‘Survivor’ Season 50 Finale, ‘Widow’s Bay’ Episode 5, and All-Time Episodic Runs With Joanna Robinson

About this episode

Chris Ryan and Joanna Robinson discuss the 'Survivor' Season 50 finale, 'Widow's Bay' Episode 5, and favorite three-episode runs in TV history.

Chris is joined by Joanna Robinson to react to the ‘Survivor’ Season 50 finale and their thoughts on the season as a whole (2:56), before talking about the first two episodes of ‘The Boroughs,’ a Netflix sci-fi show produced by The Duffer Brothers (28:04). Later, they discuss ‘Widow’s Bay’ Episode 5 (28:04) and then, inspired by a stellar three-episode run of the show, talk about some of their favorite three-episode runs in TV history (38:29). Subscribe to the Ringer TV YouTube channel here for full episodes of The Watch and so much more! Host: Chris Ryan Guest: Joanna Robinson Producers: Kaya McMullen and Kai Grady Additional Video Supervision: Jacob Cornett Order and it will come. Like today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Chris Ryan

Guest: Joanna Robinson

Topics covered

• Survivor Season 50
• Widow's Bay Episode 5
• The Boroughs
• three-episode runs
• TV history
• sci-fi shows

Keywords

• Survivor
• Widow's Bay
• The Boroughs
• Duffer Brothers
• three-episode runs
• TV history
• sci-fi

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Duffer Brothers

Books & works: Survivor, The Boroughs, Widow’s Bay

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