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Pilot TV

#79 - Save Me Too, Tales From The Loop, and Home Before Dark

Pilot TV

Empire Magazine

Tv Reviews, Tv & Film

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

The magnificent Lennie James returns to our screens (in a bright yellow puffer jacket, naturally) having written a follow-up to 2018's brilliant Save Me. And that's not all, because this week we're also wrangling with the very fabric of existence with Amazon's Tales From The Loop, and keeping print journalism alive with a tween reporter in Apple's Home Before Dark. Plus the team take the current lockdown to heart, prompting an in-depth discussion of TV's best bottle episodes.

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0:15.9

On the pilot TV podcast this week we're rejoining Lenny James's Nellie and that bright yellow puffer jacket in Series 2 of Save Me, respecting the curfew with Jim Sturgis in Home Before Dark and taking a trip to unlock the

0:20.5

mysteries of the universe in Allison's Tales from the Loop.

0:23.7

I'm James Dyer and welcome to the Pilot TV podcast, a show that is now entering its second

0:29.3

week of full isolation and is fraying around the edges somewhat but on the plus side no one's

0:35.1

talked about Brexit for about two weeks fear not though because the team is all here ready

0:40.1

to escort you through the mind field of appalling reality television to see you safely

0:44.8

to the verdant meadows of quality programming that lie on the other side.

0:49.4

To help or, let's be honest, more likely hinder in that pursuit, I should introduce my two co-host each of whom have chosen to weather the lockdown in their own unique way

0:59.4

First Terry White who has established herself as warlord of her own

1:03.4

fiefdom in North London, most likely keeping men as slaves and raising baby

1:07.1

Evelyn as some kind of post-evoictic Messiah, and that was all before the

1:10.8

lockdown started. It's Terry White. How are you Terry? I'm all right. Why are you using my

1:16.1

full name? Is it now sort of like grand vizier overlord?

1:24.0

Should we be calling you Nigan?

1:27.0

Keeper of men.

1:29.0

What do you mean fraying around the edges as well?

1:31.0

I'm feeling frayed.

1:32.0

Do you not feel afraid? No, I mean, you well. I'm feeling afraid. You know I've been up since 2 a.m. with a baby who won't sleep and I actually feel pretty banging.

1:40.1

You were pre-fraid. I've gone past. I had to review Vervarium this week which is the film with

1:46.8

with Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg where they end up in a house and they can't

1:50.1

leave and it would be a little close to home might have have pushed me over the edge a little bit, but anyway.

1:56.0

Also with us, of course, beaming in live from the Celebrity COVID bunker, we can actually barely see him for all the A-lister sipping champagne around him on the video feed.

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