Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the Award Season Podcast from Vanity Fair.

I'm Katie Rich, the deputy editor of Vanity Fair.com, and I'm here in New York once again with our chief critic Richard Lawson

Hello we have on the line our senior writer Joanne Robinson

Hi Katie and joining us in studio instead of my Kogan today we have our newly

installed elected by a board of representatives our TV critic Sonia

Sonia you've been at Vanity Fair for like a week and a have, yes. We wasted no time in having you on the

podcast. I'm really excited. I have one fan who is listening to this podcast right now and

is very excited. I thought. Just so you know. Do we do call, do we do listener shout-outs? Yes we do listen or shout-outs?

Yes we do now who's listening.

Chelsea Hoffman who is in Dublin she is a huge fan of the podcast and found out that I

got this job through the podcast and texted me this really garbled

message that was something between congratulations and I'm jealous so I'm just

really happy that I'm here now. We take international listeners especially

seriously. So we wanted you on here to talk because it's a really big week for television.

It feels like it's always a big week for television, but this week, as we're recording it today,

the Hametsale returns for its second season on Hulu.

And also later on, we're going to talk about Westworld,

which hopefully if you're listening to this,

you have already listened to still watching West World,

which Joanna and Richard hosts and talk about the show.

But anyway, to start off, Handmaid's Tale, Sonia and Joanna, you

guys watched it. Richard and I chickened out in the first season because it was

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