TV Party

Allison and Clint are joined their very own Friendtopia - The Televerse's Kate Kulzick and The Televoid's LaToya Ferguson - to settle for Allison's list of the 25 greatest songs from the first three seasons of CW's cult hit musical comedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend! 

Together they generalize about men, calculate the math of love triangles, and investigate the buzzing from the bathroom while singing the praises of Rachel Bloom and Aline Brosh-McKenna's infectious blend of musical satire, pop-music parodies and deeply relatable psychological yearning. Plus, there's a song that features the word 'penis' twenty-six times!

(Note: Clint's audio cuts out halfway through, so that's why he's a little quiet in the back half.)

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This week, Clint and Allison are joined once again by SyFy and Paste's Jacob Oller (and the absentee picks of lost-but-not-forgotten co-host Kate Kulzick of The Televerse) as we break down the Crazy Ex-Girlfriend finale, Netflix's new '90s nostalgia show Everything Sucks! and gush about the return of The CW's galactically silly superhero show Legends of Tomorrow.
Along the way, we also celebrate Drunk History's take on sex ed history, salute the brave students of Parkland in their public TV appearances, and nitpick about which version of "Way Down in the Hole" works best for The Wire. Enjoy!

2:17 - TV News

This Week in TV:
11:27 - Consensus: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend finale, "Nathaniel is Irrelevant" (CW)
33:08 - Jacob: The Wire, Season 3 (HBO), All the Pieces Matter: The Story of the Wire
36:40 - Allison: The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (FX); DC's Legends of Tomorrow, "Daddy Dahrkest" (CW)
41:00 - Clint: Everything Sucks! (Netflix)

Last Week This Week:
The Rundown with Robin Thede (BET)

Overly Specific Thing of the Week:
Kate: The Children Are Our Future of the Week - the televised public reactions (and political action) of the students of Parkland, Florida in the wake of the Parkland shooting
48:25: Allison: Shopping Spree of the Week - Anissa, Black Lightning (CW)
49:50 - Jacob: Best Trailer That Made Me Wanna Go Back and Watch a Whole Series of the Week - Voltron: Legendary Defender (Netflix)
51:40 - Clint: Horny Lovebirds, But Also Scientists of the Week: Drunk History (Comedy Central)

Next Week in TV:
53:15 - Clint: Seven Seconds (Netflix)
54:32 - Kate: Amazing Race finale (CBS)
55:30 - Allison: RuPaul's Drag Race All-Stars 3 (VH1)
1:01:17 - Jacob: The Tick season 1, part 2 (Amazon)
1:03:02 - Discovery Special of the Week: Moonshiners: Sour Mash Unfiltered





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This week, Allison and Clint are joined by Jacob Oller (Paste Magazine, One Perfect Shot, Syfy Wire) to finally react to This Is Us' dramatic Super Bowl episode - and the reveal of Jack's actual death. In the episode, our hosts also celebrate some transcendent fierceness on RuPaul's Drag Race All-Stars, dig into the turn-of-the-century pseudoscience of The Alienist, and debate whether or not Queer Eye's Netflix reboot is a welcome update to the self-improvement show, or mere exploitation of Trump-era social issues with a glossy makeover. 

Grab your triple-layered wigs and a fuckton of cats, and take a listen!

EPISODE GUIDE:

Last Week in TV:
4:51: Consensus - This Is Us, "Super Bowl Party" (NBC)
19:16: Clint - Season 2 of The Expanse (SYFY)
23:31: Allison - RuPaul's Drag Race All-Stars 3 - "The Bitchelor" (VH1)
28:10: Jacob - Black Lightning (CW); The Alienist (TNT)

Reboot Report:
37:11: Queer Eye (Netflix)

Overly Specific Thing of the Week:
53:13: Clint - Freelance Flashback of the Week (Black-ish) (ABC)
54:50: Jacob - Super Bowl Tide Commercial of the Week - Tennis Ad (NBC)
57:03: Allison - Fuckton of Cats of the Week: "Fuckton of Cats" (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) (CW); Guy Who Had a Great Week of the Week: Cody Fern (The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story) (FX)

Next Week in TV:
59:50: Consensus - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Finale - "Nathaniel Is Irrelevant." (CW)
1:01:14: Clint - DC's Legends of Tomorrow mid-season premiere (CW)
1:05:10: Allison - Classic Doctor Who (BBC, Britbox)
1:06:23: Jacob - This Close (Sundance Now)

Discovery Special of the Week:
Mysteries & Scandals: "Michael Jackson & Anna Nicole Smith - Bad Medicine" (OXYGEN)

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Deep in the bowels of CPN Studios, there lies a chamber only the greatest TV characters can enter - the funniest, the grumpiest, the maddest visages the television medium has to offer. There, we honor the breakout comic relief, the magnetically flawed protagonist, the one-time guest character that defines an entire series. This is where we hoard TV's most valuable visages. This... is the Hall of Faces.

For our very first Hall of Faces, Allison and Clint are once again joined by Julie Starbird (Podlander Drunkcast) and Caroline Siede (The AV Club) to determine which (if any) of The Good Place's roster of delightfully absurd characters will occupy the inaugural spot. Will it be Chidi? Janet? Michael? Even Mindy St. Clair? Hear us battle it out, while also figuring out just how the heck the Hall of Faces even works!​

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Every so often, a podcast comes along that makes you reconsider the possibilities of the medium - a show so innovative, entertaining and downright transcendent that it changes you on a fundamental level. And also, there's TV Party.

For this first episode, Allison and Clint are joined by Podlander Drunkcast's Julie Starbird and The AV Club's Caroline Siede. Together, the fearsome foursome talk about last week's Good Place finale, the majesty of Lily Tomlin in Netflix's Grace and Frankie, and more!

This Week in TV:
Consensus: The Good Place, "Somewhere Else" [season finale] (NBC)
Clint: Altered Carbon (Netflix)
Allison: Great Performances, "Nas Live from the Kennedy Center: Classical Hip Hop" (PBS)
Julie: Grace and Frankie season 4 (Netflix)
Caroline: Grey's Anatomy, "Personal Jesus" (ABC)

Last Week, This Week: 
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, "Sam's Rescue Farm for Government Workers" (TBS)

Overly Specific Thing of the Week:
Clint: Guac Joke of the Week (The Good Place, Superstore) (NBC)
Allison: Unexpected 11 o'Clock Number at the Start of an Episode of the Week (Dr. Akopian's opening number, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) (CW)
Julie: Sashay of the Week (RuPaul's Drag Race All-Stars 3, "Sour Milk") (VH1)
Caroline: Underappreciated Comedic Lead of the Week (Lily Tomlin, Grace and Frankie) (Netflix)

Next Week in TV:
Consensus: Star Trek Discovery, "Will You Take My Hand?" [season finale] (CBS)
Clint: Return of Black-ish (ABC)
Allison: American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace (FX) 
Julie: Maya Angelou - And Still I Rise (PBS)
Caroline: This Is Us Super Bowl Episode (NBC)

Discovery Special of the Week: 
Killing Fields: Murder Isle, "The Hunting Grounds"

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Travel through this week in TV with Consequence's televisual savants: Allison Shoemaker and Clint Worthington; along with a rotating cast of writers, critics, and exciting people. Don't touch that dial! We also do deeper dives into the boob tube with special segments and highlighted discussions.

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