Cued Up

Anthony Mayes brings in Jason Madison to discuss the best of television in the last year. Why did we wait til January 2024? Because The Curse and Fargo hadn't wrapped up yet. Honorable Mentions at 6:02 I Think You Should Leave, How To With John Wilson, Beef, Slow Horses, Reservation Dogs Dear Mama 16:09 #10 Dave 25:15 #9 The Last of Us 33:02 #8 Righteous Gemstones 44:37 #7 Poker Face 48:23 #6 The Curse 53:32 #5 Abbott Elementary 1:10:02 #4 Fargo 1:13:21 #3 Barry 1:16:11 #2 The Bear 1:24:27 #1 Succession 1:31:46 Hijack, The Bad Batch & Winning Time 1:38:12 The Black Shows that got Axed in 2023 1:47:23 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anthony Mayes and Jake Hoye wrap up the impressive third season while Eden Liu helicopters to a secluded island for a business meeting. Kendall comes clean, Connor's the eldest son, Greg's going for the Grand Dutchy, and Wambsgans grabs the big piece of chicken as Logan freezes out his kids from the big picture decision making. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anthony Mayes, Jake Hoye and Eden Liu are wedding bound under the tuscan sun. Caroline and Shiv share a british cigarette and a twist of the knife, Logan makes Iverson test his mozzarella for poison, Greg climbs the dating ladder, and Kendall has a pool day. Only one more episode left. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anthony Mayes, Jake Hoye and Eden Liu have secured their rainbow wristbands to enter Kendall's exclusive treehouse. Together they deconstruct the massive midlife crisis, Roman's bathroom business dealings, Shiv's shoddy dance moves, Tom's drug sequencing, and so much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anthony Mayes, Jake Hoye and Eden Liu take you inside the Room where it Happens as Logan selects the next President. Kendall is having a full on crisis, Tom has eradicated hope, Greg soars on the wings of white power, and Shiv's opinion matters more, but it's Roman who continues to do his finest work in the bathroom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anthony Mayes, Jake Hoye and Eden Liu are volunteering to hold the scepter as the Waystar Shareholder Meeting descends into abject chaos. Greg is suing charities, Tom is tracking Shiv's ovulation, the old men have become belligerent zucchinis, Connor's presidential candidacy is strengthened, and Filibuster Frank gives the speech of his life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anthony Mayes, Jake Hoye and Eden Liu are flipping through binders full of prisons, helping Tom find the institution with the best toilet wine. Logan and Kendall are reunited in their attempt to schmooze Adrien Brody, Shiv tries to get some respect at work, Roman gives back to the homeless and Greg is being courted with pastry baskets as the Shareholder Meeting looms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anthony Mayes, Jake Hoye and Eden Liu are researching the cure for Caucasian Rich Brain as the Roys expose their chamber drama to the masses through the media. Kendall is obsessed with getting torn by Sophie Iwobi, but still has the nerve(ana) to ruin Shiv's press conference, and the Feds show up to raid Waystar. Also, Greg buys a watch and Tom has a dog named Mondale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anthony Mayes, Jake Hoye and Eden Liu are bringing relevant donuts to the tea party as Kendall tries to sell his siblings on patricide, Logan brings Marcia to Sarajevo for support, and Greg the Egg desperately seeks legal counsel. It's only this podcast's teats that give it any value. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anthony Mayes, Jake Hoye and Eden Liu are going full beast as Succession returns for Season 3 after a two year hiatus. The Roys have split into two camps, power-monger Logan and his self serving cronies against Kendall and the revolution. We take the temperature of the show before manning our action stations and determining who shit the bed and which character is our number one boy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anthony Mayes, Tom Haberstroh, Dave Schilling, Jake Hoye and Eden Liu are finally leaving the park and entering the real world with Westworld Season 3. It's been two years since the last episode so we've got plenty to catch up on, as well as the introduction of a whole slate of new characters including Aaron Paul. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mayes, Tom, Dave, Jake and Eden question the nature of their reality and question whether they were watching a re-run with a frustrating episode 2 in this crucially shorter season. Lots of familiar characters come back, some new core directives are assigned, and the introduction of a new potential big bad allow us to get plenty of takes of, compared to the zero bullets fired by QA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mayes, Tom, Dave, Jake and Eden have had their control units smuggled out of the park and placed into new bodies. This episode finally reveals who's been pulling the strings this whole time! Join us as we drink bourbon, drop Genre, and shoot all the mirrors because not everyone is handling this quarantine the same. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mayes, Tom, Dave, Jake and Eden turn off their emotional affects and break down a third episode that introduced us to Charlotte Hale's life and offered Caleb a new one. Tom really misses Ed Harris, Dave breaks down this week's featurette, and Jake uncorks a poetic theory in another sensational podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mayes, Tom, Dave, Jake and Eden movie marathon their way past the halfway point in an episode that was exciting on the surface and gave us "incite" into the mysterious Serac and the Divergent Caleb. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mayes, Dave, Jake and Eden participate in a group therapy succession to decompress from a particularly difficult episode that focused on our man William, but also the far less compelling Maeve and Charlotte. Star Wars and Matrix references abound as this third season rolls along. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mayes, Dave, Tom, Jake and Eden spelunk into the massive freezer below Solomon to retrieve the plan to bring humanity to its knees. Tom really misses Logan, Dave is starting to get fussy about the lack of creativity, Eden wishes the show was still intricate, and Jake is too hesitant to drop theory bombs from his prediction plane above the clouds. Only one episode left! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mayes, Eden, Tom, Jake and Dave hit the hulk button one and enter analysis one last time for the final episode of a tumultuous season of Westworld. Alliances are broken, memories are deleted and our guy Chubbs is in a tub suckin down miniature liquor bottles like candy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mayes, Jake, Eden and Corey Hammond travel back to Winden for the final season of time traveling caves and circuitous family trees deeply rooted with trauma. We hit some of our biggest lingering questions from the first two seasons before breaking down the first two new episodes with help from notes written in the Triquetra Notebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mayes, Jake, Eden and Corey Hammond try to save the world in both yours and ours by finding out once and for all the identity of the Origin. As the shadow knot continues to twist ever tighter, we do have some moments of levity in the light to discuss Tronte's peculiar penis, Egon's instant alcoholism and just how many St. Christopher's medals are floating around out there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices