Season One

Grab your Jedi robes and your lightsaber and get ready to get heated as Andrew and Presley discuss this contentious series and lets just say one of them gets a little passionate...

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Season Spoiler Synopsis: The Acolyte is a Disney+ original Star Wars series. Set at the end of the High Republic era (about 100 years prior to the Skywalker Saga), the series follows Osha Aniseya (Amandla Stenberg) and Jedi Master Sol (Lee Jung-jae) as they investigate a series of Jedi murders. Osha is a former Padawan learner of Sol's, now a meknek who earns credits to live by fixing starships as part of a crew. Jedi Master Indara (Carrie-Anne Moss) is murdered by a mysterious unidentified Force user, believed to be Osha. Osha is arrested and claims innocence and must go with the Jedi to Coruscant to prove her innocence. Meanwhile, we see Osha's twin sister Mae meet with her friend Qimir (Manny Jacinto) after killing Indara and discusses her plot to murder the four Jedi responsible for the fire that killed her family. As Osha, Sol, and his team of Jedi investigate the murder of Indara and subsequently Jedi Master Torbin (Dean-Charles-Chapman) they discover that Mae is behind the murders and is seeking revenge. Osha and Sol chase Mae to Khofar where Jedi Master Kelnacca has isolated himself in a forest, in an attempt to apprehend her and prevent another murder. Mae finds Kelnacca already killed by lightsaber, and is confronted by Sol and his team. Qimir reveals himself as the Stranger, the powerful force user that has been training Mae, and fights Sol's entire team. He states that the Jedi might call him "Sith" and that he intends to kill them all to keep his existence a secret. Qimir kills all the Jedi but Sol, who overpowers him but is saved by Osha who attaches a light to Qimir so that a colony of umbramoths carries him away. Mae uses Osha's stun gun on Sol so they can talk, but the two disagree about one another's choices after the fire on Brendok that killed their coven. The two fight, ending with Mae knocking Osha unconscious by throwing her backward with the Force and stealing her clothes to impersonate Osha. Mae goes with Sol and Osha is taken by Qimir. Sol works out that Mae has gone in Osha's place, and Qimir discusses his philosophy of the Force with Osha. Flashbacks show Osha deciding to leave the witch coven on Brendok to become a Jedi, and Mae setting their room on fire with Osha trapped inside in anger. We also see the coven fight against the Jedi which leads to the death of the witches in a close fight. On present day Brendok, a final confrontation occurs where Sol and Qimir face-off which results in a confession from Sol that he killed their mother, which enrages Osha causing her to grab his lightsaber, bleed the kyber crystal, and kill him with the Force. After this the sisters reconcile and Osha agrees to leave with Qimir to train, while Qimir wipes Mae's memory. Mae is collected by Jedi led by Venestra Rwoh, a senior member of the Jedi Order. Venestra blames the murders of Indara, Torbin, Kelnecca, and the witches of Brendok on Sol, despite the fact she senses Qimir's involvement. The series end with the revelation that Qimir was once Venestra's apprentice and Venestra reports to Jedi Master Yoda in the final scene.

Grab your muskets and your bandit masks and come with Andrew and Presly on an adventure through the mean highways of London in the 19th century.

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Season Spoiler Synopsis: Renegade Nell was a Disney Plus original show that aired this year. The show follows Nell Jackson (Louisa Harland) as she returns home a window after her husband died in the war. Being held up on the highway home, Nell discovers that she has a power that grants her super strength and in-human agility and perception. Upon arriving to her families home she becomes embroiled in a dispute between their landlord, her father, and the landlord’s son. After her father is killed by the landlords son, Nell and her sisters begin to try to prevent her father’s pub from being sold from under them. The landlord’s son kills his own father and the blames Nell so her and her two sisters, Roxy and Geroge go on the run along with their landlords stable hand slave Rassilus. In order to survice Nell resorts to robbing people on the highway using her powers give her an edge. Nell discovers that her powers are granted by a fairy named Billy Blind (Nick Mohammed). Billy agrees to never help Nell commit wanton crimes, but will always protect her if she needs it. Now embroiled in a hunt for Nell, Sofia Wilmot (Alice Kremelberg) and her dark arts teacher, the Earl of Poynton (Adrian Lester) begin to track and try and kill Nell and her family. Through many adventures, eventually Nell realizes that the only way to clear her name is to save the Queen who the earl of Poynton is trying to userp. The series concludes in a battle between Poynton and Nell, where Nell asks Billy Blind to sacrifice their connection to save the son of the landlord, who Poynton is drawing his power from. After pardoning her, the queen gives Nell and her family the rights to their pub and riding back home we see Billy Blind flying behind them eluding to future adventures.

