Ep. 111 - Is 'Widow's Bay' Worth a Visit? (Also: 'Euphoria' S3E04 Was Rough)
Decoding TV
David Chen
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 84 minutes
🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS
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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 and the season premiere of Widow’s Bay.
Can the FCC really revoke Disney’s broadcast license? Why are Far Cry fans so upset with Noah Hawley? And what do Nielsen ratings have to say about the state of the Star Wars universe? Listen to hear us discuss all these questions and more.
Homework for next week:
- Show of the Week: Lord of the Flies (hopefully!) (Netflix)
- Euphoria season 3 episode 5 (HBO Max)
- Bonus Ep: The Boys season 5 episode 6 (Prime Video)
Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate):
- 01:55 - Show of the Week
- Widow’s Bay
- 16:36 - TV News
- Noah Hawley says Far Cry won’t adapt game story
- FCC orders early license renewal after Trump calls for Kimmel to be fired
- Variety story on initial situation
- ABC stands its ground
- Bloomberg’s article
- History of the sanction
- The top 10 Star Wars related shows
- Eric Kripke says he did not cancel Gen V
- Laura Dern cast in White Lotus
- BW Corner:
- Tony Dokoupil’s disastrous ratings
- 55:56 - Euphoria Season 3
- Episode 4 - Kitty Likes to Dance
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to Decoding TV, a podcast about television. |
| 0:04.3 | I'm David Chen, joining me as usual as Patrick. |
| 0:06.7 | Patrick, we are recording this on Star Wars Day, May the Fourth be with me. |
| 0:13.1 | Do you celebrate Patrick Kleppick, May the Fourth? |
| 0:16.1 | No, I do my best to avoid it at all costs. |
| 0:20.4 | I anti-celebrate. |
| 0:22.4 | I feel like it's gotten away from the true meaning of the holiday, which was selling you on more Star Wars things. |
| 0:29.5 | You know what I mean? |
| 0:29.9 | Like it's gotten too much into the more creative aspects of Star Wars and less about the commerce. |
| 0:36.2 | That's true. |
| 0:37.9 | I just need a really expensive doll to purchase. |
| 0:41.5 | And it's like, oh, updates on films and television series? |
| 0:44.6 | Like, no, thank you. |
| 0:46.3 | No, thank you. |
| 0:47.7 | There has been a few pieces of Star Wars news that have dropped over the course |
| 0:51.8 | the last, I guess, 12 hours. |
| 0:53.9 | And so we will be discussing those on today's TV news segment, plus a bunch of other stuff |
| 0:59.8 | coming up before we get to our conversation about the latest episode of Euphoria, |
| 1:04.1 | Season 3, Episode 4. |
| 1:06.4 | But before we do any of that, Patrick, let's talk about our show of the week this week, |
| 1:10.6 | which is Widows Bay. I'm Tom Loftus. Oh, or Tom. Nice to meet you, Arthur. You want to grab some coffee? No, I'm good. Jerry was just taking me through some of your history. Oh, that's great. Yes. Well, remarkable story. I was talking to the guy on the ferry, and he said something odd. |
| 1:29.1 | What was that? |
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