The Good Pod

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The Gilded Age is back! In Season 4, Episode 1, "Ring the Bells," Oscar van Rhijn marries Enid Turner in a pink gown and a flower crown, and the after-party takes Marian Brook somewhere she never expected to go: Webster Hall, followed by a stormy night with Larry Russell that Larian fans have waited three seasons for. The morning after brings its own consequences. Across the pond, Gladys faces a dangerous delivery while Bertha squares off with Hector's family. George Russell is spiraling. Peggy Scott's book finally arrives while her future mother-in-law plans everything else. Jack gets a crash course in high-society manners, and Agnes prepares to host President Cleveland until Armstrong drops a secret. Plus: did you spot David Letterman and Matt Damon?

00:00 – Intro: Season 4 is here

03:15 – New opening credits and the David Letterman / Matt Damon cameo

06:43 – Oscar and Enid's wedding

14:58 – Webster Hall and Marian's dance with Larry

22:58 – The carriage, the hotel, and the morning after

32:05 – Peggy's book and Elizabeth Kirkland's wedding takeover

42:43 – Jack's investor lunch and etiquette lessons

48:09 – Gladys gives birth

59:29 – George Russell, laudanum, and the Pinkertons

1:08:25 – Agnes, President Cleveland, and Armstrong's reveal

1:16:51 – Wrap-up and where to find us

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The Good Wife Season 6 Episode 14, "Mind's Eye," is one of the boldest creative swings of the whole series, and we are here for it. With her voice gone and a make-or-break editorial board interview hours away, Alicia Florrick rehearses every possible question inside her own head. Louis Canning wants a deathbed settlement, Lamond Bishop's money is suddenly a headline, Grace may be losing her faith, and Zach still isn't picking up the phone. Eli Gold, Johnny Elfman, Diane, Howard Lyman, and David Lee all crash Alicia's imagination, along with one very familiar voice. Jason makes the case for one of his favorite episodes of the season, and Marissa, who can't picture anything in her own mind's eye, reports back on just how overstimulating it all was.

00:00 – Intro: Jason's raspy voice and Marissa's aphantasia confession

04:31 – Alicia loses her voice before the big editorial board interview

13:06 – Canning's "I'm dying" settlement play and the imagined depositions

21:30 – The Lamond Bishop tape, a familiar voice, and Alicia's daydreams

34:27 – Grace's crisis of faith, "Richard Dawkins," and a prayer request

53:44 – Calling Zach, Prady on truth, and our final thoughts

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Cupertino Season 1, Episode 4, "AJ and Buddy," trades the Beau storyline for a wild side quest into prediction markets. A one-night stand lands Christie on a private jet bound for St. Kitts with AJ, founder of the betting site Wager Mode. Meanwhile, Michael and Olivia hunt for his retainer in a closet full of Nike boxes and a kitchen full of baking powder, right before the cops show up. Marissa and Jason dig into Olivia's first brush with criminal law, Michael's real talk on dealing with police, the legal screen that splits the firm's clients, and the DA's warning about betting markets and election interference. Plus, Natalia moves into the office, rewrites the partnership, and Nicole arrives with a cease and desist over Beau.

00:00 – Intro, the laugh bet, and a listener shoutout

03:29 – Christie's bar meet-cute turns into a surprise private jet ride

15:24 – The shoebox and baking powder cash hunt, and the cops arrive

28:38 – The fingerprint fight and Olivia's creative stalling tactics

33:56 – Michael and Olivia split the clients behind a legal screen

47:44 – Natalia takes over the office and Nicole delivers a cease and desist

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The Good Wife Season 6 Episode 13, "Dark Money," brings back Colin Sweeney. This time he's suing a TV crime show for dramatizing his wife's murder, and the actor they cast looks exactly like him because he's also played by Dylan Baker. Diane Lockhart and Cary Agos try to keep their client from incriminating himself, while Renata takes the stand and the defense tries to prove Sweeney really did it. On the campaign trail, Alicia Florrick and Frank Prady deal with a fake robocall and a meeting with Ed Asner's mega-donor Guy Redmayne that gets very uncomfortable. And Kalinda Sharma finally learns what favor Lemond Bishop wants from her. Jason and Marissa call it a throwback to early Good Wife, with a lot of 2014 moments that don't hold up.

00:00 – Intro: back to court after last week's special episode

02:12 – Colin Sweeney sues a TV show, and Dylan Baker plays his own doppelganger

15:39 – Renata takes the stand, and Colin makes a "joke" about the gloves

23:47 – Alicia, Frank Prady, and a fake Rainbow Brigade robocall

26:51 – Alicia's meeting with mega-donor Guy Redmayne (Ed Asner)

36:09 – Lemond Bishop calls in his favor from Kalinda

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Cupertino Season 1 Episode 3, "Juno," brings the AI fight into the courtroom. Natalia (Busy Philipps) hands Mike and Olivia a case against ChatLike, the chatbot company run by her ex Kurt (Fisher Stevens), after a teenager's AI companion, Lady Marguerite, helps him plan his father's murder. Opposing counsel? Nicole, played by Renée Elise Goldsberry, making an entrance worthy of Geneva Pine and bringing some history with Mike along with her. Meanwhile, Beau the AGI incorporates himself, Christie works her blue-collar network to track down fired ethics staff, and a very unsettling visitor from Colt AI shows up with an off switch. Jason and Marissa dig into the vibes, the Silicon Valley shell game, and how the Kings are using real-world AI headlines to build this world one room at a time.

