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TV Geek Out 114: Mad Men, "The Grown Ups" - Part 2 from 2023-12-13T15:51:00.667019
The second-to-last episode of Mad Men's amazing third season -- in which the characters absorbed the shock of the Kennedy assassination in a variety of ways -- had TV Geek Out geeks Perry, Heather,...
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TV Geek Out 115: The Office, "Heavy Competition" and "Broke" from 2023-12-13T15:51:00.663901
The outstanding story arc involving the Michael Scott Paper Company came to an end with the episodes “Heavy Competition” and “Broke.” We figured there was no way the upstart business could stand up...
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TV Geek Out 124: Lost, "Some Like It Hoth" from 2023-12-13T15:51:00.637766
TV Geek Out continues our coverage of Lost's fifth season with this discussion of the amusingly titled "Some Like It Hoth." It's Miles' first solo flashback episode! His story here is about his dad...
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TV Geek Out 125: Lost, "The Variable" from 2023-12-13T15:51:00.595462
As TVGO continues on with our coverage of season 5 of Lost, we discuss the moving Daniel Faraday episode "The Variable." Faraday has just returned to the island (in the '70s, of course) with some r...
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TV Geek Out 131: Lost, "LA X," Part 2 from 2023-12-13T15:51:00.565476
TVGO returns with the second part of our "LA X" discussion, in which we talk about the aftermath of Jacob's murder in the foot of the statue. Among other things, Ben finds out that the real Locke i...
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TV Geek Out 132: 2010 Oscar Nominations from 2023-12-13T15:51:00.561331
Sure, we like to geek out about TV, but some us actually geek out even harder over movies, and the Oscars offer us the prime opportunity to indulge. Listen in as Dana, Heather, and Perry break down...
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TV Geek Out 133: Lost, "What Kate Does" from 2023-12-13T15:51:00.547594
TV Geek Out is back to our coverage of Lost's 6th season with this discussion of "What Kate Does." Yes, Darlton dared to give us a Kate-isode as the follow-up to the awesome season premiere, and a ...
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TV Geek Out 138: The Office, "Company Picnic" from 2023-12-13T15:51:00.534847
Do you wish your office summer parties were more or less like the one depicted in "Company Picnic," the season-five finale of The Office? Michael sees Holly again and the two perform a hilariously ...
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TV Geek Out 146: Lost, "Happily Ever After" from 2023-12-13T15:51:00.476393
The much-anticipated Desmond episode "Happily Ever After" did nothing less than bridge the gulf between the season's dual realities. When Widmore puts Des through an electromagnetic test on Hydra I...
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TV Geek Out 153: True Blood, "Release Me" from 2023-12-13T15:51:00.442723
In "Release Me," the seventh episode of True Blood's second season, many characters are being held captive in one way or another -- from Sam, who almost gets sacrificed at Maryann's freakiest orgy ...
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TV Geek Out 155: True Blood, "Timebomb" from 2023-12-13T15:51:00.435955
TV Geek Out covers "Timebomb," the eighth episode of True Blood's second season, in which we learn more about modern-day Godric and his peaceful stance on vampire/human relations. Eric and Sookie t...
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TV Geek Out 156: Gleekout 2 from 2023-12-13T15:51:00.401925
If there was any doubt that Glee is the TV series of the moment, its 19 Emmy nominations proved that there is a lot to love about this show. However, the second half of its debut season also reveal...
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TV Geek Out 166: True Blood, "Frenzy" from 2023-12-13T15:51:00.345902
TV Geek Out discusses the penultimate episode of True Blood's second season, "Frenzy." Jessica and Hoyt's relationship is on the rocks after she feasts on his mom, but when he later learns some dis...
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TV Geek Out 167: Mad Men, "Waldorf Stories" from 2023-12-13T15:51:00.296848
How low can he go? That's the question Mad Men's fourth season keeps asking about Don Draper, and "Waldorf Stories" charted some of the seediest stops along his fall. Even in the face of winning a ...
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TV Geek Out 172: Mad Men, "The Beautiful Girls" from 2023-12-13T15:51:00.279537
And so the Blankenship has sailed, taking with her one of Mad Men's most affecting episodes about how girls and women survive -- or don't survive -- in a Mad Man's world. Sally Draper wants her dad...
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TV Geek Out 173: Fall TV Premieres, Part 1 from 2023-12-13T15:51:00.275391
The new fall TV season is is full swing, and TV geeks Heather, Dana, and Perry discuss three of the season's hyped new shows in this podcast. Listen in to find out what we thought of Running Wilde,...
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TV Geek Out 174: Emmys 2010 Chat from 2023-12-13T15:51:00.270688
The Emmys mark the unofficial start of the fall TV season, so naturally we had to cover them -- better late than never! Check out TV geeks Heather, Perry, and Dana's take on all of it -- from Jimmy...
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TV Geek Out 175: Mad Men, "Hands and Knees" from 2023-12-13T15:51:00.266289
Turns out that like Teddy Roosevelt and Buford Pusser, Lane’s daddy carries a big stick, and boy does he know how to beat the happy out of his son! And if this wasn’t a big enough development on Ma...
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TV Geek Out 181: True Blood, "Bad Blood" from 2023-12-13T15:51:00.247597
TV Geek Out returns to our True Blood coverage with this discussion of the third-season premiere, "Bad Blood." Events pick up right where they left off, with everyone in a bad state. Sookie is dist...
