The Televerse

Noel, Allison, and Kate continue Streaming In Place with The Legend of Korra, Book One: Air, episodes nine and 10, “Out of the Past” and “Turning the Tides.” Answers about Tarrlok, Korra’s meditative breakthrough, Rohan’s less-than-ideal timing, and Lin! Tune in for our thoughts, and come back tomorrow for our thoughts on the two-part season finale, “Skeletons in the Closet” and “Endgame.”

Shout-out to our Zoom listener Marcus! Thanks for joining in again and sharing your thoughts.

Allison, Noel, and Kate continue Streaming In Place with The Legend of Korra, Book One: Air, episodes seven and eight, “The Aftermath” and “When Extremes Meet.” The Bendmobile, Tarrlok goes full Palpatine, anti-escapism, and Vince totally called it. Tune in for our thoughts, and come back tomorrow for our thoughts on episodes nine and 10, “Out of the Past” and “Turning the Tides.”

Shout-out to our Zoom listener Marcus. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and helping us with the Wheel of Time touchpoints.

Happy Labor Day, everyone! Noel, Allison, and Kate start week 25 Streaming In Place with The Legend of Korra, Book One: Air, episodes five and six, “The Spirit of Competition” and “And the Winner is...” Love quadrangle shenanigans, Amon’s big play, and Lin freaking Beifong. Tune in for our thoughts, and come back tomorrow for our thoughts on episodes seven and eight, “The Aftermath” and “When Extremes Meet.”

Shout-out to our Zoom listener, Keenan! Thanks for joining us despite the holiday, and for sharing your thoughts on these episodes.

We’re heading into what would usually be fall premiere season, but with most shows remaining on hiatus, it’s streamers and back catalogs to the TV rescue. After talking a little news, Noel and Kate head to Our Week in TV. First Kate has some spoiler-free thoughts on Canada’s Drag Race and catches up with Skin Wars and Skin Wars: Fresh Paint, then Noel checks in with Aggretsuko season three, we both talk Danbury and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and The Vow, Kate is mixed on Doom Patrol and shares a few thoughts on Wynonna Earp’s midseason finale, and Lovecraft Country spins a disturbing ghost story. Then we move to the spotlight section to enjoy some con and heist energy with the first part of Netflix’s Great Pretender. Tune in for our thoughts, then reach out with your take on the week’s TV.

Errata: When discussing Doom Patrol, Kate refers to Diane Guerrero as Danielle Guerrero. The Televerse regrets the error!

Season Spotlight: Great Pretender Season 1 (1:00:42)

Our Week in TV Canada’s Drag Race (14:54) Skin Wars and Skin Wars: Fresh Paint (20:40) Aggretsuko S3 (25:46) Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (30:00) The Vow (32:35) Doom Patrol (39:34) Wynonna Earp midseason finale (47:31) Lovecraft Country (50:04)

Music Featured:  “Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby” performed by the Lovecraft Country cast

Article Referenced: Niecy Nash and Jessica Betts’ wedding photo, at Out.com

Allison, Noel, and Kate finish out week 24 Streaming In Place with The Legend of Korra, Book One: Air, episodes three and four, “The Revelation” and “The Voice in the Night.” Trauma, politics, and the city being powered by working class laborers. Plus fortunately, the introductions of Asami and Pabu to help lighten things up. Tune in for our thoughts, and come back next week for our thoughts on episodes five and six, “The Spirit of Competition” and “And the Winner is...”

Shout-out to our Zoom listeners, Keenan and Marcus! Thanks for joining us this week.

Noel, Allison, and Kate begin their journey Streaming In Place with The Legend of Korra, the sequel series to Avatar: The Last Airbender. First up is Book One: Air, episodes one and two, “Welcome to Republic City” and “A Leaf in the Wind.” Meeting Korra, catching up with our Avatar favs, and ooh that Nickelodeon money. Tune in for our thoughts, and come back tomorrow for our thoughts on episodes three and four, “The Revelation” and “The Voice in the Night.”

