Ep. 106 - 'Bait' Is a Funny, Fascinating Exploration of Representation (Plus: 'The Pitt' S2E13 Sets Up an Explosive Finale)
Decoding TV
David Chen
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
David and Patrick discuss what’s going on in the world of TV, then dive into the latest episode of The Pitt. Also, David discusses Bait and Patrick finishes Wonder Man.
What do we make of Netflix’s new price hike? Did Wonder Man deliver on its ending? And what is our reaction to the big X-Files casting news that broke last week? Listen to hear us discuss all these questions and more.
Homework for next week:
- The Pitt Season 2 Episode 14 (HBO Max)
- The Boys (Amazon Prime)
Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate):
- 05:50 - Show of the Week
- Bait
- 14:45 Patrick Finishes the Damn Show
- Wonder Man
- 22:13 - TV News
- PSA: Tubi adding 250 episodes of Sesame Street
- Netflix raises prices again
- Himesh Patel cast as co-lead of new X-Files
- Is it a continuation?
- 39:40 - The Pitt Season 2
- Episode 13 - 6:00 P.M.
- The Pitt heads to Alamo drafthouse for finale
- Supriya Ganesh exits, Ayesha Harris will be series regular
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to Decoding TV, a podcast about television. |
| 0:04.4 | I'm David Chen, joining me as usual as Patrick. Patrick, did you hear that Tooby is adding 250 episodes of Sesame Street to its free streaming service? |
| 0:14.9 | I got to say, I did not. But thank you for the heads up, David. |
| 0:21.9 | Those were all on HBO for a while, right? |
| 0:23.9 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:24.6 | And then HBO is like, hey, we got to prep ourselves for a sale, baby. |
| 0:28.7 | And I think they stopped investing. |
| 0:30.5 | It went off of, what, PBS funding. |
| 0:33.4 | And then it went to HBO. |
| 0:34.7 | And HBO was like paying for the new seasons. |
| 0:36.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:37.3 | When that move happened, |
| 0:40.2 | I mean, my kids watched some Sesame Street. |
| 0:42.6 | And I remember that was part of the reason I self-justified the, the HBO app was getting the new, instead of just watching YouTube clips. |
| 0:50.8 | You mean, BTF St. Louis wasn't enough to justify that situation? |
| 0:54.8 | Boy, is that show gone some places since we stopped talking about it and we'll eventually |
| 1:00.2 | turn around to talking about it again? |
| 1:02.3 | But yeah, they ended their partnership in December 2024, although episodes are available |
| 1:07.4 | on Max through 2027. But you want to watch free episodes on 2B. |
| 1:11.5 | 250 episodes will be added spanning the beginning of the series to season 38 under a deal with Sesame Workshop. |
| 1:19.9 | PSA, is this something you watch with your kids, Patrick Lippick? |
| 1:23.5 | Not anymore. |
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