Appointment Television

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What's Appointment Television about?

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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Appointment Television episodes:

12.21.2023
Episode 345: The Irrational Buccaneers (Good One/Bad One)
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,...
12.15.2023
Episode 344: Tossed Goosebumps and Scrambled Frasier (Good One/Bad One)
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,...
12.07.2023
Episode 343: Good One Bad One "Fall" 2023: The Pickening
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...
08.10.2023
Episode 342: Shop the final Citadel look!
In which we finish our miniseries on Citadel and attempt to wrestle with what, exactly, we have brought upon ourselves.
08.03.2023
Episode 341: Like Citadel episode 5, we cannot wrap it up
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!
07.27.2023
Episode 340: Flashing back to Citadel episode 4 (w/ Tara Ariano!)
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...
07.20.2023
Episode 339: Slowly losing our minds about Citadel episode 3
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...
07.13.2023
Episode 338: Cutting to the liver with Citadel episode 2
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...
05.20.2023
Episode 337: Mrs. Davis and Also Citadel
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...
05.12.2023
Episode 336: The Last Thing the Diplomat Told Me
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...
05.04.2023
Episode 335: Am I Being Rise of the Pink Ladies?
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...
04.27.2023
Episode 334: Good One Bad One Spring 2023 Edition: The pickening
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...
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...
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: https://play.hbomax.com/series/urn:hbo:series:GYf3LzwJV98JifQEAAAAO...
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 even...
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...
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 always in...
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 episode...
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...
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....
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...
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 one...
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...

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Appointment Television episodes:

Episode 345: The Irrational Buccaneers (Good One/Bad One)

Episode 344: Tossed Goosebumps and Scrambled Frasier (Good One/Bad One)

Episode 343: Good One Bad One "Fall" 2023: The Pickening

Episode 342: Shop the final Citadel look!

Episode 341: Like Citadel episode 5, we cannot wrap it up

Episode 340: Flashing back to Citadel episode 4 (w/ Tara Ariano!)

Episode 339: Slowly losing our minds about Citadel episode 3

Episode 338: Cutting to the liver with Citadel episode 2

Episode 337: Mrs. Davis and Also Citadel

Episode 336: The Last Thing the Diplomat Told Me

Episode 335: Am I Being Rise of the Pink Ladies?

Episode 334: Good One Bad One Spring 2023 Edition: The pickening

Episode 333: Good One Bad One Pt. 3, Quantum Daily

Episode 332 - Good One, Bad One Pt. 3, Andor and So Help Me Todd

Episode 331: Good One Bad One, Pt. 2, Das Vampire Boot

Episode 330: Good One Bad One Rings of Dragons

Episode 329: Good One/Bad One Fall '22 Edition: The Pickening

Episode 328: GOBO '22 Pt 4 - Lovestruck High and Strange New Worlds

Episode 327: GOBO '22 Pt 3 Candy and The Time Traveler's Wife

Episode 326: GOBO '22, Pt. 2 -- Our Flag Means Death and The Courtship

Episode 325: WE’RE BACK/Spring 2022 Good One/Bad One

Episode 324: The End

Episode 323: FATHER CHRISTMAS IS BACK, BABY

Episode 322: Final Q&A

Episode 321: THE FINAL LOST SYMBOL

Episode 320: Wheel of Time and Peacock's Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol Part 4

Episode 319: I Love Lucy

Episode 318: Netflix numbers and Peacock's Dan Brown's Lost Symbol part 3

Episode 317: Nailed It Succeeding Succession

Episode 316: Peacock's Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol TV Book Club, eps 2 and 3

Episode 315: An important announcement

Episode 314: Foundation and La Brea

Episode 313: What we’d watch on Paramount+

Episode 312: Our Problems With Jon Stewart's Problems

Episode 311: Y: The Lost Symbol (Good One, Bad One #1)

Episode 310: Good One Bad One, Fall 2021 Edition

Episode 309: A Ted Lasso S2 mid-season roundtable

Episode 308: Only Podcasts in the Building

ATV Rerun: Someone made Andrew watch Dr. Facehands

ATV Rerun: TV Chemistry Fight Fight Fight!

ATV Rerun: Dickinson Creator Alena Smith

Episode 307: Evil, Feel Good Book Club Finale, and a summer hiatus

Episode 306: Which one of us would suck least on Survivor?

Episode 305: Screaming Services & Ted Lasso

Episode 304: Feel Good, Pt 1 plus Hot Q's and Cool A's

Episode 305: Feel Good, Pt 1 & Screaming Services

Episode 303: White Lotus and the final Bold Gripe

Episode 302: Regretto Margretto

Episode 301: The Bold Gripe returns and EGBO book club finale

Episode 300: Three Hundred