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Decoding TV

Ep. 95 - 'The Pitt' S2E02 Tests How Okay You Are With Needles

Decoding TV

David Chen

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

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 110 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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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 The Pitt and Fallout.

Are Tony Dokoupil’s CBS News ratings disastrous or merely bad? What’s the latest with Netflix’s attempted takeover of American culture? And what our big takeaways from George R. R. Martin’s recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter? Listen to hear us discuss all these topics and more.

Homework for next week:

  • The Pitt Season 2 Episode 3 (HBO Max)
  • Fallout Season 2 Episode 6 (Prime Video)

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Decoding TV, a podcast about television.

0:05.3

I'm David Chen.

0:06.3

Joining me as usual is Patrick Kleppick.

0:08.2

Patrick, have you had a chance to watch any heated rivalry yet?

0:13.8

Are we talking about the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears going in the one, two, three,

0:18.1

the conclusion of a trilogy of games in which the bears ousted

0:21.2

them out of the playoffs, beat them two out of three times? Or are we talking about an HBO show?

0:29.8

It could be both. Why not both? Why not both? I'm of course referring to the sensation

0:35.4

on HBO Max where these two hockey players fall in love with each other. Uh, we did a bonus episode with Valentina V. I don't know if you saw any, I don't know if like Valentina's videos entered into your sphere of knowledge, but, uh, she, David, one day, you don't live near near me anymore but like if for some reason we're

0:56.9

you know a fortune enough to cross passing and i'll show you my ticot algorithm which is a

1:01.1

combination of chicago bears sports memes and top seven farts wow uh farts like uh like the bodily function farts or like the bodily function farts? Because my

1:14.8

TikTok feed is primarily used in conjunction with my children. And then occasionally it picks up on like,

1:21.0

this for some this part this I would love to know what profile it thinks I am like spit out like 300 words about me because it'd be like,

1:29.1

so this heavily invested Chicago sports fan really likes watching children from like age

1:34.8

five to 10 like hit themselves on the playground and then people farting in the most

1:40.4

obnoxious ways possible and preferably in a top seven to top ten format.

1:44.6

Wow.

1:45.4

All right.

1:46.6

So I think that's a nice way of saying, no, you haven't seen the videos.

1:49.7

But basically, Valentina V is a very talented cinematographer and filmmaker who has done filmmaking analyses of many sequences from heated rivalries. They've gone mega viral on

2:02.9

TikTok and Instagram and by sheer coincidence, coincidence question mark that we happen to have been

2:10.0

friends for many, many years. She stopped by decoding TV. We did a bonus episode together.

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