Decoding TV Ep. 10 - Will Mr. Beast Make TV More Like Mr. Beast?
Decoding TV
David Chen
4.6 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2024
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Decoding TV, David Chen and Jessie Earl run down what’s going on in the world of TV, then discuss the season premiere of Manhunt (Apple TV+) and continue their weekly discussion of Shogun (Hulu/FX).
What do we think of Mr. Beast’s new game show? Is TV going to become more like YouTube or is YouTube going to become more like TV? Are we excited for the new Star Wars series The Acolyte? Why do people like waiting for movies to stream instead of seeing them in theaters these days? Listen to hear us discuss all these topics and more!
Homework for next week:
- 3 Body Problem (Netflix)
- Shogun episode 6 (Hulu/FX)
Shownotes:
- 00:01:45 - Two thirds of adults would rather wait to watch movies on streaming
- 00:12:00 - Mr. Beast’s deal with Prime Video
- 00:25:30 - The Acolyte trailer
- 00:38:00 - Manhunt
- Episode 1 - Pilot
- Episode 2 - Post-mortem
- 01:03:00 - Shogun
- Episode 5 - Broken to the Fist
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| 0:00.0 | Can I ask you some, how come I'm not up there? You're so closed. Yeah, but my |
| 0:06.5 | my partner, they're always up. They are legends. |
| 0:10.5 | Hello everyone and welcome to Decoding TV, a podcast about television. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm David Chen and I'm the rock that ties the whole garden together. |
| 0:21.0 | Joining me today, you have seen her work as Jesse Gender on YouTube |
| 0:25.4 | Jesse Earl. |
| 0:27.4 | Hello David I think I wore it more courtesy than you holding that bow right next to |
| 0:32.3 | the my face as we're doing this |
| 0:34.1 | podcast. Indeed well those are references to the fact that today on the |
| 0:38.6 | podcast we are going to be covering Shogun episode five you'll hear our recap and review of that episode at the end of the show. |
| 0:45.8 | Of course, our opening clip was from Manhunt, the new Apple TV Plus show about the hunt for |
| 0:52.1 | John Wilkes Booth in the wake of the Lincoln assassination. |
| 0:54.8 | So we'll be covering that as well. |
| 0:56.4 | We also got some TV news for you as well before any of that. |
| 1:00.7 | You can find more episodes of this podcast at |
| 1:03.4 | podcast dot decoding TV or wherever you download your podcast email us at |
| 1:07.7 | decoding TV at gima dot com find us on YouTube and |
| 1:10.5 | tick talk and Instagram at decoding TV TV were posting new videos every single week |
| 1:15.8 | We're really grateful to Jesse Earl for stepping in this week for Patrick Kleppic |
| 1:21.0 | Jesse appreciate you stepping in and you know Patrick is on |
| 1:24.7 | vacation but he's also got some kids with him so he I'm sure he's having a |
| 1:29.8 | really busy and tense week not thinking about Shogun for a very small period of time. |
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