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TV Geek Out 182: Mad Men, "Blowing Smoke" from 2023-12-13T15:51:00.242172
Can it really be that Mad Men has gone nearly four whole seasons without titling an episode “Blowing Smoke”? But when they finally did, boy is it a doozy! Don attempts to salvage the company with a...
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TV Geek Out 188: True Blood, "Beautifully Broken" from 2023-12-13T15:51:00.192442
TV Geek Out covers the second episode of True Blood's third season, "Beautifully Broken." After Bill's bloody battle with the werewolves, he meets the king of Mississippi, Russell Edgington -- the ...
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TV Geek Out 191: True Blood, "It Hurts Me Too" from 2023-12-13T15:51:00.181739
TV Geek Out covers "It Hurts Me Too," the third episode of True Blood's third season. Eric takes out a werewolf in Sookie's home, but only after she's heard him think "Jackson," which they soon fig...
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TV Geek Out 195: Boardwalk Empire, "Broadway Limited" and "Anastasia" from 2023-12-13T15:51:00.167554
TVGO's Heather and Dana discuss the 3rd and 4th episodes of Boardwalk Empire. In "Broadway Limited," Van Alden goes medieval on the newfound survivor of the roadside shooting, literally squeezing t...
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TV Geek Out 198: True Blood, "9 Crimes" from 2023-12-13T15:51:00.154505
TV Geek Out discusses the 4th episode of season 3 of True Blood, "9 Crimes," which opens with Bill coldly dumping Sookie over the phone. Though he's giving in to his baser nature, he tells Lorena h...
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TV Geek Out 199: 2011 Oscars Chat! from 2023-12-13T15:51:00.147819
TV Geek Out is back after a few weeks of technical difficulties that were keeping us from posting! Here we discuss this year's Oscars, from the lack of surprises to the quality of the hosting. Lis...
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TV Geek Out 202: Game of Thrones, "Winter Is Coming" from 2023-12-13T15:51:00.136667
TV Geek Out begins our coverage of the hit new HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones with this chat about the premiere episode, "Winter Is Coming"! TV geeks Dana and Heather dig into the show's incred...
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TV Geek Out 203: True Blood, "Trouble" from 2023-12-13T15:51:00.098572
TV Geek Out covers episode five of season 3 of True Blood, "Trouble," in which there certainly is enough trouble to go around, and then some! Sookie meets Alcide's frightened werewolf packmaster; E...
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TV Geek Out 208: True Blood, "I Smell a Rat" and "Fresh Blood" from 2023-12-13T15:51:00.080602
TV Geek Out covers the two episodes of True Blood's third season leading up to the finale, "I Smell a Rat" and "Fresh Blood." In "I Smell a Rat," the season's tenth installment, lots of secrets are...
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TV Geek Out 212: Boardwalk Empire, "Home" from 2023-12-13T15:51:00.052433
TV Geek Out is back with more Boardwalk Empire coverage, starting with "Home," the seventh episode of the show's debut season. Thomas Wolfe wrote that you can’t go home again, an axiom Nucky learns...
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TV Geek Out 215: True Blood, "I'm Alive and on Fire" from 2023-12-13T15:51:00.042596
TV Geek Out covers True Blood's fourth episode of season 4, "I'm Alive and on Fire," which opens with Eric totally drunk on faerie blood and very randy. When he runs off, Sookie enlists the help of...
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TV Geek Out 216: True Blood, "Me and the Devil" from 2023-12-13T15:51:00.038875
TV Geek Out covers the fifth episode True Blood's 4th season, "Me and the Devil," which opens with Tommy killing both of his parents; Sam ends up helping his brother dispose of their bodies in the ...
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TV Geek Out 221: Boardwalk Empire, "Paris Green" from 2023-12-13T15:50:59.993116
Murder in various forms hangs over "Paris Green," the penultimate episode of Boardwalk Empire’s first season. Starting with a doozy of a twist regarding the revelation of Jimmy’s father and ending ...
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TV Geek Out 222: Emmys 2011 Chat from 2023-12-13T15:50:59.990790
TV Geek Out discusses this year's recent Emmys broadcast in this brief chat. Listen in to hear what Perry, Dana, and Heather had to say about the festivities, from our favorite wins and most frustr...
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TV Geek Out 224: Boardwalk Empire, "21" from 2023-12-13T15:50:59.985092
The second season of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire begins with confrontations of various sorts including Chalky White vs. the KKK, Van Alden vs. his own sense of morality, and Jimmy vs. Nucky -- even thou...
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TV Geek Out 225: Boardwalk Empire, "Ourselves Alone" from 2023-12-13T15:50:59.981038
“Ourselves Alone,” episode two of Boardwalk Empire's second season, finds our favorite corrupt New Jersey politician (sorry for the redundancy) getting help from an expected source in unexpected wa...
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TV Geek Out 227: American Horror Story Chat, Part 1 from 2023-12-13T15:50:59.973893
Given Ryan Murphy's track record with Glee and especially Nip/Tuck, it wasn't surprising that American Horror Story pushed boundaries with every episode. Still, even for seasoned viewers, just how ...
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TV Geek Out 232: 2012 Oscars Chat! from 2023-12-13T15:50:59.888480
In this podcast, the TV Geek Out crew discusses the highs and lows of this year's Oscars -- the biggest awards broadcast of the year! Featuring the return of Billy Crystal as host (his ninth time h...
