Ep. 31: Alan Sepinwall TV Critic

Enough About Me with Kirk Minihane

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Sports

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Kirk Minihane loves TV and movies, he sits down with TV critic and author of the new book "TV (The Book)" Alan Sepinwall to discuss the best TV shows of all-time and which show should be number 1. Kirk and Alan disagree on which show is the best of all-time and they both have compelling arguments. Kirk and Alan talk about "Cheers" being one of the most underrated and forgotten TV shows of all-time.

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0:00.0	This episode of Enough About Me is brought to you by Casper, an online retailer premium mattresses for just a fraction of the price, because everyone deserves a great night's sleep.
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0:15.2	Now, it's a promo code, Kirk. Alan Sepinwallal, for a long time has been one of my favorite TV critics and I don't throw that out loosely because I think the world has changed.
0:31.0	When I grew up, there were people like Ebert and I could name you
0:33.8	five or six movie critics across the country. I can't name you one national movie critic now.
0:38.0	I can't. TV critics, you read six or seven because TV matters more. We talk a little about this with
0:43.4	Alan in the podcast. Television right now matters more than movies and I was a kid
0:47.8	that seemed incomprehensible but it's true. There are 15 or 20 TV shows I can talk
0:51.9	about this year and this shitty year of movies, nothing.
0:54.7	Alan has a new book out called TV the Book.
0:57.5	Two experts pick the greatest American shows of all time.
0:59.7	He's the co-author.
1:00.5	They go through one through 100.
1:01.8	They have a whole ranking system. And it's one of these books it's relentlessly readable you can put it in your you can put it in your bathroom you can put it in your bag and go through it I can open the page 299 it doesn't matter you have to read it in order. It's one of these things you can pick through and go through forever. I had a great time reading it. I just picked up yesterday I was halfway through it, but Alan was nice enough to come on. We had a good talk about television. The TV rankings in it is particularly interesting to me. We go back and forth and
1:25.0	television today because I feel like the network shows are dead. There's nothing but
1:29.2	Alan disagrees and it gives you two or three shows to watch this year in network television.
1:33.4	So a fun time with Alan Seppew, and I'm telling you, if you get a chance to pick up TV the book,
1:37.0	it is definitely worth reading.
1:39.2	For me, I don't know about you, but for me all the time I always have a book in my rotation in my
1:47.0	bathroom a bathroom book and it's almost always a list book it could be or it could be like
1:52.0	Encyclopedia book like Bill James or
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