The Tastemakers: Movies Are Better Than TV Right Now
RHAP: We Know Scripted TV
RHAP
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Taran Armstrong (@armstrongtaran) and Grace Leeder (@hifromgrace) are The Tastemakers! Every week, Grace and Taran tell you about what’s on TV, which shows are worth watching, and which shows are worth skipping.
This week, Taran and Grace discuss what you should see in theaters before discussing what’s coming up.
Topics by Time Code:
00:00 Intros
11:00 2025 Tony Awards
14:30 From the World of John Wick: Ballerina (a theater near you)
19:15 The Phoenician Scheme (a theater near you)
20:40 Friendship (a theater near you)
23:25 Stick (Apple TV+)
25:00 Dept Q (Netflix)
26:20 Adults (Hulu)
30:00 Andor (Disney+)
33:00 Boxcutter (a theater near you)
34:00 Pee-wee as Himself (HBO)
37:30 What’s coming up
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| 0:32.9 | Hello everyone and welcome back to the Taste Makers podcast. |
| 0:37.9 | This is of course the podcast where we sample what's on the table in the world's TV and film. |
| 0:42.8 | Let you know what's going on. |
| 0:44.0 | I'm your host, Aaron Armstrong, and with us, with us, with me today, as always, is Grace. |
| 0:48.9 | How are you doing, Grace? |
| 0:49.7 | I'm good. |
| 0:50.2 | With us is the audience, I think. |
| 0:51.8 | They're listening. |
| 0:52.6 | They're here to taste along with us as the audience i think they're listening they're here to to taste along with us still |
| 0:54.9 | hoping chappelle would be here yeah that's right that's right chappelle left he's like yeah he's out |
| 1:00.7 | yeah he was like nah too much yeah much too much tvs watch a lot of tv he's much a lot of tv he's much |
| 1:08.3 | much a lot of bad tv i think is the problem i mean bad TV, I think, is the problem. I mean, like, you know, yeah, trying to find what's good. |
| 1:14.0 | It does feel like, you know, we were talking for a while about, like, the, like a golden age feeling of TV. |
| 1:23.0 | I feel like we've entered a little bit of a slump now. |
| 1:26.7 | I feel like there's not a lot on at the current |
| 1:30.4 | moment. There's still some stuff that's coming. Movies are kind of doing decently well. But |
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