Shout-out to our Zoom listeners, Keenan and Marcus. Thanks for sharing your takes and helping us ring in the beginning of our Korra viewing.

LaToya, Allison, Noel, and Kate finish, for now, their journey Streaming In Place with Lucifer. We look back on season five, part one, reflecting on the half-season as a whole. Then we turn things over to our fabulous Zoom listeners, Keenan, Marcus, and Vince, to share their thoughts and their predictions and hopes for the next half-season, whenever we get it. Bring on the karaoke jams! Tune in our takes and we hope you’ll join us tomorrow as we embark on our next Streaming In Place journey, The Legend of Korra! It’s been a real treat having LaToya Ferguson join us for Lucifer season five. Please follow LaToya on Twitter, check out her Lucifer reviews at The A.V. Club, her The Vampire Diaries podcast The AMPire Diaries and her upcoming role as the new host of the Angel rewatch podcast Angel on Top. And of course, her book, An Encyclopedia of Women’s Wrestling: 100 Profiles of the Strongest in the Sport is available at bookstores near you.

Also available at bookstores near you, Allison’s book, How TV Can Make You Smarter.

Thanks for coming along with us for the ride with Lucifer, and we hope to see you back for The Legend of Korra.

LaToya, Noel, Allison, and Kate continue Streaming In Place with Lucifer’s season five midseason finale, “Spoiler Alert.” Detective Luci, hello President Palmer, and of course, Pete! There’s a lot to break down in the midseason finale—that fight scene, Alejandro’s direction, Amenadiel’s most successful Tries To Human yet—so we ran long once again. Tune in for our thoughts, and come back tomorrow as we reflect back on the first half of the season as a whole.

Shout-out to our Zoom listeners, Keenan, Marcus, and Scottie. Thanks for following us through Lucifer season five. We hope you’ll join us for our season wrap-up tomorrow! Note: Allison’s book is out! How TV Can Make You Smarter is available at bookstores everywhere and carries the Televerse and Streaming In Place seal of approval. Order yours today!

LaToya, Allison, Noel, and Kate start week 24 Streaming In Place with Lucifer season five, episode seven, “Our Mojo.” Lucifer loses his mojo, Maze tries to recapture the past, poor Dan is having a day (Michael is such a dick), and we. hate. Pete. Tune in for our thoughts, and come back tomorrow to hear our takes on the season five mid-season finale, “Spoiler Alert.”

Shout-out to our Zoom listeners, Marcus, Scottie, and Vince. Thank you for slaying the comments today and joining us in our utter dragging of Pete.

This has been another difficult week, and much of our viewing this episode centered on similarly dark and thorny topics. We kick off the podcast with Our Week in TV, starting with the premiere of HBO’s docuseries The Vow, which centers on the dangerous cult NXIVM. Then we lighten things up with the premiere of RuPaul’s Drag Race: Vegas Revue and Kate’s catchup with Glow Up seasons one and two. Noel has thoughts on Dorohedoro, then we move back to darker topics with Lovecraft Country and the finale of Infinity Train Book 3. Afterward, we head to the DVD Shelf for an extended conversation about Michaela Coel’s challenging and compelling look at sexual assault, I May Destroy You. Take a listen, then reach out with your thoughts on Coel’s latest series, as well as the other viewing you’ve been making time for.

DVD Shelf: I May Destroy You (1:16:55)

Our Week in TV The Vow premiere (16:53) RuPaul’s Drag Race: Vegas Revue premiere (31:13) Glow Up Seasons 1 and 2 (38:04) Dorohedoro (42:51) Lovecraft Country (51:06) Infinity Train finale (1:02:24)

Tweet Referenced: Jasika Nicole’s thread on Fringe’s Astrid/Walter name “joke”

Music Featured:  “Whitey’s on the Moon” by Gil Scott-Heron