TV BFFs

Voting for the 2025 Emmy Awards is happening as we speak, so Daryn Carp & Christian Banda join the TV BFFs to renew their rivalry with a draft where we predict what WILL win at the Emmy’s and reveal what we think SHOULD win.  It’s a heated BFFs battle that results in an incredibly diverse, can’t-miss list of shows that aired within the 2025 Primetime Emmy window (June 2024 - May 2025).

TV producer and longtime friend of the pod Marni Ellis and her mom Felicia (co-hosts of the “Hi, Felicia! Podcast) join Dan & Brandy for a wide-ranging conversation about  TV Miniseries.  From the dawn of the genre on American TV in the 1970’s to the Emmy-worthy limited series of today - we dig into ALL of it.  Then, we collectively debate our Top 10 Miniseries of all time and decide where they fall in our Best, Favorite and Forever Miniseries list.

Dan & Brandy take on the “mystery box” genre of TV with a discussion of Black Mirror S7 (01:20) and Severance S3 (09:32; 45:36).  Then they craft a definition of the genre (18:53) before drafting their Mystery Box BFFs and creating a list of their collective top 10 mystery box TV shows of all-time (24:20).  Finally, they debate whether new show Paradise will become part of mystery box canon (01:02:53). Will this podcast stick the landing?  Tune in to find out!

Comedian Anna Roisman returns to TV BFFs to discuss The White Lotus season 3 from the lens of the iconic characters populating the Thailand resort.  Plus, Victoria Ratliff stops by to say “NOOOOOO!” Then we zoom out and chat about who we think are the BEST and our FAVORITE characters in TV history.  We wrap up by  choosing our FOREVER characters based on the question: If you could trade lives with one TV character, who would it be?

Reality TV experts Dan Calabrese and Brendan Davis (Come Thru Queen podcast) join Dan & Brandy to discuss the second half of The Traitors: US season 3. They react to the finale and reunion, debate how to fix the format going forward (Traitors: Exes?!?), and who should be cast in the next season. Plus, everyone reveals their BEST move of the season, their FAVORITE player (spoiler alert: it's unanimous), and the moments from this season that they'll think about FOREVER. Then, they check in on the state of The Real Housewives Universe (Potomac, Salt Lake City, NYC & Atlanta) as well Summer House, Southern Charm and The Valley trailer, and then Dan reveals which Bravo show he is finally binging!