496: Get Into the Elephant Stuff

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2020

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

There was a lot of great TV released in 2019, but if you ask us, there was none better than HBO’s “Watchmen”, which took a classic comic and tried to match it as a modern TV series. We discuss how the series dealt with race, superheroes, empire, masks, eggs, and legacy. Also: Will there be a second season? Should there be? Nothing ever ends, Adrian, especially if the spin-offs remain profitable. The initial file upload was broken in a spectacular way. Delete and re-download if you experience weird audio after 29 minutes.

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 497, January 2020.
0:11.2	Welcome back to The Incomparable.
0:13.3	I am your host, Jason Snell, and it's 2020, and we're going to, we got a lot of work to do
0:18.7	to clean up a bunch of really great TV programs
0:21.1	that aired in late 2019. So the month of January, I'm not going to give it a title, but it's going
0:27.2	to be a lot of TV in the month of January 2020. A lot of TV wrap-ups. And we're going to start
0:32.0	with, spoiler alert, my favorite TV show of 2019. It is HBO's Watchmen produced by Damon Lindeloff,
0:41.4	starring Regina King, and a cast, and an amazing cast, and many other people involved. Great.
0:48.6	I love it. I'm interested in what my panel has to say about it. And let me introduce you to that panel now.
0:53.5	Aline Sims is here.
0:54.8	Hello. This is the worst show ever. What? No, it's not. It's amazing. It's amazing. Outrageous. It's
1:01.3	January 2020. I'm introducing Cicero Holmes. Hello. Hello, sir. This show came from an alternate
1:07.9	universe where things are great.
1:15.1	Wow, that shows you how bad it's gotten in this universe.
1:16.8	Joe Steele is here. Hi, Joe.
1:18.8	Hello, I'm here to talk about eggs.
1:22.5	And then who will hold down the legacy portion of the program?
1:23.8	That must be Merlin Mann. Hello.
1:24.8	Can I have my pills, please?
1:30.9	I advise that you take the pills all in one gulp from the bottle.
1:34.6	That's the best way to take your memory pills.
1:36.5	That's how all medication works, right?
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