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The Prestige TV Podcast

‘Task’ Episode 5: The Best Episode Yet?

The Prestige TV Podcast

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.21.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Jo, Rob and Bill dive into the quarry for what might just be the best episode of the season, so far. (0:00) Intro (1:19) The showdown (12:26) Bad things happen at quarries (15:06) The mole reveal (21:51) Listener email: Who’s the deer? (28:32) Perry’s villainy (34:14) What happens to Maeve? (36:38) Good people rankings (38:34) Sister subplot (44:02) 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

The Prestige TV podcast, Episode 5 Task, Joanna Robinson is here.

0:20.0

Rob Mahoney is here. This was a wow of an episode a lot of answers a lot of drama a lot of action um biggest

0:29.8

answer our guy dj grassanova is the mole tough tough beat for everybody we like this guy yeah i had uh i had i had kind of moved myself into, no, no, he's not at somebody else. But no. So we had that. I mean, we had a bunch of stuff in this episode. Where do you want to start, Joanna? Well, first I want to just say for the record that your text to us after you watched this episode was like eight exclamation points.

0:54.6

Yep.

0:55.0

And then we responded and then you just responded with like eight more exclamation points.

0:58.8

So you really loved this episode.

1:00.4

It is true.

1:00.9

It is true.

1:02.4

I watched it right after within eight hours of when we recorded our episode four breakdown.

1:08.9

And I actually sent you the exclamation points halfway through the episode.

1:12.2

Oh, okay.

1:13.0

Do you remember what it was?

1:14.1

I went back for more exclamation points at the end.

1:16.6

Yeah, it was a double exclamation point text.

1:19.0

Anyway, go ahead.

1:19.7

I think the biggest thing that happens in the episode is that Tom and Robbie finally meet.

1:24.6

And we get not like the diner scene from heat face to face, but the car ride was

1:30.2

sort of looking in the rearview mirror into the back seat, which I thought was electric and very good.

1:35.1

I really, really liked it. I think having that too, where they're not face to face,

1:39.4

weirdly makes it even less adversarial. Like, it's these two guys who are really kind of feeling

1:44.0

each other out, even though one of them is being held at gunpoint. And Robbie's, like, finding ways to like, Tom over the course of that sequence to, like, kind of appreciate and care about him and a way that, like, Tom Pelfrey can really sell. Like, there's just, like, a tenderness to him as a performer that I think makes Robbie impossible

2:01.6

to fully root against, even though he's doing some some pretty crazy things. Yeah. And they,

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