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What We Watched Over the Holidays: The End of ‘Stranger Things,’ ‘Marty Supreme,’ ‘Heated Rivalry,’ and ‘Landman’

The Watch

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.55.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Chris and Andy talk about the end of ‘Stranger Things’ and whether the final season lived up to the hype (7:10). Then they discuss the exhilarating experience of  watching ‘Marty Supreme’ in the theater, Timothée Chalamet’s remarkable performance, and the expert use of cameos throughout the film (22:18). Later, they discuss the excellent close to ‘Heated Rivalry’ Season 1 (38:26) and ‘Landman’ Season 2, Episode 8 (45:26). Subscribe to the Ringer TV YouTube channel here for full episodes of The Watch and so much more! Hosts: Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald Producers: Kaya McMullen and Kai Grady Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I need sports to have to clear the room.

0:07.0

Stand up and walk now.

0:11.0

Hello and welcome to The Watch. My name is Chris Ryan.

0:15.0

I am an editor at the Ringer.com and joining me in the studio for another year, it's Marty's supreme clientele.

0:25.4

It's Andy Greenwald.

0:27.0

It's good.

0:28.1

It's good New Year's energy.

0:29.7

What's up, man?

0:30.7

You look and sound, rested, replenished, reborn in a lot of ways.

0:35.9

I mean, I've been out there.

0:36.9

I've been pounding the pavement on the East Coast. You have been. The East Coast metropolises of New York City and Philadelphia. My voice feels a little bit off, honestly, but my energy is great. My mind is sharp. A couple Lucy's and Zorons America. I did have some heaters. I did. I had, I smoked a Capri Slim. Okay, that sounds, you know, like, just like a

0:57.5

slim cigarette. Did you, who'd you pawn that off of? My wife. Just put her out on Front Street,

1:03.8

I see. It's right. Okay. The health insurance premiums are paid, so. Did you like the skinny

1:08.9

nature of the cigarette? Did that? It tasted like a roly, uh, you know, as the English kind of, you know, roll their cigarettes. It didn't have a lot of the like, um, this is the difference between us. The Turkish power of camels. I thought you were mispronouncing rollo, the caramel candies that my children like. They mean cigarettes taste like Rolos, they'd be fully back.

1:28.6

So back.

1:30.2

Greenwald, we're an amazing time to be alive.

1:32.8

Here we are in Taylor Sheridan's America, and it is 2026.

1:37.9

The inbox to reach us is still to watch at Spotify.com.

1:41.8

How to do over the holidays?

1:43.4

Our email inbox. We got a couple. I got one over the weekend from a lovely lady from the South who wanted to call us out on some of our, our like litigation of Rebecca from Landman's purse holding. She was like, that is actually how women from the South do hold their purses. Is Rebecca meant to be from the South? No, she's a Northwestern grad, in fact. I believe. The character, the actress is Canadian. Uh-huh. Okay. So, you know. So do you think she went method and started walking around like a velociraptor? Well, it's kind of like, you know, I bet it was like the way Shalamed did Marty Supreme. And We're going to also have... In the defense of this reader and this listener, yeah. That is pretty small potatoes considering what we could be complaining about on the show and perhaps it's a bit unfair. Just like a little bit. It's like a little bit unfair. We will talk about Landman at some point, but we have a big menu of stuff. You can also follow us on Instagram, the watchpod underscore. You can watch us on YouTube at the Ringer-T-V-TV YouTube channel, and you can also watch us on Spotify, where I hope you were listening to us. Today we are going to talk about the stuff we watched over Christmas vacation, quote-unquote. Because when you're two guys who love culture, there's no

2:51.8

days off. No. Every day you go out and you say, inspire me, you know? Yeah. And Los Angeles never does,

2:59.2

but you were in a more captivating metropolis. Yeah, I feel energized. I feel stimulated, you know.

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