EP 17: Everyone’s Pissed About Riff

A true original

This week we look at shows that Jumped the Shark, sometimes spectacularly, sometimes horribly, and sometimes spotted that shark and steered away. We also do an impromptu mini dive into Archive 81, which contains lots of spoilers, but is really a necessary vent sesh. Then we look at Netflix’s Top 10, and make some Black History relevant recommendations — things we’ve loved and things that we want to watch.

Listen to the episode here.

Next week we’ll analyze the groundbreaking, delightful, and slighted Oscar-hopeful Lady Bird.

This episode contains spoilers for Parks and Recreation, One Tree Hill, Friday Night Lights, and The Mindy Project.

Some topics covered:

• Origin of “Jump the shark”

• Cousin Oliver Syndrome

• Archive 81 podcast

• Reply All: Long Distance (podcast about telephone scammers)

• How To Be Perfect, by Mike Schur

• Boston’s Route 1

• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson

• Oklahoma Tulsa Race Massacre

• Chicago race riot of 1919

Shows that did (or almost did) Jump the Shark

• Happy Days

• Game of Throne

• Parks and Recreation

• One Tree Hill

• Friday Night Lights

• Mad Men

• Jane the Virgin

• Downton Abbey

• True Blood

• Vampire Diaries

• Supernatural

• Gilmore Girls

• Veronica Mars

• Arrested Development

• The Mindy Project

• It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

• Barney and Friends

• American Horror Story: Cult

• Growing Pains

• The OC

• Younger

• White Collar

Thing we trailed:

• The Tinder Swindler — Netflix

• In From the Cold — Netflix

Black History Month recommendations:

• Insecure — HBO Max

• Black-ish — Hulu

• 13th — Netflix, Youtube

• Just Mercy — Amazon Prime

• The People v. OJ Simpson — Netflix

• Lovecraft Country — HBO Max

• Watchmen — HBO Max, Hulu

• Fruitvale Station — Hulu, Amazon Prime, Showtime

Where to stream:

• Archive 81 — Netflix

• Midsomar — Hulu, Amazon Prime, Showtime

• Winter Olympics — Peacock

• Sweet Magnolias — Netflix

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