Andy Greenwald
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Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And it's really dissociating and powerful.
Because we started with a quasi love letter to NBA fandom.
Sure.
I need your help on this.
I need you to use the sports half of your Grantland binary brain.
Who is the most, in your opinion, maybe even in this finals, like the most, and I feel like it's probably someone on the Knicks, like the most old school player who is not going to trick you and not dazzle you.
Josh Hart.
Right, is just going to go at you and it's going to be basketball.
Josh Hart.
And that's Star City to me, especially in the third episode, where there is nothing in the mechanic... I mean, the setting and the fact that within each episode they can do a tense Apollo 13-esque space drama is remarkable.
But even to use that as a set piece in the third episode where something goes wrong, there wasn't a single moment watching the launch sequence played out over the back half of the third episode where I didn't know something was going to go wrong.
Yes.
Especially once the one character...
space swims to the back to release the pressure.
As soon as he did that, my brain went into like the top, you know, you can like change the camera angle and I'm watching the all 22.
I'm mixing my sports metaphors.
But I was like, I know what's going to happen now because I have watched television before.
But I'm curious how they play it.
And the way they played it is right down the middle and perfect with the cuts when you stop hearing from the back and the elation mixed with a sudden discovery and then the slow realization that something has gone wrong.
This is textbook.