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TV Geek Out 235: Mad Men, "Tea Leaves" from 2023-12-13T15:50:59.881379
The TV Geek Out crew discusses episode 3 of Mad Men's 5th season, "Tea Leaves." Betty Draper makes her first appearance of the season in this episode, and when she isn’t busy pounding down Bu...
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TV Geek Out 237: True Blood, "Cold Grey Light of Dawn" from 2023-12-13T15:50:59.876169
TV Geek Out's Heather and Dana discuss episode 7 of True Blood's 4th season, "Cold Grey Light of Dawn." (Note: This is not an episode from the currently airing season five. We're playing catch-up ...
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TV Geek Out 238: Breaking Bad, Season 5, Part 1 from 2023-12-13T15:50:59.872797
TV Geek Out is back after a bit of a break, and we're here with our first-ever Breaking Bad podcast! TV geeks Heather and Dana got together to discuss the first half of season 5 (episodes 1-8), and...
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TV Geek Out 239: Boardwalk Empire, "Gimcrack&Bunkum" from 2023-12-13T15:50:59.869261
TV Geek Out covers "Gimcrack& Bunkum," episode 5 of Boardwalk Empire's 2nd season. (Note: This is not an episode from the currently airing season three. We're playing catch-up on some backlogg...
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TV Geek Out 244: American Horror Story: Asylum, "Welcome to Briarcliff" from 2023-12-13T15:50:59.856375
TV Geek Out begins our coverage of the creep-tastic 2nd season of American Horror Story -- Asylum! Joined again by horror expert Stever, TV geeks Heather and Dana discuss the first episode, "W...
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TV Geek Out 252: Mad Men, "Signal 30" from 2023-12-13T15:50:59.806525
In preparation for the upcoming sixth season of Mad Men, TV Geek Out resumes our coverage of Mad Men season five! Here we discuss the Pete-centric episode "Signal 30" (episode 5). Listen in to fin...
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TV Geek Out 258: Mad Men #5.11, "The Other Woman" from 2023-12-13T15:50:59.777639
The TV Geek Out crew discusses perhaps the most controversial Mad Men episode ever, "The Other Woman" (ep. 11 of season 5). It's the installment that saw the company literally prostitute Joan to la...
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TV Geek Out 257: Mad Men #5.10, "Christmas Waltz" from 2013-06-21T14:55
The TV Geek Out crew discusses Mad Men #5.10, "Christmas Waltz," in which we get the return of Paul Kinsey... as a Hare Krishna!? Also, Lane makes a fateful late-night transgression at the office, ...
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TV Geek Out 256: Mad Men, "Dark Shadows" from 2013-06-11T21:18
TV Geek Out covers Mad Men #5.9, "Dark Shadows," which takes place around Thanksgiving '66. Betty tries to use Sally to meddle with the Draper marriage, Don competes creatively with Ginsberg on an ...
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TV Geek Out 255: Mad Men, "Lady Lazarus" from 2013-05-17T12:17
The TV Geek Out crew discusses Mad Men #5.8, "Lady Lazarus," in which Megan decides to leave copy writing and go back to acting, while Pete throws himself headlong into an affair with the melanchol...
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TV Geek Out 254: Mad Men, "At the Codfish Ball" from 2013-04-30T23:44
TV Geek Out covers Mad Men #5.7, "At the Codfish Ball," in which Megan's parents come to visit, Sally dresses up, Don gets an award, and Peggy and Abe plan a big step in their relationship. (Note:...
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TV Geek Out 253: Mad Men, "Far Away Places" from 2013-04-10T13:18
TV Geek Out covers the sixth episode of Mad Men's fifth season, "Far Away Places," which focuses on Peggy, Roger, and Don. (Note: This is not an episode from the currently airing season six. We're...
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TV Geek Out 251: American Horror Story: Asylum, "The Origins of Monstrosity" from 2013-03-14T18:02
TV Geek Out continues our coverage of American Horror Story: Asylum with this discussion of "The Origins of Monstrosity" (episode 6 of AHS season 2). Listen in to find out what TV geeks Heath...
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TV Geek Out 250: American Horror Story: Asylum, "I Am Anne Frank, Pt. 2" from 2013-01-19T21:15
TV Geek Out covers "I Am Anne Frank, Pt. 2" (episode 5 of American Horror Story: Asylum), which guest-starred Franka Potente. TV fans Heather and Dana conclude their discu...
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TV Geek Out 249: American Horror Story: Asylum, "I Am Anne Frank, Pt. 1" from 2012-12-27T21:37
TV Geek Out continues our coverage of American Horror Story: Asylum with this discussion of "I Am Anne Frank, Pt. 1" (episode 4 of AHS season 2), which guest-starred the talented Franka Potent...
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TV Geek Out 248: Boardwalk Empire, "Georgia Peaches" from 2012-11-27T20:14
TV Geek Out covers the 10th episode of Boardwalk Empire's 2nd season, "Georgia Peaches," in which Nucky takes little Teddy with him on a trip to the Big Apple. (Note: This is not an episode from t...
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TV Geek Out 247: American Horror Story: Asylum, "Nor'easter" from 2012-11-19T19:40
TV Geek Out's Heather and Dana chat with horror geek Stever about "Nor'easter," episode 3 of American Horror Story: Asylum (AHS season 2). Listen in to hear what we thought of this stormy episode ...
