We're taking a week off! Pasted below are the original show notes for our 2017 episode about Netflix's A Christmas Prince. 

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It’s holiday time, so we dedicate the entire episode to a close reading of one of Netflix’s forays into the wide world of dedicated Christmas programming: the Hallmark Christmas-style movie A Christmas Prince. Strap in for lying! Mothra! Negging! Jellied meats! Birther scandals! Romance! Tokenism! Constitutional crises! And so much more!

SHOW NOTES: 

• Techies Still Think They’re Good Guys. They’re Not. https://www.wired.com/story/the-other-tech-bubble/
• Netflix’s Creepy Tweet. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/netflix-christmas-prince-tweet-privacy-creepy-twitter-viewing-habits-2017-a8105351.html
• ION’s A Christmas Cruise: https://iontelevision.com/holiday-movie/a-christmas-cruise
• Hallmark Channel as a balm for 2017. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/we-cant-take-any-more-of-2017-so-weve-turned-to-the-hallmark-channel-in-desperation/2017/12/07/1ad3dab6-d6ca-11e7-b62d-d9345ced896d_story.html?utm_term=.c42173792a12
• Spotify Reveals Its Users Habits in an Ad Campaign. https://www.boredpanda.com/spotify-reveals-its-users-most-embarrassing-listening-habits-on-giant-billboards/

Sadly they stopped making new Christmas Prince movies (BOO!) so we are celebrating the holidays with an installment of The Old Type. This time we're watching several Christmas episodes of The Bob Newhart Show, a '70s sitcom that led Andrew and Margaret to ask Kathryn "uh why are we watching this?" 

This week, we're checking in with how TV is handling its uncomfortable task of depicting a pandemic that requires hot actors to cover 1/2 of their face. Spoiler: they aren't doing great! We start with a long, harrowing, collective look at the opening episode of Bull and its terrifying demon CGI baby and then continue on to touch upon: Black-ish, Super Store, The Good Doctor, and a handful of other programs. Obviously, Kathryn wrote about all of this really brilliantly. She also wrote astutely about the sexual harassment Eliza Dushku experienced on the set of Bull, a subject we touched upon at the beginning of the show.

All three of us definitely showed up this week having seen every minute of both of the shows we’re discussing—Showtime’s intriguing The Good Lord Bird, and HBO’s weird-ass mystery box drama The Third Day. 

SHOW NOTES

The Good Lord Bird: https://www.sho.com/the-good-lord-bird

The Third Day: https://www.hbo.com/the-third-day

Let's check in with what's happening on network TV! Specifically, let's check in with unscripted network TV: the reboot of Supermarket Sweep and this high-drama season of The Bachelorette. We've asked our beloved games corresponded Craig Getting to return so he can weigh in on the Sweep update; in a shocking turn of events, everyone gets very animated.