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Pilot TV

#88 - Alex Rider, The First Team, Cardinal, and The Other One. Featuring Vicky McClure

Pilot TV

Empire Magazine

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2020

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

Vicky McClure joins us this week to talk about Amazon's Alex Rider, which we also review. Plus you get a (slightly belated) review of The First Team, our introduction to Canadian noir thriller Cardinal, and BBC2's mix-matched family comedy The Other One. All that and an interminable Banshee of Babylon 5, plus we philosophise for nearly ten minutes on the origins and usage of profanity, just for the listeners who complain we swear too much. Because of course we do.

Transcript

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0:00.0

On the pilot TV podcast this week we are breaking storms with Alex Ryder in Amazon's adaptation of the Anthony Horowitz book series,

0:15.7

hitting the pitch with Will Arner in our overdue but still championship qualifying review of the first team,

0:21.1

exploring the lighter side of infidelity in the other one and

0:24.8

investigating a murder in the snow in season four of Cardinal a Canadian

0:29.7

detective drama which you'll find out all a boot this week as it makes its way to BBC 2 for the very first time.

0:36.4

Plus, Vicky McClure swings by the podcast to talk to her old Chum Boyd about all things Alex

0:41.3

Ryder and a little line of duty as well.

0:45.0

I'm James Dyer and welcome to the Pilot TV podcast,

0:48.0

a show that has just drafted an executive order to have the comments section of Apple

0:52.4

Podcast shut down after

0:54.8

Thexman from Sweden left us a one-star review this week and said, and I quote,

0:59.6

turned off after 10 minutes when I realized all they do is coming up with horrible jokes

1:04.9

that they then laugh at by themselves. Horrible people, horrible podcast, which I think we can all agree

1:11.6

is just fake news. However, joining me this week on our horrible

1:15.8

podcast, R-My 2, equally horrible co-host. First up, a man who engages in such sorted practices as stalking British celebrities. who he then forces toenfring

1:23.4

then forces to befriend him

1:27.2

while spending his downtime ensconced in a den of iniquity

1:30.9

watching episodes of breeders in the Dark. It's Bad Boyd Hilton.

1:34.5

Hello Boyd. I don't recognize any of that description. Thank you. Our third

1:41.0

co-conspirator, a woman whose crimes against quality science fiction television

1:45.3

are too numerous to recount here, whose refusal to accept Farscape into her heart will

1:50.4

forever be a stain upon her family's honor. It's Terry Blackheart, white.

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