TV Break: March 2023 - Mando Returns; The Last of Us Divides; Poker Face Soothes; & Daisy Jones and The Six Disappoints

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, and Josh talk about a show/episode/event they liked from
the last month including HBO’s The Last of Us, Crunchyroll’s
Demonslayer, ABC’s Abbott Elementary, AppleTV+’s Shrinking,
Peacock’s Poker Face, and Disney Plus’s The Mandalorian.


News Break – Alex, Bill, and Josh dive deep on
this year’s Q4 Earnings Calls, taking their audience on a tour of
the latest news from Netflix, Warner Bros. Discovery, Comcast,
Paramount Global, Diamond Sports Group (a subsidiary of Sinclair
Broadcasting), Disney, and the entire Cable/Satellite industry.


Streaming Wars – Alex, Bill, and Josh pick a
streamer they think “won the month” based on new shows
airing/upcoming shows announced etc. We had a house divided this
month, as Bill went with Netflix after they successfully held
their first live event; Josh went with HBOMAX after The Last of
Us ran the table on the culture discourse this month (along with
the James Gunn DCU news and the upcoming Succession series
finale); and Alex went with Peacock on the strength of their
leading ladies of Natasha Lyonne in the series Poker Face, Cate
Blanchett in film TÁR, and M3GAN in the film M3GAN.


New Series Spotlight – Alex, Bill, and Josh
review Daisy Jones and The Six, Prime Video’s faux documentary
miniseries created by Scott Neustadter & Michael H Weber,
adapted from a book by Taylor Jenkins’s Reid. The series, which
tracks the rise and fall of a 70s era rock band, stars Riley
Keough, Sam Claflin, Suki Waterhouse, Josh Whitehouse, Camilla
Morrone, among others and is executive produced by Reese
Witherspoon.