PODCAST #142

Participants: John Steppling, Shaenah Batterson, Lex Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, Max Parry, and Dennis Riches. Final podcast of 2024. Topics covered: The “canon” of television serials: The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, The Wire, Six Feet Under, Deadwood, Lost. Also mentioned: Blood in, Blood Out, Snowfall, Homicide--Life in the Street, Quarry. Related works in film and theater: The Caretaker (play by Harold Pinter), The Godfather, Goodfellas, The Mission, Stalker (directed by Andrei Tarkovsky). Music track: “Every Day I Have the Blues” by Count Basie (public domain).