‘Alien: Earth’ Episode 3, ‘Peacemaker’ Season 2 Premiere, and Netflix Theme Parks

The Watch

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.5 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Chris and Andy talk about a pair of Netflix-branded event spaces coming to Dallas and Philadelphia before addressing the decision to play ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ in theaters and what these developments suggest about the streaming titan (4:51). Then, they react to NBCUniversal’s decision to pivot ‘The Paper’ to a binge release a few weeks ahead of its Peacock premiere (15:03). Later, they break down the third episode of ‘Alien: Earth’ (20:40) and the ‘Peacemaker’ Season 2 premiere (45:13). Subscribe to the Ringer TV YouTube channel here for full episodes of ‘The Watch’ and so much more! Hosts: Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald Producers: Kaya McMullen and Kai Grady Video Producer: Jon Jones Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:54.0	I need sports to have to clear the room.
0:57.3	Stand up and walk now.
0:59.5	Hello and welcome to The Watch.
1:00.6	My name is Chris Ryan.
1:05.3	I am an editor at the ringer.com and joining me on the other line.
1:09.7	Oh, cool, another anthropomorphized animal to care about.
1:27.5	It's Andy Greenwald. Don't put your stuff on me. That's you. Yeah, I know. I just, you get tired of these animals with personalities in these shows. We're going to be talking about peacemaker today, Andy. We're going to talk a little bit about that third episode of Alien that I missed. Really quick housekeeping. The watch at Spotify.com to email us.
1:29.4	You can watch us at the ringer dash TV YouTube channel or on Spotify
1:31.2	where I hope you listen to us and you can follow us on
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