Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today is Tuesday, December 27th, 2022.

I'm John Pajor. It's the editor of Commentary Magazine with me as always executive editor

A. Greenwald. Hi, A. Hi, John. Media commentary columnist and American Enterprise Institute

fellow Christine Rosenhykrstein. Hi, John. And associate editor and author of the rise

of the New Puritans, Noah Rothman. Hi, John. Hello. Sorry. I forgot to say hi. No. That's

okay. I know. I know. I was already thinking about how I'm going to transition into talking

about today's best of picks or end of year picks or fun things that you should do in relation

to television because here we are. It is peak TV 600 or something series now between broadcast

television, cable television and streaming television. And apparently we're about to go

through a long dark minute of the soul because stock price is cratered on the streaming

and everybody's getting fired and everybody's revisiting and they're basically taking

streaming services and turning them into TV, which is to say they're going to have commercials

and it's them. You know, everything you liked about the streaming services is going to

be removed from you so you can watch ads and you won't be able to binge watch and do all

of that. So that's what people in the industry are concerned about and who cares? Because

all point is, is there something to watch that you like to watch? The friend of yours

tell you that there's something good to watch. And so we're going to talk about things

that we like that we think you should watch. And chances are you haven't watched any of

them because there are so many things that unless you watch like the single most popular

thing of the year, whatever that is, I think it's Wednesday on Netflix is now turned out

to be the most popular streaming series in Netflix's history or something. You may not

have watched it. By the way, Wednesday is bad. Don't watch it. Don't like it. Okay.

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