Ep. 91 - 'Pluribus' S1E07 Might Be Its Most Effective Episode Yet

Decoding TV

David Chen

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

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 103 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 seventh episode of Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus.

What is our reaction to the big news that Netflix might acquire Warner Bros? Do we think Paramount can release 30 movies per year? Is David Ellison really just Kendall Roy? Listen to hear us discuss all these questions and more.

Homework for next week:

Pluribus Episode 8 (Apple TV)
Fallout Season 2 Premiere (Prime Video)

Shownotes:

06:00 - TV News
Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros for $72 billion of equity value.
Hostile takeover bid from Paramount
Netflix says it will shorten theatrical windows
Paramount commits to 30 films per year
David Ellison’s embarrassing text
The Verge did a feature on the guy operating the vomit machine
Did a Pluribus ad trigger someone’s psychotic episode
54:00 - Pluribus
Episode 7 - The Gap

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone, and welcome to Decoding TV, a podcast about television.
0:04.6	I'm David Chen.
0:05.5	Joining me, as usual, is Patrick Kleppick.
0:07.7	Patrick, congratulations on your big new arrival this week.
0:12.0	Patrick became an uncle this week for the first time.
0:14.8	Isn't that right, Patrick?
0:15.6	It is.
0:16.3	One brother, one baby.
0:17.8	You know, it was decreasing odds on whether it was going to happen, which I was fine with. But yes, we're very excited in the club of family to welcome a little boy
0:26.5	into the world that my brother and his wife had. And yeah, very, very exciting because I'm not
0:32.5	having any more kids. So if I want to experience babies on a regular basis, I need other people to step up.
0:38.6	Yes. Step up. They have to. They have to step up. And this is the first time you are an uncle. Is that correct?
0:46.5	Yeah, I just got the one brother. So is being an uncle, like, does it feel different than being a dad in any way? You know what? Get back to me in six months when my brother and I are having disagreements on what you should or shouldn't do with his child. And my brother is telling me, I think you should do it this way. And I'm like, I've had a kid for nine years. Like, I think I know what I'm doing.
1:11.2	I think I know what I'm doing. I'll report back. Have you ever heard of crossplay.
1:15.0	News, sir? No, absolutely not a subscriber. I don't. It's kind of my job to be a parent.
1:23.5	What I'm like to do is that I don't think he has subscribed to it. He is certainly not paying for it.
1:29.1	But I hope is that in a couple of years, he does become a free subscriber just so he can leave comments disagreeing with my assessments.
1:37.2	I don't know if I've shared this on the podcast before.
1:40.1	So I apologize to him from me telling the story.
1:42.1	But I have a friend of a friend who went through a messy divorce and kids involved in a messy divorce, even messier.
1:49.5	And it was later told to me that disagreements over screen time and how to handle technology with kids, my newsletter was being used as leverage in tense arguments between the people who were getting divorced.
2:04.9	Like, wow.
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