The Tastemakers: Our Top 5 Shows of the Year So Far

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🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 101 minutes

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The Tastemakers: Our Top 5 Shows of the Year So Far
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 their top 5 shows of the year so far before going into Squid Game Season 3 spoilers.
Topics by Time Code:
00:00 Intros
02:20 Squid Game Season 3 (Netflix)
05:45 The Bear Season 5 Renewal (Hulu)
07:20 Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2
08:00 I’m Glad My Mom Died casting
09:30 The Last of Us Neil Druckmann Leaving (HBO)
13:30 Sandman (Netflix)
21:10 Dandadan (Hulu)
21:50 Jurassic World: Rebirth (a theater near you)
26:35 What’s coming up
49:00 Top 5 Shows So Far
01:10:00 Squid Game Season 3 Spoilers
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0:27.7	slash setup hello everyone and welcome back to the Taste Makers podcast.
0:38.3	This is, of course, the podcast where we talk about everything in the world of TV and film
0:42.4	and talk about what's the best on TV, what's the worst on TV, what you should be watching,
0:46.6	what you shouldn't be watching.
0:47.4	I'm your host, Armstrong, and with me today, as always, is my co-host, Grace.
0:50.7	How you doing, Grace?
0:51.4	I'm doing well.
0:52.5	It's hot outside, but I'm inside watching
0:54.5	TV. So it's fine. Well, this is maybe a bit of a jam-packed episode. There's tons of news to talk
1:04.3	about, some renewals, some drama in the world of TV with some Last of Us news.
1:12.0	We've got tons of new shows to talk about that came out this week as well as a couple of movies.
1:18.3	Lots of shows coming up, Foundation Dexter, always sunny, tons of stuff, as well as some movies.
1:24.3	Of course, Superman is coming.
1:25.6	So lots to talk about in the weekly sense,
1:29.2	but we are also going to,
1:30.8	now that we are about halfway through the year,
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