Appointment Television
363 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 410 ratingsAppointment Television is a podcast about the TV you want to make time for. Every Thursday Margaret, Kathryn, and Andrew will revisit old shows, discover new ones, and debate everything from highbrow dramas to episodes of The Bachelor.
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Episode 345: The Irrational Buccaneers (Good One/Bad One)
December 21, 2023 15:00 - 44 minutes - 44.9 MBIn this week's episode, the gang is all here and we're discussing Margaret's Good One/Bad One Picks: The Buccaneers (good, theoretically) and The Irrational (bad, verily). In the episode, we mention this sweater: And also, somehow, against all odds, Mpreg Clippy, which I have linked in case any of you are self-loathing enough to wish to pollute your brain with his visage. We will be back NEXT WEEK to discuss Kathryn's GOBO: The Curse (good) and Lawmen: Bass Reeves (bad). We hope you c...
Episode 344: Tossed Goosebumps and Scrambled Frasier (Good One/Bad One)
December 15, 2023 04:51 - 41 minutes - 43.1 MBListener beware, you're in for a scare! This week we watch a horrifying scream-filled nightmare of a television episode, where characters toy with forces beyond their comprehension and exhume corpses that would best be left alone. We are, of course, referring to the Frasier reboot. We also watch the first episode of the new Goosebumps show, which is fine.
Episode 343: Good One Bad One "Fall" 2023: The Pickening
December 07, 2023 11:00 - 34 minutes - 35.1 MBWe're back again! This time with a "Fall 2023" edition of Good One Bad One, which we started recording pretty late in the season and have finally gotten around to releasing even later. (November hit hard this year, listener.) We've got a great lineup for you this season! Presenting the Good Ones: Apple TV+'s The Buccaneers Hulu's Goosebumps Showtime's The Curse And, of course, our formidable Bad Ones: Paramount+'s Frasier reboot NBC's The Irrational Paramount+'s Lawmen: Bass Ree...
Episode 342: Shop the final Citadel look!
August 10, 2023 16:39 - 50 minutes - 29.6 MBIn which we finish our miniseries on Citadel and attempt to wrestle with what, exactly, we have brought upon ourselves.
Episode 341: Like Citadel episode 5, we cannot wrap it up
August 03, 2023 20:00 - 42 minutes - 25.1 MBIs watching this show not unlike descending into pure mindless sensation? Like a sensory deprivation tank, but as a TV show? Also why on earth does the Priyanka Chopra-Jonas character make these choices?! They're such bad choices!
Episode 340: Flashing back to Citadel episode 4 (w/ Tara Ariano!)
July 27, 2023 20:15 - 1 hour - 61.8 MBExtra Hot Great co-host and TV critic extraordinaire Tara Ariano parachutes into our Citadel series this week, to help us break down exactly what is going on in all these flashback sequences where characters look and act exactly the same way they do in the "present day." This episode moves the season's main story forward by roughly 37 seconds.
Episode 339: Slowly losing our minds about Citadel episode 3
July 20, 2023 10:00 - 45 minutes - 46 MBIt's so hard to remember any individual thing that happens in an episode of Citadel that I'm not sure how we keep sitting down and having a conversation about it, but our journey continues, flying forward with the inevitability of a super-spy on ski-boots.
Episode 338: Cutting to the liver with Citadel episode 2
July 13, 2023 17:03 - 44 minutes - 44.8 MBWe gently encouraged you to tell us whether you wanted us to watch more of Citadel, and you gently encouraged us back, so here we are with another episode about this dumb, dumb show where nothing is as it seems but in a super predictable kind of way. We'll watch all six episodes of Citadel season 1 on Amazon, one at a time, posting on Thursdays(ish).
Episode 337: Mrs. Davis and Also Citadel
May 20, 2023 02:16 - 49 minutes - 50.3 MBWe saved the best and the worst for last this year! Mrs. Davis is a little zeitgeisty and a little head-fake-y and a lot of fun, while Citadel kind of wants to be all of those things and isn't any of them? Also if three or four dozen of you tweet at or email us I guess we'll fuck around and watch the entire first season of Citadel, don't disappoint us!
Episode 336: The Last Thing the Diplomat Told Me
May 12, 2023 21:05 - 47 minutes - 46.7 MBIn this week's (comically belated) episode, we're tackling Kathryn's Spring 2023 GOBO picks, the shoulder devil and should angel of the Mom TV genre: The Diplomat (good, currently streaming on Netflix) and The Last Thing He Told Me (preposterous, not in a fun way, currently streaming on Apple TV+). In addition, we take some time off from discussing wood turning, houseboats, and even-weirder-than-Sweeney-Todd Stephen Sondheim musicals to discuss the current writer's strike in Hollywood and wh...
