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Dec 2023
1h 12m

The End-of-the-Year Mailbag

The Ringer
About this episode

Chris and Andy look back at the year in television by opening up the mailbag. They talk about which shows they would have recast (1:00), which TV show would have been better as a movie and vice versa (36:47), and what they would consider to be a perfect season of television (53:59).


Hosts: Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald

Producer: Kaya McMullen

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