This week on Geektown Radio, Dave is joined by Matt for an episode that swings from undercover campus chaos to grim prison politics, from lighthouse-with-legs adventuring to gothic monster melodrama. Truly, a buffet of vibes.
The pair catch up on what they have been watching and playing, dig into the newly released ‘Frankenstein’ from Guillermo del Toro, and round everything off with a frankly ridiculous amount of TV news. Sheridan shows, sci-fi reboots, networks being bought and sold like they’re Pokémon cards… it is a week.
‘A Man on the Inside’ Season 2
Dave begins with ‘A Man on the Inside’ Season 2, Netflix’s Emmy-nominated “undercover but make it wholesome” comedy starring Ted Danson (The Good Place, Cheers) and created by Mike Schur (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Parks and Rec). This new season sends Charles undercover at Wheeler College after someone nicks a tech CEO’s laptop, which sounds like the setup for a silly sketch but actually leads to a spiral of faculty secrets and suspiciously chipper campus staff.
All the familiar faces are back, including Stephanie Beatriz, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Lilah Richcreek Estrada and Stephen McKinley Henderson, along with Mary Steenburgen, who immediately raises the show’s “warm hug energy” by at least forty percent just by being present.
Dave finds it fun, breezy and well worth watching. Season 1 still holds the emotional crown for him, but Season 2 remains charming, silly and effortlessly bingeable.
Matt still hasn’t watched it, which Dave kindly does not hold against him.
‘Mayor of Kingstown’ Season 4
Dave has been steadily working through ‘Mayor of Kingstown’ Season 4, the relentlessly intense Taylor Sheridan drama starring Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye, Arrival). If Sheridan ever wrote a cosy mystery, it would probably still involve a riot and several armed factions.
The new season continues to lean into the town’s prison-driven ecosystem, with Renner’s Mike McLusky once again trying to keep various groups from killing each other long enough to solve the problems caused by last week’s murders. It is heavy, grim and absolutely for those who like their prestige TV with a side of existential dread.
Dave is fully in, even if the show sometimes feels like the TV equivalent of someone shouting at you in a dark alley.
‘Keeper’
Matt has completed the delightfully strange ‘Keeper’, the new indie adventure from Double Fine. It is one of those games that sounds like someone describing a dream.
You play as an animated lighthouse on legs.
Your best friend is a bird called Twig.
The world is a silent, ruined landscape full of puzzles, glowing pathways and ancient contraptions.
There is no dialogue.
There is, however, a parasitic existential nightmare called the Wither trying to consume everything.
Matt loved it. He describes it as quiet, tender, odd and surprisingly emotional. The kind of game where you think “I’ll just play ten minutes” and suddenly it is three hours later and you’re oddly attached to a bird made of triangles.
Meanwhile, Dave is still working through ‘Anno 117’ and eyeing ‘Surviving Mars: Relaunched’, which he has not started yet but absolutely intends to lose time to once he emerges from Roman city-building.
Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’
Matt also watched Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’, now out on Netflix, and delivers exactly the kind of reaction you want from someone watching a del Toro gothic epic.
“It is long, and it is really damn good.”
That is the full vibe. Atmospheric. Beautifully made. Monster-melancholy for days. Starring Oscar Isaac as Victor, Jacob Elordi as the Creature and Mia Goth in all her Mia Gothiness.
Matt keeps it spoiler-free, but the excitement is clear. It is del Toro doing del Toro things, and that is absolutely a compliment.
TV, Film and Gaming News
The news section is full chaos this week, so here is the fast-scroll version:
Cancellations and endings
- Too Much remains one-and-done
- The Way Home ending with Season 4
Renewals
- Time Season 3 at the BBC
- Riot Women Season 2
- Twisted Metal Season 3
- All Creatures Great and Small Seasons 7 and 8
- Task Season 2 at HBO
- The Chair Company and I Love LA renewed
- Massive Game of Thrones updates with new seasons confirmed through 2028
- Line of Duty officially returning for Series 7, though AC-12 is no more and the team are Moving On To New Things
Pick-ups and industry madness
- Law and Order Toronto: Criminal Intent heading to 5USA
- Fox developing a new Baywatch reboot
- Netflix ordering Trigger Point starring Joel Edgerton
- Paramount, Netflix and Comcast all bidding to buy Warner Bros Discovery like it is Black Friday
- Amazon MGM officially orders a brand new ‘Stargate’ series from Martin Gero, set in the SG1, Atlantis and Universe continuity
Dave and Matt spend a while breaking down the Stargate news, because how could they not.
Highlights for Next Week on TV
- ‘Doc’ Season 2 – Sky Witness – Wednesday, 26 November at 9 pm
- ‘Stranger Things’ Season 5 – Netflix – Thursday, 27 November at 1 am
- ‘Bay of Fires’ Season 2 – ITVX – Saturday, 30 November
- ‘My Next Guest Needs No Introduction’ Specials – Netflix – Sunday, 1 December
- ‘SEAL Team’ Seasons 1 to 4 – U – Sunday, 1 December
- ‘Talamasca’ Season 1 – Netflix – Sunday, 1 December
- ‘Law and Order Toronto: Criminal Intent’ – 5USA – Monday, 2 December at 9 pm
Listen to Geektown Radio Episode 481
Join Dave and Matt for monster movies, campus moles, grim crime towns, indie lighthouse adventures and more TV news than is probably healthy.
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