Appointment Television

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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 333: Good One Bad O...

10.20.2022

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 ...

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10.20.2022 Episode 333: Good One Bad One Pt. 3, Quantum Daily 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 ...
10.13.2022 Episode 332 - Good One, Bad One Pt. 3, Andor and So Help Me Todd 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!!
10.06.2022 Episode 331: Good One Bad One, Pt. 2, Das Vampire Boot 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 ...
09.29.2022 Episode 330: Good One Bad One Rings of Dragons 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 ...
09.22.2022 Episode 329: Good One/Bad One Fall '22 Edition: The Pickening 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 ...
05.26.2022 Episode 328: GOBO '22 Pt 4 - Lovestruck High and Strange New Worlds 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!
05.19.2022 Episode 327: GOBO '22 Pt 3 Candy and The Time Traveler's Wife 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 ...
05.12.2022 Episode 326: GOBO '22, Pt. 2 -- Our Flag Means Death and The Courtship 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.
05.05.2022 Episode 325: WE’RE BACK/Spring 2022 Good One/Bad One 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: ...
12.30.2021 Episode 324: The End You don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here. SHOW NOTES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGytDsqkQY8
12.23.2021 Episode 323: FATHER CHRISTMAS IS BACK, BABY 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.
12.16.2021 Episode 322: Final Q&A 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 ...
12.09.2021 Episode 321: THE FINAL LOST SYMBOL 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 ...
12.02.2021 Episode 320: Wheel of Time and Peacock's Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol Part 4 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 ...
11.25.2021 Episode 319: I Love Lucy 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 ...
11.18.2021 Episode 318: Netflix numbers and Peacock's Dan Brown's Lost Symbol part 3 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!
11.11.2021 Episode 317: Nailed It Succeeding Succession 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 ...
11.04.2021 Episode 316: Peacock's Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol TV Book Club, eps 2 and 3 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.
10.28.2021 Episode 315: An important announcement 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 ...
10.21.2021 Episode 314: Foundation and La Brea 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 ...
10.14.2021 Episode 313: What we’d watch on Paramount+ 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 ...
10.07.2021 Episode 312: Our Problems With Jon Stewart's Problems 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 ...
09.30.2021 Episode 311: Y: The Lost Symbol (Good One, Bad One #1) 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 ...
09.23.2021 Episode 310: Good One Bad One, Fall 2021 Edition 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 ...
09.16.2021 Episode 309: A Ted Lasso S2 mid-season roundtable 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 ...
09.09.2021 Episode 308: Only Podcasts in the Building 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 ...
09.02.2021 ATV Rerun: Someone made Andrew watch Dr. Facehands 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 ...
08.26.2021 ATV Rerun: TV Chemistry Fight Fight Fight! 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 ...
08.19.2021 ATV Rerun: Dickinson Creator Alena Smith 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 ...
08.12.2021 Episode 307: Evil, Feel Good Book Club Finale, and a summer hiatus 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 ...
08.05.2021 Episode 306: Which one of us would suck least on Survivor? 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 ...
07.29.2021 Episode 305: Screaming Services & Ted Lasso 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 ...
07.22.2021 Episode 304: Feel Good, Pt 1 plus Hot Q's and Cool A's 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 ...
07.22.2021 Episode 305: Feel Good, Pt 1 & Screaming Services On this week's episode, we kick off our new TV Book Club with Episodes 1 & 2 of Feel Good, but FIRST we introduce a new segment (name TBD) where we tell you how to get the most out of ...
07.15.2021 Episode 303: White Lotus and the final Bold Gripe 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 ...
07.08.2021 Episode 302: Regretto Margretto 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 ...
07.01.2021 Episode 301: The Bold Gripe returns and EGBO book club finale 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 ...
06.24.2021 Episode 300: Three Hundred 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 ...
06.17.2021 Episode 299: EGBO Book Club, Pt. II and The Bold Gripe In this week's episode Andrew catches us up on this season of The Bold Type (in what we hope will be a continuing segment) and we discuss episodes 5, 6, and 7 of Everything's Going to Be Okay, with which ...
06.10.2021 Episode 298: Moon Show and Girls5Eva This week's episode - Moon Show! (Technically the name of this show is For All Mankind on Apple TV+ but we're no dummies, we know the best name for it is Moon Show). Girls5Eva! Facts about Playboy bunnies in space! ...
06.03.2021 Episode 297: More TV recommendations and Everything’s Gonna Be Okay Ep 2 Everyone is charmed by episodes 2, 3, and 4 of Everything’s Gonna Be Okay (hereafter EGBO), and Kathryn recommends some shows to people for the first time in a while. Everything’s Gonna Be Okay on Hulu: https://www.hulu.com/series/everythings-gonna-be-okay-f30e3e01-ccb4-46c3-8802-5117f8dc2f13
05.27.2021 Episode 296: Mobile Army Surgical Hospital In today's episode, we mix it up with MAS*H, from its less-than-great actual pilot to the S4 premiere that Margaret's friends insist is the true pilot, with a special detour to discuss the particularly strange journey to creating Trapper John, ...
05.20.2021 Episode 295: Summer preview and Rutherford Falls Most of this episode is a discussion of the lovely but slightly uneasy Peacock original show Rutherford Falls. It's a readily lovable show but also the thing at the very center of its DNA is centuries of genocide - a ...
05.13.2021 Episode 294: Everything's Gonna Be Okay (Except for Mare of Easttown) In today's episode: due to overwhelming demand from either many of you or (more likely) one of you many, many times, we're getting Kathryn's assessment on HBO's newest Murdur Durdur show, otherwise known as Mare of Easttown. And then we ...
05.06.2021 Episode 293: Bluey The short segment this week is a patreon recommendation for cozy mysteries! But the long segment is a discussion of the Australian preschool show Bluey. Spoiler: Bluey is amazing. SHOW NOTES A Bluey piece in the Australian outlet The Saturday ...
05.03.2021 FEED DROP: Seinfeld XXX We're starting your week off with some extra #content in the form of SEINFELD XXX, a show about a show about nothing! Craig and Chris talk about every episode of Seinfeld on the 30th anniversary of its original air date; ...
04.29.2021 Episode 292: Dream Muppet-casting and Ted Lasso TV Book Club finale Carrying over from our previous Muppet Show discussion, this week we start by discussing: What era-appropriate guests did the classic Muppet Show miss? We then finish our TV Book Club discussion of the Apple TV+ show Ted Lasso (specifically episodes ...
04.22.2021 Episode 291: Made for Love and TV Yelling In this week's episode we: Learn the differences between Christina, Christine, Cristin, and Kirsten Discuss old gay news and whether the NLRB can protect Andrew from Bachelor exposure Establish that Q puts the Q in LBTQIA+ Detail the manner in ...
04.15.2021 Episode 290: TV vacation destinations and Ted Lasso Book Club Part 3 If you could vacation in an as-seen-on-TV locale, where would you go? This is the vital question we begin with on this week’s show, before diving into episodes 5, 6, and 7 of the Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso. SHOW ...
04.08.2021 Episode 289: The Old Type - The Muppet Show Wocka wocka it's The Muppet Show! After a rousing discussion of which Muppets we most strongly identify with, we talk about the glorious original Muppet Show. This includes questions such as: what modern day celebrity do we wish were on ...

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