Episode 335: Am I Being Rise of the Pink Ladies?
May 04, 2023 20:45 - 51 minutes - 31 MBDaisy May Cooper's Am I Being Unreasonable is fascinating and strange and maybe (probably) doesn't work? Particularly because we all get into an argument about who we're supposed to be sympathizing with and why! But one thing's for DANG sure, and it's that Am I Being Unreasonable is a more interesting and successful show than Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies!
Episode 334: Good One Bad One Spring 2023 Edition: The pickening
April 27, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 63.1 MBWe're back gang!! This time we pick through the spring 2023 TV season to find shows to hang our hopes and our anti-hopes on. Next week! Prepare to watch Am I Being Unreasonable on Hulu and (ugh) Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies on Paramount+.
Episode 333: Good One Bad One Pt. 3, Quantum Daily
October 20, 2022 21:42 - 45 minutes - 27.6 MBIt is our final GOBO of this run, in which we discuss NBC's Quantum Leap and ABC's Alaska Daily. We promise to send you out on much skepticism about the wisdom of building a new Quantum Leap machine, and also a few thoughts on The State of Journalism.
Episode 332 - Good One, Bad One Pt. 3, Andor and So Help Me Todd
October 13, 2022 22:00 - 39 minutes - 40 MBStar Wars TV shows need to learn how to do episodes. So Help Me Todd is, so help us, not our worst-ever watch, even though it's very goofy and stupid. Classic bad one!!
Episode 331: Good One Bad One, Pt. 2, Das Vampire Boot
October 06, 2022 20:12 - 53 minutes - 51.1 MBHello poppets! You're in for a treat with this one, posting up juuuust in time for everyones' commute home from work. We gather together to discuss Margaret's GO and BO: Reboot (GO) and The Vampire Academy (BO) and the vast majority of the episode is us trying in vain to figure out the vampire rules of a poorly written show to which we may or may not have paid much attention. Margaret gets sent to horny jail by minute 18.
Episode 330: Good One Bad One Rings of Dragons
September 29, 2022 12:55 - 49 minutes - 29.3 MBHave you heard? People love giant fantasy series! They really do. Or at least, they definitely WATCH giant fantasy series, and whether or not they love them is maybe beside the point? In any event, we're doing a free space Good One / Bad One episode to discuss both House of the Dragon and The Rings of Power, which are your two choices for overstuffed fantasy extravaganzas this fall. No one gets mad about anything.
Episode 329: Good One/Bad One Fall '22 Edition: The Pickening
September 22, 2022 22:43 - 36 minutes - 37.4 MBAh, the promise of a new TV season. Maybe one of the premieres will be one of your new favorites! Maybe you'll watch something so bad that you can make yourself mad years later just by thinking about it. The world is alight with possibilities! We're back for a FIVE-episode fall engagement! This week we'll announce our picks, and next week we're going to do an obligatory Oops! All Fantasy episode about the House of the Dragon and Lord of the Rings shows.
Episode 328: GOBO '22 Pt 4 - Lovestruck High and Strange New Worlds
May 26, 2022 10:00 - 45 minutes - 33.1 MBWe wrap up this season's round of Good One/Bad One with one entirely predictable bad one (Amazon's Lovestruck High) and one pleasantly surprising good one (Paramount+'s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds). See you in the fall!
Episode 327: GOBO '22 Pt 3 Candy and The Time Traveler's Wife
May 19, 2022 10:00 - 59 minutes - 37.3 MBThis is, fundamentally, an episode about life's most existential questions. Some of those questions are fairly simple: what is good TV? How many shows about the same true crime murder is too many shows? Some of those questions are much more complicated, like "if a time traveler poops in the woods and Steven Moffat is the showrunner and he changes the rules of how the story works so that detached parts of the time traveler's body follow him around through time and space ... what are the...
Episode 326: GOBO '22, Pt. 2 -- Our Flag Means Death and The Courtship
May 12, 2022 06:04 - 50 minutes - 35.8 MBThis week, Margaret reopens her Queer TV Quorner to discuss OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH and then inflicts THE COURTSHIP upon Andrew and Kathryn. Its vastly superior predecessor Regency House Party is also discussed.
