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Zach & Shams talk about the 71st annual Television Academy Awards show and share their thoughts on the "hostless" show plus all of their mildly hot takes on who won and who got snubbed. 

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Shams and Zach go over the biggest announcements from Comic Con and the TCA Press Tour, discuss whether a tv show being “diverse” is enough to make it great, and share their picks for the best shows they’re watching right now.

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Co-hosts Zach & Shams share their takes on this year's Emmy nominees, including all the surprises and snubs. They also discuss the bigger picture problems with the Emmy awards as a whole and suggest some changes to adapt to the new streaming dominated world and other trends in TV content, including the rise of limited/mini series and "dramedies" / dark comedies.

And they do it all in under an hour this time!

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Spoiler Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Black Mirror. 

In this episode, Shams & Zach reveal the results of a study ranking all 23 episodes of Black Mirror and share their own personal ranked lists.

The overall rankings were based on an online survey of over 200 Black Mirror fans as well as the ranked lists of professional critics from 16 different media outlets. The final list was based on the average rank of each episode for both fans and critics, weighted 50% each.

Click here for super cool-looking graphs depicting where each episode ranked most often, as well as the averages and standard deviations for each episode.

Spoiler Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Black Mirror. 

In this episode, Shams & Zach reveal the results of a study ranking all 23 episodes of Black Mirror and share their own personal ranked lists.

The overall rankings were based on an online survey of over 200 Black Mirror fans as well as the ranked lists of professional critics from 16 different media outlets. The final list was based on the average rank of each episode for both fans and critics, weighted 50% each.

Click here for super cool-looking graphs depicting where each episode ranked most often, as well as the averages and standard deviations for each episode.