Episode 42: The Best (?) Of 2017

See Something Say Something

Ahmed Ali Akbar

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 550 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

2017 has been a unmitigated trash fire, and it's our last episode of the season (and year!) so we're sharing the (few) things that brought us joy this year. We talk to Krutika Malikarjuna about the year's best new comedy, The Good Place. Then, we talk to Sara Yasin about the best so-bad-they're-good headlines she's collected in her newsletter, Please Kill Me. And then Ahmed calls up his dad to talk about why he thinks Victoria & Abdul was a must-watch.

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:00.9	Hi, Abu.
0:02.8	Hi, Amad Ali. How are you?
0:04.7	I'm good. How are you?
0:07.3	Good.
0:08.1	Are you excited to be on the show again?
0:10.4	What's funny? Yeah, very excited.
0:14.6	Hey, everyone. I'm Amadali Akbar, and this is See Something Say Something.
0:18.5	It's going to be our last episode of the season and year.
0:21.5	So let's talk about some of the few things that made 2017 okay.
0:28.6	If you see something, you better, you better say something.
0:37.0	Nothing at all, nothing at all.
0:40.3	So I think about a lot of stuff that doesn't have to do with being Muslim in America,
0:46.3	I feel like you guys probably realize that.
0:49.3	And even though the show is about the many ways to be Muslim in America,
0:53.3	part of that sometimes means talking about things that aren't explicitly about being Muslim. They're just talking about the things that interest us in the culture. So before the season ended, we wanted to take some time to talk about some of those important moments for us this year with some friends of the show. We're going to talk to Kratika Malacarjuna about one of my favorite things of the year, the TV show The Good Place. Then we're going to talk to Critica Malacarjuna about one of my favorite things of the
1:10.8	year, the TV show The Good Place. Then we're going to talk to Sarah Yassine of BuzzFeed News about
1:17.2	these weird internet clickbaity stories that are out there that are just very strange that she's
1:24.0	spent all year collecting. And then finally we're going to call my dad and ask him
1:28.2	why he thought Victorian Uppel was so good, even though I thought it was garbage.
1:37.4	So joining me now is Critica Malacarjuna. She is the Features Editor at TV Guide. Welcome, Critica.
1:44.2	Hi.
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