The Pop Break

Welcome to TV Break, where Pop Break’s Podcasts Editor Alex Marcus is joined by editor-in-chief Bill Bodkin, and TV Columnist Josh Sarnecky to talk about the happenings in television.

Here’s the format of the show:

The Best Thing I Saw on TV Last Month – Alex, Bill, and Josh talk about a show/episode/event they liked from the last month including Disney Plus’s What If? & The Bad Batch; HBOMAX’s The Other Two; and HBO’s 100 Foot Wave & Succession.

News Break – Alex, Bill, and Josh discuss their predictions for this year’s Emmy Awards, including the fates of Jean Smart, WandaVision, & I May Destroy You

New Series Spotlight – Alex, Bill, and Josh watched the new Starz Original Series Heels starring Arrow’s Stephen Amell & Vikings’ Alexander Ludwig as a pair of amateur wrestling brothers.

Program of The Year – Alex, Bill, and Josh help out the Emmys by choosing their Top 8 Programs of the Year across every Best Series category at this year’s Emmys.

Bill -

The Boys

Hacks

I May Destroy You

Lovecraft Country

The Mandalorian

Mare of Easttown (WINNER)

The Queen's Gambit

Ted Lasso

Josh -

The Crown

I May Destroy

The Mandalorian

Mare of Easttown

Pose

The Queen's Gambit

Ted Lasso

WandaVision (WINNER)

Alex -

The Crown

Hacks

I May Destroy You (WINNER)

Mare of Easttown

Nailed It!

PEN15

The Queen’s Gambit

WandaVision

Welcome to another installment of Pop Break TV's Live, Laugh, & Lovey. Lovey and the crew are back with another season of Married at First Sight. This season, the franchise set down its roots in Houston, and we have you covered all season long.

This week, Lovey helps get into all the ins and outs of a jam packed episode. The honeymoon is coming to an end as real-life draws closer for our season 6 couples and it looks like the poo is going to hit the fan as soon as the honeymoon ends! The couples meet up again for a boat ride and partake in the drinking game of Never Have I Ever, which includes some scandalous revelations. Meanwhile, Zack continues his COVID quarantine; Rachel gets honest about her feelings about kids; Brett & Ryan go kayaking; Johnny learns a gross secret about Bao; and Myrla won’t back down from her fight with Gil. It’s about to get ugly y’all! So saddle up and enjoy the ride!

Check back next Monday for our continued weekly coverage of the season, and don't forget to follow Lovey on Twitter @iamloveytoo and check out the show on YouTube.

This week on Good Bye to All That, host Michael T. Ford III is joined by Brandon Katz from Observer.com to discuss HBO's surprise hit "The White Lotus," the comedy-drama television series created, written, and directed by Mike White that had its season finale on August 15, 2021. The show follows the exploits of various hotel guests over the course of a week in an idyllic Hawaiian locale. But as the narrative unfolds, the darker side of the privilege they occupy and the paradise they seek emerges, leading to a variety of tragic outcomes.

Show Topics discussed include:

- How scathing a critique of privilege the show offers

- How the series’ various protagonists changed or didn't over the course of the season

- The tragedy of Belinda, the show's only true hero

- The psychosexual struggle between Olivia and Paula, and the fallout of their conflict

- The ways in which the "bad" choices each character made reflected the realistic over the noble

- The awfulness of the Mossbacher clan, and whether Quinn ultimately escapes their orbit

-The role that Hawaii plays in the series, and whether the cultural aspects being touched upon are ultimately handled with respect and sensitivity

- Rachel's ultimate choice, and where we see her character in 5-10 years

- What we'd like to see in the already green-lit second season of "The White Lotus"

You can follow host Michael T. Ford III on Twitter and check out his Racial Draft Podcast and various MCU review podcasts on the Racial Draft Podcast Network.

Welcome to another installment of Pop Break TV's Live, Laugh, & Lovey. Lovey and the crew are back with another season of Married at First Sight. This season, the franchise set down its roots in Houston, and we have you covered all season long.

Now that the crew is all caught up, they are back to weekly coverage. In this episode, Lovey and friends break down all the ins and outs of the fifth episode of this exciting new season.

Check back next Monday for our continued weekly coverage of the season, and don't forget to follow Lovey on Twitter @iamloveytoo and check out the show on YouTube.

Welcome back to another episode of our podcast all about the ABC reality series The Bachelor and it's many spinoffs.

