Ep. 38 - How ‘The Last of Us’ Season 2 Might Deviate From the Game
Decoding TV
David Chen
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2024
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Decoding TV, David Chen and Patrick Klepek explore the early ratings for The Penguin, brace themselves for a new season of Sugar, discuss a surprising choice of director for Stranger Things 5, and dig into the new trailer for The Last of Us Season 2. Then, they discuss episode 2 of The Penguin and episode 4 of Agatha All Along.
Will The Penguin be able to take flight in the ratings for the rest of the first season? How do we feel about the confounding news of a second season of Sugar? Does Frank Darabont’s return to the industry signal a strong return for Stranger Things? How different will The Last of Us season 2 be from its video game counterpart? Does The Penguin keep up the momentum in episode 2? Are we still enjoying the witchy formula of Agatha All Along in episode 4? Listen to hear us discuss all these questions and more!
Homework for next week:
- The Penguin Episode 3 (Max)
- Agatha All Along Episode 5 (Disney+)
- The Franchise Episode 1 (Max)
Shownotes:
- 12:13 - Strong Ratings for The Penguin
- 16:20 - Sugar Renewed for Season 2
- 21:18 - Frank Darabont Ends Retirement for Stranger Things
- 25:53 - The Last of Us Season 2 Trailer
- 36:20 - The Penguin
- Ep 2 - Inside Man
- 01:04:28 - Agatha All Along
- Ep 4 - If I Can’t Reach You, Let My Song Teach You
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| 0:40.0 | Hey folks David Chen here in this week's episode of Decoding TV we discuss Agatha |
| 0:46.7 | all along episode four but I accidentally call it episode three it's actually episode |
| 0:51.7 | four the show notes are correct your sense of time is correct, sorry |
| 0:55.1 | about the mistake, this week we talk about Agatha all along episode four. Enjoy the |
| 0:58.8 | podcast. Shit like this, the pain of it, you've got to be careful, because it'll eat you alive if you let it. |
| 1:08.6 | It's a hell of a lot more fun to dance. |
| 1:11.6 | Hello everyone and welcome to Decoding TV a podcast about television. I'm David |
| 1:16.0 | Chen and the way I got Patrick Kleppick to join me for this podcast was by |
| 1:19.0 | planting a podcast mic on him. Joining me today is Patrick Kleppick. |
| 1:24.0 | Sometimes I look at Sophia Falcone and go, I can fix you. |
| 1:27.4 | And sometimes I look at David Chen and go, I can fix you. |
| 1:30.5 | Those are references to the fact that today on the podcast we're going to be covering |
| 1:36.2 | The Penguin episode two along with Agatha All Along episode four. |
| 1:42.0 | You can find more episodes of this podcast today at |
| 1:44.7 | decoding TV.com slash podcast. You can also email us at decoding TV at |
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