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TV Geek Out 246: American Horror Story: Asylum, "Tricks and Treats" from 2012-11-17T19:08
TV Geek Out's Heather and Dana, joined by horror expert Stever, discuss the second episode of American Horror Story: Asylum, "Tricks and Treats." Listen in to hear what we thought o...
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TV Geek Out 245: Boardwalk Empire, "Battle of the Century" from 2012-11-12T21:17
TV Geek Out covers the 9th episode of Boardwalk Empire's 2nd season, "Battle of the Century," in which Nucky and Owen visit Ireland. (Note: This is not an episode from the currently airing season ...
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TV Geek Out 243: Boardwalk Empire, "Two Boats and a Lifeguard" from 2012-10-25T20:50
TV Geek Out covers "Two Boats and a Lifeguard," episode 8 of Boardwalk Empire's 2nd season. (Note: This is not an episode from the currently airing season 3. We're playing catch-up on some ba...
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TV Geek Out 242: Boardwalk Empire, "Peg of Old" from 2012-10-18T23:27
TV Geek out covers "Peg of Old," episode 7 of Boardwalk Empire's 2nd season, in which Margaret travels to NYC to reconnect with her estranged family. (Note: This is not an episode from t...
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TV Geek Out 241: Boardwalk Empire, "The Age of Reason" from 2012-10-16T02:08
TV Geek Out covers "The Age of Reason," episode 6 of Boardwalk Empire's 2nd season. (Note: This is not an episode from the currently airing season three. We're playing catch-up on some backlo...
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TV Geek Out 240: Emmys 2012 Chat from 2012-10-12T19:44
TV Geek Out's Heather and Dana got together to discuss this year's recent Emmys broadcast. Listen in to hear what we thought of the winners and losers... and more! Check it out here!
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TV Geek Out 236: Mad Men, "Mystery Date" from 2012-06-22T19:00
In this installment, the TV Geek Out crew discusses "Mystery Date," episode 4 of season 5 of Mad Men. Murder is on the minds of many of the Mad Men characters this week as Don struggles ...
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TV Geek Out 234: Mad Men, "A Little Kiss" (Parts 1&2) from 2012-05-21T21:59
Our long national nightmare is finally over! An eighteen-month Mad Men drought comes to a wonderful two-hour end with "A Little Kiss" or, as the episode is sure to be known forever and henceforth, ...
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TV Geek Out 233: Boardwalk Empire, "What Does the Bee Do?" from 2012-03-16T23:58
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned wrote Shakespeare, and while the writers of Boardwalk Empire are more likely to invoke the Bible than the Bard, "What Does the Bee Do?" (season 2, episode 4) ...
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TV Geek Out 231: American Horror Story - The Final 4, Part 2 from 2012-02-11T23:42
TV Geek Out presents the second half of our final conversation about American Horror Story's first season. We jump right back into the chat as we begin our coverage of the big finale, "Afterbirth,"...
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TV Geek Out 230: 2012 Golden Globes Discussion from 2012-01-29T22:11
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association recently gave out their annual Golden Globe Awards, and the TV Geek Out crew got together to discuss everything from the crazy state of celebrity plastic sur...
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TV Geek Out 229: American Horror Story - The Final 4, Part 1 from 2012-01-20T21:18
The TV Geek Out crew is back to discuss the last third of American Horror Story's spectacularly crazy first season. We're joined again by horror expert Stever as we cover the final four episodes, "...
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TV Geek Out 228: American Horror Story Chat, Part 2 from 2011-12-28T22:10
We're back with the second half of our American Horror Story discussion, again with special guest horror geek Stever Neither! This podcast covers episodes 4-8 ("Halloween" 1&2, "Piggy, Piggy," "Ope...
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TV Geek Out 226: Boardwalk Empire, "A Dangerous Maid" from 2011-11-29T23:59
Nucky sends a lobster flying, a Victrola saves a life, and Van Alden learns what a script is -- "A Dangerous Maid" has all this and more, and it's only the third episode of Boardwalk Empire's secon...
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TV Geek Out 223: Boardwalk Empire, "A Return to Normalcy" from 2011-10-15T21:13
Boardwalk Empire’s freshman season comes to a conclusion with “A Return to Normalcy,” an episode that wraps up all those pesky plot threads that seemed impossible to bring together when they first ...
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TV Geek Out 220: Boardwalk Empire, "The Emerald City" from 2011-09-30T21:50
The Wizard of Oz allusions that have weaved through Boardwalk Empire’s first season grow even more pronounced in its tenth episode, “The Emerald City,” when the deformed Harrow pronounces he’s like...
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TV Geek Out 219: Boardwalk Empire, "Belle Femme" from 2011-09-24T23:34
TV Geek Out continues our first-season coverage of Boardwalk Empire with this discussion of episode 9, "Belle Femme," in which Margaret learns she has more power with Nucky than she realized when s...
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TV Geek Out 218: Boardwalk Empire, "Hold Me in Paradise" from 2011-09-18T19:33
TV Geek Out is back to finish up our coverage of Boardwalk Empire's first season! Here we discuss the eighth episode, "Hold Me in Paradise," in which Nucky takes a trip to Chicago for the Republica...
