Pop Culture Maniacs Podcast Episode #13: Brooklyn Nine Nine

The Best Show You Aren’t Watching: Hacks

On paper, Hacks seems like a deceptively simple comedy. Pair an older, well-known and battle-tested actor (that would be the great Jean Smart) with a young, relatively unknown actor (that would Hannah Einbinder, who, much like her character, has only grown in strength as the series has played out) and base the show’s comedy on […]

Schitt’s Creek: A Look Back at Canada’s Greatest (Recent) Export

Last night, TV lost another one of its brilliant, loving, kind, and smart comedies, as Schitt’s Creek, the Canadian series with a heart of polished gold, aired its final episode. While the series ran for six seasons, those of us here in the States were a bit slow on the uptake, only truly embracing the […]

Pop Culture Maniacs Podcast #22: Friends

Kieran and Jean talk about why Friends was so special