The hosts discuss their favorite TV shows and movies of 2023, including 'Suburræterna' and 'Ted Lasso'. They also talk about the TV+ show 'For All Mankind' and a British spy drama called 'Slow Horses'. The chapter includes a sponsored segment featuring Television Time, an app for TV show tracking and discovery.
Lessons in Chemistry, Slow Horses, Shrinking, Silo, and The Last of Us are recommended TV shows that cover various themes such as a woman's transformation, spy mysteries, mental health, isolation, and a post-apocalyptic world.
Asteroid City and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse are must-watch movies, offering unique stories of eccentric characters converging when aliens arrive and continuing the Spider-Man saga with vibrant animation and action.
Deep dives
Summary of TV Shows
Lessons in Chemistry, Slow Horses, Shrinking, Silo, The Last of Us, The Murder at the End of the World are recommended TV shows. Lessons in Chemistry is a period piece about a woman who goes from working in a chemistry lab to becoming a television star. Slow Horses is a British spy drama following a group of spies in an office giving them the worst tasks who end up getting involved in big spy mysteries. Shrinking is a comedy that deals with mental health in a balanced way, using it for tension and drama while never making fun of anyone's problems. Silo is about a society living in isolation and the mystery surrounding it. The Last of Us is based on the video game and follows the story of Joel and Ellie in a post-apocalyptic world where humans are infected by a fungus and turn into zombie-like creatures. The Murder at the End of the World is a murder mystery set in an isolated place with characters trying to solve the mystery while snowed in.
Summary of Movies
Asteroid City, a West Anderson movie set in the 50s, tells the story of eccentric characters converging in a desert city when aliens arrive. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is an animated film that continues the story of Spider-Man with vibrant animation and lots of action. Other movies worth checking out are The Buccaneers, a TV+ show about British aristocracy mix- can tint with turn of the century Americans and Mario, a movie with fun references to early Mario games but mixed reviews from the speaker.
Upcoming Best of Episode
Next week's episode of Mac Stories Unwind will feature a best of video games segment. The hosts also have a surprise to discuss during the unplugged segment.