After Andrew delayed us with his stupid birthday and anniversary, Presley had the audacity to forget to edit the audio for a week. So now the City is on Fire while everyone is up in arms waiting for this latest episode.

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Season Spoiler Synopsis: City on Fire is an Apple TV+ American crime drama, based on the novel of the same name. Based in 2004 New York City, City on Fire follows Charlie (Wyatt Oleff), detectives, and the Hamilton Sweeney family after Sam (Chase Sui Wonders) is shot in Central park on July 4th. An underground music scene, a wealthy real estate family, and mysterious city-wide fires are all connected by Sam, who is friends with a band in the underground music scene and had an affair with the husband of a Hamilton Sweeney. Charlie gets swept up in rebellion against gentrification in New York City, while Regan (Jemima Kirkle) and Will (Nico Tortorella) Hamilton Sweeney fight to save their company from an outsider pulling strings to steal the company away from their family. Charlie makes friends with Sam's friends--the band Ex Post Facto. The band is lead by pyromaniac Nicky Chaos (Max Milner) and is responsible for the many fires and bombings that take down many buildings around New York. Amory Gould (John Cameron Mitchell) is plotting to take over the real estate empire by any means necessary and has resorted to funding Nicky and friend's lifestyle and hiring them to burn buildings in the neighborhood to purchase buildings at a lower cost meanwhile framing Bill Hamilton Sweeney for financial crimes. Detectives diligently search for answers as Sam hangs on by a thread in critical care, ultimately discovering Amory is at the head of the takeover. Charlie diffuses a bomb to save a city block in New York City, finds that the culprits of the shooting are Sewer Girl (Alexandra Doke) and Sol (Alexander Pineiro), and rushes to Sam in the hospital during a city wide blackout to find her awake at the end of the series.

Get ready to head up to the ISS and experience the mind-bending reality of Andrew and Presley trying to figure out how to tell you about this Apple TV+ show.

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Season Spoiler Synopsis: Constellation was a 2024 television show which aired on Apple TV+. The show follows the life of Jo Ericsson (Noomi Rapace), an astronaut aboard the International Space Station. Following an experiment by her fellow astronauts looking for a new state of matter, the ISS is struck with debris, resulting in the death of fellow crewmate and commander Paul Lancaster *William Catlett). Due to minimal life support and space in the remaining Soluze Module, Jo, now in command, is forced to remain aboard the station as the remaining three crew members leave while she must constantly work to repair the other capsule before her remaining life support runs out. Along with the pressures of survival, NASA’s Henry Calder (Johnathan Banks) requests the return of the experiment known as the CAL that, for 6 seconds, may have produced the results he has been seeking for 20 years. Through mysterious circumstances, Jo makes it back to Earth but discovers that many things are very different from the way she left them on Earth, such as the color of her car being different, elements in the cabinets being reorganized, and a piano in her house despite no one in the family knowing how to play. Many believe Jo has gone mad, and she is constantly forced to take anti-psychotic medication despite her belief that reality has changed around her while in space. It is revealed through various ways that Jo is indeed in a different reality and that this occurrence has happened to many other astronauts and high-altitude pilots, including Henry Caldera, hence his experiments with the CAL. After switching back and forth between her two daughters in the different realities, Henry is shown to have switched back to his original reality, where his malevolent doppelganger destroys the CAL. The show concludes with Jo and her daughter's understanding that they are in a new reality and in Jo’s original reality, where she died instead of Paul aboard the ISS, seemingly waking up with half of her face missing.

Andrew and Presley have just graduated from Quantico and are ready to get their badges and guns out to talk about the latest addition to the Rookie TV show universe.

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Season Spoiler Synopsis: The Rookie: Feds is a 2023 American police procedural that follows rookie FBI special agent Simone Clark (Niecy Nash-Betts), a former DC school counselor who finally joined the FBI achieving a life long dream. After Quantico where she completed her FBI training Simone moved back to LA, her home, and moved in with her father Cutty (Frankie Faison). Simone uses her strengths--wit and a gregarious personality--to charm witnesses and unsubs in order to solve cases. Simone struggles with being taken seriously as she's a bit atypical compared her colleagues (Black, Female, LGBTQ+ all-in-one). Because she approaches things so differently, she frequently butts heads with her training officer Carter Hope (James Lesure). Over the series we see Carter start to respect Simone's methods and even rely on her to help in critical moments. The series ends with the team leaving for Simone's 49th birthday party, after she just forced them all to tag along.

Join Andrew and Presley as they work to uncover the mystery of the Chinese triads while munching on churros and practicing improv.