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TV Geek Out 217: True Blood, "I Wish I Was the Moon" from 2011-09-13T16:38
Named for the devastating Neko Case ballad that closes the episode, "I Wish I Was the Moon" wraps up the first half of True Blood's fourth season with possession, transformation, that old black mag...
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TV Geek Out 214: True Blood, "If You Love Me, Why Am I Dyin'?" from 2011-08-29T17:33
The title of season four’s third episode -- “If You Love Me, Why am I Dyin’?” -- could have been screamed by Jason Stackhouse, tied down on a bed in Hotshot by Crystal to be the “ghost da...
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TV Geek Out 213: True Blood, "You Smell Like Dinner" from 2011-08-17T15:53
After the faerie fantasia and catch-up with Bon Temp's residents in season four's premiere, True Blood got down to business on "You Smell Like Dinner." And business is good: We got not one but two ...
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TV Geek Out 211: True Blood, "She's Not There" from 2011-07-31T17:50
TV Geek Out begins our coverage of True Blood's 4th season with this discussion of the crazy season premiere, "She's Not There." The episode picks up right where things left off, with Sookie arrivi...
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TV Geek Out 210: 2011 Emmy Nominations! from 2011-07-18T13:59
TV Geek Out geeks Heather, Perry, and Dana discuss the recently announced nominations for this year's Emmy awards! Listen in as we chat about the nominees, who was wrongly overlooked, and who we wa...
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TV Geek Out 209: True Blood, "Evil Is Going On" from 2011-07-11T22:27
TV Geek Out covers the season 3 finale of True Blood, "Evil Is Going On," which brought the season to a close in a very open-ended way and continued the show's tradition of less than satisfying fin...
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TV Geek Out 207: True Blood, "Everything Is Broken" from 2011-06-30T17:27
TV Geek Out covers the ninth episode of True Blood's third season, "Everything Is Broken," which saw the pinnacle of the season in its final scene of Russell Edgington shockingly killing a newscast...
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TV Geek Out 206: True Blood, "Night on the Sun" from 2011-06-24T18:10
TV Geek Out covers the eighth episode of True Blood's third season, "Night on the Sun," in which many characters are either gettin' busy or kicking butt -- or sometimes both. After Sookie ends thin...
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TV Geek Out 205: True Blood, "Hitting the Ground" from 2011-06-19T12:08
TV Geek Out covers "Hitting the Ground," the seventh episode of season 3, in which both Lorena and the Magister shockingly meet the true death, and Sookie and Tara complete their daring escape from...
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TV Geek Out 204: True Blood, "I Got a Right to Sing the Blues" from 2011-06-14T11:46
TV Geek Out covers the sixth episode of True Blood's third season, "I Got a Right to Sing the Blues," in which Sookie and Tara are both being held against their will in Russell Edgington's Mississi...
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TV Geek Out 201: Mildred Pierce from 2011-05-13T14:12
Leave it to HBO to turn over 5 ½ hours of programming to Todd Haynes so the award-winning indie filmmaker could fashion a remake of Mildred Pierce, one of the classic melodramas in Hollywood histor...
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TV Geek Out 200: Boardwalk Empire, "Nights in Ballygran" and "Family Limitation" from 2011-04-27T16:30
Boardwalk Empire finds its narrative footing halfway through the first season with "Nights in Ballygran" and "Family Limitation" (eps. 5& 6), a pair of episodes that not only got the show's...
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Testing, testing ... from 2011-03-30T21:44
We're working on getting TV Geek Out back on its feet. Please ignore this post!
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TV Geek Out 197: 2011 Oscar Nominations from 2011-02-22T23:25
With just a few days remaining until Hollywood's most important awards are handed out, Heather, Dana, and Perry are here to help answer all of your burning questions: Will The King's Speech get the...
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TV Geek Out 196: The Walking Dead, "TS-19" from 2011-02-12T00:21
And so the first season of The Walking Dead ended with a bang and a whimper. In "TS-19," Rick and the rest of the survivors discover that the CDC is far from the haven they'd anticipated, and that ...
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TV Geek Out 194: 2011 Golden Globes Discussion from 2011-01-27T00:13
The TV Geek Out crew celebrated 40,000 downloads (thank you, loyal listeners!) by downing some lip-loosening libations and then dishing on the ridiculous splendor that is the annual party thrown by...
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TV Geek Out 193: 2011 Golden Globe Nominations from 2011-01-15T17:33
The awards season kicks off in earnest with the Golden Globes telecast this Sunday night. So before you sit down to watch alcohol-fueled acceptance speeches and the stinging barbs of host Ricky Ger...
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TV Geek Out 192: The Walking Dead, "Vatos" and "Wildfire" from 2011-01-11T20:30
TV Geek Out covers two installments of The Walking Dead with this chat about "Vatos" and "Wildfire," the 4th and 5th episodes of the series. In "Vatos," Rick, Glenn, T-Dog, and Daryl react to the d...
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TV Geek Out 190: Boardwalk Empire, "The Ivory Tower" from 2010-12-17T12:31
TV Geek Out is back to talk more about HBO's latest hit show, the captivating Boardwalk Empire! Though the pilot may have had a few too many narrative bumps for most of the TVGO crew, the second ep...
