Ep. 16 - Reacting to the Fallout of 'Fallout' Season 1
Decoding TV
David Chen
4.6 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2024
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Decoding TV, David Chen and Patrick Klepek run down what’s going on in the world of TV and discuss the third episode of The Sympathizer (Max) and the rest of season 1 of Fallout (Prime Video).
Is 65 million viewers actually a lot when it comes to a streaming service? How embarrassed does the OG Emily Stone feel about taking Emma Stone’s SAG name? What other famous people just aren’t being clear about their real names and pronunciations? What do we think The Sympathizer is trying to say about being an American? And what did we think of the rest of season 1 of Fallout on Prime Video? Listen to hear us discuss all these questions and more!
Homework for next week:
- Baby Reindeer Eps 1-4 (Netflix)
- The Sympathizer Ep 4 (Max)
- Bonus Ep: Invincible Season 2 Part 2 (Prime Video)
Shownotes:
- 00:01:30 - Fallout gets 65 million viewers
- 00:08:33 - THR’s cover story about The Curse
- 00:26:45 - The Sympathizer
- Episode 3 - Love It Or Leave It
- 51:15 - Fallout Season 1
- Episode 4 - The Ghouls
- Episode 5 - The Past
- Episode 6 - The Trap
- Episode 7 - The Radio
- Episode 8 - The Beginning
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| 0:08.4 | episodes. Thanks to everyone who's a paid member at decoding TV.com who keeps this |
| 0:12.3 | podcast going? |
| 0:14.1 | Or never changes. |
| 0:17.1 | You look out at this wasteland. |
| 0:20.4 | Looks like chaos. |
| 0:28.9 | But there's always somebody behind the wheel. |
| 0:33.0 | And that's who I won't talk to. |
| 0:39.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to Decoding TV, a podcast about television. I'm David Chen. Joining me as always, Patrick Kleppick, how's it going today all I can do is |
| 0:45.3 | root for this Halloween everyone dressing as ghouls that's all I can do it's all I can |
| 0:52.3 | hope for the Goggins the the Goules, is upon us. Get the kids in their sexy cool costumes. |
| 0:58.0 | Oh, wow, weird, weird sentence, Petr Lippic. |
| 1:02.8 | Anyway, that is a reference to the fact |
| 1:05.4 | that today on the podcast, we're going to be reviewing |
| 1:07.0 | fallout the entire first season is streaming right now |
| 1:11.4 | on Prime Video. |
| 1:13.0 | And that's one thing we're going to be covering in our review and recap section. |
| 1:16.6 | We'll also be discussing the Sympathizer episode 3, |
| 1:20.0 | and we will also cover, of the week's television news of note. |
| 1:26.0 | You can find more episodes of this podcast at podcast. |
| 1:29.0 | Decoding TV.com. |
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