Ep. 80 - 'Alien: Earth' Ep 5 Is Wildly Entertaining (Plus: What's going On in Peacemaker's Alternate Dimension?)
Decoding TV
David Chen
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2025
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Decoding TV podcast, David and Patrick discuss what’s going on in the world of TV, then dive into the latest episodes of Alien: Earth and Peacemaker.
Did The Rehearsal actually make a difference in airline safety? Is it possible to make sense of HBO’s rebranding? And why is Tom Rothman the last person who should be talking about studio execs? Listen to hear us discuss all these questions and more.
Homework for next week:
- Alien: Earth Episode 6 (Hulu/FX)
- Peacemaker Season 2 Episode 4 (HBO)
- Bonus Episode: The Paper Season 1 (Peacock)
- Bonus Episode: Unknown Number: The High School Catfish (Netflix)
Shownotes:
- 03:05 - TV News
- The Rehearsal may make our airlines safer after all
- The Paper renewed in advance of premiere
- White Lotus S3 will be set in France
- HBO is rebranding everything
- Tom Rothman says The Studio is not realistic
- 33:00 - Alien: Earth
- Episode 3 - In Space, No One…
- 1:05:15 - Peacemaker Season 2
- Episode 3 - Another Rick Up My Sleeve
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to Decoding TV. |
| 0:02.2 | A podcast about television. |
| 0:04.3 | I am David Chen. |
| 0:05.3 | Joining me, as usual, is Patrick Kleppick. |
| 0:09.1 | Patrick, it's back to school season. |
| 0:10.9 | How is that treating you these days? |
| 0:13.2 | Everyone's sick. |
| 0:14.5 | Not me, but I'm hearing pneumonia around the block. |
| 0:19.9 | The walls are closing in on me, David. But so far, so far I'm hearing pneumonia around the block. The walls are closing in on me, David. |
| 0:22.4 | But so far, so far I'm okay. |
| 0:25.8 | Glad to hear it, sir. |
| 0:27.1 | Glad to hear it. |
| 0:28.3 | Well, today on the podcast, we got some TV news to discuss |
| 0:32.3 | before we're diving into recaps of the most recent episode of Alien Earth as well as Peacemaker |
| 0:39.6 | Season 2, lots to discuss, a lot of exciting theories to get into on this week's episodes |
| 0:46.9 | of the show. |
| 0:47.7 | I do also want to call out that I'm currently working on a bonus episode for the Netflix |
| 0:53.2 | documentary Unknown Number of the high school |
| 0:56.4 | catfish, which is one of the most shocking and upsetting documentaries I've ever seen. |
| 1:03.9 | And which says a lot like the like the ceiling and floor that you have to be shocked. |
| 1:12.3 | And we both like stuff like this. |
| 1:13.7 | Like when you say, you know, |
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