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
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