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Firewall & Iceberg Podcast, episode 56: 'American Idol,' 'Parks and Recreation,' 'Being Human' and more

Press tour ends, and the reviews begin all over again for Dan and Alan

By Alan Sepinwall Monday, Jan 17, 2011 2:29 PM

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I'm back on the East Coast, but before I left California, Dan and I recorded one last in-person Firewall & Iceberg Podcast, in which we briefly touched on press tour but mainly offered up reviews and previews of a lot of the shows that are premiering this week. We already dealt with "Harry's Law" in a previous podcast, but in this one we cover: 

Final Press Tour Roundup -- 00:55 - 03:40
"Being Human"/"Skins" -- 03:45 - 12:30
"American Idol" Preview -- 12:35 - 24:30
NBC Thursday, specifically "Parks & Recreation" -- 24:35 - 36:45
"Fairly Legal" -- 36:50 - 44:10
"Onion News Network" and "Portlandia" -- 44:35 - 55:09 
 
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Alan Sepinwall has been reviewing television since the mid-'90s, first for Tony Soprano's hometown paper, The Star-Ledger, and now for HitFix. His new book, "The Revolution Was Televised," about the last 15 years of TV drama, is for sale at Amazon. He can be reached at sepinwall@hitfix.com
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    Patrick

    The direct download leads to the last episode.

    January 17, 2011 at 4:02PM EST Reply to Comment
    • Gizmo_bigger_talkback_profile

      dan Ooops! Forgot to swap out the links... Fixed. Thanks!

      -Daniel

      January 17, 2011 at 4:06PM EST



  • One very atypical podcast listener says:

    Please don't move the podcast just for Idol. Never watched an episode, don't care about it, often FF through the parts of the podcast discussing it.

    Also, I hope An Idiot Abroad makes the cut for blog/podcast discussion. And I'd love to see the HBO Gervais cartoon make the list.

    January 17, 2011 at 7:26PM EST Reply to Comment
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      dan Mark - Oh, you're not atypical in that respect, as I'm sure you'll discover in 5... 4... 3... 2... 1...

      -Dan

      January 17, 2011 at 7:48PM EST

    • I don't especially care what day the podcast goes up, but I also care little for the American Idol portion. The thing about Idol is that there are so many other places on the internet that discuss that. I am much more interested to hear what you guys have to say about something like Parks and Recreation or Chuck.

      January 17, 2011 at 10:30PM EST
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    David

    Since Dan won't be able to record a show next week, would it be possible for you to have a guest host for an episode?

    January 17, 2011 at 8:05PM EST Reply to Comment

    • As a payback, it would be cool for Alan to have Simmons on the show to talk sports TV. Or maybe a sports TV guy like Richard Deitsch or Richard Sandomir.

      Or, Like they said, Alan can take a break after Press Tour and hang out with his family. :>

      January 17, 2011 at 8:20PM EST
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    LJA

    Since I've only seen him as Toby Flenderson, it's really hard for me to imagine Paul Leiberstein as "energized."

    January 17, 2011 at 8:45PM EST Reply to Comment
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    747

    Vince Gilligan as a guest this year please.

    January 17, 2011 at 9:54PM EST Reply to Comment
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      rosengje Seconded. The Breaking Bad podcast is one of my favorites.

      January 17, 2011 at 10:39PM EST

    • I'd hope he does X-Files talk and not just Breaking bad.

      January 18, 2011 at 12:10AM EST
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      galxe Yes, that would indeed be fantastic. As to the idea of Mike Schur, Dan and Alan talking about Breaking Bad? Also something I'd like to see.

      January 18, 2011 at 7:16AM EST
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    Hwat

    I marvel at this, still over you can't afford proper microphones ;) but also about the rant about rape in some show I don't watch. I wonder if its really rape, or yet again some americans getting hysterical over something which isn't a problem. Guess I won't know since I'm not going to watch those shows *g*

    January 19, 2011 at 1:25PM EST Reply to Comment
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    thedemonhog

    Was the "See you in the next life, Jack" recorded separately for this one?

    January 23, 2011 at 8:13PM EST Reply to Comment
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      sepinwall Nope. Sometimes, my internal volume just goes way up on that line.

      The only time it was ever recorded separately was at the end of the show we did towards the end of Terriers first season, when I did a premature "See you in the next life, Terriers" and immediately regretted it.

      I still blame myself for killing that show.

      January 23, 2011 at 8:54PM EST
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    Kujo

    I think the BBC Being Human is a very underrated show. IMHO, it's one the better sci-fi/fantasy shows on the air. It's better than True Blood. New season just started.

    I wasn't that impressed with US version, though it's not bad. I'm glad they're keeping the tone of the original (very dark, with subtle comedy thrown in). I'll continue to watch it. There were a few subtle changes for the British version, mainly the sister.

    January 24, 2011 at 1:13PM EST Reply to Comment

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