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Pilot TV

#85 - I Know This Much Is True, Hightown, and Dave

Pilot TV

Empire Magazine

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

It's a double dose of Mark Ruffalo this week as he takes on twin duties in HBO’s preternaturally depressing adaptation of Wally Lamb's I Know This Much Is True. Plus we head out to Cape Cod with Monica Raymund in cop drama Hightown and rap along with Dave Burd (who seems unhealthily obsessed with his own genitals) in FX comedy Dave. Plus there's some fun with names in this week's listener question, we engage in some spoiler-free discussion of the Homeland (Woo!) and Westworld (Boo!) finales, and James makes a rather disturbing revelation about Gloria Estefan...

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On the pilot TV podcast this week we're getting a double dose of Mark Ruffalo in HBO's I know this much is true,

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rapping about genitals in FX comedy Dave, and heading out to Cape Cod with the Federal

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Fishery Service in Star's Crime Drama, High Town.

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I'm James Dyer and welcome to the pilot. in Star's Crime Drama, High Town.

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I'm James Dyer and welcome to the pilot TV podcast, your weekly guide to the very best entertainment

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the small screen has to offer,

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because you can't watch everything,

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except you kind of can now as it turns out we all exist in a dream-like limbo where time has no meaning

0:38.0

reality is just a mood and none of us has spent more than half an hour away from the now permanent buttock crevices in our respective sofas.

0:45.4

Joining me here in the pilot TV podcast Buttock crevice are my two sedentary co-hosts.

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First up, a woman who soaks up depressing working-class dramas like a plant

0:56.1

soaks up sunlight, transforming them into outpourings about the class divide in a process

1:01.0

scientists refer to as misery synthesis. It's Terry White.

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Hi James.

1:06.6

Hello, how's your misery this week?

1:08.6

Well, you're giving me more misery because I really don't want to be in a

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buttock crevice with you and

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boy. I'll have you know many of our listeners would love to share a butt crevice

1:19.4

with me. I'm sure they would. I'm sure they would. Your very specific fan base on social media I'm sure would love

1:26.8

to be in a buttic crevice with you probably watching Battlestar Galactica I'd like to pass personally. Really? On the Battle Star Galactica.

1:36.0

Oh good, good. Thanks.

1:38.0

Was right there, Boyd?

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