Eliana Dockterman

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Pablo Torre Finds Out · Share & Grill & Tell with Mike Golic Jr. and Mina Kimes · 28 Mar 2025 podcast

But with that, there was no sell to it. It was just the sell with all these people. And Mina, you talked about it with the dresses, the majority of influences. Look at how hot this person is. Look at how rich this person looks. And don't you want the thing that they're also using so that you will also appear rich, which is a concept that's pretty well worn.

But in those infomercials, that wasn't it. It was, hey, I can keep a boat afloat with this weird ass tape. That's sick. Look what it can do.

Are we really just trapped by our own nostalgia though? Because Pablo, you mentioned the relentless nature of it and who among us does not remember being woken up after falling asleep on the couch in the middle of the night with the TV on by the sounds of one of the, now that's what I call music CDs that's being advertised or any of those.

where it just immediately hits you, blasts you with this number, and you hear it over and over so often. I could, at that time, recite every song. It was like the riff-off in Pitch Perfect, where a lot of those songs now I only know in the context of how they flow into each other in that movie.

You used to know those songs based on how they would flow into the next track on that album of 80s hits or whatever. Now that's what I call music version. And it was also equally relentless in a way that felt subliminal at the time.

It's not the ads. It's the life around the ads that's changed. Yeah.

I brought a question about a very popular TV show that was posed in our group chat, which was White Lotus, the current season that's out of the hit HBO series that is now in season three where, you know, every year the show begins with a crime or a death and

that gives way to a story that usually takes place in some faraway land surrounding a bunch of people that come together from different lives and are tied to some hotel or resort. This season's in Thailand right now. And I think as the recording of this podcast, we are six episodes into this season. So spoiler alert for anybody that's not all the way caught up.

But is this season of White Lotus actually good? No.

It's not.

And I don't think that's the wrong answer, but I guess my question is, why with shows like this, and I feel like a subsidiary of this has been season two of Severance in some ways, which is I feel like there's a lot of societal pressure to just nod and agree that shows made by certain networks.

It's a really good sci-fi show that people are trying to constantly convince me is the most well-thought-out prestige show of all time.

And I think a lot of this also boils back to, like, fan culture around these shows because the Reddits that pop up, the internet theories that surround these shows, and the people that, in all walks of life, you know, the idea of being a ball-knower is this thing we lionize over everything else. And if you push back at all on this show, it's, well, it's a slow burn. You have to appreciate that.

It's like... all right, you don't have to insult me like that. Not every slow burn is well-earned in the payoff that you get at the end. And with this, it does just feel like, hey, this is just the vacation porn this season. Not to use that last term too loosely, considering the other subplot of the show that's... Which is incest.

This whole season has felt like a series of just small, encapsulated, unrelated, that aren't paying off to something else. Like, I was reading, I think Time Magazine did, like, an article breaking down this season and was talking to experts, especially with the, again, the incest subplot. They were looking at some psychoanalysis there.

But they brought up, like, Game of Thrones and how that had, but it was like, that gave way to a plot line that had that at the center. Right. went on to go and be incredibly impactful in the dynamic of that relationship was, you know, a little more germane at the times and also just a fantasy show. Like, it still wasn't great to see. It's not like we're promoting that by any means.

It was still a very uncomfortable part of that show. But they also didn't make it the show's whole personality. Like, this whole season has felt like just kind of dancing around getting to that point. And the only person, now that Jennifer Coolidge is gone, which is the other reason I think this season suffered, is my guy Guy Talk. He's the only one I have to root for. Oh, God.

But I... So I would... I hate him.

Different tax bracket.

and have at it, so I can identify with that. I just had this realization when you were talking about Mike White too. Is he the Mike McCarthy then of show creators? Where an immediate success has given way to an offense that basically demands that the players go out there and continue to make incredible plays while not really making a ton for them?

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