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The Prestige TV Podcast

‘Task’ Episode 2: The Rat Theory

The Prestige TV Podcast

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.21.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Bill, Jo, and Rob search for leads to recap the second episode of ‘Task.’ (0:00) Intro (2:07) What Brad Ingelsby excels at (6:08) Current plotlines (9:58) Favorite thing about the show (so far) (12:38) What happened to Robbie’s brother? (15:14) The rat theory (18:01) Will Sam make it out? (30:06) Nitpicks (38:30) Predictions Email us! prestigetv@spotify.com Subscribe to the Ringer TV YouTube channel here for full episodes of ‘The Prestige TV Podcast’ and so much more! Hosts: Bill Simmons, Joanna Robinson, and Rob Mahoney Producers: Kai Grady and Donnie Beacham Jr. Additional Production Support: Justin Sayles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, welcome back to the prestige TV podcast feed. I'm Joina Robinson. I'm Rob Mahoney.

0:18.0

We're here today with episode two of task. Very exciting. Very excited. Bill. we'll be joining us once again to break that down here in the studio. We've also, we're continuing to do hooked episodes. Those have been really, really fun. Just a good excuse to go back to and rediscover some great things about some of the greatest shows that have ever been made. A lot of opinions from our listeners about what we've gotten wrong and right.

0:39.9

Mostly right.

0:40.8

Okay.

0:42.0

And then at the end of September, we're doing slow horses.

0:45.0

It's a great time to be on the prestigious feed.

0:46.4

An incredible return to slow horses for us, one of our most cherished shows.

0:49.6

I honestly can't wait for it.

0:50.7

All right.

0:51.1

Well, let's get into episode two.

0:52.2

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1:21.7

The Prestige TV podcast, episode two, task.

1:26.8

I'm here with

1:27.7

Joanna Robinson. Yeah. DJ Bassanova. What was it? Gross and Grocerova. Look, I got a couple of rules. No freaking. No grinding. No straddling on this podcast. I think we can adhere to that. What about twerking, though? We'll see. Okay. It's a long thought. I'm Bill Simmons, and I love this show. Wow.

1:45.2

Yeah.

1:45.6

We were worried that episode two would be just keep the We'll see. Okay. It's a long thought. I'm Bill Simmons, and I love this show.

2:04.7

Wow. Yeah. We were worried that episode, too, would be just keep the chains moving, get a couple first downs. It was not. A bunch of stuff happened. I like you're still in your football language. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not going to stop any time. I'm going to start here. And there's so many things to get to with where the show's going, all the plots that are in play.

2:10.6

The Ruffalo family table scene where they were like, here's the Emmy right here, take it.

2:12.9

Just everything going on in that scene.

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