Episode 325: WE’RE BACK/Spring 2022 Good One/Bad One
May 05, 2022 10:00 - 47 minutes - 33.8 MBDid you miss us? Whether you did or not, we’re back again with our spring 2022 edition of Good One/Bad One, along with some notes about what we’ve been watching while we’ve been gone. GOOD ONES: Our Flag Means Death: https://play.hbomax.com/series/urn:hbo:series:GYf3LzwJV98JifQEAAAAO Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/star-trek-strange-new-worlds/ Candy: https://www.hulu.com/series/candy-2ce80ed9-7ab6-44de-8434-f7dadb6ec11b BAD ONES: The Courtsh...
Episode 324: The End
December 30, 2021 11:00 - 53 minutes - 55.1 MBYou don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here. SHOW NOTES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGytDsqkQY8
Episode 323: FATHER CHRISTMAS IS BACK, BABY
December 23, 2021 16:44 - 57 minutes - 57.8 MBThis week we watched the unredeemable mess that is Netflix’s Father Christmas Is Back, starring Frasier from the show Frasier. You’ll miss us when we’re gone.
Episode 322: Final Q&A
December 16, 2021 13:12 - 52 minutes - 51.4 MBIn this week's episode, we take our final dive into the Ask Box while it's still Appointment Television's ask box. Himbos, endings, and what we would do with nigh unlimited funds are all discussed, among other things. And Margaret barely even cries, it's really impressive how brave she is.
Episode 321: THE FINAL LOST SYMBOL
December 09, 2021 11:00 - 48 minutes - 27.7 MBIt's the final SYMBOL [final countdown riff goes here]. It's got everything - it's got death! It's got pyramids! It's got degrees, but not celsius or fahrenheit degrees, some OTHER degrees! It's got resonance, and kissing (terrible kissing), and oh yes - it's got symbols.
Episode 320: Wheel of Time and Peacock's Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol Part 4
December 02, 2021 11:00 - 41 minutes - 41.6 MBAndrew has watched Amazon's Wheel of Time adaptation, because you don't read a 14-book fantasy series and not watch the TV adaptation. Then, the three of us are whisked back to the magical world of Dan Brown, where everyone is always in on the scheme and all the evil masterminds are named "Zachary."
Episode 319: I Love Lucy
November 25, 2021 12:04 - 52 minutes - 53.5 MBOn this week's show, two reoccurring segments: the first return of "We Were Wrong About-- OR WERE WE?" (subject this time: Apple TV PLUS) and the final iteration of The Old Type about, inevitably, I Love Lucy. We discuss the episode "Lucy Does a Commercial" (which we all watched together) and then in turn the episodes "Lucy Thinks Ricky is Trying to Murder Her," "Job Switching," and "Lucy Meets Orson Welles." And speaking of our man Orson, here is the wine commercial outtakes reel of which w...
Episode 318: Netflix numbers and Peacock's Dan Brown's Lost Symbol part 3
November 18, 2021 11:00 - 47 minutes - 31.1 MBIn this episode of ATV, Robert Langdon visits a quarry, and that is how we know that this show was our destiny! Also featuring: bad arm casts, Dell desktops, pyramid tops, masonic squares, CIA psychics, and some Netflix metrics reporting!
Episode 317: Nailed It Succeeding Succession
November 11, 2021 11:17 - 33 minutes - 32.5 MBOn today's episode: Andrew and Kathryn spoil one particular scene of the new season of Succession for Margaret (terminally behind on all television) in a segment Andrew's eloquently dubbed "Jesus CHRIST, Kendall Roy," resulting in what we must assume is a record number of shell-shocked "oh BOY"s for any single episode of the podcast. Then we introduce a new retrospective segment: "We Were Wrong About-- OR WERE WE?", wherein we revisit opinions of old and see if any of our minds have changed ...
Episode 316: Peacock's Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol TV Book Club, eps 2 and 3
November 04, 2021 10:00 - 44 minutes - 44.8 MBThis week we continue our final TV Book Club selection, carefully studying and then improbably deciphering the ancient secrets of episodes 2 and 3 of Peacock's Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol.
Episode 315: An important announcement
October 28, 2021 10:00 - 33 minutes - 18.2 MBThis week's episode is mostly a conversation about some important podcast business things. We love you all so much, and we hope you'll forgive us for all the many thoughts and feelings and also some truly bad pretend podcast titles that are all stuffed in here. We expect to hear from many of you lovely weirdos in the tumblr box, and we will treasure each and every one of those messages except for obviously the ones that are mean or gross. <3
Episode 314: Foundation and La Brea
October 21, 2021 10:00 - 51 minutes - 50 MBOn today's episode, we examine the last of our Fall 2021 Good One-Bad One pairs: Foundation, on Apple TV+, which is a perfectly acceptable good one, and La Brea, on NBC, which proved much more fun to chat about than it was to watch (please don't watch it). Join us as we answer the big questions: WHO at NBC is in the pocket of big tar pits? If you'd like to hear Andrew talk about the book version of Foundation on his other podcast, the link is right here: https://overduepodcast.com/episodes...
