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Billions, S4E4 – Overton WindowWritten by: Brian Koppelman and David Levien Directed by: Clement Virgo Tell us what you think! Click here to send the us a buy-order about Billioins, our theories, your theories, or whatever! Billions is back, baby, and not a moment too soon! Alliances shift and danger lurks from unexpected quarters as we watch Chuck struggle to pry open the Overton Window on his pervy little soul! Meanwhile Axe is dealing with a nasty hack by Gregor and has to revert to old-school voice trades to keep from losing millions, with no help from Taylor, who pokes the bear around the edges themselves. Chuck gets elected, Axe minimizes his losses so he can drop $135K on a new car for his new squeeze, Taylor gets a visit from their dad while remaining enigmatic to the extreme, and Wendy is faces with dealing with all the shit now flowing through the Overton Window that Chuck just flung wide open…

The Breaking Winds of Winter: Your pre-season Game of Thrones Podcast – Episode 5 Tell us what you think! Click here to send the us a raven about Game of Thrones, our theories, your theories, or whatever! It’s never too soon to start talking about the final season of Game of Thrones, and now that it’s looming larger and larger we figured we’d get the ball rolling with Breaking Winds of Winter! In Episode 5 we do a listener-requested look-back at S2E9 – Blackwater, dissect the newest teaser, “Aftermath”, look at how the sports books are dealing with the unknowns of Season 8, and just generally get psyched for what is to come, in LESS THAN A WEEK!

Billions, S4E3 – ChickentownWritten by: Lenore ZionDirected by: Neil Burger Tell us what you think! Click here to send the us a buy-order about Billioins, our theories, your theories, or whatever! Billions is back, baby, and not a moment too soon! Alliances shift and danger lurks from unexpected quarters as we enter Chickentown! From Chuck’s “snappy” comeback to Axe’s continuing obsession with revenge against Taylor, we may well be witnessing the seeds of future self-destruction being planted. Plus some epic lines, and a Chinatown homage that left your Endgame hosts scratching their head a bit…

Billions, S4E2 – Arousal TemplateWritten by: Adam R. PerlmanDirected by: Adam Bernstein Tell us what you think! Click here to send the us a buy-order about Billioins, our theories, your theories, or whatever! Billions is back, baby, and not a moment too soon! Alliances shift and danger lurks from unexpected quarters as we enter the Episode of Endless Cultural References! From RoboCop to My Cousin Vinny all the way through to the modern-day San Gennaro festival, all we were really missing this week was a basket of oranges and the Mystery Machine! Zoinks!

Billions, S4E1 – Chucky Rhodes’ Greatest GameWritten by: Brian Koppelman & David LevienDirected by: Colin Bucksey Tell us what you think! Click here to send the us a buy-order about Billioins, our theories, your theories, or whatever! Billions is back, baby, and not a moment too soon! Alliances shift and danger lurks from unexpected quarters as we join Axe contemplating how to get Taylor out from under his skin while keeping Gregor at bay, and even doing a favor for Chuck(y), who finds himself on the outside looking in in his new career as a mid-level fixer in Manhattan.

The Breaking Winds of Winter: Your pre-season Game of Thrones Podcast – Episode 4 Tell us what you think! Click here to send the us a raven about Game of Thrones, our theories, your theories, or whatever! It’s never too soon to start talking about the final season of Game of Thrones, and now that it’s looming larger and larger we figured we’d get the ball rolling with Breaking Winds of Winter! In Episode 4 we read some listener email responses to our Season 8 Survey, do a listener-requested look-back at S3E7 – The Bear and the Maiden Fair, debate the nature of friendship and transactionality in the GoT world and decide who the BFFs are and aren’t, and assign you your homework for the next episode.

The Breaking Winds of Winter: Your pre-season Game of Thrones Podcast – Episode 3 Tell us what you think! Click here to send the us a raven about Game of Thrones, our theories, your theories, or whatever! It’s never too soon to start talking about the final season of Game of Thrones, and now that it’s looming larger and larger we figured we’d get the ball rolling with Breaking Winds of Winter! In Episode 2 we read some listener email responses to our Season 8 Survey, do a look-back at S4E2 – The Lion and the Rose, debate the Nature of Magic in the GoT world, discuss Love, Westeros Style and inquire who you’d do, and assign you your homework for the next episode.

