TV Book Club: Romanoffs | The Deuce | Hill House
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🗓️ 25 October 2018
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
TV Book Club: Anthony Mayes, Eden Liu and Jake Hoye
Eden and Jake are mad at Anthony because he didn't do his own homework and watch the Romanoffs.
We try to put our finger on what is missing and decide if we're in or out.
The Deuce: Vincent's Vermont Vacation
Lori's rising star, Candy fighting misogyny in pursuit of her art, breakups, coverups, well done steak, an introducing The Deuce Death Pool.
Haunting of Hill House teaser: Navigating genre, timelines and family with the Crains. Why it's better than Castle Rock. Looking forward.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the back-to-back podcast on the Count the Dings Network. |
| 0:22.4 | This is the TV book club, a nuanced discussion about television that captures our imaginations. |
| 0:27.6 | I'm your host Anthony Mays. |
| 0:28.9 | I'm joined by Jake Hoy and Eden Liu. |
| 0:31.5 | AC is out this week with the DNP married and the homie Rob Lopez is filling in for the birthday boy, Jade Hoy. |
| 0:37.7 | This week we're going to talk about the Deuce episode seven, the feminism part. |
| 0:41.8 | Talk about the beginning and a little non-spoilery haunting of Hillhouse. |
| 0:46.4 | And then Romanov's three house of special purpose. |
| 0:49.9 | And I must confess, I didn't do my homework this week. |
| 0:52.6 | I'm the teacher. |
| 0:53.4 | I assigned it and I couldn't take more homework this week. I'm the teacher. I assigned it, and I couldn't take |
| 0:55.0 | more than another 85 minutes out of my week to commit to the Romanov. So I will be deferring to |
| 1:02.0 | Jake and Eden. And House for Special Purpose, the premise is Olivia, played by Christina Hendricks, |
| 1:09.9 | is playing Alexander Romanoff in a TV miniseries directed by Jacqueline, who's played by Christina Hendricks, is playing Alexander Romanoff in a TV mini-series |
| 1:13.2 | directed by Jacqueline, who's played by Isabel Hubert. |
| 1:16.6 | And it seems like it was creepy. |
| 1:18.7 | What happened, Eden? |
| 1:20.5 | So what happened was Olivia comes on set, or she replaces an actress that's on set for |
| 1:26.8 | the Romanoffs, and all this weird stuff starts |
| 1:29.6 | happening. Everyone's treating her kind of weirdly like, you know, people aren't speaking to her |
| 1:36.7 | in English, even though they speak English. And people are like making phone calls, weird phone |
| 1:42.4 | calls to her in the middle of the night. |
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