505: It's Always Overcast In Berlin

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

“Counterpart” is one of the best TV series in recent years, and in the U.S. it’s finally available in its entirety on Amazon Prime Video. In this episode, we generally discuss why this show is great and you should watch it, and then after the Spoiler Horn we dive in to discuss the show’s second and final season, how the world(s) come to be, and the meaning of the show’s final scenes.

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0:00.0	The Inconquerable.
0:03.7	Number 505, March 2020.
0:11.6	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
0:15.4	I am your host, Jason Snell.
0:17.1	And in this episode, we're actually going to talk about something that we've talked about once before.
0:23.6	And it was a TV show.
0:24.7	It had two seasons.
0:28.7	And the second season finished and I realized, I shouldn't talk about this show.
0:30.5	That has now been canceled.
0:35.5	Until all its episodes are available for streaming somewhere on a nice streaming service.
0:38.3	And I waited and I waited and I waited. And about a year went by, an Amazon Prime video in the U.S. anyway, has added counterpart, the Stars television
0:44.8	series, to their lineup. And it was one of my favorite shows of the past decade. And I always
0:51.5	wanted to talk about season two, but we decided to wait until now.
0:54.3	You can now, if you're a prime video subscriber in the U.S., you can go watch all 20 episodes
0:58.7	of counterpart, and you should.
1:00.4	And we're going to talk about it.
1:01.5	We're going to talk about before the spoiler horn, why you should give this show a try
1:04.7	and what makes it interesting.
1:05.8	And then we will talk about the last 10 episodes of this 20 episode series that that I think is excellent.
1:14.4	Joining me to talk about counterpart on this episode are the following wonderful people.
1:18.5	Dan Moran is here.
1:19.5	Hello.
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