Ep. 97 - Why 'Wonder Man' Might be Marvel's Best TV Show Ever (Plus: 'The Pitt' S2E04 Humbles Its Most Arrogant Character)
Decoding TV
David Chen
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 100 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 season premiere of Wonder Man and the latest episode of The Pitt.
What makes Wonder Man so extremely good? Should Alex Honnold have gotten paid more for his ascension of Taipei 101? Is CBS News going to get better by hiring more podcasters and bloggers? Listen to hear us discuss all these questions and more.
Homework for next week:
- The Pitt Season 2 Episode 5 (HBO Max)
- Fallout Season 2 Episode 8 (Prime Video)
Shownotes:
- 03:00 - TV News
- Bluey was number one in streaming minutes for the year
- Alex Honnold’s ‘Skyscraper Live’ Hits 6.2 Million Views on Netflix
- Alex Honnold was paid less than $1MM
- Ratings
- ‘Shrinking’ Renewed for Season 4 at Apple TV
- Ted Lasso Season 4
- Stephen Colbert Reveals Date of Final ‘Late Show’ Episode
- Bari Weiss Unveils Sweeping Vision: “I Am Here to Make CBS News Fit for Purpose in the 21st Century”
- 46:00 - Wonder Man series premiere
- 1:09:45 - The Pitt Season 2
- Episode 4 - 10:00 A.M.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to Decoding TV, a podcast about television. |
| 0:04.2 | I'm David Chen, joining me as usual as Patrick Lepic. |
| 0:07.4 | Patrick, sometimes we make episodes of this podcast, and it's very relaxed and chill. |
| 0:13.3 | And today, I would say, this one is the one that's under duress, I would say. |
| 0:16.2 | This one is a little under duress. |
| 0:19.1 | We are recording this one a little bit early |
| 0:21.1 | because Patrick... |
| 0:23.8 | I don't know if you guys know this. |
| 0:24.8 | Patrick is a big-time video games journalist. |
| 0:28.2 | Oh, yes. |
| 0:29.0 | That's how I... |
| 0:29.7 | Taking a video games-related trip. |
| 0:31.9 | And so we are recording it early. |
| 0:34.2 | We're probably releasing it a little bit early as well. |
| 0:36.1 | But as people are listening to this, Patrick will be traveling across the United States. And Patrick, we're wishing you safe travels, man. Thank you. It's most of the snowstorm that I'm worried about. But I looked at the weather. I think I should be okay. Yeah. And people will be able to follow the results of that at crossplay.com news or remap radio, right? Yes, yes, absolutely. |
| 0:55.8 | But yeah, anyway, today on the podcast, we got a few items of TV news, and then we are going |
| 1:02.1 | to be diving into a review of Wonder Man, followed by our conversation about the latest episode |
| 1:07.6 | of The Pit, season two, episode four. |
| 1:10.2 | I know people will be wondering, hey, what about Fallout? |
| 1:13.7 | Well, I have actually watched the episode of Fallout. |
| 1:16.9 | Patrick hasn't had a chance to do. |
| 1:18.1 | We're not going to have time to talk about it today. |
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