they learned while reading tea leaves at the MIPCOM even in Cannes, as major streamers and networks try to sell the narrative that procedural dramas are the wave of the future..
Streaming Wars – Alex, Bill, & Josh pick a streamer they think “won the month” based on new shows airing/upcoming shows announced etc. Bill went with Disney Plus, after the success of Agatha All Along, the launch of their FAST-style non-stop streaming channels and Inside Out 2‘s dominance, while Josh selected Apple TV Plus with Shrinking back for a second season and Severance setting a second season trailer, finally. Alex, however, opted for Netflix, thanks to its fantastic streaming ratings this month on the back of hits like Monster and Nobody Wants This.
New Series Spotlight – This month, we are reviewingPeacock’s Hysteria! The series is the debut series by writer Matthew Scott Caine, and follows a 1980s midwestern town beset by a satanic panic after a teen boy goes missing with a pentagram painted at the crime scene. The series stars Julie Bowen & Anna Camp as local concerned mothers, and Emjay Anthony leading the teen cast as a social outcast willing to exploit the panic to make his band seem cool so he can win the affections of his high school crush.