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TV Geek Out 189: The Walking Dead, "Tell It to the Frogs" from 2010-12-10T17:01
TV Geek Out covers The Walking Dead's third episode, "Tell It to the Frogs," in which Rick reunites with his family and joins the band of survivors outside Atlanta. Meanwhile, Merle is still baking...
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TV Geek Out 187: Mad Men, "Tomorrowland" from 2010-11-26T23:59
In this installment, TV Geek Out analyzes Mad Men's season-four finale, "Tomorrowland," in greater detail than our initial-reactions discussion. Listen in to what Heather, Dana, and Perry had to sa...
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TV Geek Out 186: Glee, "Grilled Cheesus," "Duets," and "The Rocky Horror Glee Show" from 2010-11-23T10:53
It's time to take another ride on the Glee roller coaster! Season two has had some thrilling, and not so thrilling, ups and downs since the last time we discussed it. "Grilled Cheesus" fell into so...
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TV Geek Out 185: The Walking Dead, "Days Gone Bye" and "Guts" from 2010-11-18T22:52
TV Geek Out begins our coverage of AMC's smash-hit zombie series, The Walking Dead, with this epic chat about the first 2 episodes! In the premiere, "Days Gone Bye," small-town cop Rick Grimes wake...
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TV Geek Out 184: Conan -- The First Week from 2010-11-15T14:28
After months of waiting and expectations, Conan O'Brien returned to late-night TV last week with Conan, his simply named show for TBS. While some things were better than O'Brien's brief stint hosti...
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TV Geek Out 183: TV News Discussion from 2010-11-10T12:35
The TV Geek Out geeks get together to chat about the latest news in TV-land, from ratings to cancellations/renewals to what we've been watching lately! Despite being as timely as possible, there's ...
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TV Geek Out 180: 30 Rock Live! from 2010-10-28T16:21
Tina Fey and company attempted the seemingly impossible, a live version of a sitcom that seems dependent on the ability to cut quickly to throwaway gags. While this may seem as difficult, and unnec...
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TV Geek Out 179: Mad Men, "Chinese Wall" from 2010-10-25T15:27
Dr. Faye Miller might claim to have a “Chinese Wall,” but leave it to Don Draper to demolish that defensive structure and get her to abandon her own ethics. After all, what woman doesn’t fall for D...
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TV Geek Out 178: Glee, "Audition" and "Britney/Brittany" from 2010-10-21T19:39
How has the TV Geek Out trio responded to Glee so far this year? Well, one of us is thinking our relationship with the show might be as dead as Don and Betty’s marriage on Mad Men. Find out who mig...
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TV Geek Out 177: Mad Men Season 4 Finale Reactions from 2010-10-18T22:40
And so season four ends not with a bang, but with a ring. It was a surprisingly mellow close to a season filled with darkness and upheaval -- if you can call a surprise engagement, a not-so-surpris...
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TV Geek Out 176: Fall TV Premieres, Part 2 from 2010-10-18T02:24
TV Geek Out returns with the second part of our discussion of all the fall TV premieres that we've been watching. We cover a lot more ground this time, chatting about new shows, returning shows, su...
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TV Geek Out 171: Boardwalk Empire Premiere from 2010-09-29T14:53
What kind of series do you get when the masterminds are the number two man on The Sopranos, the executive producer of Entourage, and the greatest living American filmmaker? Why Boardwalk Empire, of...
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TV Geek Out 170: Mad Men, "The Summer Man" from 2010-09-25T19:06
"The Summer Man" may have been the first B grade episode in a season full of As and A plusses. Still, for everything that was uneven (Don's admittedly awkward voice over journal entries), there was...
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TV Geek Out 169: True Blood, "Beyond Here Lies Nothin'" from 2010-09-18T23:31
TV Geek Out covers the finale of the second season of True Blood, which sees the demise of the evil maenad Maryann. Her twisted sacrifice-wedding ceremony combo is undermined by a clever plan hatch...
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Announcement! from 2010-09-15T14:32
Hello, TV Geek Out fans! This is just a little message to tell you that we've resolved a technical issue that was keeping us from being able to offer our entire run of TVGO for download via iTunes....
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TV Geek Out 168: Mad Men, "The Suitcase" from 2010-09-14T12:51
Mad Men's fourth season has, arguably, been its strongest yet, but there's little room for debate that "The Suitcase" is one of the show's finest hours. An exploration of the dread of anticipating ...
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TV Geek Out 165: Mad Men, "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword" from 2010-08-30T23:14
It's another super-sized Mad Men discussion, but then "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword" was jam-packed with plot and subtext. This episode took on so many of the show's main themes -- the generatio...
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TV Geek Out 164: 2010 Emmy Nominations from 2010-08-26T18:20
Sure, they don’t have as much historical weight as the Oscars, and the telecast isn’t as fun to watch as the Golden Globes, but the Emmys are still the award everybody in television most wants to w...
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TV Geek Out 163: Mad Men, "The Rejected" from 2010-08-24T13:33
Since Mad Men's third season spent so much time on the dissolution of the Draper marriage, season four isn't wasting any time returning to the show's other major stories. One of the biggest is the ...
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TV Geek Out 162: Mad Men, "The Good News" from 2010-08-17T17:53
The good news is ... Lane is more fun than a barrel of drunken monkeys when he's had a few! Joan can still have babies even though she's had a couple of "procedures"! And that's about it. "The Good...
