Sabotage and Horror: 'Beef' and 'Widow's Bay'

About this episode

Blaine and Donovan discuss recent TV shows including 'Beef' and 'Widow's Bay' with both non-spoiler and spoiler segments.

This week, host Blaine gives an overview of the podcast episode to begin (0:02). After that, he welcomes Donovan, and they both talk about brief podcast news (0:36). In the non-spoilers for TV, Blaine gives Donovan a reason why they'll no longer cover 'Euphoria' (1:14) before moving into the new episode of 'The Bear' that dropped in surprise this week titled "Gary" (3:14). They also discuss why they're interested in covering 'Lord of the Flies' on Netflix (6:12). They then give broad, spoiler-free thoughts on the second half of 'Beef' on Netflix (8:51), 'Widow's Bay' and its first three episodes on Apple TV (14:15), and 'Half Man' on HBO (17:49). After a break, they get into spoiler thoughts on 'Beef' (22:18) and 'Widow's Bay' (39:42). For the newsletter for The Alabama Take, click here . For all things related to The Alabama Take, click here for the website .

People in this episode

Host: Blaine Duncan

Guest: Donovan

Topics covered

• TV reviews
• Film discussions
• Spoiler analysis
• Streaming content
• Podcast news

Keywords

• Beef
• Widow's Bay
• Euphoria
• The Bear
• Lord of the Flies
• Half Man
• TV reviews
• podcast news

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Apple TV, HBO, The Alabama Take

Books & works: Euphoria, The Bear, Lord of the Flies, Beef, Widow's Bay, Half Man

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