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Hollywood Prospectus Podcast: Breaking Bad, Homeland, the TCA Press Tour, and Danny Boyle's Olympics
By Andy Greenwald and Chris Ryan on
Walter White and Jesse Pinkman weren’t the only old amigos back in business this week. Chris Ryan and I were finally reunited in the Grantland studio to cook up a wide-ranging discussion on the pop culture issues of the day. We started in the desert, where Breaking Bad (1:00) had a rare lesser episode. But the slow, methodical building of the Heisenberg empire segued into a conversation about Jim Pagels’s recent article in Slate (18:30) in which he argued against binge-watching TV. Is it a good thing to treat an entire season of television like Skinny Pete treats a bag of blue? Or should episodes be parceled out carefully, like hush-fund payments to incarcerated laundry managers? From there we covered the recent TCA Press Tour (32:30), including the perpetual foibles of NBC and the intensely awkward questioning of Claire Danes. To wrap up, we talked about Danny Boyle’s strange rise from gritty chronicler of born-slippy druggies to Olympic ringmaster (41:00), and the hefty disappointment of Rick Ross’s new album (45:00). God forgives, but Josh Lucas doesn’t.
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