Paul Critoph Returns: 2025 - The Year Television Lost the Plot

Paul Critoph returns for the annual TV debrief Paul Critoph is an actor and regular friend of the podcast, joining Steve for the third consecutive end-of-year television review — the one where they figure out which shows they've actually both watched.Why Alien Earth started brilliantly and then made its xenomorphs bulletproof in broad daylight — and why that ruins everythingSquid Game 2 and 3: the hide and seek episode that was genuinely brilliant, the policeman on a boat for far too long, and why the ending made them angry instead of emotionalThe Summer I Turned Pretty — a show aimed at teenage girls that Paul's wife binged entirely while Paul occasionally wandered in to ask who Conrad and Jeremiah wereWhy Andor is the best Star Wars thing since The Empire Strikes Back — and why it's really a show about fascism and how it gets its tendrils into communitiesBlack Mirror's return to form — and why the Bandersnatch multiple-choice situation still annoys SteveThe Bear: essentially someone chopping a radish very slowly while looking moody, for weeks on endConnect with Paul here:InstagramFacebookOriginally released under the podcast's former name: Television Times.Find us on social media — links on the About page. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.