Ep. 110 - 'Half Man' Is Excruciating to Watch. Is It Good? (Plus: 'Euphoria' S3E03 and the Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Wedding)
Decoding TV
David Chen
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Decoding TV, David and Patrick discuss what’s going on in the world of TV, then dive into the latest episode of Euphoria.
Is Half Man worth the painful experience of watching it? Is Peacock a must-have streaming service? What might have happened on the set of The White Lotus season 4? Listen to hear us discuss all these questions and more.
Homework for next week:
- Show of the Week: Widow’s Bay
- Euphoria season 3 episode 4 (HBO Max)
- Bonus Ep: Beef season 2 (Netflix)
- Bonus Ep (hopefully!): The Boys season 5 episode 5 (Prime Video)
Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate):
- 03:15 - Show of the Week (Thanks to Adam for this week’s bumper!)
- Half Man
- 20:12 - TV News
- Gen V is cancelled
- Peacock has lost $432MM in Q1
- Peacock cancellations are highest amongst all services
- Beef season 2 down 60% from first season
- Netflix second seasons don’t do as well
- White Lotus: Helena Bonham Carter recast days into shooting
- 44:20 - Euphoria Season 3
- Episode 3 - The Ballad of Paladin
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to Decoding TV, a podcast about television. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm David Chen, joining me as usual as Patrick Kleppick. |
| 0:07.3 | Patrick, moments ago, literally like, right before we started recording, |
| 0:11.7 | New House of the Dragon trailer premiered, we got a new date for the new season of House of the Dragon. |
| 0:17.5 | June 21st, I believe, is when the newest season's coming back. Is this something you and your wife |
| 0:22.8 | still have as appointment television? Oh, absolutely. I don't even think I need to see this trailer because |
| 0:27.0 | I'm just going to be spoiling visual effects shots for myself. Like I might as well, why watch |
| 0:32.3 | that on the YouTube compression algorithm when I could, you know, get that in 4K in a short period of time. |
| 0:40.0 | Yeah, it's, I think it's, I think I'm more excited for this season in particular because of |
| 0:45.4 | a night. |
| 0:46.2 | Right. |
| 0:46.8 | The Southern Kingdom's like, I've had my palate cleansed in a different way. |
| 0:50.3 | Now I'm ready for like some dragons to wreck some shit. |
| 0:53.0 | Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:54.4 | I think HBO's got a good thing going with the dynamic between those two shows. |
| 0:58.7 | Absolutely. |
| 0:59.5 | You got a little taste of the Targaryans in one show and then you get a full blown whatever |
| 1:04.4 | the hell they're going to deliver in this next season, House, Dragon. |
| 1:07.3 | Well, I am planning to record a little mini bonus episode with Kim Renfro about this trailer. |
| 1:14.3 | Hopefully, if that goes okay. And if it doesn't, I will delete this part of the podcast where I said I would do it. |
| 1:20.6 | So if I have left it in, then probably on a cast of Kings, we'll do a little mini bonus episode with Kim. |
| 1:25.2 | But you can look forward to that. Anyway, today on the podcast, we got a show of the week to discuss. |
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