Ep. 68 - 'The Last of Us' S2E06 Might Be Its Best Episode Ever
Decoding TV
David Chen
4.6 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2025
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Decoding TV podcast, David and Patrick dive into the latest episodes of The Last of Us and The Rehearsal.
Is Max’s rebrand back to HBO Max one of the worst instances of corporate brand destruction ever? Are we excited about the new Alien: Earth series launching this summer? And why does David hate the marketing for James Gunn’s Superman so much? Listen to us discuss all these questions and more!
Homework for next week:
- The Last of Us Season 2 episode 7 (HBO)
- The Rehearsal Season 2 episode 6 (HBO)
Shownotes:
- 06:30 - TV News
- HBO Max Lives! Max to Change Its Name Back After Two Years
- ‘Alien: Earth’ Sets August Release Date Plus 10 Images and Plot Details Revealed
- ‘Fallout’ Renewed for Season 3 Ahead of Season 2 Premiere in December
- ‘Game of Thrones’ Spinoff ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Shifts to 2026 Release
- 39:30 - The Last of Us Season 2
- Ep 6 - The Price
- 1:14:00 - The Rehearsal Season 2
- Ep 5 - Washington
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to Decoding TV, a podcast about television. |
| 0:04.7 | I'm David Chen, joining me as usual. |
| 0:06.9 | He's Patrick Leppick. |
| 0:08.7 | Patrick, how's the month of May treating you? |
| 0:11.7 | Well, this is the, I don't know how it is in Seattle out here. |
| 0:14.8 | It's- |
| 0:15.1 | It's pouring rain this morning in Seattle. |
| 0:17.2 | Oh, we desperately need rain out here, but it's more like two days last week, |
| 0:21.9 | 92 degrees. Oh, summer is here. Two days later, it's 52. Put on, put on those layers. |
| 0:28.8 | My kids are very, they're like, I thought it was summer. We saw you cleaning the pool equipment. |
| 0:33.1 | So, well, I'm cleaning the pool equipment in anticipation of the weather being warmer and more |
| 0:37.1 | consistent. This is more a late spring tease of where summer is going. |
| 0:42.8 | Absolutely. We're definitely experiencing the same thing here in Seattle as well. |
| 0:46.6 | But anyway, welcome to the decoding TV podcast. |
| 0:49.6 | What we do here on this podcast, every week we talk about a few of the things that are happening in the world |
| 0:54.6 | of television before we dive into some specific television episodes to recap and review. |
| 1:01.9 | This week we'll be discussing the last of us, season two, episode six, and the rehearsal |
| 1:07.2 | season two, episode five, will be covering those shows until their finalies, which presumably will happen next weekend, Memorial Day weekend. |
| 1:14.6 | So stay with us for those. |
| 1:16.1 | And what are we doing after that? |
| 1:18.4 | TBD, we don't know. |
| 1:20.6 | We're probably going to be covering the new Jesse Armstrong movie Mountainhead. |
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