‘Alien: Earth’ Episode 4, ‘Star Wars: Starfighter’ Casting News, and ‘The Eastern Gate’ Finale

The Watch

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.5 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Chris and Andy talk about some recent industry headlines, including the rumored casting of Nicolas Cage in ‘True Detective’ Season 5, Matthew McConaughey reuniting with Nic Pizzolatto (3:19), and ‘Star Wars: Starfighter’ adding Amy Adams and Aaron Pierre (13:09). Then, they react to the first trailer for the upcoming FX show from Sterlin Harjo, ‘The Lowdown’ starring Ethan Hawke (19:01), before discussing the fourth episode of ‘Alien: Earth’ (20:58). Later, they break down the final two episodes of ‘The Eastern Gate’ and why they enjoyed it so much (39:16). 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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1:03.8	Stand up and walk now. Now. Hello and welcome to The Watch. My name is Chris Ryan. I am an editor at the ringer.com and joining me in the studio, thank God he speaks fluent xenomorph. It's Andy Greenwald. It's a beautiful thing to have you back. I am back in Loser Angeles. What is going on? Did you like the way I laid out all those orange
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1:33.6	man. Great to be back in the studio. Just want to say thank you to everybody who reached out
1:38.1	on various platforms to offer their condolences to me. That was really, really cool. I'm going to
1:43.6	try and get back to everybody.
1:45.0	But very, very, very sweet of people to reach out through our email address, which is the watch at Spotify.com, and on Instagram and various other ways. People love you. It was beautiful. Yeah, it was really cool. Honestly, very moving stuff. Can you handle it or can you not handle it? I have to put up a wall of irony, you know, to deal with any real human emotions, but thankfully,
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