Episode 313: What we’d watch on Paramount+
October 14, 2021 10:00 - 37 minutes - 37.2 MBIf you subscribed to Paramount+ (née CBS All Access) for one month, what would you watch? Our answer to this question is complicated by the fact that Paramount+ actually has a back catalogue, but the short version is that you should start with Evil and work your way out from there.
Episode 312: Our Problems With Jon Stewart's Problems
October 07, 2021 10:00 - 44 minutes - 44.2 MBIt's the second installment of 2021's fall Good One / Bad One, this time discussing the new FOX drama The Big Leap, and Apple TV+'s news/comedy/journalism/the fact that we don't know what to call it is part of the problem here/discussion show, The Problem With Jon Stewart. In this episode, Margaret has many problems with Stewart, Kathryn and Andrew have fewer problems, and everybody agrees that there are zero problems with Scott Foley.
Episode 311: Y: The Lost Symbol (Good One, Bad One #1)
September 30, 2021 16:16 - 55 minutes - 52 MBIn today's late-because-of-water-heater-chaos episode, we discuss three key things: The origin of the name Peaky Blinders (in which Margaret and Andrew each invent new terms) The pilot of Hulu's new adaptation of Y: The Last Man (which Margaret likens to this extremely timely and relevant cultural property) And then the gonzo excellence of Peacock's adaptation of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol
Episode 310: Good One Bad One, Fall 2021 Edition
September 23, 2021 10:00 - 37 minutes - 37 MBThis year's crop of fall shows is small but potent. Look forward to watching each of these good and/or bad shows with us over the next few weeks. This is an episode that MOST of us came prepared for. SHOW NOTES: Y: The Last Man on Hulu: https://www.hulu.com/series/y-the-last-man-9fb2d79b-1280-48be-b185-f989b9c9519a Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol on Peacock: https://www.peacocktv.com/stream-tv/dan-browns-the-lost-symbol Foundation on Apple TV+: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/fou...
Episode 309: A Ted Lasso S2 mid-season roundtable
September 16, 2021 10:00 - 48 minutes - 28.3 MBAlthough Margaret could not be with us for this episode, when it was time to check in with season two of Ted Lasso we knew that we'd be in capable hands with our friends Christina Tucker and Sophie Brookover. They join us this week for a conversation about the ups and downs of both Ted Lasso and Ted Lasso discourse, and they have a couple recommendations for what to watch. We cover such topics as: Sam! Whether this show has conflict! The experience of watching serial television! And, alarmin...
Episode 308: Only Podcasts in the Building
September 09, 2021 10:00 - 43 minutes - 43.1 MBWe're back, glory be! On this week's episode we're discussing a shocking revelation in the world of children's TV programming, the debatable delights of Doc McStuffins, and the absolutely established joys of Hulu's new original series Only Murders in the Building (with its gloriously Ephronian setting).
ATV Rerun: Someone made Andrew watch Dr. Facehands
September 02, 2021 10:00 - 48 minutes - 25.8 MBThere is also a second segment to this episode, in which Andrew, Margaret and Kathryn all pitch imaginary TV shows about good journalism, and as per usual Margaret has an eerie number of truly fantastic TV ideas. But the main event here is that a patron forced Andrew to watch a truly awful TV show called Do No Harm aka Dr Facehands, and it was magnificent.
Episode Classic: TV Chemistry Fight Fight Fight!
August 26, 2021 10:00 - 20.4 MBAndrew and Margaret return to the skeptical and often controversial Kathrynth Circuit Court for a TV versus TV debate: what duo has the most TV chemistry? Kathryn makes a decision sure to infuriate truly everyone; please know that your hate mail will be received calmly and disregarded quickly. They then turn to a discussion of how chemistry works on TV, who has it and who does not. Many things are agreed upon, except for Kathryn's ruling.
ATV Rerun: TV Chemistry Fight Fight Fight!
August 26, 2021 10:00 - 42 minutes - 20.4 MBAndrew and Margaret return to the skeptical and often controversial Kathrynth Circuit Court for a TV versus TV debate: what duo has the most TV chemistry? Kathryn makes a decision sure to infuriate truly everyone; please know that your hate mail will be received calmly and disregarded quickly. They then turn to a discussion of how chemistry works on TV, who has it and who does not. Many things are agreed upon, except for Kathryn's ruling.
