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We get political this week with a discussion of Carlie saving One Day at a Time (2:45), the Democratic debates (12:00), NRA TV's collapse (20:00) and NatGeo's Yellowstone Live (25:15). Talk turns to pay-cable with HBO's Big Little Lies (28:10) and Euphoria (32:45). Bit Of The Week features Carlie schooling about the publishing industry (41:30).

FORE! Welcome to Basic Cable's wall-to-wall coverage of the Min' Golf Masters.

News You Can Lose is back with a heavy dose of MTV. We watch new trailers for The Hills (11:00) and Jersey Shore. Is Double Shot at Love a better version of the Bachelor (17:20)? Holey Moley bogeys the first episode (24:00). We put on serious faces for a discussion of HBO's Euphoria (33:00) and Amazon's Too Old to Die Young. 

Our Jeopardy bets went down in flames with James' loss, but Carlie gets a win with the renewal of Dead to Me. (13:15) The Affair has plenty of off-screen drama, but is it worth Carlie checking back in? (14:00). The Challenge casting rumors. (18:15) Carlie disrespects Meryl Streep in the return of Big Little Lies. (23:00) Quick Netflix check-in with The Society (31:00) and Jailbirds. (35:45) We debut a new, poorly thought-out segment called Pop Culture Blindspots. (38:35)

Welcome to Basic Cable's continuing coverage of Game of Thrones. Pysch. 

Will James win more than $4M on Jeopardy? (Yes.)

6:00 - New You Can Lose, ft. "The Voice, Cancellations and Bold Predictions"

23:20 - The Challenge wraps up a heroic comeback season.

24:50 - Deadwood: The Movie does all the things GoT's final season doesn't do.

34:45 - SPECIAL GUEST - Lucas is joined by Slim Pickens to talk How Far Is Tattoo Far and all things ink.

How does this series finale rank among some of the best and worst finales of all time? How is King Bran the Broken (We do not feel good about that nickname) getting around Kings Landing? Just a few of the very serious and important Game of Thrones takes from Carlie and Lucas on this week's episode. This the last we'll talk this much about GoT, so either savor it, or get excited about our return to regular content next week. 

The world joins Lucas in player-hating on Game of Thrones. Are the showrunners/writers sexist? Is everyone just ready to move on? Best and worst moments from "The Bells." Lucas supports war criminals. He's Just Not That In2 You: John and Dany. Lucas gives a 100 percent accurate prediction of next week's finale. Carlie struggles to pronounce a word she invented.

Game of Thrones, Episode 4, "The Last of the Starks." WTF is going on? Carlie and Lucas chat about life after the Battle of Winterfell, what our heroes really want, and a look ahead at the final episodes of GoT.

Umm...so that happened. We'll update this description with more info later as to not spoil anyone coming to this page before they've seen the episode, but suffice to say -- we have FEELINGS about Episode Three (still yet unnamed on our HBO Go app). Were any of our predictions right? Did this battle make Lucas happy or sad? Both? Did Carlie sweat off her self-tanner that she stupidly applied right before this episode? Get all your dragon-fire burning questions answered NOW!

Recording this week's episode proved harder than Jamie getting everyone in Winterfell to forgive him! These long episodes are no joke, and we aren't even ready for next week's epic battle. But before next week, we get a love letter from Benioff and Weiss in the form of 20+ scenes with a myriad of different character combos. We get great speeches, OMG moments, and moments that guarantee a character will die next week. We rank them from worst to best, then talk about the little plot that happened this week and what might happen in episode 3. Listen, review, share, contact us! 

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GAME OF THRONES IS BACK AFTER NEARLY TWO YEARS!
We dive right in with the radical changes to the show's opening sequence (5:00) Talk about the call backs to the show's pilot (15:45) Discuss what the appropriate punishment for Jamie would be (20:00) Give out some awards for best scene, episode MVP, and worst narrative choices (23:00) Carlie explains to Lucas why Cersei and Jamie are the tightest bond on the show and Lucas doesn't get it (36:30) Make some predictions for next week's episode and chat about some fun facts that we found out about the premiere episode (43:00).

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