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Hollywood Prospectus Podcast: The Killing, Girls, The Master, and Drake

By Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald at 5:01 PM ET

With the good Sunday-night shows off the air, it was time for Chris Ryan and me to strap on our galoshes and deal with the bad one: The Killing (1:05) was (mercifully?) killed this past weekend, and I hope you’ll forgive us if we did not speak kindly of the dead. Instead, we spent some time splashing around in the puddles of incoherence that tended to pool around this soggy show and discussing just when the whole world stopped caring about who killed Rosie Larsen. On a happier note, we went back and forth on the generally excellent season finale of Girls (20:55) and the even more exciting new trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master (35:10). After a brief, bottle-tossing detour to discuss Drake’s role in the new 2 Chainz video (41:20) and his allegedly more dangerous involvement in a club brawl with professional villain Chris Brown, we finished with a spirited talk about the latest entrant into the Double Down Book Club, Dennis Lehane (45:10). Like George Pelecanos, Lehane was a staff writer on The Wire and is responsible for novels both fun and punky (A Drink Before the War) and more sweeping and serious (Mystic River). He’s worth a read whether you’re in his native Boston or in Little Boston, drinking milkshakes with Daniel Day-Lewis.

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Hollywood Prospectus Podcast: Prometheus, Mad Men Finale, Girls, and Frank Ocean

By Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald at 3:15 PM ET

Is that a xenomorph in your pocket or are you just happy to see us? On this week's episode of the Hollywood Prospectus podcast, Andy and I talked about seeing Ridley Scott's sorta-not-sorta Alien prequel, Prometheus (:55). In a spoiler-ific discussion, we addressed major themes including Michael Fassbender's post-up game, Idris Elba's many accents, whether it matters that the movie asks way more questions than it answers, and whether Logan Marshall-Green has any business playing a scientist.

Then we moved on to the business of Sunday-night TV, where we waved goodbye, while naked and tripping, to another season of Mad Men (18:10). Meet the new Don? Same as the old Don? Was this a meditation in an emergency or a misstep for this mighty show?

We also talked about the penultimate episode of the first season of Girls (31:48), the trailers for Django Unchained (37:25) and Flight (41:40), and Frank Ocean (44:28) and Superchunk's (46:25) entries into the summer jam sweepstakes. So join us, why don't you. With this podcast, you're never alone.