Ben Lindbergh

Hello, and welcome into The Ringerverse, your Nexus feed for all things fandom.

I'm Ben Lindberg, Senior Editor for The Ringer and robo-brain of Button Mash.

Like the products of inbreeding support groups,

but MASH is at max capacity, so Triple Cousins doesn't cut it anymore.

However, there is room for another player on this podcast, a Ringer staff writer, the automated Dan, Daniel Chin.

Welcome back.

Thanks for having me back, Ben.

How's it going?

Going well.

Sharpen your pencils, people.

Grab some tasty trail mix, because we are settling in to discuss season two, episode six, The Other Player.

Directed by Lisa Joy and written by Dave Hill.

Is that a good idea?

As Barb says, none of this is a good idea, but we're doing it anyway.

And as always, we're beginning with our overall review of the episode.

So, Daniel, what's your verdict on The Other Player?

Yes, we'll see if there's enough time to talk about all of them on this episode.

But we praised last week's episode.

It was our favorite of the season, if not the series.

And that was partly because it was very focused and cohesive.