100. Hollywood Behaving Badly

It’s our 100th episode! Time for a pop quiz, then on to the following:

• HBO president caught secretly striking back against critics

• But is working on HBO’s The Idol grounds for any lawsuit?

• Love for Alan Sepinwall, fastest TV critic in the West

• Behind the scenes at Tucker Carlson’s exit from FOX

• The “c-word”

• “She said Tucker Carlson is a messenger from God, and he said nope.”

• The word Nancy cannot stand, and the phrase that makes Sarah blush

• Can The Real Housewives ever be a moral enterprise?

• How RHONY’s Leah McSweeney became “Hurricane Leah” and the lawsuit she recently filed

• Drinking and reality TV

• “If you go to a whorehouse, you’re gonna get fucked”

• Wild, hopeful, morally fraught stuff in the fertility industry

• A baby made with the DNA of three people: Wait, what/how?

• We cannot countenance an image of the Fleshlight, but if you must

Plus, a “pretend-ian” scandal and a smoking-hot sports star in the hot box

Correction: Nancy mentions that Leah McSweeney was writing a column for Playgirl. It was Penthouse. Management regrets the error

REMINDER: First Sunday Zoom! This Sunday, November 5, 8pm ET/5pm PT, when we gather to discuss the 2021 film The Tragedy of Macbeth, starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand. We’ll send out a link that day.

Recommended podcast: The Rest Is History Macbeth episode