The Breaking Winds of Winter: Your pre-season Game of Thrones Podcast – Episode 2 Tell us what you think! Click here to send the us a raven about Game of Thrones, our theories, your theories, or whatever! It’s never too soon to start talking about the final season of Game of Thrones, and now that it’s looming larger and larger we figured we’d get the ball rolling with Breaking Winds of Winter! In Episode 2 we begin to read some listener email responses to our Season 8 Survey, kick the tires on various theories, engage in an obsessive breakdown of the latest trailer, debate the Best Battle Ever, and assign you your homework for the next episode.

The Breaking Winds of Winter: Your pre-season Game of Thrones Podcast – Episode 1 Tell us what you think! Click here to send the us a raven about Game of Thrones, our theories, your theories, or whatever! It’s never too soon to start talking about the final season of Game of Thrones, and now that it’s looming larger and larger we figured we’d get the ball rolling with Breaking Winds of Winter. Between now and the start of Season 8 we’ll look back at the previous seasons, talk about characters, storylines, what we love, what we hate, and of course what we think will happen in the Final Season. But more than all that, we want to hear what YOU think, so write us, tweet us, send us a raven and give us your best guesses, or just shoot down ours!

True DetectiveSeason 3, Episode 8 – Season Finale: Now Am Found Written by Nic PizzolattoDirected by: Daniel Sackheim Tell us what you think! Click here to send the us a tip about True Detective  and our podcasts The season finale still held the answers to several questions that still lingered even after the penultimate episode confirmed much of what had been theorized, and yet left several rather large ones unanswered, all while wrapping things up with what certainly has to be the happiest True Detective ending ever… or was it? We suggest you just listen to the podcast!

True DetectiveSeason 3, Episode 7: The Final Country Written by Nic Pizzolatto Directed by: Daniel Sackheim Tell us what you think! Click here to send the us a tip about True Detective  and our podcasts Episode 7 closes some circles with often well-predicted conclusions and yet still manages to leave a few cliffs hanging while also introducing an interesting twist/cliff at the very end of the episode. Wayne and Roland’s “big secret” is revealed, but we also get an out-of-timeline glimpse at Wayne’s daughter going off to college to remind us that her fate is one of the still-unsolved mysteries as we move into the season finale. Even in the penultimate episode, it’s just too entwined to summarize here – we suggest you just listen to the podcast!

True DetectiveSeason 3, Episode 6: Hunters in the Dark Written by Graham Gordy & Nic Pizzolatto Directed by: Daniel Sackheim Tell us what you think! Click here to send the us a tip about True Detective  and our podcasts With Episode 6 we’re moving into the endgame (see what we did there?) as the list of suspects begins to narrow, though not until another hard, hard look is taken of Tom as a potential suspect. But it’s beginning to look more and more like the Poultry King, Mr. Hoyt, is one of the main players in the fowl play that befell the Purcell kids, though the ultimate mystery of just what Wayne and Roland did, and to whom, still remains to be solved, and the mystery of what happened between Wayne and Amelia is also still out there. Couple that with Dan’s reemergence and the appearance of (the? another?) black man with a cataract at Amelia’s book reading shows that there’s still a lot to discover in the remaining two episodes. It’s just too entwined to summari

True DetectiveSeason 3, Episode 5: If You Have Ghosts Written and Directed by: Nic Pizzolatto Tell us what you think! Click here to send the us a tip about True Detective  and our podcasts Episode 5 has even more going on than Episode 4 did, and at a much faster pace! So fast that if you blink you may have missed some very important clues, as Wayne hones in on the woman in the Walgreen’s video as Julie, the fate of Lucy in Las Vegas, we witness the exploding mine and resulting shootout at Trash Man’s house, a press conference that both thwarts the 1990 investigation and may in fact aid some of the high-level culprits, the boys pay a 90’s visit to the Black Sunday kid, a dinner party at Roland’s house, some quality time at home with Wayne, Amelia and the kids, we learn that some evidence has gone missing while other may have been planted, and we get the 2015 reunion of Old Wayne and Old Roland at last, though results are mixed! It’s just too entwined to summarize here –

True DetectiveSeason 3, Episode 4: The Hour and the Day Written by: Nic Pizzolatto and David MilchDirected by Nic Pizzolatto Tell us what you think! Click here to send the us a tip about True Detective  and our podcasts Episode 4 has a lot going on at a very, very slow pace, as the investigation into the 1980 murder continues with a tip about the little dolls, a vaguely creepy priest, and a lot of various shades of racism. In 1990 the case is officially reopened, Wayne and Roland are officially reunited, and they do manage to ID a girl on the Walgreen’s security tape. And in 2015, Wayne continues to struggle with his memory, though exactly to what degree, and to what degree he’s playing it up in a backhanded re-re-investigation of the case is now open to debate, as is the relationship between his son and the TV show host. It’s just too entwined to summarize here – we suggest you just listen to the podcast!

