TV Break: March 2023 - Mando Returns; The Last of Us Divides; Poker Face Soothes; & Daisy Jones and The Six Disappoints

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, and Josh talk about a show/episode/event they liked from the last month including HBO’s The Last of Us, Crunchyroll’s Demonslayer, ABC’s Abbott Elementary, AppleTV+’s Shrinking, Peacock’s Poker Face, and Disney Plus’s The Mandalorian. News Break – Alex, Bill, and Josh dive deep on this year’s Q4 Earnings Calls, taking their audience on a tour of the latest news from Netflix, Warner Bros. Discovery, Comcast, Paramount Global, Diamond Sports Group (a subsidiary of Sinclair Broadcasting), Disney, and the entire Cable/Satellite industry. Streaming Wars – Alex, Bill, and Josh pick a streamer they think “won the month” based on new shows airing/upcoming shows announced etc. We had a house divided this month, as Bill went with Netflix after they successfully held their first live event; Josh went with HBOMAX after The Last of Us ran the table on the culture discourse this month (along with the James Gunn DCU news and the upcoming Succession series finale); and Alex went with Peacock on the strength of their leading ladies of Natasha Lyonne in the series Poker Face, Cate Blanchett in film TÁR, and M3GAN in the film M3GAN. New Series Spotlight – Alex, Bill, and Josh review Daisy Jones and The Six, Prime Video’s faux documentary miniseries created by Scott Neustadter & Michael H Weber, adapted from a book by Taylor Jenkins’s Reid. The series, which tracks the rise and fall of a 70s era rock band, stars Riley Keough, Sam Claflin, Suki Waterhouse, Josh Whitehouse, Camilla Morrone, among others and is executive produced by Reese Witherspoon.