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Sometimes you want to go where everybody lives in a purgatorial state

Put on your fedoras and your stupidest looking sunglasses, because it's time to talk about The Blacklist, a show about the Hannibal Lecter of vaguely defined international crimes charming FBI agents for a decade before going all Johnny Knoxville on us.

It's Nordic noir time as we cross The Bridge (Bron/Broen), the oft-remade Swedish-Danish crime series that starts with halves of two bodies placed on the border of the two nations. Prepare for a lot of gray and some thoughts about what we would do if we were trapped in a car that was rigged with explosives.

This week we're covering one of the most singular shows of the century, Atlanta. It's a program that went from slice of life comedy to art horror to a series of short films about race and ended with Thick Judge Judy. So there's a lot to talk about.

Get stoned and listen to this episode at 1:30 in the morning because we're talking about an [adult swim] program for the first time--Squidbillies. Mostly we talk about other stuff though because this was 22 total minutes of television. So a huge chunk of this is about Kermit the Frog.

Ian's international tour takes us to South Korea, where the historical/medical drama 대장금 (Dae Jang Geum), a.k.a. Jewel in the Palace, was a massive hit and helped kickstart Korea's entertainment industry explosion internationally.

We forgot to ask anyone who's actually watched Star Trek to join us for our first Star Trek series. We watched three hours of Jean-Luc Picard and company dealing with the machinations of Q, and we got really hung up on there being a species called "betazoid."

That Is Them

We're finally talking House of Cards! The original one that is. Before Frank Underwood, there was Francis Urquhart, the malicious fourth wall breaker at the heart of three miniseries (or one could say, three seasons of television) trying to bend parliament to his will. Listen to three dumb Americans try to understand British political systems together.

It's our 100th episode spectacular! We're returning to our show's genesis with our most beloved series, Friday Night Lights. How do we use our format to cover a show that we know everything about? Mostly by reciting every insane thing that ever happened on it.