True DetectiveSeason 3, Episode 3: The Big Never Written by: Nic PizzolattoDirected by Daniel Sackheim Tell us what you think! Click here to send the us a tip about True Detective  and our podcasts Episode 3 dives deeply into the interpersonal relationships of Wayne while continuing to allude to some undiscovered or covered-up aspect of the original 1980 investigation, while continuing to follow 3 points in the life of Wayne “Purple” Hays as he investigates, re-investigates, and then  struggles to remember everything he can (and perhaps everything he did) over the course of 35 years since the murder/abduction of the Purcell kids. It’s just too entwined to summarize here – we suggest you just listen to the podcast!

True Detective Season 3, Episode 2: Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye Written by: Nic Pizzolatto Directed by Jeremy Saulnier Tell us what you think! Click here to send the us a tip about True Detective  and our podcasts Episode 2 picks up right were 1 left off, following 3 points in the life of Wayne “Purple” Hays as he investigates, re-investigates, and then  struggles to remember everything he can (and perhaps everything he did) over the course of 35 years since the murder/abduction of the Purcell kids. It’s just too entwined to summarize here – we suggest you just listen to the podcast!

True Detective Season 3, Episode 1: The Great War and Modern Memory Written by: Nic Pizzolatto Directed by Jeremy Saulnier Tell us what you think! Click here to send the us an email about The Americans and our podcasts EndGame hosts Jambone and Tsar Misha return from a little hiatus to get their podcasting groove going again for Episode 1 of the new season of True Detective, wherein we meet the new True Detective, Wayne “Purple” Hays and his partner Roland West, as well as the crime being investigated, the disappearance of the two Purcell kids, and the now-familiar narrative device of seeing three different points on the timeline of events – events of the actual crime and initial investigation, the re-opening of the case 10 years later based on new evidence, and then 25 years after that, as an aged Hays struggles against oncoming dementia to remember the events of the case for a TV program, in the course of which we also meet Wayne’s future wife as well as learn that there may be more

WARNING: This podcast contains unrestrained spoilers and references to future episodes and events - listen ONLY if you are completely caught up on the ENTIRE SERIES! Wherein EndGame hosts Jambone and Tsar Misha continue to seek some degree of solace for themselves and for all fans of the show, now that The Americans has ended, by looking back and exploring the many character arcs and themes that resonate throughout the entire series, noting how events in each season both echo and foreshadow events to come in subsequent seasons, from the pilot to the Series Finale. This week they look at one of the truly epic episodes, Season 3, Episode 9 - Do Mail Robots Dream of Electric Sheep?

Wherein we meet many different iterations of people from around the globe who believe, and act as if, they were actually descendants from the line of the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II via the daughter that was rumored to have escaped the family's slaughter at the hands of the Bolsheviks in July 1918. While modern forensic evidence has now shown conclusively that Anastasia most definitely did not escape the fate of her family, the idea that one might/could be/is descended from Russian royalty is certainly an intoxicating one, and the series highlights how that intoxication drives those who believe it to some very odd situations, in which hilarity does not always ensue. This week the Boys take a little sea cruise as they look at S1E2 - The Royal We.

Wherein we meet many different iterations of people from around the globe who believe, and act as if, they were actually descendants from the line of the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II via the daughter that was rumored to have escaped the family's slaughter at the hands of the Bolsheviks in July 1918. While modern forensic evidence has now shown conclusively that Anastasia most definitely did not escape the fate of her family, the idea that one might/could be/is descended from Russian royalty is certainly an intoxicating one, and the series highlights how that intoxication drives those who believe it to some very odd situations, in which hilarity does not always ensue. This week the Boys take a look at S1E1 - The Violet Hour.