Hey, this is the moment. I'm Brian Koppelman. Thanks for listening. This is going to be fun. I'm really excited. I rarely, I think I've only done two prior episodes where I had two guests with three and I'm thrilled to have

Alan Seppenwall and Matt Zoller cites here two of the finest critics, currently working, really TV writers, I think, writers about television.

Matt's also highly regarded film critic and I've highly regarded him ever since he loved solitary mad.

And before these two guys wrote a book that I loved called The Soprano sessions.

Before that they wrote TV the book and I was so

Alan and Matt welcome thanks for having us I want to start by saying last night

I I watched the last two episodes of The Sopranos because your book really,

I've watched the whole series, I think three times.

How many times have each of you watched the whole series Matt?

Well individual episodes I've seen more than other episodes you know like there's some

I've seen every episode of the show probably at least three times and there's some that I've

seen I don't know six I've

probably seen Pine Barons 10 or 11 because I've shown it at the split screens

festival so you know right and for me this was I think the second time I watched it from beginning to end but I've re-watched like Matt says a lot of episodes many many times.

Yeah, so I I think I first I first watched two years after the first season because Dave and I were making knock ground guys

When that when the sopranos came out or we had just finished and everyone was

Sort of saying the whole world had changed in terms of the mob and I just didn't want to deal with it.

And then I remember watching it, catching up and loving it, watching it again.

And I watched it a third time when we were starting to make our show and the book really sent me back to the last two episodes and

The way the two of you

Unpeel it is is really an impressive. Did you have fun writing the book together?

A lot. I mean, yeah, I have fun writing with Alan anyway. We started at the Star Ledger together and

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