565: Taking The Down Elevator To Dept. Q

565: Taking The Down Elevator To Dept. Q

Author: Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV June 4, 2025 Duration: 1:14:58
David T.'s beautiful son Taylor S. Cole is back to discuss Dept. Q, a Scottish take on a Nordic-noir book series that has the good sense not to mess with star Matthew Goode's face. Chemistry in trope-y scenes, why Scandi crime stories often have a submarine, whether the mystery needed so many episodes to solve -- we're talking about all of that AND recommending actually Nordic Nordic-noir TV if you liked Dept. Q. Then we're going Around The Dial with Mountainhead, The Rehearsal, and The Last Of Us S01 before seeing whether Taylor can do his entire The Studio Canon pitch before we lose the light. True-crime actors won, late night lost some more, and three was the magic number for one of us in Game Time. Throw on a nubbly sweater and join us!

GUESTS
👤 Taylor Cole

TOPICS
Announcement: 📈 Club Campaign
Announcement: 🎧 Incoming Apple Podcast Changes
Lead Topic: 🛗 Dept. Q
Around The Dial: 🏔️ Mountainhead
Around The Dial: 👨‍✈️ The Rehearsal
Around The Dial: 🍄 The Last Of Us
The Canon: 🎥 The Studio S01.E02: The Oner
Winner & Loser: 🪙 Anthony Boyle and Julia Garner
Winner & Loser: 🌙 Late-night prestige
Game Time: 3️⃣

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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site
🎞️ Hear more Taylor S. Cole at the G&T Podcast
🐝 Taylor's also headed to the This Had Oscar Buzz podcast
🪞 And the Demi Myself and I podcast
🐸 AND the Muppeturgy podcast
⛰️ Tara's Mountainhead review and ATX Festival coverage at Cracked
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📷 Photo: Netflix

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