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TV Geek Out 161: True Blood, "New World in My View" from 2010-08-15T23:30
TV Geek Out covers episode 10 of True Blood's second season, "New World in My View," in which Bill, Sookie and Jason return to Bon Temps and find their hometown in a sorry state, with its citizens ...
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TV Geek Out 160: Mad Men, "Christmas Comes But Once a Year" from 2010-08-10T15:52
There's no place like Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce for the holidays, especially when Don and company reunite with sadistic Lucky Strike honcho Lee Garner Jr. SCDP scrambles to give their biggest cl...
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TV Geek Out 159: Mad Men, "Public Relations" from 2010-07-28T15:36
And we're off! Mad Men's fourth season began by continuing one of season three's major themes: change. Not only were we treated to Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce's sleek, brightly lit new digs, where...
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TV Geek Out 158: Mad Men Season 4 Preview from 2010-07-24T14:25
We're just hours away from the beginning of Mad Men's fourth season! The TV Geek Out Geeks couldn't wait until after Sunday night to start geeking out about the new season, so Dana, Perry and Heath...
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TV Geek Out: Mad Men Season Three Review from 2010-07-22T18:28
Back when Mad Men's brilliant third season ended, the TV Geek Out crew did a wrap-up, reviewing the season's big events, the characters' various arcs, and our favorite episodes. We thought we'd re-...
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TV Geek Out 157: True Blood, "I Will Rise Up" from 2010-07-20T11:58
TV Geek Out covers one of True Blood's most epic episodes ever, season two's ninth installment, "I Will Rise Up." In the gory aftermath of the Lukinator's suicide-bombing, Eric tricks Sookie into d...
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TV Geek Out 154: Lost, "The End" from 2010-06-23T01:22
It's been a month since Jack closed his eyes for the last time and Lost reached "The End" -- enough time for the TV Geek Out geeks to have thought about the finale a bit (ok, a lot) more and have a...
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TV Geek Out 152: Lost, Finale Reactions from 2010-05-27T14:50
And so Lost has reached “The End.” While it may have been short on answers, it was long on emotion for the audience and on resolution for the characters we’ve come to love (and love to hate) over t...
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TV Geek Out 151: Lost, "What They Died For" from 2010-05-26T23:58
TV Geek Out covers "What They Died For," the penultimate episode of Lost. In the Sideways world, Jack awakes to find another mysterious cut on his neck... Meanwhile, Ben catches Desmond in the scho...
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TV Geek Out 150: Lost, "Across the Sea" from 2010-05-25T22:25
As Lost's final season wound down, the controversy around its episodes just rose. "Across the Sea," the tale of a young Jacob and Man (er, Boy) in Black, was easily among the most divisive hours of...
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TV Geek Out 149: Lost, "The Candidate" from 2010-05-22T19:59
The Lost episode "The Candidate" is perhaps the most devastating of them all. On the island, UnLocke tries to convince Jack to leave with everyone, while Widmore throws the Losties into the polar b...
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TV Geek Out 148: Lost, "The Last Recruit" from 2010-05-18T23:57
TV Geek Out covers "The Last Recruit," in which UnLocke's plans are in full swing as the Losties reunite. He has a little chat with Jack and orders zombie Sayid to kill Desmond, but Des might just ...
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TV Geek Out 147: Lost, "Everybody Loves Hugo" from 2010-05-12T23:30
"Everybody Loves Hugo" brought us the final Hugo Reyes episode of Lost. In contrast to the lighter tone of many Hurley installments, this one contained quite a lot of dire events. Ilana EXPLODED. H...
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TV Geek Out 145: Lost, "The Package" from 2010-04-30T18:14
Sure, "The Package" is one of the better season-6 episodes of Lost, but it has a title that makes double entendre fans salivate. There’s Sun’s button-filled seduction of Jin, of course, but the hig...
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TV Geek Out 144: True Blood, "Hard-Hearted Hannah" from 2010-04-28T23:58
TV Geek Out continues our coverage of True Blood's second season with this discussion of "Hard-Hearted Hannah," which brought Bill's maker back in a big way. Lorena's return sparks a shocking flash...
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TV Geek Out 143: Lost, "Ab Aeterno" from 2010-04-25T17:34
"Ab Aeterno" was one of the most-hyped and anticipated episodes of Lost's final season, and it turned out to be one of the best. We finally learned the history of the mysterious Richard Alpert, and...
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TV Geek Out 142: True Blood, "Never Let Me Go" from 2010-04-20T23:30
As HBO re-airs season 2 of True Blood, TV Geek Out gets back to our coverage of the deliciously devious show. In the season's fifth episode, "Never Let Me Go," things pick up in Dallas where they l...
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TV Geek Out 141: Lost, "Recon" from 2010-04-16T18:27
If any of Lost's flash-sideways deserve to be spun off into their own shows, it's the tantalizing glimpse we saw of Sawyer and Miles as cop buddies during "Recon." Who wouldn't want to watch the ad...
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TV Geek Out 140: Gleek Out! from 2010-04-13T19:17
The show that makes you smile when you say its name is back! Yes, Glee has returned, and though the second half of the season -- which goes well into June -- has a lot to look forward to, including...
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TV Geek Out 139: Lost, "Dr. Linus" from 2010-04-10T18:36
Could it be that your mild-mannered European History teacher is actually a stone cold killer? That sure seems to be what Dr. Ben Linus is in half of this entertaining Lost outing. The TVGO crew con...
