292: Playing Games With Dispatches From Elsewhere - a podcast by Tara Ariano, Sarah D. Bunting, David T. Cole
from 2020-03-04T10:00
AMC already had a perfectly good Charlie Kaufman-esque property, but the network went with Dispatches From Elsewhere over Lodge 49 -- and while it's kind of Sarah's dream to fall into an alternate-reality scavenger hunt, first-time guest Dave Chen felt like the show would be more fun to "play" than to watch. Is it too twee? Too slow? Too divorced from the reality of non-celebrities? Or do the excellent cast and the In Search Of… graphics make it all worthwhile? Then we went Around The Dial with Love Is Blind, The Outsider, Teen Mom: Young and Pregnant, A French Village, and second-rate American TV in East Africa before Dave Cole declared transparent computer screens NOT the wave of the future. Dave Chen tried to give the Canon a bear hug by submitting the first-season finale of Succession for the Canon. Trebek won, disgracios lost (again), and IMDb throuples tested our wits during Game Time. Don't miss this dispatch from your podcast app; it's an all-new Extra Hot Great!
SHOW TOPICS
- Dispatches From Elsewhere
- ATD: Love Is Blind
- ATD: The Outsider
- ATD: Teen Mom: Young & Pregnant
- ATD: A French Village
- ATD: TV in East Africa
- I Am Not A Crackpot: Transparent Computer Screens
- The Canon: Succession S01.E10: "Nobody Is Ever Missing"
- Winner and Loser of the Week
- Game Time: They Get Around
SHOW NOTES
- Dave Chen on Twitter
- Culturally Relevant with David Chen
- Decoding Westworld
- Tara on Party Of Five at Primetimer
- Sarah on The Trials Of Gabriel Fernandez at Primetimer
- The Sweet Smell of Succession
- Photo: Zach Dilgard / AMC
DISCUSSION
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