Always Be Watching

Dan takes a gander at the second season of Mystery Road.Chris considers the Tiger King aftershow on Netflix - The King and I. He questions TV made in the age of COVID-19.Dan raves about Unorthodox.And then it is round 2.5 of the weekly TV trivia game.

This week on the Always Be Watching pod:*Chris tells us about the new Tim & Eric comedy Beef House on Adult Swim*Dan tries to explain what new streaming service Quibi is all about*Chris checks in with the second season of Lego Masters Australia*Dan talks about Brew Brothers - the new Netflix comedy from the creator of The LeagueThen it is week 2 of ongoing trivia competition: The TV Masters.Please note: We're still trying to settle on the best way for us to record the podcast with the two of us isolated in different locations. So, there's a few minor sound plops and ploops in this episode.

Is there a bigger show right now than Tiger King? Chris offers his thoughts.Can a movie tug at heartstrings better than a Pixar film? Dan talks about new film Onward.Is Bosch the ultimate Dad show? Oh, and Dan and Chris start their competition with round one of their new trivia competition The 2020 Television Masters.

This week on Always Be Watching it is just Dan with a microphone, some stuff he's been watching on Netflix, and a sense of existential unease.Both The Platform and the Marc Maron special End Times Fun are streaming now on Netflix.

Recorded in the undisclosed Always Be Watching bunker is the Always Be Watching podcast. We've disinfected the remote control this week as we sit around with our masks and gloves on. This week:11:55 Paradise PD (Netflix)21:18 Devs (US: FX on Hulu | AUS: Foxtel)29:54 Ugly Delicious (Netflix)37:16 Amazing Stories (Apple TV+)

We've been doing some watching. Of TV. Movies. Cute girls. Trains. Birds. Lots of things. But on this podcast we talk about telly shows and movies specifically. We're talking about the following. Listed in no particular order:I Am Not Okay With This (Netflix)New UK comedy Breeders (FX/Sky/Foxtel)New Australian drama Stateless (ABC)New American comedy AJ and The Queen (Netflix) Lego Masters USA (Fox) - a British format adapted for the US and based on a Danish interlocking brick toy. This is Always Be Watching - the cultural melting pot of TV podcasting.

What an episode! Chris talks about TV! Dan talks about TV! They both talk about TV!

Who would have ever thought that the Always Be Watching podcast would actually reach 50 episodes? Certainly nobody who has ever listened to it.This week Dan and Chris are excited to chat about:Letterkenny (Netflix) - 02:46High Fidelity (Hulu) - 12:39Locke & Key (Netflix) - 21:32Call of The Wild (a movie) - 29:26Hunters (Amazon Prime Video) - 37:10Thanks for listening!

Here's what you need to know about this episode:Dan talks about Birds of Prey and The Emancipation of One Harley Quinn (in cinemas now), but really wishes he had instead talked about the film Little Women (which is also still in cinemas and is really f*%&ing good).Chris talks about a Netflix cheerleading show called Cheer. This is unrelated to the TV show Cheers, which is very off-brand for this podcast. How good is Cheers?Dan watched the new Apple TV+ show Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet which has the worst name for a TV show ever, but it is in the top third of shows ever. This is keeping in mind that most shows are, in fact, terrible.Chris mentions a show called Great Australian Trail Journeys on SBS/SBS On Demand - the show doesn't exist. But there is a show called Great Australian RAILWAY Journeys that sounds staggeringly similar.There's no chapter breaks this week because I've spent time doing them for the past couple of episodes and they haven't showed up - I don't understand why just yet.

If Always Be Watching proves anything, we're eclectic.This week we have a really broad range of shows (and a movie)Hip Hop Evolution (season 4) - Chris dips back in to see where the Netflix show is up to with its fourth seasonRagnarok - Dan takes a look at the new Scandi drama from Adam Price. He's the fellow who made Borgen.The Stranger - This is a long lost show from the 60s that is described as the Australian Doctor Who.Uncut Gems - We take a look at the critically lauded Adam Sandler movie.

On this week's podcast Chris takes off to the heavens with Star Trek Picard and questions what should be placed into a mouth with a new Netflix show about Street Food. Meanwhile Dan is focused on TV's new hip comedy Awkwafina is Nora From Queens and the documentary At The Drive In which isn't about the band as much as it is a documentary about an actual drive in.

It's a pretty diverse week of shows here on the ol' ABW podcast. Dan and Chris discuss the anthology show about the experience of US immigrants Little America before diving into the world of privilege and minor annoyances that we've come to love on Curb Your Enthusiasm. We then discuss the weirdo comedy of Medical Police and dive into 80s comedy classic film Stir Crazy.Oh, and then there's our weekly Apu news segment.It's a mixed bag and we're just the podcast to handle it.

It's another week, it's another Always Be Watching. This week Dan and Chris are talking about Sex.... Explained - the new documentary show from Netflix. There's also the sexy film about international finance tax shelters The Laundromat. We check out the soapy ice skating Netflix show Spinning Out. And Chris is probably going to upset the Internet with a chat about its favourite girlfriend Rick & Morty. Legally, we're advised to tell you that we are offering too much show.

It's the first proper show of 2020 with Dan and Chris back in their respective chairs. This week they're chatting about the new HBO murder mystery The Outsider, Netflix comedy special John Mulaney and The Sack Lunch Bunch, indie smash hit Jojo Rabbit, and we offer up some quick thoughts on The Gloaming and The Two Popes. Oh, and some final thoughts on some film called Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Every episode of Always Be Watching is a special one. But this week is incredibly special with special guest co-host Simon Band joining Dan Barrett to discuss the shows recently watched. Simon is very British. Almost too British. So, he discusses the UK panel chat comedy show The Big Fat Quiz. Dan is an artfully-minded guy and so he brings to the table the arty horror film Midsommar. And then the two TV podcasters offer some thoughts on the Mandaloran finale and the series as a whole.

This week Dan and Chris cast their watching eyes back over 2019 - what were their highlights throughout the year?

It's the annual Always Be Watching holiday special. Dan and Chris kick off by talking about the TV shows they watched this week - Making It and Threat Level Midnight (a spin-off YouTube special from The Office). They then discuss their personal TV viewing habits over the end of year holiday break. And quietly, there is a bit of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker chatter. No spoilers - this was recorded just before the gents went off to see the film.

We learned a lot of important lessons this week: *Mrs Fletcher is waaaaaaaaaaaaay less conservative than she seems*Servant is creepy AF*One Paul Rudd is better than two.*Dan really has some issues with Kevin Smith

At long last Dan and Chris are reunited in the studio to discuss what men discuss:Introduction and casual Mandalorian / Watchmen chatter11:16 Upright (Foxtel) starring comedian Tim Minchin16:32 Frozen 2 (Playing now at the movies)27:26 Knives Out (Playing now at the movies)34:29 Tuca and Bertie (Netflix)

Dan is flying solo this week and starts rambling into a microphone for 15 minutes with no edits. Ridiculous. He recommends checking out the Amazon Prime Video film Brittany Runs a Marathon, the Netflix show The Toys That Made Us, and new Netflix Martin Scorsese film The Irishman.