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TV Geek Out 137: Lost, "Sundown" from 2010-03-24T19:51
"Sundown"'s name played a trick on die-hard Lost fans, who had noticed that until then, the main character of each season-six episode mirrored those of season one. But instead of revolving around S...
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TV Geek Out 136: Oscars Chat from 2010-03-22T01:00
Well, Oscar night proved to be a chore for one of the TV Geek Out crew. Find out if Dana, Heather, or Perry spent most of the night yelling at their TV as the trio discuss the chances that Doogie H...
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TV Geek Out 135: Lost, "Lighthouse" from 2010-03-19T02:00
TV Geek Out covers the Jack-centric season-6 episode "Lighthouse," in which Hurley and Jack go on a mission from Jacob, and crazy Claire tends to Jin's wounded leg and interrogates the life out of ...
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TV Geek Out 134: Lost, "The Substitute" from 2010-03-10T19:12
TV Geek Out covers the first Locke episode of Lost's 6th season, "The Substitute," in this epic discussion. The flash-sideways follow Locke as he gets home from his trip to Australia, and we find o...
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TV Geek Out 130: Lost, "LA X," Part 1 from 2010-02-27T02:00
TV Geek Out's coverage of Lost season 6 begins with a 2-part discussion of the mind-bending premiere, "LA X." Lost is finally back, and the biggest news is the introduction of what seems to be a ne...
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TV Geek Out 129: Lost, "The Incident," Part 2 from 2010-02-21T23:48
In this second part of TVGO's discussion of Lost's awesome season-5 finale, "The Incident," we talk about the "present-time" events and discuss the ramifications of everything that occurs. On their...
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TV Geek Out 128: Lost, "The Incident," Part 1 from 2010-02-19T02:00
TVGO's discussion of the Lost season-5 finale, "The Incident," is so jam-packed that we're bringing it to you in two installments! Jacob makes a major debut, along with an as-yet-unnamed frenemy, w...
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TV Geek Out 127: Lost, "Follow the Leader" from 2010-02-13T13:50
TV Geek Out covers the penultimate episode of Lost's 5th season, "Follow the Leader." After being taken captive, Jack talks the Others -- specifically Richard and Eloise -- into helping bring the d...
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TV Geek Out 126: Golden Globes Discussion from 2010-02-11T00:00
The Golden Globes are the biggest party of the year, since few things are more entertaining for pop-culture fiends than a roomful of drunken movie and TV stars. Listen as TV Geek Out geeks Heather,...
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TV Geek Out 123: Lost, "Dead Is Dead" from 2010-01-29T15:50
TV Geek Out continues our coverage of season 5 of Lost with our discussion of one of its best episodes, "Dead Is Dead." It's the Ben and Locke magic hour! Or at least it seems magical when we get t...
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TV Geek Out 122: Lost, "He's Our You" and "Whatever Happened, Happened" from 2010-01-26T02:00
TV Geek Out discusses two episodes of Lost's fifth season in this jam-packed discussion! In "He's Our You," Sawyer struggles with what to do with the presumed-Hostile Sayid, who doesn't seem to wan...
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TV Geek Out 121: Late Night Wars from 2010-01-21T23:39
There hasn’t been a television story as Shakespearean as Leno’s return to The Tonight Show in quite some time, and of course it fascinates us TV geeks, so listen in as Perry, Dana, and Heather decl...
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TV Geek Out 120: Lost, "Namaste" from 2010-01-19T00:44
TV Geek Out continues our coverage of season 5 of Lost with our discussion of "Namaste." Many of the original Oceanic 815 survivors reunite in '70s Dharmaville, but it isn't as joyous an occasion a...
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TV Geek Out 119: Lost, "LaFleur" from 2010-01-11T02:03
TV Geek Out favorite Lost returns to the air in less than a month, and we're finishing up our coverage of the previous season in preparation for that joyous premiere. We left things off with "The L...
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TV Geek Out 118: The Office, "Casual Friday" and "Cafe Disco" from 2009-12-29T02:53
All is not copacetic as Ryan, Pam, and Michael return to Dunder Mifflin after the acquisition of The Michael Scott Paper Company. There aren’t enough customers to go around now that Pam has been pr...
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TV Geek Out 117: Mad Men Season 3 Wrap-Up from 2009-12-23T18:19
And so it is. The end of Mad Men’s third season brought the dissolution of the Draper marriage, and the formation of a new business venture that might allow Don/Dick to bring some balance back to h...
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TV Geek Out 116: Mad Men, "Shut the Door. Have a Seat" from 2009-12-15T17:31
Well, after 12 episodes filled with death, change, and the dissolution of the Draper marriage, Mad Men’s third-season finale gave us something unexpected -- tons of fun. Don masterminds a plan to t...
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TV Geek Out 113: Mad Men, "The Grown Ups" - Part 1 from 2009-11-28T15:27
Well, Matthew Weiner and company have been leading up to this for three seasons! President Kennedy dies in Dallas, and the reverberations alter the country as a whole, as well as the characters of ...
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TV Geek Out 112: The Office, "The Dream Team" and "Michael Scott Paper Company" from 2009-11-24T12:00
These two episodes bookended the debut of Parks and Recreation, and putting "Dream Team" and "Michael Scott Paper Company" around that freshman show seemed particularly cruel because it set the bar...
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