TV Break: June 2025 - Reviews of Sirens; Andor; Hacks; The Last of Us; The Studio PLUS Sports Streaming Success Story

Welcome to TV Break, where Pop Break’s Podcasts Editor Alex Marcus is joined by editor-in-chief Bill Bodkin, and TV Columnist Josh Sarnecky to talk about the happenings in television.Here’s the format of the show:The Best Thing I Saw on TV Last Month – Alex, Bill, & Josh talk about a show/episode/event they liked from the last month including HBO’s The Last of Us, Disney Plus’s Andor, Max’s Hacks, and Apple TV Plus’s The Studio.Newsbreak – This month, they breakdown a busy month of news out of TV’s Upfronts, with a special focus on the decline of scripted TV and the rising prominence of sports in this year’s presentations.Streaming Wars – Alex, Bill, & Josh pick a streamer they think “won the month” based on new shows airing/upcoming shows announced etc. Josh and Bill both went with Netflix thanks all the news they dropped out of this month’s TUDUM event, along with the news they swapped out Cocomelon for Sesame Street.Meanwhile, Alex capes up for the newly rebranded HBO Max, thanks to the high quality and virality of their big series The Last of Us, Hacks, and The Rehearsal, the NBA playoffs, the Superman film library, and their recent decision to cull much of Discovery’s library from their service.New Series Spotlight – This month we are shining the spotlight on Netflix’s Sirens. This series stars The White Lotus’ Meghann Fahy and House of the Dragon’s Milly Alcock as estranged sisters unexpectedly reunited on the eve of Alcock’s boss’s big Labor Day Weekend Gala. Julianne Moore, Kevin Bacon, Josh Segarra, Glenn Howerton, and Bill Camp also star. The series was created by Molly Smith Metzler, and is an adaptation of her 2011 play Elemeno Pea.