Our Picks For TV Shows And Movies You Should Watch This Holiday Weekend
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🗓️ 24 November 2022
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, consider this listeners. |
| 0:03.0 | Today's episode is a break from the news on this holiday week. |
| 0:06.5 | Whether you're full from a Thanksgiving feast or just taking advantage of some well-deserved |
| 0:09.7 | time off, we've got some recommendations for TV shows and movies you could binge this |
| 0:13.8 | long holiday weekend. |
| 0:15.6 | And Pierre TV critic Eric Degan's has a few to start us off. |
| 0:18.5 | So I'm a serious science fiction nerd. |
| 0:22.2 | So one of my recommendations for the weekend has got to be two of the best science fiction |
| 0:27.1 | shows that are on TV right now. |
| 0:29.0 | One recommendation, two shows. |
| 0:31.0 | First of them, Star Wars and or on Disney Plus. |
| 0:33.6 | It takes place in the Star Wars universe and it sort of tells the story of the start of |
| 0:37.9 | the rebellion that rebels against the empire and all the big movies. |
| 0:42.4 | And it's gritty, it's realistic, there's no jedi's, there's no magic, and it's an incredibly |
| 0:49.2 | engrossing story and I really recommend people check it out. |
| 0:52.0 | All right, next Eric recommends Star Trek Strange New Worlds on Paramount Plus. |
| 0:56.3 | It shows the adventures of the Enterprise before Captain Kirk took control as Captain. |
| 1:03.2 | So we get that Star Trek series where they have an adventure every episode. |
| 1:08.5 | They're out in the galaxy meeting new people, doing new things. |
| 1:13.2 | It's the closest thing amongst a new Star Trek series to the old Star Trek series. |
| 1:18.6 | And if that's not enough sci-fi for you, Eric notes there's a new Guardians of the Galaxy |
| 1:22.8 | Holiday Special streaming on Disney Plus. |
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