Episode 308: Dickinson Creator Alena Smith
August 19, 2021 14:28 - 40 MBWith five weeks of Ted Lasso remaining and no new Schmigadoon to watch, we suspect many of you might be looking for some new way to make the most of your Apple TV+ subscription. So, for our first Summer Hiatus Rerun, we're sharing the interview we did with Dickinson creator Alena Smith in January, 2020. Consider this our pitch for letting a little corseted chaos into your life.
ATV Rerun: Dickinson Creator Alena Smith
August 19, 2021 14:28 - 47 minutes - 40 MBWith five weeks of Ted Lasso remaining and no new Schmigadoon to watch, we suspect many of you might be looking for some new way to make the most of your Apple TV+ subscription. So, for our first Summer Hiatus Rerun, we're sharing the interview we did with Dickinson creator Alena Smith in January, 2020. Consider this our pitch for letting a little corseted chaos into your life.
Episode 307: Evil, Feel Good Book Club Finale, and a summer hiatus
August 12, 2021 10:00 - 52 minutes - 51.9 MBWe take a brief detour into the wacky world of Robert and Michele King to talk about how Evil Season 2 is going, then we do some fantasy casting of Broadway actors in Kings' projects before wrapping up our Feel Good TV Book Club. Also: we're taking a break! We'll be posting some reruns over the next few weeks and we'll see you all in September. EVIL on Paramount+: https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/evil/ Feel Good on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/80241545
Episode 306: Which one of us would suck least on Survivor?
August 05, 2021 10:00 - 48 minutes - 48.4 MBThis is episode two of our Feel Good book club, where we discuss episodes 3 and 4 of season one. Serious topics are considered, including: does George still suck as much, what is Mae's stand-up actually like, and also how is Lisa Kudrow *this* good at her job? But before we get there, we bring up a topic that requires careful, detailed thought. Which one of us would suck the least if we were contestants on Survivor?
Episode 305: Screaming Services & Ted Lasso
July 29, 2021 10:00 - 39 minutes - 38.2 MBOn this week's episode, we introduce a new segment (name TBD) where we tell you how to get the most out of one month with any minor league streaming service. In honor of Ted Lasso's season 2 premiere last Friday (a glorious event to which we devote some time and attention), we've focus our first session on Apple TV+. Come for the earnest advice, but stay for the absolutely harrowing fuck-marry-kill the discussion occasions.
Episode 304: Feel Good, Pt 1 plus Hot Q's and Cool A's
July 22, 2021 17:27 - 43 minutes - 41.1 MBOn this week's episode we begin our TV Book Club on Netflix's Feel Good, a show where extremely charming queer people make exceptionally poor decisions, but first: we answer some questions from our Tumblr ask box. Margaret goes long on the subject of library school, we all discuss the scam of terminal master degree programs (recently documented more thoroughly by Anne Helen Petersen), and then-- the true highlight-- we each share an embarrassing story we've not previously told on the podcast.
Episode 304: White Lotus and the final Bold Gripe
July 15, 2021 20:00 - 54.4 MBRIP to The Bold Gripe, a segment we loved briefly and too well. You'll never guess what those goofy media types are up to in the finale! After we fully dunk on that whole situation we turn to the new HBO series The White Lotus, a show about rich people at a fancy resort but most importantly: a show with Jennifer Coolidge in it.
Episode 303: White Lotus and the final Bold Gripe
July 15, 2021 20:00 - 54 minutes - 54.4 MBRIP to The Bold Gripe, a segment we loved briefly and too well. You'll never guess what those goofy media types are up to in the finale! After we fully dunk on that whole situation we turn to the new HBO series The White Lotus, a show about rich people at a fancy resort but most importantly: a show with Jennifer Coolidge in it.
Episode 302: Regretto Margretto
July 08, 2021 10:00 - 44 minutes - 43.3 MBOn this week's episode of Appointment TB, we present unto you: CHAOS. Our exceptionally loose agenda is Andrew discusses Patreon Supporter Gerald's $7 pick, the late and sometimes lamented GCB and Margaret invites viewers to return to her Queer TV Qorner by mentioning some exclusively gay content in Marvel's Loki and finding a very particular queer framing for HBOMax's Starstruck. But in actual fact, you'll find our discussion a lot weirder and more wide-ranging than this brief summary can ...