Task, Episode 4, Prestige TV podcast. I'm Bill Simmons.

Rob Mahoney here.

Joanna Robinson here.

How many shows do we have left? We have three left after this? Three left. Probably the worst episode of the four, but yet I thoroughly enjoyed it and I give it like at least an A minus. But it feels like we're just kind of moving toward the second half of the show. What do you think, Joe? I think not enough Maeve. I think I'm most emotionally invested in Maeve, and I think the lack of Maeve makes this. I liked this episode, All Roads. I really liked it. But I, yeah, we're in the middle of like a propulsive story. I do think the, I'm curious what you guys think about the flashback section. I'm really interested.

Like putting a flashback like that in the middle of the season, you know? Well, Rob's a big

almond brothers guy. He's delighted.

Look, a little summer dip to the almond brothers. Who among us is immune to those particular

charms? Is, is the almond, are the almond brothers the most quarry coded band? Like, is there a better band to listen to when you're at the quarry with your brother? Or for, have, has a band ever been in more flashbacks than the almond brothers? Oh, yeah. Great question. I think as soon as we go backwards, they're just ready to roll. They're just in case you break. I really like the flashback scene. I can't wait to talk about that. Rob, where did you stand on this episode? I liked it, but I agree that I was like left a little bit cold. I think personally for me, I was just hoping for a little more fireworks out of the sting, like out of this big supposed collision between these forces. And then it just ended up with cliff getting

i guess run off the road and nabbed and that's fine and eventful in its own way but i i was hoping for a

little bit more there yeah they were setting it up that we were going to have some dramatic and it

just you know i i thought cliff could have driven for another four or five minutes maybe zoomed through some traffic. It's just all of a sudden it was over. I'm with you on Maeve. I actually, if I had a crit, it's weird to start with the nitpicks and the critiques because there's a lot of good stuff in there. But if I had a nitpick, I'm just way more interested in Mave than Ruffalo's daughter. That's, you know,

they kept giving a scene. She got the big monologue scene in this episode. And I just think she's a

supporting fringe character. And I don't, I just don't think she's that imperative to everything we're

watching. And she's kind of over here. and we just keep detouring to go over there.

And unless we're paying off with that in some gigantic way, I just, I'm not into it.

I think I think the theme of what she was talking about in terms of this idea of like having to

feel grateful to be inside of a family and the larger story that that works in every

plotline about family and community and what it means to be inside of that community and what

it means to be outside that community or you can never leave that community I guess if you're

Aaron, et cetera. I thought that was interesting. But yeah, Emily is not fully working for me, though. Close-up

magic, my guy Leo at the water ice, with an incredible curly hair routine. Do you think

close up magic is the move if you're a teenager and you're interested in your co-worker? What do you

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