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Sam Stanish

Brooklyn-based TV associate producer and podcast host — co-host of Buffy Boyfriends and author of the Substack newsletter "Do You Wanna Hang Out?"

Oct 9, 2026

23:04
Yeah
23:04
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23:04
this is just, like, one of my least favorite things a pilot episode can do, where it's just like, it's so, it's fine, like, I, it, it, it's, it's that or, like, doing this, like, weird sort of like sideways trying to, like, imply who these characters are and their relationships, but, like, that's better.
23:20
But at least, but, like, there are times in the episode where the characters literally say something, and then John McEnroe also explains the same thing.
23:29
Like, when the, the mom is like, "By the way, like, your parents found you a husband," and the actress is delivering, "That's great," but, like, clearly she hates it.

1 HR 33 MINS LATER

116:46
Uh, Sam, what do you, what do you grade the episode?
116:48
Yeah, I mean, like I said when we were, like, talking about teen pilot- teen drama pilots in history, like, I thought that it...
116:55
Like, it does feel like it should be in the top 10 across the genre.

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