The Tastemakers: Paradise Pilot is Perfect
RHAP: We Know Scripted TV
RHAP
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2025
⏱️ 58 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 the pilot of Paradise before diving into what else they’ve been watching
Topics by Time Code:
00:00 Intros
02:15 The Sandman Season 3 Cancelled (Netflix)
07:10 Your Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman (Disney+)
11:30 Karla Sofía Gascón Controversy
19:30 Paradise (Hulu)
27:10 Mythic Quest Season 4 (AppleTV+)
27:40 Brian and Maggie, The Recruit, and The Night Agent
31:00 Mo (Netflix)
32:00 School Spirits (Paramount+)
33:00 Companion (a theater near you)
36:00 Common Side Effects (Adult Swim)
38:00 Apple Cider Vinegar (Netflix)
41:50 Am I Being Unreasonable? Season 2 (Hulu)
43:00 Clean Slate (Amazon Prime Video)
44:30 Invincible Season 3 (Amazon Prime Video)
49:20 Marie Antoinette
51:50 Upcoming movies
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| 0:24.8 | dot com and secure your seats today hello everyone and welcome back to the tasteastmakers Podcasts. Of course, |
| 0:39.2 | podcast where we talk about everything going on in the world of scripted television and |
| 0:43.7 | film. Are there unscripted films? I guess documentaries. Documentaries are kind of scripted. |
| 0:48.2 | Would you call them scripted? I don't know. That's the what's what? You know what? That's what |
| 0:51.1 | we're here to tell you as tastemakers. |
| 0:57.1 | I'm your host, John Armstrong, with me to tell you. |
| 0:58.7 | It's Grace Leader. How are you doing, Grace? |
| 1:00.1 | I'm doing well. |
| 1:05.2 | Documentaries, they're probably not scripted, but I feel like there's a little bit of a, you know, |
| 1:08.2 | they fit in closer with us than other things. If I made a documentary, I would feel like I scripted it. |
| 1:15.1 | Unless I really went in blind, filmed something, but even then, I would have edited it in a way that makes me feel like I've still scripted it to some degree. |
| 1:23.5 | But I think the way that most people look at it is that scripted means predetermining an outcome, which is probably not how people usually want to see a documentary. |
| 1:32.8 | I think that that's true. |
| 1:34.1 | I think in the way that we mean we know scripted TV is that the thing has a script and that people then say the things that are on the script, which is not typically how a documentary is made. |
| 1:43.3 | But I think, you know, it is, and we know edited |
| 1:46.8 | TV. |
| 1:48.2 | To be fair, lots of reality TV is also very, in fact, I would say a decent amount of reality TV is |
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