Ep. 105 - 'Invincible' S4 Gets Off to a Great Start (Plus: Things in 'The Pitt' S2E12 Boil Over)
Decoding TV
David Chen
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Decoding TV podcast, David and Patrick discuss what’s going on in the world of TV, then dive into the season premiere of Invincible. Then, Sarah Marrs joins us to discuss The Pitt.
Can CBS News be saved? What do we make of the news that Wonder Man is being renewed? And what the hell happened with The Bachelorette last week? Listen to hear us discuss all these questions and more.
Homework for next week:
- The Pitt Season 2 Episode 13 (HBO Max)
- Bait (Amazon Prime)
Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate):
- 2:30 - Show of the Week
- Invincible S4
- 14:55 - TV News
- Hacks Will End After Season 5 and For All Mankind Will End After Season 6
- Wonder Man renewed for season 2
- BW Corner:
- CBS News to Lay off 6% of Staff
- CBS Evening News ratings drop to below 4 million
- The Bachelorette Implodes
- Potential $70 million loss
- 49:00 - The Pitt Season 2
- Episode 12 - 6:00 P.M.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to Decoding TV, a podcast about television. |
| 0:04.5 | I'm David Chen, joining me as usual as Patrick. |
| 0:06.9 | Patrick, I don't know if I told you, I got my brother visiting me here, |
| 0:10.9 | Portugal this week, which is pretty cool. |
| 0:13.8 | It's pretty cool. |
| 0:14.4 | I have to say, because, you know, I've lived basically a lifetime since I moved here. |
| 0:23.2 | And it's nice to, like, be able to show someone the, you know, the stuff I've experienced. |
| 0:27.7 | You know what I mean? |
| 0:27.9 | Well, like, you know, if you spend a, how long were you in Seattle? |
| 0:32.1 | Like 10 years. |
| 0:33.4 | Right. |
| 0:33.6 | So, like, the first year, very eventful. |
| 0:37.0 | And then, like, decreasing amounts of eventfulness as you get like into a rhythm and a |
| 0:42.3 | comfortability totally there's like something really fun about being able to like all right i did like a year here let me show you all the cool stuff take it to the cool spots and like you're you're not a local you know but you are you know |
| 0:53.3 | yeah yeah to like everyone else's lived experience. Absolutely. That's a lot of fun. And also just like it's like it makes it more real. You know, like I'm like watching like a beautiful sunset on the beach right near our house. And it's like I can go back home and tell my brother about the beautiful sunset but like now I can show him and there's |
| 1:12.1 | something about like showing someone in person that's really nice so absolutely anyway uh |
| 1:17.4 | that's been a lot of fun and also very tiring and so if I sound a little bit more run down than usual |
| 1:22.3 | it's not the norovirus this time it's because of uh it's a sibling. It's a sibling, which is arguably more taxing. |
| 1:29.3 | Anyway, today on the podcast, we got a show of the week to discuss, which is Invincible |
| 1:37.0 | Season 4. |
| 1:37.8 | We got some TV news. |
| 1:39.2 | Also, on that note, had a chance to speak with Sarah Mars about one particularly juicy |
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