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 206
In Episode 206, Derek Madden and Matt Kolsky are still surviving somehow, and find time to discuss:
- This week’s episode of Top Chef (4:20) and its great Jonathan Gold-inspired LA food tour…
- The new Hulu movie Big Time Adolescence (19:45) and how it turned out to be strangely moving…
- AMC’s Dispatches From Elsewhere (24:30) and how its madcap plot and general insanity don’t hinder its charm…
- AMC’s Better Call Saul (33:05) and the near-fever pitch it has reached as it builds towards a final season…
- The new Amazon film Blow the Man Down (39:15) and the guys’ differing views on its enjoyability…
- The old FX show Terriers (42:50) and how it makes a great binge during our time of quarantine…
- Homework for next week (47:15), including: another episode of Top Chef, Tiger King on Netflix, the return of Netflix’s Ozark, the new season of The Challenge, the new Pearl Jam record Gigaton and a check-in with political comedy shows Last Week Tonight and Patriot Act, which should be very interesting given where we’re at as a world…