Too Much, The Institute, Bookish, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. With guests Jeffrey Dean Morgan & Scott Gimple, Emer Kenny & Lauren Lyle

Pilot TV

Empire Magazine

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

Too Much is very much the phrase of the week on this episode as not only do we have four guests — specifically Karen Pirie’s Lauren Lyle and Emer Kenny (50:50-1:04:40) and The Walking Dead: Dead City’s Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Scott Gimple (22:53-32:36)— but we also review four shows — specifically Too Much on Netflix (1:04:40), The Institute on MGM+ (1:30:28), Bookish on U&Alibi (1:22:06) and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on Paramount+ (1:40:35). So if you had plans today, you might want to reschedule. Oh and we (somehow) find the time for a trip down memory lane discussing iconic TV ads as well. Strap in!

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0:00.0	On Pilot TV this week, we are combining hardbacks with hard cases in Mark Gaitis bookish on you and alibi,
0:14.5	stepping out into London for the very first time in Lena Dunham's new series Too Much on Netflix,
0:19.8	heading back to Maine for the new
0:22.2	Stephen King adaptation, The Institute on MGM Plus, and boldly going back to Paramount Plus for the third
0:28.4	season of Star Trek Strange New Worlds. Plus we have a gaggle of guests on the show this week,
0:34.0	as we have got Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Scott Gimble chatting the Walking Dead Dead Dead City, and E. McKinney and Lauren Lyle dropping by to chat the new series of Karen
0:42.2	Piri. I'm James Dyer and welcome to Pilot TV, your essential guide to every show that matters.
0:48.6	I am, of course, joined as is tradition by my two co-pilots here, TV's Boyd Hilton, who is thankfully
0:53.7	banned from airing his wrong
0:55.2	opinions about the new Superman film because this is a TV podcast. And of course, Kay Ribeiro, who
0:59.8	in a surprising twist, has been so inspired by Apple Smoke that she's taken to writing a crime novel.
1:06.2	And it's about a long-suffering and put upon podcast hosts who discovers a pension for solving crimes,
1:11.5	only for it ought to go horribly wrong when her prime suspect turns out to have an awkwardly
1:15.7	polysyllabic surname causing her to collapse into hysterical laughter during the interrogation.
1:21.0	It's very awkward, and yet strangely compelling.
1:23.3	How are you, Kay?
1:24.5	I know.
1:24.8	That was very good.
1:25.6	I give that to you.
1:26.8	Now, James, where have you been?
1:27.9	You've caught the sun.
1:28.9	Have I?
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