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Enjoying the podcast? Please consider becoming a patron of the show's official Patreon: https://patreon.com/theseantcollins [https://patreon.com/theseantcollins] Gretchen and Sean reunite to discuss Pope Pius XIII's address to the College of Cardinals in Paolo Sorrentino's The Young Pope, with lengthy digressions about The Sopranos, Roman Catholicism, "Sexy and I Know It," and our own miserable religious upbringings along the way. (from The Young Pope Episode 5, written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino) Gretchen's Patreon: https://patreon.com/scumbelievable [https://patreon.com/scumbelievable] Gretchen's Twitter: https://twitter.com/scumbelievable [https://twitter.com/scumbelievable] Sean and Cut to Black's Patreon: https://patreon.com/theseantcollins [https://patreon.com/theseantcollins] Sean's twitter: https://twitter.com/theseantcollins [https://twitter.com/theseantcollins]

Enjoying the podcast? Please consider becoming a patron of the show's official Patreon: https://patreon.com/theseantcollins [https://patreon.com/theseantcollins] Gretchen and Sean return to discuss the mysteries of faith explored in the climactic Little House on the Prairie episode "He Was Only Twelve (Part 2)." Yes, you read that right. (from Little House on the Prairie Season 8, Episode 22: "He Was Only Twelve (Part 2)," written and directed by Michael Landon) Gretchen's Patreon: https://patreon.com/scumbelievable [https://patreon.com/scumbelievable] Gretchen's Twitter: https://twitter.com/scumbelievable [https://twitter.com/scumbelievable] Sean and Cut to Black's Patreon: https://patreon.com/theseantcollins [https://patreon.com/theseantcollins] Sean's twitter: https://twitter.com/theseantcollins [https://twitter.com/theseantcollins]

Enjoying the podcast? Please consider a pledge to Sean's Patreon, now the OFFICIAL Patreon of Cut to Black, to help keep the show afloat: https://patreon.com/theseantcollins [https://patreon.com/theseantcollins] In this episode, Gretchen and Sean discuss John C. Reilly's remarkable performance as the titular manchild in Tim & Eric's Check It Out! With Dr. Steve Brule. (from Check It Out! 1x05: "Fear," w: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, and John C. Reilly, d: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, and Jonathan Krisel) Sean's Vulture piece on John C. Reilly in Check It Out!: https://www.vulture.com/2016/07/john-reilly-dr-steve-brule-best-comedic-performances.html [https://www.vulture.com/2016/07/john-reilly-dr-steve-brule-best-comedic-performances.html] Sean's Twitter: https://twitter.com/theseantcollins [https://twitter.com/theseantcollins] Gretchen's Twitter: https://twitter.com/scumbelievable [https://twitter.com/scumbelievable] Gretchen's Patreon: https://twitter.com/scumbelievable [https://twitter.com/scumbelievable]

Gretchen and Sean discuss the monsters of Channel Zero, Nick Antosca's near-peerless horror anthology series. (from Channel Zero: Candle Cove, d. Craig William Macneill; Channel Zero: No-End House, d. Steven Piet; Channel Zero: Butcher's Block, d. Arkasha Stevenson; Channel Zero: The Dream Door, d. E.L. Katz) Gretchen's Patreon: https://patreon.com/scumbelievable Gretchen's Twitter: https://twitter.com/scumbelievable Sean's Patreon: https://patreon.com/theseantcollins Sean's Twitter: https://twitter.com/theseantcollins Sean's interview with Nick Antosca: https://www.polygon.com/2019/1/3/18164746/channel-zero-nick-antosca-interview-syfy-horror-show

Gretchen and Sean discuss “University,” *the* pivotal episode of The Sopranos and a landmark in the development of television drama. (from The Sopranos 3x06, “University,” w: Terence Winter and Salvatore J. Stabile, story: David Chase & Terence Winter & Todd A. Kessler and Robin Green & Mitchell Burgess, d: Allen Coulter; music: “Living on a Thin Line” by The Kinks) Gretchen’s Patreon: https://patreon.com/scumbelievable [https://patreon.com/scumbelievable] Gretchen’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/scumbelievable [https://twitter.com/scumbelievable] Sean’s Patreon: https://patreon.com/theseantcollins [https://patreon.com/theseantcollins] Sean’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/theseantcollins [https://twitter.com/theseantcollins]