Ep. 32 - 'The Acolyte' Cancellation Leaves Star Wars in a Dire Place

Decoding TV

David Chen

Tv & Film, Netflix, Tv, Television, Streaming, Recap, Hulu, Fx, Hbo, Max

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 81 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 what they thought of the first few episodes of Bad Monkey on Apple TV+.

Are we going to watch any of the dozen plus shows from AMC+ that are now on Netflix? Do we think there’s any hope for Venu, the Fubo competitor? Are we still excited for the next season of True Detective? Which Secret Level are we looking forward to the most? And what do we make of the cancellation of The Acolyte? Listen to hear us discuss all these questions and more!

Homework for next week:

The Gentlemen Season 1 (Netflix)

Shownotes:

01:30 - A bunch of AMC+ shows just dropped on Netflix
08:00 - Dark Matter renewed for season 2
11:30 - Judge blocks Venu sports bundle
21:55 - The Acolyte is cancelled
44:45 - Prime Video’s Secret Level gets trailer
51:15 - Issa Lopez reacts to Nic Pizzolatto
59:30 - Bad Monkey
Episode 1 - The Floating-Human-Body-Parts Capital of America
Episode 2 - A Hundred Bucks Says You Won’t

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0:00.0	All you have to do to get your job back, just stay out of trouble. You can't do that, can you?
0:04.0	Well, would Sonny be happy if I did exactly what I was told?
0:08.0	Yes. But you know what I think might make him happier?
0:11.0	Surprising him with the gift of solving the murder, right? I mean those are the best
0:14.0	kind of gifts you can get because there's no obligations. You know it's not
0:17.0	Christmas and it's not your birthday and then I'm just kind of like hey sonny you know you were
0:20.7	on my mind so I brought you this.
0:27.0	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?
0:31.0	It's good. How are you, David?
0:33.7	I'm doing all right, man.
0:34.6	Really excited to dive into today's episode
0:36.7	because there is a lot of TV news we have to cover.
0:39.7	And then of course, we're also gonna be discussing
0:42.0	the new Vince Vaughn television series on
0:44.0	Apple TV Plus, Bad Monkey.
0:47.0	So that is what is on the docket.
0:49.0	You can find more episodes of this show at Decoding TV.com
0:51.0	slash podcast. Email us at Decoding TV.com slash podcast email us at decoding TV at gmail
0:54.5	and also we are you can find this across all platforms Instagram, Tik Talk and so on
1:00.2	YouTube at Decoding TV. So Patrick, so much to discuss. There's a few stories I just want to
1:08.6	run down real quick. We're going to start with news and then go into our review and recap of Bad Monkey.
1:14.3	But PSA, AMC just dropped a ton of shows onto Netflix. They made a deal with Netflix that for the period of one year,
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