Ep. 63 - 'The Last of Us' Season 2 Premiere Presents Intriguing Storytelling Possibilities

Decoding TV

David Chen

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

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Stay tuned for a spoiler-filled bonus episode later this week where we compare The Last of Us videogame with the show.

David and Patrick discuss what’s happening in the world of television, then Christian Spicer joins us for a dive into The Last of Us season 2 premiere.

Are we excited about the possibility of another season of Adolescence? What do we think of how The Last of Us is pacing its story? And why is The White Lotus pissing so many people off? Listen to us discuss all these questions and more!

Homework for next week:

The Last of Us Season 2 episode 2 (HBO)
Bonus Ep: Black Mirror Season 7 (Netflix)

Shownotes:

03:30 - TV News

Last of Us Renewed for season 3
Adolescence ratings and season 2 possibilities
The White Lotus is pissing off all kinds of people:
Pina Colada collab
Duke wants no part of White Lotus
Composer backlash

23:00 - The Last of Us Season 2

Ep 1 - Future Days

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to decoding TV, a podcast about television.
0:04.4	I'm David Chen.
0:05.2	Joining me as usual is Patrick Clubbock.
0:07.0	Patrick been a few weeks, man.
0:09.2	It has.
0:10.0	Yeah, you've been busy.
0:11.4	You've been looking at the new Switch 2, which I think cost about $8,000, if I'm
0:16.1	mistaken, is what I heard on the internet.
0:18.1	You just like redacted, insert new number.
0:20.4	Like, who knows what it'll end up being by the end of it. Yes. Uh, yeah, between that and my child having her first Wizard of Oz performance. It's, it's been a busy couple of weeks. Yeah, but fortunately, we've had a lot of podcasting going on here in your absence. Uh, we've had Sarah Mars here to discuss the season finale of the White Lotus, which was a bit of a letdown, not going to lie, but you can check out our coverage over on this podcast feed or on the YouTube channel at YouTube.com slash at Decoding TV.
0:49.3	And of course, today on the podcast, we're going to be kicking off our coverage of the Last of Us season two we got christian spicer to join us for our conversation about the season two premiere
0:57.9	and some big news patrick clepick over at decoding tv.com we're kicking off written
1:04.7	recaps that's right written recaps coming to decoding tv.com basically patrick Patrick, here's what, here's how the idea started.
1:13.0	I love having a space to talk about TV shows.
1:16.8	And also, I've been using Substack to create a paid version of the Decoding TV podcast.
1:25.5	If you subscribe on Substack, you get ad free feed,
1:28.9	you get bonus episodes, you get episodes sooner than everyone else does. And over time,
1:35.5	thousands of people have signed up to that substack on the free version of the substack.
1:41.1	And they've been getting nothing. Just nothing. And so I was like, hey, I have a feeling these thousands of people would be interested to read thoughtful and insightful recaps and reviews of the TV shows we talk about.
1:55.6	So we've kicked off that coverage with The Last of Us. Matt Goldberg has agreed to review this entire season. He's doing a great job so far. And if you are interested in reading kind of written recaps, written reviews, subscribe at DecodingTV.com. It's all free right now. For now it's free. You can get every recap in your inbox. Just subscribe at DecodingTV.com to the free feed. And you'll get those
2:18.6	recaps. And also, we have plans to cover and or in written and podcast form as well. So be sure
2:25.3	to check those out. Subscribe at decodingtivu.com. Make sure you don't miss it. But wanted to give
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