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Listen: Firewall & Iceberg Podcast No. 22

Daniel Fienberg and Alan Sepinwall discuss 'Treme,' 'Louie,' 'Futurama,' 'Rookie Blue' and much more

By Daniel Fienberg Wednesday, Jun 23, 2010 3:45 PM

Happy Wednesday. It's time for another summer episode of The Firewall & Iceberg Podcast.

Whatever happened to summer being a relaxing time for TV critics? In this week's podcast, we cover this past weekend's finale of "Treme," this Friday's finale of "Party Down," the return of "Futurama," plus series premieres of FX's "Louie," ABC Family's "Huge" and ABC's "Rookie Blue." We also talk "Undeclared."

Somehow we kept it to under an hour, but only because of technical problems here and there.

Here's what came up:

The "Treme" finale -- 01:10 - 14:30

The "Party Down" finale -- 15:00 - 22:30

The return of "Futurama" -- 22:30 - 28:15

"Louie" -- 28:50 - 34:05

"Huge" -- 34:07 - 39:12

"Rookie Blue" -- 40:05 - 43:45

"Undeclared" -- 43:50 - 53:00

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And here's this week's podcast...

Firewall & Iceberg - Podcast 22

Daniel Fienberg
Executive Editor

A long-time member of the TCA Board and a longer-time blogger of "American Idol," Dan Fienberg writes about TV, except for when he writes about movies or sometimes writes about the Red Sox. But never music. He would sound stupid talking about music.

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Truck

Dan, you sound like you are on the verge of tears this entire podcast.
June 23, 2010 at 9:05PM EST Reply to Comment
- dan Truck - On the verge of tears? Huh. I'm not sure what's up with that. I don't *think* I was? I'll just attribute it to the emotion of the Isner/Mahut tennis match... -Daniel
  June 23, 2010 at 9:16PM EST
MadlyMild

I thought you guys sounded mad at each other the whole time.
June 23, 2010 at 11:03PM EST Reply to Comment
- sepinwall Nah, we were just mad at Skype for the constant technical problems we had to edit around. Our annoyance with each other was at the usual level.
  June 24, 2010 at 8:03AM EST
Carrie

Wait...Tivo's not cool?

...crap.
June 24, 2010 at 2:13PM EST Reply to Comment
The Only Jack

In response to Dan's grousing about the listeners thinking that Alan's signoff had to be a Lost reference: To be fair, it's a TV podcast, one that focused very heavily on Lost from the first one until Lost ended, so it seems like a logical mistake. Especially when I don't think Midnight Run has been directly quoted before.
June 24, 2010 at 3:26PM EST Reply to Comment
- dan The Only Jack - Honestly, the only reason for my grousing was needing to vocally explain Alan's sign-off. I'd have been perfectly happy to leave some people thinking "Midnight Run" and other people thinking "Lost" and maybe someday those Losties would watch "Midnight Run" and go, "Oh man. Maybe that's what Sepinwall meant!"
  
  But now the mystery is gone.
  
  -Daniel
  June 24, 2010 at 3:37PM EST
- The Only Jack Ahh, that makes sense. It's also pretty funny, considering how so many Lost fans (this one excluded) feel about unexplained mysteries!
  June 24, 2010 at 3:44PM EST
bgentz

They like this
June 24, 2010 at 10:14PM EST Reply to Comment
Scheer_Power

I liked the Futurama episodes tonight. I thought they were typical episodes that, if not for the HD (and finishing the story from the last movie in the 1st episode), someone could not tell where the episode aired in the timeline. Perhaps that's your problem with the episodes? Maybe expecting something big and extraordinary in the return and just getting a typical episode?
June 25, 2010 at 1:25AM EST Reply to Comment