TV Break: November 2024 - Legal & Hospital Shows Are BACK + Reviews of Agatha All Along; The Penguin; Slow Horses; & Hysteria!

Welcome to TV Break, where Pop Break’s Podcasts Editor
Alex Marcus is joined by editor-in-chief Bill Bodkin, and TV
Columnist Josh Sarnecky to talk about the happenings in
television.


Here’s the format of the show:


The Best Thing I Saw on TV Last Month – Alex,
Bill, & Josh talk about a show/episode/event they liked from
the last month including HBO’s The Penguin, Disney Plus’s Agatha
All Along, and Apple TV+’s Slow Horses. 


News Break – Alex, Bill, and Josh parse through
all the lessons they learned while reading tea leaves at
the MIPCOM even in Cannes, as major streamers
and networks try to sell the narrative that procedural dramas are
the wave of the future..


Streaming Wars – Alex, Bill, & Josh pick a
streamer they think “won the month” based on new shows
airing/upcoming shows announced etc. Bill went with Disney Plus,
after the success of Agatha All Along, while Josh selected Apple
TV Plus with Shrinking back for a second season and Severance
setting a second season trailer, finally. Alex, however, opted
for Netflix, thanks to its fantastic streaming ratings this month
on the back of hits like Monster and Nobody Wants This.


New Series Spotlight – This month, we are
reviewing Peacock’s Hysteria! The series is the
debut series by writer Matthew Scott Caine, and follows a 1980s
midwestern town beset by a satanic panic after a teen boy goes
missing with a pentagram painted at the crime scene. The series
stars Julie Bowen & Anna Camp as local concerned mothers, and
Emjay Anthony leading the teen cast as a social outcast willing
to exploit the panic to make his band seem cool so he can win the
affections of his high school crush