The Pitt, Bait, and Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole

About this episode

The episode discusses Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole, the film Bait, and the debut of The Pitt on HBO Max, along with various other topics.

It’s quite the week this week as we go full Scandi noir with Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole on Netflix (1:10:20), adapting the author’s insanely popular Norwegian crime novels. Meanwhile, Riz Ahmed is exploring the life of a struggling actor in Bait on Prime Video (57:50), and after a year of waiting patiently, we FINALLY get to see The Pitt land on our tellys (1:26:41) as HBO Max makes its UK debut. And if all that isn’t enough, there are extensive discussions on Louis Theroux’s journey Into The Manosphere, Boyd’s take on this year’s Oscars broadcast, and ambient TV soundtracks for public bathrooms. Note: time stamps are approximate as the ads throw them out, so are only meant as a guide. If you want to avoid this and would like the podcast entirely ad-free (as well as 17 hours early, with a second weekly show and spoiler specials) then sign up to Pilot

People in this episode

Host: Boyd

Topics covered

• Scandi noir
• Jo Nesbø
• Detective Hole
• Bait
• Riz Ahmed
• The Pitt
• HBO Max
• Louis Theroux
• Oscars
• ambient TV soundtracks

Keywords

• Netflix
• Prime Video
• crime novels
• struggling actor
• UK debut

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Detective Hole, Bait, The Pitt

Books & works: Bait, Detective Hole, The Pitt, Into The Manosphere

Places: UK

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