With Alan still out sick, Kathryn is joined by Vulture’s Roxana Hadadi. They talk about the new season of The Lowdown, then look back at another show set in an insular community with a charming but difficult protagonist: Gilmore Girls.

With Alan out sick, Kathryn is joined by The Hollywood Reporter’s Dan Fienberg. They talk about the new CBS tech legal procedural Cupertino, which then prompts Dan to introduce Kathryn to an obscure sci-fi legal procedural, Century City.

In this week’s episode, we talk about fall shows that intrigue us, then revisit one of the biggest fall premieres of them all with a discussion of Lynette Rice’s book ER: The Oral History.

In this week’s episode, we talk about a literal giant and then a comedic giant. That’s right: it’s the inevitable pairing of Jack Reacher and Louie DePalma from Taxi!

It’s a spy game on this week’s episode, as we talk about those bumbling and/or gross spies from Slow Horses, before admiring the style and skill of Jennifer Garner as Sydney Bristow on Alias.

Are we having fun yet? For our September Patreon episode, we talked about the Party Down episode where the cater waiters work a porn industry event.

In this week’s episode, we’ve gone to the dogs, talking about the Australian rom-com Colin From Accounts, then going back to the 90s to talk about the classic PBS kids show Wishbone. Watch on YouTube: youtu.be/9UBHsZZ1lJ8