As You Know

We return to Gotham City for the cyberpunk future of Batman Beyond, a show with a theme song that still slaps and several instances of Batman definitely killing people. We also pause to talk about House of Gucci and wonder if Stephen will ever properly use the term "deus ex machina."

We have come back to the Prestige TV well to discuss one of the most acclaimed shows of the 2010s: The Americans. Can Travis score a rare podcast victory with a show that everyone likes? He may have to resort to espionage and disguise work to convince the cohosts.

We're winding the clock back to the 1980s to discuss the original Equalizer series. Before there was Denzel Washington and Queen Latifah, there as Wicker Man star Edward Woodward as a freelance...odds-evener? Every guy you've ever heard of was on this show at some point too.

Since we did a podcast series on all of Friday Night Lights, it was only a matter of time before we discussed Kyle Chandler's original starring role, Early Edition, where he gets tomorrow's newspaper today and has to prevent disaster. A show that somehow had four seasons and 90 episodes and fittingly had its finale air two weeks before it was supposed to. Bad Irish accents and Chicago stuff abound.

We're dialing it way back for our Halloween recording with TV Land favorite The Munsters--soon to be a feature film directed by Rob Zombie! This show only has three jokes repeated ad nauseam so we got sidetracked heavily. You'll get the gist of it.

Happy Halloween! Join the Midnight Society for two chilling tales from the YTV/Nick classic Are You Afraid of the Dark…if you dare

We are entering vampire world once again as our resident sicko Matt takes us on a deep dive through CW series lore with The Originals. How does the Vampire Diaries spinoff compare to The Vampire Diaries, a show that only Matt watches? Is this just an amalgamation of True Blood, Twilight and Interview with the Vampire but without the charm? What are these accents?

Ian cashes his check by making us watch the preposterously acclaimed and influential anime Neon Genesis Evangelion (with the film substituting for the original finale). Can he and Stephen convert anime skeptic Travis and animation-averse Matt to the cult of Anno? Better yet, can they explain what the hell is going on?

We turn the channel to the A&E Network for the first (and probably last time) to discuss the most arrogant show we've covered: Bates Motel, a not-exactly-prequel to one of the most important films ever made. Travis and Stephen also reveal personal things about themselves.

The pod assumes power trio form to talk about one of the biggest hits of the 2000s, Desperate Housewives. The show raises such important questions as "should you own a gun?" and "are onion allergies even real?"