TV Break: September 2022 - Prime Video's The Rings of Power & HBO's House of the Dragon Battle for Fantasy Supremacy; Hulu's Reservation Dogs Delight; & Matt Taylor Previews The Emmys

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 with special guest Matt Taylor including Disney
Plus’s She-Hulk; Paramount Plus’s Evil; Prime Video’s The Lord of
the Rings: The Rings of Power & Paper Girls, AppleTV Plus’s
Bad Sisters, and Hulu’s Reservation Dogs.


News Break – Alex, Bill, and Josh preview the
2022 Emmy Awards by speaking with Matt Taylor about all the
exciting races to keep an eye out for this year.


New Series Spotlight – Alex, Bill, Josh, and
Matt watched HBO’s much hyped Game of Thrones prequel series
House of the Dragon, created by Ryan J. Condal
and George RR Martin, directed by, among other people, Miguel
Sapachnik, who was responsible for most of the notable battle
heavy GoT episodes. The series is led by a cast of hundreds but
most notably, at least for now, Matt Smith, Paddy Considine, Rhys
Ifans, Steve Toussaint, and Milly Alcock, and  is expected
to focus on the Targaryen Civil War, which took place nearly 200
years prior to the events of Game of Thrones.


Program of the Year: Streaming Wars will be back
next month, but today we are excited to bring you our third
annual Program of The Year discussion. We do this every year
because, while the Emmys love to spread their awards across a
variety of different types of tv programs, they opt not to answer
the simple question of what program was the very best of tv
overall, so we’ve decided to answer the call.


This year, the largest best series categories have eight
nominees, so we will each be constructing a list of eight of the
best series across all ten “best series” categories before
picking a winner. Below are each of our hosts’ categories, with
the winner in bold.


Josh -


Abbot Elementary


Barry


Better Call Saul


Hacks


Severance


Squid Game


White Lotus


Yellowjackets


Bill -


100 Foot Wave


Abbot Elementary


Better Call Saul


Severance


Squid Game


Stranger Things


Succession


Ted Lasso


Matt -


Abbot Elementary


The Dropout


Euphoria


Hacks


Only Murders in the Building


Severance


Succession


Yellowjackets


Alex -


Abbot Elementary


Barry


Better Call Saul


The Dropout


Hacks


Severance


Succession


Yellowjackets