The Toy Department features radio professionals Matt Kolsky and Derek Madden discussing, debating and dissecting all things sports, entertainment and pop culture. It's a free-wheeling, unfiltered chat about the lighter side of the modern world.
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The Toy Department – Episode 205
In Episode 205, Derek Madden and Matt Kolsky are still adjusting to our strange new reality as they hop through:
- The challenges of living in a COVID-19 world (1:00) and the potential pitfalls of working from home…
- The return of Bravo’s Top Chef (10:45) and thoughts on all the All-Star competitors in this year’s LA-based season…
- The season four premiere of IFC’s Brockmire (28:30) and what a marvelous delight it continues to be, regardless of whether anyone seems to be watching it…
- Season two of Black Monday on Showtime (35:30) and whether it stands out from the pack in a crowded TV landscape…
- The first couple episodes of Hulu’s Little Fires Everywhere (38:35) and what an interesting show it seems to be, though Reese Witherspoon treads familiar ground…
- HBO and David Simon’s The Plot Against America (49:20) and how it’s really just an awful lot to digest at a time like this…
- Homework for next week (54:40), including: another episode of Top Chef, the new Hulu movie Big Time Adolescence, the new Amazon Prime movie Blow the Man Down, check-ins on Better Call Saul and Dispatches from Elsewhere, and a quarantine streaming special — the old FX show Terriers, which is now available on Hulu…