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Recent drops
The Pitt is back and it's still the only hospital show that feels like a panic attack
Season 5 of a cartoon where a teenager gets beaten into paste, plus a dog comedy in the Tyrolean Alps
Netflix Greenlit a Show Called Detective Hole and We Have to Talk About It
Detective Hole is a real show. The Boys is back. Noah Wyle is still in the ER having a nervous breakdown in real time.
Issue 9 - The Pitt is back and Apple wants you sad again
Noah Wyle returns to the ER, Elisabeth Moss whispers in another prestige drama, and Prime revives Jury Duty
Issue 8 - Nicole Kidman Autopsies a Corpse While Steve Carell Teaches Creative Writing
Two shows named Rooster drop the same week. One has a chicken fighting kaiju. The other has Steve Carell.
The Rookie Has Eight Seasons and We Are All Going to Die
DTF St. Louis is a real show that a real network paid for. Plus: Peaky Blinders won't die.
Scrubs Is Back Because Nobody In Hollywood Has A New Idea
Scrubs returns, HBO greenlights a love triangle corpse comedy, and Werner Herzog is chasing ghost elephants in Angola.
Most TV coverage is written by people who don't watch TV. It's rewritten press releases with adjectives. It's "fans will love this." It's the word binge-worthy appearing in a headline and nobody losing their job over it.
The streamers spent $100 billion to drown you in content and convince you the seventh prequel spinoff is must-see. A year of that and you've watched nothing good and forgotten everything you saw.
You're not crazy. Most of it is bad. We'll tell you which.
The Drop is a weekly audit of what's new. What's actually worth watching. What exists only because an executive needed to justify a bonus. What's a full war crime against your attention. Short, funny, honest. No charts.
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