Welcome to Chippendale's Season Premiere Review (Eps 1-2)

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David Chen

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4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

This episode of Decoding TV is brought to you by McDonald's, proudly serving communities since 1965. McDonald’s. I’m lovin’ it.

In this episode of Decoding TV, David Chen and Siddhant Adlakha discuss Welcome to Chippendales, a new Hulu original series starring Kumail Nanjiani about the creation of the Chippendales male revue show.

Programming note: In this podcast episode we will cover (and spoil) the first two episodes of Welcome to Chippendales, “An Elegant, Exclusive Atmosphere,” and “Four Geniuses”. We will record one other podcast episode later to discuss the finale and entire season.

How well does Welcome to Chippendales get the persona of Somen "Steve" Banerjee, the man responsible for creating Chippendales? Does the show make good use of Murray Bartlett and Dan Stevens? And does it capture what it’s like to be an Indian immigrant in America during this time period? We discuss all this and more!

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0:00.0	This episode of decoding TV is brought to you by McDonald's, proudly serving communities
0:04.8	since 1965. McDonald's is celebrating their crew members who help everyone feel a sense
0:10.3	of community whenever they stop into a Mickey D's. So whether you know that when crew member
0:14.5	who always remembers you like your big Mac with an extra pickle, or the crew member who
0:18.0	always greets you in the drive-through with a warm smile, thank you McDonald's crew members
0:21.7	everywhere for making our McDonald's visits even more special. McDonald's, I'm loving
0:27.5	it. Hello everyone, and welcome to decoding TV, a podcast about television. I'm David Chen,
0:34.9	and I'm here today with Sarantatlaka, Saranth. Thanks for joining me today, man. How are
0:39.3	you doing? Hey, thank you for having me. I'm doing much better than I was last week,
0:43.3	which is when I finally got the Rona. Everybody get vaccinated. Indeed, indeed. Well, welcome
0:49.8	to this episode of decoding TV. And we are here today because, you know, I've been in
0:58.3	the process of turning decoding Westworld into decoding TV, and we've tried out a bunch
1:02.3	of different things, different kind of models of covering TV. And some examples of that,
1:10.5	I'm just going to throw out there, are, you know, week by week coverage for shows like
1:14.6	decoding Westworld or for Westworld. But also for the crown, which is a binge release on Netflix,
1:20.5	we're covering that in batches. We're doing episodes one through three in four, three, six,
1:24.3	and so on and so forth. Well, now we have something even more different than that. There is a new
1:29.4	show that's debuted on Hulu called Welcome to Chippendales. And we are going to be covering this show.
1:37.2	The first two episodes of which have already premiered, we're going to cover the first two
1:41.0	episodes, season one, episode one and two, an elegant, exclusive atmosphere is the name of
1:46.1	episode one, and the name of episode two is four geniuses. And then we are going to then come back
1:54.9	later on in seven or so weeks and discuss the finale to see if it added up to any, if, you know,
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