Rookies. The hottest show of the year came out the day after American Thanksgiving and almost 6 weeks after Canadian Thanksgiving. And who better to discuss the intersection of professional hockey and sex between men? Red & Ivan strap on their *checks notes* skates and immediately fall on the ice where they remain to discuss HBO Max’s Heated Rivalry.

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The Innovator. Season One came out April of 2024 so Fallout just barely beats the “every two years” allegations by getting Season 2 out just before the new year. Red & Ivan emerge from their executive cryo chambers to talk Prime Video’s Fallout.

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Fallout 2x01: Old-Fashioned Market Research
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La Chica o El Mundo. Writer Vince Gilligan wrote several dozen episodes of The X-Files and several of its spin-offs and then vanished for 25 years, producing no other works. Now he’s back doing the only thing he’s ever done: creating excellent speculative fiction. Red & Ivan join the hive mind and think about Apple TV’s Pluribus.

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Pluribus 1x09: Unknown Word or Podcast
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Pluribus 1x08: A Minute Amount of Maid
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The Gap. Writer Vince Gilligan wrote several dozen episodes of The X-Files and several of its spin-offs and then vanished for 25 years, producing no other works. Now he’s back doing the only thing he’s ever done: creating excellent speculative fiction. Red & Ivan join the hive mind and think about Apple TV’s Pluribus.

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Pluribus 1x07: I Am Not Going to the Library
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HDP. Writer Vince Gilligan wrote several dozen episodes of The X-Files and several of its spin-offs and then vanished for 25 years, producing no other works. Now he’s back doing the only thing he’s ever done: creating excellent speculative fiction. Red & Ivan join the hive mind and think about Apple TV’s Pluribus.

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Pluribus 1x06: It’s No Albuquerque
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Please, Carol & Got Milk. Writer Vince Gilligan wrote several dozen episodes of The X-Files and several of its spin-offs and then vanished for 25 years, producing no other works. Now he’s back doing the only thing he’s ever done: creating excellent speculative fiction. Red & Ivan join the hive mind and think about Apple TV’s Pluribus.

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Pluribus 1x04-1x05: ACAB
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Pirate Lady & Grenade. Writer Vince Gilligan wrote several dozen episodes of The X-Files and several of its spin-offs and then vanished for 25 years, producing no other works. Now he’s back doing the only thing he’s ever done: creating excellent speculative fiction. Red & Ivan join the hive mind and think about Apple TV’s Pluribus.

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Pluribus 1x02-1x03: Thirty Helens Agree
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We is Us. Writer Vince Gilligan wrote several dozen episodes of The X-Files and several of its spin-offs and then vanished for 25 years, producing no other works. Now he’s back doing the only thing he’s ever done: creating excellent speculative fiction. Red & Ivan join the hive mind and think about Apple TV’s Pluribus.

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Pluribus 1x01: Unreliable Hive Mind
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We Watch. And We Are Always There. After the surprise smash hit Interview With a Vampire, who better to take a swing at the Anne Rice Verse than John Lee Hancock, the man who directed The Blind Side. Red & Ivan hop on a mystery train to AMC’s Talamasca: The Secret Order.

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