Spoiler recaps with beautifully chaotic TV brains.
Appointment Television follows Margaret, Catherine, and Andrew as they argue through recent and older TV with plenty of detours. The episodes mix plot recap, industry jokes, performance notes, and running bits that treat overthinking as part of the fun.
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Appointment Television is a TV recap and criticism show with a loose rhythm and a sharp memory for the strange little decisions shows make. Margaret, Catherine, and Andrew talk through episodes with the comfort of people who can interrupt each other, correct the premise mid-sentence, and still land on a useful point. It is very spoiler-friendly. Recent My Lady Jane conversations linger on shapeshifters, royal plots, animal-form death rules, rushed romance, title-card gags, and the odd pressure eight-episode seasons put on character work. The show can spend real time on whether a dolphin on a banquet table creates an ethical or narrative problem. Then it will pivot to a joke and keep moving. That is the appeal. The analysis is casual but not thin, and the comedy usually grows out of close attention rather than random noise. Appointment Television also has a recurring taste for the television business around the television, from Amazon Prime news and Citadel talk to the awkward branding of Paramount Plus with Showtime. The panel compares shows by quality, tone, structure, and sheer weirdness, as with The Curse and Lawmen: Bass Reeves. It treats The Bear, Shogun, The Diplomat, Jon Stewart’s Problems, Girls5eva, and Three-Body Problem as part of the same ongoing conversation about what TV is asking from viewers. Some episodes are built around “Good One, Bad One” pairings. Others work more like a rolling catch-up after time away. The schedule itself becomes part of the joke, with returns, pauses, and dormant periods acknowledged on mic. The show is not polished into neat critical segments. It is talky, recursive, and visibly amused by its own detours. That looseness lets the hosts notice things a tidier format might skip, like chemistry arriving late, plot mechanics straining under fantasy rules, or a streaming company’s holiday card becoming accidentally memorable. For listeners who enjoy recaps as both criticism and comic performance, Appointment Television has the feel of smart friends making television feel more ridiculous, more specific, and more worth arguing about.
Made for: For TV fans who like detailed recaps, running jokes, and criticism that can move from plot mechanics to streaming-brand nonsense in the same breath. Best for listeners who do not mind spoilers and enjoy talky chemistry.
What sets it apart: Appointment Television turns recap minutiae into the main event, treating shapeshifter logic, title cards, season length, and platform branding as equally fair game. Its looseness is the feature: the jokes and the analysis keep feeding each other.
Appointment Television is a podcast about the TV you want to make time for. Every Thursday Margaret, Kathryn, and Andrew will revisit old shows, discover new ones, and debate everything from highbrow dramas to episodes of The Bachelor.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Appointment Television turns detailed recaps into spirited arguments about plot logic, performance, pacing, and the choices that make television work.
Margaret, Catherine, and Andrew treat television criticism as a shared argument, testing plot logic, performances, pacing, and production choices against one another's reactions.
A horse transformation loophole is on trial, and you have a seat at the table.
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A loose, funny My Lady Jane recap where plot logistics take over the table.
Appointment Television returns to My Lady Jane with Margaret, Catherine, and Andrew treating the episode as a brisk group study in royal power, animal transformation, and tournament planning that grows less sensible by the minute.
A banquet dolphin sparks a funny, oddly rigorous debate about shapeshifters, personhood and the ethics of eating animals.
Jane's promotion from lady to queen gives the hosts plenty to pick apart: historical liberties, an apparent death and the finer points of shapeshifter logic. The best discussion begins with a dolphin head at a banquet, then follows the strange question to its logical end.
A lively panel review of My Lady Jane balances crowded plotting with its growing romantic spark.
Appointment Television returns to My Lady Jane with episodes two and three, where the panel keeps its focus on Jane's limited agency inside a season already packed with premise, characters, animals, romance, and heightened twists.
A relaxed TV check-in where The Bear season 3 gets the funniest and most pointed scrutiny.
Appointment Television comes back as a loose, funny check-in on what the hosts have been watching, with The Bear season 3 getting the sharpest attention.
A loose, funny TV debate where two strange picks lead to branding jokes, holiday-card lore, and Sheridan country.
Appointment Television sets The Curse against Lawman: Bass Reeves for Catherine's good one, bad one pick, then immediately complicates the premise: both choices are strange, and neither lands as an easy villain. That uncertainty becomes the episode's best joke.
A Lower Decks mix-up becomes a playful way to sort the fall TV season.
Appointment Television turns a quarantine-era planning problem into a running joke, then keeps finding uses for it. Andrew says he has started watching Lower Decks, Margaret hears it through the lens of Bravo's rented-luxury-cruise reality show, and the confusion becomes a way…
A loose, sharp panel debate on Jon Stewart's format, military funding, and the people drawn into the argument.
Appointment Television finds a productive argument in its good-one/bad-one treatment of The Problem with Jon Stewart. The discussion stays focused on how the show builds its case, especially around military funding and the institutions responsible for caring for people who…
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Star Trek talk with genre side quests.
Margaret, Kathryn, and Andrew review two TV shows in their 'good one, bad one' segment.
The hosts of Appointment Television discuss their mistaken assumption about the show Lower Decks, leading to a review of this Star Trek animated series focused on low-ranking ensigns.
The hosts introduce their podcast about television, joking about formalities and their co-hosts' personalities.
The hosts discuss the current state of TV and review the new Peacock series Rutherford Falls.
Appointment Television covers episodes 6-8 of My Lady Jane, where Jane loses power, Mary returns with troops, and the show leans harder into court betrayal.
Margaret, Catherine, and Andrew cover episodes 4 and 5 of My Lady Jane, where Jane becomes queen and Edward turns out to be alive with Margaret Beaufort.
Appointment Television covers Episodes 2 and 3 of My Lady Jane, starting with Amazon Prime’s announcement that Citadel season 2 will include Matt Berry.
Appointment Television covers Amazon Prime Video’s My Lady Jane, a 2024 series created by Gemma Burgess and directed largely by Jamie Babbitt, with Emily Bader as Jane and Edward Bluemell as Lord Guilford Dudley.
Margaret, Catherine, and Andrew compare The Curse and Lawmen: Bass Reeves as two “weird one” picks from the Winter 2023 Gobo series.
The hosts discuss the Amazon show Citadel, its viewership claims, and Priyanka Chopra's role.
The hosts introduce a 'Good One, Bad One' segment, discussing eight new fall TV shows they've all watched.