Welcome back to the TV Is Good podcast, where Kathryn and I loaded up on dramamine this week to travel to two remote, cursed islands.
Alan Sepinwall
First, we talked about Widow's Bay Season One to date, and why we think it's become the water cooler hit of the spring. (We also talk about what a better 2026 phrase would be, since hanging around the office water cooler is no longer really a thing.) There are some spoilers in there, but we start out with more general talk about why we like it, and there's a warning before we get into what's happened leading up to this week's finale.
So far, we're trying to make sure each week's classic show is thematically paired in some way with the current show. When we were plotting out this episode, I jokingly suggested we should follow the Widow's Bay discussion with some Gilligan's Island talk. Kathryn then immediately seized on this as a great idea, and it turns out that she was right. Just a ridiculous conversation about two of the most ridiculous episodes of an iconically ridiculous TV show.
We also talk a bit about the death of Anthony Stewart Head (which happened after we recorded last week's Buffy discussion). In that segment, I mentioned the coffee commercials he starred in in the Nineties, and mistakenly said they were for Taster's Choice. Instead, they were Nescafé:
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