Paul Critoph: TV Round-Up of 2025 - The Year Television Lost the Plot

Paul Critoph: TV Round-Up of 2025 - The Year Television Lost the Plot

From All My Clothes Need Burning (formerly Television Times) by Steve Otis Gunn

January 1, 2026 · 58 min · Season 4 · Episode 33

About this episode

Paul Critoph returns to discuss the chaotic landscape of television in 2025, covering various shows and cultural phenomena.

Paul Critoph returns for the annual TV debrief Paul Critoph is an actor and regular friend of the podcast, joining Steve for the third consecutive end-of-year television review — the one where they figure out which shows they've actually both watched. Why Alien Earth started brilliantly and then made its xenomorphs bulletproof in broad daylight — and why that ruins everything Squid Game 2 and 3: the hide and seek episode that was genuinely brilliant, the policeman on a boat for far too long, and why the ending made them angry instead of emotional The Summer I Turned Pretty — a show aimed at teenage girls that Paul's wife binged entirely while Paul occasionally wandered in to ask who Conrad and Jeremiah were Why Andor is the best Star Wars thing since The Empire Strikes Back — and why it's really a show about fascism and how it gets its tendrils into communities Black Mirror's return to form — and why the Bandersnatch multiple-choice situation still annoys Steve The Bear: essentially someone chopping a radish very slowly while looking moody, for weeks on end Connect with Paul here: Instagram Facebook Find us on social media — links on the About page. Hosted on Acast. See…

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