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It's Monday, which means it's time for another episode of the TV Is Good podcast, where Kathryn VanArendonk and I look at notable television shows from the present and the past. In this week's episode, it's all teen soap operatics, all the time. First up, I finally got Kathryn to take a look at Sterling Point, the Prime YA summer soap opera that I really liked:
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And since the producers of Sterling Point include Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, we inevitably had to pair that discussion with a look back at Schwartz's The O.C. — specifically, Season One's "The Best Chrismukkah Ever" — along with some shameless book plugs.
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Next week's episode will be our first single-topic show, kind of. We're leading off with a discussion about Season Two of FX's Gen Z hangout comedy Adults, followed by a conversation with that show's creators, Rebecca Shaw and Ben Kronengold, who talk a bit about the series with us, before we invite them to talk about various things about TV that they love. Both seasons of Adults will be streaming on Hulu by the time the podcast drops, but we also discuss it in a way that might encourage people to give it a try if they haven't already.
As a reminder, our Patreon poll winner for our Labor Day episode was "Sin Say Shun Awards After Party," from Season One of Party Down. That show is streaming on both Prime and Plex. Sign up at Patreon.com/TVIsGoodPod to hear that and our earlier deep dives on Mad Men, The Americans, and The Leftovers.
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