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The Brothers Sun was a 2024 Netflix original series that focused on the Sun family, a major player in the Chinese crime syndicate. The eldest, Sun Charles (Justin Chien), has grown up as a killer and second to Big Sun, who is brought out of hiding and shot in the back. Forced to get help from his mother, Charles goes to LA to find Mama Sun (Michelle Yeoh) and his younger brother Bruce Sun (Sam Song Li), who has no knowledge of his family’s legacy in China. Bruce lives a very mundane life driving Uber, going to pre-med school, and having aspirations of doing improv, where he spends money behind his mom’s back. As the attacks against the Suns escalate, they are forced to work together, and Bruce must learn how to navigate the complex world of criminals and tradition. The show concludes with almost all of the Chinese crime bosses meeting and being massacred by a mysterious, unknown new organization that wants all the crime families gone. In the vacuum left Mama Sun returns with Charles to Tapai to take over the remains of the other organizations and leaves Bruce on his own for the first time in LA to pursue his passions.

We hereby bequeath this podcast episode to you where Presley and Andrew discuss the fraught world of inheritance and power.

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Season Spoiler Synopsis: Riches is a 2022 British drama television series from Amazon Prime. Stephen Richards (Hugh Quarshie) is a self-made millionaire who owns Flair and Glory, a cosmetics empire. After a heart attack that takes his life, he leaves the company to his oldest children Nina (Deborah Ayorinde) and Simon (Emmanuel Imani), who he is estranged from. Nina and Simon get news of Stephen's death and decide to travel from America, where they left to with their mother to create a new life after Stephen left their mother for his new wife and family, to England for his funeral. In the reading of the will where Nina and Simon are granted controlling shares of the company, Stephen's other family is irate. This begins a hostile fight for control of the company, which sees Claudia (Sarah Niles) and her children pull everything stunt they can to get the company out from under Nina and Simon, often citing that's what Stephen would want (even though he was explicit in his will). During the series we see Nina discover that someone is embezzling money from the company and uncovers the story of the missing money while defending her leadership and ownership in the company. After a vicious fight with Stephen's other family, Nina retains her position and ownership of the company and finds that Gideon (Brendan Coyle), the executor of Stephen's will and former financial partner/friend, is guilty of embezzling the money. The show ends on a cliffhanger that not all of Stephen's biological children have been factored into his wishes for the company and a suspicion that Claudia is responsible for Stephen's sudden death.

Step 24 years into the future with Andrew and his android podcasting partner Presley as they discuss this futuristic police procedural.

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Season Spoiler Synopsis: Almost Human was a 2013 mystery crime procedural that takes place in the year 2048. The show focused on Detective John Kennex (Karl Urban) as he returns to the police force several months after a raid gone bad having been the only survivor and losing one of his legs. At this point in the future, technology has advanced far enough to where every detective has an android partner know as MX’s. John, upon returning to the force, wants a human partner as it was good enough for his partner and, in trying to do so, throws his MX out of his car onto the highway. His replacement is a DRN named Dorian (Michael Ealy), who had been decommissioned along with the rest of the DRNs when they were believed their emotions made them unstable and harmful. Unlike the MXs, who are very stereotypical, vacant, and unemotional robots, the DRNs and Dorian have emotions, look more human, and still possess the strength, intelligence, and combat skills of the other MXs. Over the course of the series, John and Dorian solve a variety of crimes all usually related to the group that lead to the botched raid John had conducted known as Insindicate. The series ends with a revelation that Dorian somehow contains organic human memories of childhood and the two having now become friends and good partners.

Grab your lockpicks and your police revolver as Presley and Andrew head into New Racoon City to discuss this spooky video game adaptation: Resident Evil.

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Do your best to remember your imaginary friends and sit them down to listen in, and Presley and Andrew discuss this ill-fated sitcom. Also, look at these wild before and after pics of the Mary the Imaginary Friend from the show!

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Season Spoiler Synopsis: Imaginary Mary was a short-lived rom-sit-com that aired in 2017. The show focuses on Alice (Jenna Elfman) as she starts dating a single father of 3, Ben (Steven Schneider). When Alice was a child, she had a terrible childhood with constantly arguing parents going through a messy divorce. In the process, she created Mary (Rachel Dratch), an imaginary friend who helped guide her through her adolescence. When realizing the changes unfolding in front of her, Mary spontaneously returns to her life to try and thwart Alice’s growth and development into the family. Over the course of the series we see Alice try and bond with the children and become Ben’s fiancé. Thinking that all of the challenges are behind her, Mary once again disappears only to return as the trials of becoming a parent of three and moving in mount.