(00:00:00) Zocalo

(00:40:23) Grey Council

A boxing match so boring it was BANNED in the UK, Ivanova sits shiva for a complicated father, and the shocking revelation that this episode is just Top Gun in a blender? 🥊🕯️✈️ Jenny, Jenn, and first-timer Gus (with Ali away on assignment) team up to tackle "TKO." This week’s brutally honest discussion includes:

• Gus delivers a truly epic rant on why he "didn't give a flying f**k" about the alien boxing A-plot.
• Jenn gives a showrunner’s masterclass on "May Sweeps" and why "TKO" is a classic network "throwaway episode".
  
  
• Jenny reveals the dark and deeply personal history of JMS’s father that fueled his commitment to creating Ivanova's Jewish heritage.
  
  
  
  
• The team tries to make sense of the baffling "no humans allowed" rule and why a minor character is inexplicably named Caliban.
  
  
  
• We learn about the Warner Bros. scheduling mistake that aired this episode out of order, potentially weakening Ivanova's character arc for the season.
  
  

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