'This Week in Ringer Culture' (Dec. 11-15, 2017) (Ep. 400)

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4.4 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

'This Week in Ringer Culture’ features ‘The Watch’ on the top TV shows of 2017 (00:30), ‘Jam Session’ on a crazy George Clooney gift-giving story (05:30), ‘House of Carbs’ on Pizza Hut’s alcohol delivery (10:15), ‘Against All Odds With Cousin Sal’ with ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm's’ Bob Einstein on his favorite entertainers (13:30), ‘The Rewatchables’ on the 2007 thriller ‘Zodiac’ (18:30), and ‘Binge Mode’ celebrating the droids of 'Star Wars' (23:15). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to this week in Ringer Culture, I am Liz Kelly bringing you the highlights from
0:07.3	the Ringer Podcast Network.
0:09.3	2017 is officially coming to a close and as part of our year in review package, we have
0:13.9	new articles up on the site, such as Best TV Show episodes, Best Preferences, Best Action
0:18.4	Movies, and so much more on theRinger.com.
0:21.2	First click this week is actually a preview of some of the best of lists we've been creating.
0:25.1	We have Andy Greenwell, Chris Ryan, and special guests Sam Esmail talking about their top TV
0:30.4	shows of 2017 here on the watch.
0:33.7	You want to do your Ozark bit or does everyone know?
0:35.6	I think I've, I mean, I've screamed and shouted about this show a lot.
0:38.8	I thought it was actually sneakily very, very subversive in terms of how we think about
0:46.8	protagonists and the heroes of shows in a way that I haven't really been confronted with.
0:51.6	I thought that the slow boil of Walter White going from when it was the Mr. Chips to Scarface
0:57.2	or whatever was the tagline for that, that he starts out essentially as Scarface as a
1:01.9	accountant and you're like right there in that moral moment with him.
1:07.2	The amount of stuff that they did in terms of like, most shows should spend two episodes
1:11.6	talking about something like this.
1:13.0	Most shows should be building up to this moment for half a season.
1:16.3	We're going to do this in the first 30 minutes and we're going to be like incredibly candid
1:21.4	with each other in terms of characters.
1:23.5	And, you know, I mean, I don't want to like, belabor Ozark.
1:26.6	I think we've been talking about it a lot.
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