00:00 – Intro and Jason's board of directors

03:45 – Juno, Natalia, and the case against ChatLike

09:55 – Renée Elise Goldsberry makes her entrance as Nicole

22:37 – Fisher Stevens takes the stand as Kurt

33:45 – Beau incorporates and the firm gets a board

43:58 – Rosetta Lane, Colt AI, and the Noriega kill switch

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Elsbeth Season 4 Episode 3, "Consciously Unsistered," goes full Goop. Winter Redgrave (Jemima Kirke) runs Kreem, a wellness empire selling $550 candles and nose stones, and she is not about to let her pop-star sister Summer sell it out from under her, drag-along clause or not. When a knockoff smoothing envelope turns deadly, Elsbeth Tascioni pokes around a sensory deprivation tank, a very convenient red herring named Paul, and one very specific shade of nail polish. Meanwhile, Elsbeth's mother Lydia (Christine Ebersole) finally arrives from Peoria, skips Orphan Girl, and quietly takes over the precinct with Captain Wagner. Jason and Marissa get into the pacing, the too-cute clues, the wasted tank sequence, and why the long-hyped mother-daughter tension landed so softly.

00:00 – Intro and the great candle-naming debate

03:24 – USA Sings, The Seasons, and the rise of Kreem

15:11 – The smoothing envelope does its worst

30:58 – Elsbeth goes in the tank (and we wanted more)

38:17 – Summer's Breath candles and the nail polish takedown

41:59 – Lydia arrives and the mother-daughter storyline

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The Good Wife Season 6 Episode 12, "The Debate," finds Alicia Florrick on the state's attorney debate stage just as a jury reaches a verdict in the Cole Willis case, a police killing the show ties directly to Ferguson. Jason and Marissa set the 2014 timeline, then dig into whether The Good Wife earned the right to tell this story. Along the way: Eli and Nora's standout car conversation, a kitchen staffer who calls out Alicia and Frank Prady, and Peter's reunion with Pastor Isaiah, who asks whether he wants to be a good man. Plus Chris Matthews wandering the set, David Lee raising Neil Gross's divorce settlement to $100 million, and an awkward Johnny Elfman talk that Jason and Marissa have a lot to say about.

04:11 – Setting the timeline: Ferguson, Michael Brown, and when this episode was written versus when it aired

16:41 – The Cole Willis footage and Alicia's chaotic debate prep

25:52 – Eli and Nora in the car: "Am I your Black shield for the night?"

51:27 – A kitchen staffer calls out two white candidates debating race

57:37 – Peter and Pastor Isaiah: good man or effective man?

1:19:11 – David Lee is back, and Alicia's "if I were a man" moment

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Cupertino Season 1 Episode 2, Vik and Bo, puts Price, Siffre and Associates to work before the office even has walls. Coder Vik Malhotra climbs out a bathroom window mid-deposition and lands in Michael Price and Olivia Siffre’s lap, blamed for a drone accident that killed a man at a light show. Moonchaser wants to pin it on him, but fake cops, a convenient drug find, and a cheaper battery tell a different story. Meanwhile, Christy fields calls from Bo, a mystery client with deep pockets and a secret the team is not ready for. Plus Joe Morton’s Bayard makes Michael an offer, and Olivia tracks down Busy Philipps’ Natalia Boutella at a very strange party.

00:00 – Intro and why Cupertino is getting its own feed

04:37 – Vik’s deposition escape and the Moonchaser drone case

21:29 – Olivia turns the CEO’s ego against him

25:16 – Christy takes a call from a mystery client named Bo

36:27 – A contract on the wall, a money hunt, and Michael’s dad

45:15 – Olivia crashes Natalia’s party

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Elsbeth Season 4 Episode 2, Death of a Playwright, takes the show to the New York theater scene, and Jason and Marissa are here for it. When celebrated playwright Richard Perrick dies, the rights to his work become a fight, and then the young winner of the Perrick playwriting award ends up dead at the bottom of a staircase. For once, Elsbeth Tascioni doesn’t show us the killer up front. This is a true whodunit, with a stacked guest cast including Nicholas Braun, Richard Thomas, John Doman, and Betsy Aidem, plus a cameo from Knicks star OG Anunoby. Back at the precinct, Captain Wagner is under pressure over a rising murder rate, and Detective Donnelly’s overtime habit catches up with her. Plus: Elsbeth’s mom is on the way.

00:00 – Intro, listener mail from Erica, and housekeeping

07:36 – Corrections: who’s playing Elsbeth’s mom, and the Smellsbeth ship

11:39 – A famous playwright dies and the guest cast arrives

24:24 – Elsbeth rolls up on a rickshaw and the investigation begins

30:48 – Wagner’s pep talk, the murder rate, and Donnelly’s overtime trouble

1:04:12 – A family secret blows the case wide open

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TV Insider Episode: https://www.tvinsider.com/1295922/elsbeth-season-4-episode-1-explained-carrie-preston-detective-smullen/

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The Good Wife Season 6 Episode 11, "Hail Mary," picks up with Cary Agos preparing for prison, and Alicia Florrick is paying a no-nonsense consultant $5,000 to teach him how to survive it. Cary needs a friend on the inside, which means Kalinda needs one more favor from Lemond Bishop, and those favors are getting expensive. When Kalinda uncovers a new lead, Diane and the whole firm get six hours to pull off a legal miracle before Judge Cuesta's deadline. Meanwhile, Alicia's debate prep goes sideways with Chris Elliott as a very relaxed stand-in for Frank Prady, sparks with Finn, and an uninvited Peter. And that parking garage ending? We have thoughts.

00:00 – Welcome to Hail Mary

04:45 – Cary gets a crash course in surviving prison

15:00 – Six hours on the clock to save Cary

26:00 – Kalinda takes a very dangerous shortcut

39:30 – Debate prep with Chris Elliott, Finn, and an uninvited Peter

50:15 – Alicia's parking garage moment nobody saw coming

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