ThePopBreak.com's Michelle Coraci, who has been recapping all things Bachelor for The Pop Break for years, and cohost DJ Chapman, of Mostly Nitpicking, are back covering The Bachelorette's 17th Season!

This week, it's the finale! We cover the combined final episode with the studio "After the Final Rose." We talk about the fallout with Greg, fantasy suites, meeting Katie's Family( particularly Aunt Lindsay) and the eventual proposal. We also cover up to episode 6 for FBoy Island, with a quick preview of Bachelor in Paradise.

Welcome to Blerd Watchers! ThePopBreak.com's monthly podcast about TV shows with a Blerdy twist!

Come hang out with Courtney & Marshall, two married Blerds, as they navigate all the dopeness on TV and share insights and opinions on the monthly show topics!

This week, Courtney and Marshall react to the first episode of Marvel’s What If, currently streaming on Disney Plus. After that, they run through Producer Alex’s ranking of the greatest MCU villains of all time and discuss whether they agree or disagree.

Follow Marshall on Twitter, Instagram, Twitch and Courtney on Twitter & Instagram.

Make sure to check out their other podcast, Blerd Life with My Wife on your favorite podcasting app and on Twitter & Instagram.

And head on over to their new Patreon page for extra content.

Aaron and Josh Sarnecky are here for their August TV podcast. This month the brothers are celebrating the 30th anniversary of Rugrats, the most significant show of their early childhood.

Rugrats was created by Arlene Klasky, Gabor Csupo, and Paul Germain. After a successful unaired pilot, the cartoon premiered on Nickelodeon on August 11, 1991. It ran until 1994, when it went on hiatus. After two Jewish holiday specials, Rugrats returned on a regular basis in 1997. The series continued until August 1, 2004, with three theatrical films during this run. The show lived on until 2008, with two direct-to-DVD specials, four shorts entitled Preschool Daze, and the All Grown Up spinoff series focusing on the characters 10 years later.

Rugrats follows the adventures of a group of toddlers with vivid imaginations. Tommy (E.G. Daily, The Powerpuff Girls) is the leader of the group while the timid and anxious Chuckie (Christine Cavanaugh, Dexter’s Laboratory) is his best friend. Accompanying the duo in most adventures are twins Phil and Lil (both voiced by Kath Soucie, Space Jam), and occasionally Tommy’s older cousin Angelica (Cheryl Chase, The Ren & Stimpy Show), who often bullies the foursome. Other characters include Tommy’s neighbor Susie (Cree Summer, Inspector Gadget), his baby brother Dil (Tara Strong, Loki), and Chuckie’s stepsister Kimi (Dionne Quan, The Fairly Oddparents). The show also includes a host of adult characters, who serve as the comedy for parents watching Rugrats with their children.

Rugrats was massively popular during its time. It won four Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Children’s Animated Program and at 172 episodes was the longest running Nicktoon until 2012. The show has been represented in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Aaron and Josh talk about the impact Rugrats had on their childhood, the premiere, the characters, and the show’s humor. The brothers also discuss the 2021 computer-animated reboot on Paramount+.

For a podcast on another Nicktoon, you can listen to Josh and Aaron talk about Hey Arnold!

Rugrats is streaming on Paramount+.

Welcome to another installment of Pop Break TV's Live, Laugh, & Lovey. Lovey and the crew are back with another season of Married at First Sight. This season, the franchise set down its roots in Houston, and we have you covered all season long.

Last week, Lovey gave her pre-season thoughts on the Houston season. Now, four seasons into the season, Lovey and the crew check in on the season and give their thoughts on all the ins and outs of the season thus far.

Check back next Monday for our continued weekly coverage of the season, and don't forget to follow Lovey on Twitter @iamloveytoo and check out the show on YouTube.

Welcome to another installment of Pop Break TV's Live, Laugh, & Lovey. Lovey and the crew are back with another season of Married at First Sight. This season, the franchise set down its roots in Houston, and we have you covered all season long.

Welcome back to another episode of our podcast all about the ABC reality series The Bachelor and it's many spinoffs.

ThePopBreak.com's Michelle Coraci, who has been recapping all things Bachelor for The Pop Break for years, and cohost DJ Chapman, of Mostly Nitpicking, are back covering The Bachelorette's 17th Season!

This week we cover the hometowns for Katie's final 3 men. We go into details about the fallout between Katie and Greg and what it could mean for next week's finale, along with our bold predictions. We wrap up with a brief recap of the first 3 episodes of HBO Max's FBoy Island, and what we're looking forward to on HBO Max's new dating show.