Recommending ‘Howards End’ and John Mulaney’s New Stand-up Special, Plus Deon Taylor, Director of ‘Traffik’ | The Watch (Ep. 254)
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4.5 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2018
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to today's episode of The Watch. |
| 0:03.1 | It's Chris, no Angie today, so I had three separate guests on. |
| 0:07.4 | First I'm joined by Allison Herman to talk about John Mulaney's new Netflix special, |
| 0:11.5 | Kid Gorgeous at Radio City Music Hall, and then also to discuss a little bit of one of |
| 0:15.9 | my personal favorites. |
| 0:17.2 | And favorites for anybody who calls themselves a brand ski, the good fight on CBS All Access. |
| 0:22.8 | And then I was joined by Amanda Dobbins to talk about probably one of the revelations |
| 0:26.6 | of the TV year. |
| 0:28.8 | Basically the most underrated show of the year, if you ask me, it's Howard's End, |
| 0:33.0 | which is currently airing on stars or was airing on stars. |
| 0:35.8 | I believe it wrapped up its four episode run this past Sunday. |
| 0:39.2 | It's written by Kenneth Lonergan, who wrote Manchester by the sea, who wrote Margaret, |
| 0:44.3 | who wrote, you can count on me as an accomplished playwright, obviously. |
| 0:47.6 | So people might be familiar with his work stateside, but he wrote this adaptation |
| 0:52.9 | of EM Forester's classic novel Howard's End. |
| 0:56.1 | And it starts Haley Atwell, who you may have seen as Agent Carter and some of the |
| 0:59.2 | Avengers stuff, Captain America stuff, and also in Be Right Back, the Black Mirror episode. |
| 1:04.3 | Guys, this show is an absolute miracle. |
| 1:07.7 | I can't recommend it more highly. |
| 1:09.3 | So I talked to Amanda about that. |
| 1:10.7 | Before we get started, I want to tell you a little bit about some stuff happening |
| 1:13.3 | on the ringer related to TV. |
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