Episode 190: Our Pumpkin-Spiced Fall Preview

Episode notes

It’s time, once again, to start deleting programs from our DVRs to make room for new ones. It’s almost fall, y’all, which means award shows and the arrival of new network comedies, dramas, dramedies, and what have you. Sooooo Guy Branum, Karen Tongson, and Wynter Mitchell let us in on all the films and TV shows they’re most excited about this upcoming season.

Rocketeers, this here preview is the closest most of us will get to an actual harvest. The guys pick over the latest crop of entertainment offerings, including the Murphy Brown reboot, the end of Big Bang Theory, American Horror Story’s upcoming convergence of its former Murder House and Coven seasons, the Italian supernatural horror film Suspiria, buzz around Lady Gaga’s performance in A Star is Born, and Chloë Sevigny’s disappointment over the toning down of the “smash the patriarchy” vibe in her new biopic Lizzie, about Lizzie Borden, notorious for killing her parents with an axe in 1892.

All Abouts

Karen is all about the actor Geoffrey Owens, who played Elvin on The Cosby Show, talking to Robin Roberts on Good Morning America about work, labor shaming, and the false idea that some jobs carry more dignity than others.

Wynter is all about Succession, which is HBO’s new drama loosely based on Rupert Murdoch and his family.

Guy is all about Support the Girls starring Regina Hall.

With Guy Branum, Karen Tongson, and Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh.

That’s My Jam:

Wynter – Ariana Grande – R.E.M.

Karen – Genesis- That’s All.

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Produced by Laura Swisher for MaximumFun.org. Edited by Shana Daloria.