Magic Rays of Light

Sigmund and Devon share one Apple TV wish each for 2025 and recap season two of Shrinking. Devon also reviews Sigmund’s Christmas gift to him, A Real Pain.   Here To Help | Apple   Pre-Roll PrismXR Carina D1 Charging Dock for Apple Vision Pro Belkin Travel Bag for Apple Vision Pro  Apple Vision Pro All-Metal Stand   Apple TV News HDMI 2.2 announced with 96Gbps bandwidth for 4K480, 8K, 16K, more | FlatPanelsHD Theater 2.0 Apple Fitness+ Announces Strava Integration, New Workout Programs, and More Nikki Glaser Opening Monologue | 82nd Annual Golden Globes   Releases Adventure: Ice Dive ‎Skate City: New York ‎Gears & Goo ‎Three Kingdoms HEROES Final Fantasy+ ‎Trials of Mana+ ‎Rodeo Stampede+ ‎It's Literally Just Mowing+   Extras Critics Choice Awards Malala Yousafzai on Apple News In Conversation Bad Sisters — Extending Worlds: The Forty Foot and Ireland Coast Slow Horses — Jackson Lamb Arrives Unannounced | Scene Read Blitz — Reconstructing the Blitz | Production Design Fly Me to the Moon – Lance Vespertine Explains It All Fly Me to the Moon — Jim Rash Reacts to Out of this World Pick Up Lines Another Take with Channing Tatum & Scarlett Johansson | Colin Jost Cameo Scene Hugh Howey and Graham Yost Reddit AMA The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller & Adam Scott Wicked Director Jon M. Chu Makes Movie Magic with Apple Vision Pro   Recap Shrinking   TV App Highlights Flow The Traitors   Up Next Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat A Real Pain Squid Game What If...?   Send us a voice message all week via iMessage or email to magic@macstories.net. Subscribe to Magic Rays of Light on YouTube and follow us on Mastodon and Bluesky. Sigmund Judge | Follow Sigmund on X, Mastodon, Threads, or Bluesky Devon Dundee | Follow Devon on Mastodon, Threads, or Bluesky

Sigmund and Devon share their favorite shows, films, apps, and more of the year. Then, they celebrate the show’s 150th episode by answering questions sent in by listeners and reveal their Christmas gifts for one another.   Pre-Roll iOS and iPadOS 18.2: Everything New Besides Apple Intelligence Apple Intelligence in iOS 18.2: A Deep Dive into Working with Siri and ChatGPT, Together ActionMode: A Simpler, More Customizable Shortcut to Program Your Action Button   Recap: 2024 Devon’s Picks Sigmund’s Picks   Apple TV News Blackmagic Design URSA Cine Immersive Camera ResMed Kontor Head Strap von Holzhausen Carry Sling for Apple Vision Pro ‎Fitness Wrapped   Apple Original News First Look at Fountain of Youth Meet the Artist 2025: Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim on “Deaf President Now!”   Releases Wild Life: Sharks Yo Gabba Gabba! A Carpool Karaoke Christmas Santa Claus Is Coming To Town by Lady Gaga The Secret Lives of Animals Adventure: Ice Dive Apple Music Live: New Year’s Eve   Extras True to Tone: 2024 Wrap Party Eva the Owlet Holiday Moon Wish Printable Activity Yo Gabba GabbaLand!: Tiny Desk Concert Billie Eilish: Artist of the Year 2024 Live Recorded on iPhone 16 Pro | Michael Bublé, Carly Pearce “Maybe This Christmas” Maybe This Christmas by Michael Bublé & Carly Pearce   TV App Highlights Squid Game What If...? Gladiator II Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl Nosferatu   Up Next: Christmas Gifts A Real Pain Succession Terrifier 3 Believe Me   Send us a voice message all week via iMessage or email to magic@macstories.net. Subscribe to Magic Rays of Light on YouTube and follow us on Mastodon and Bluesky. Sigmund Judge | Follow Sigmund on X, Mastodon, Threads, or Bluesky Devon Dundee | Follow Devon on Mastodon, Threads, or Bluesky

Sigmund and Devon discuss the Vision Pro’s gaming future, break down the trailers for Severance season two and The Gorge from CCXP and recap Apple Original French-language drama La Maison.   Submit your questions for episode 150 to magic@macstories.net or on socials using #Magic150.   Pre-Roll MacStories Selects 2024: Recognizing the Best Apps of the Year   Apple TV News ‎Portal   Trailer Talk Severance Season 2 Severance Panel at CCXP The Gorge The Gorge Panel at CCXP   Apple Original News First Look at Berlin ER Government Cheese Teaser Behind the Scenes of The Family Plan 2   Releases Wonder Pets: In the City Eva the Owlet: Eva’s Moon Wish A Charlie Brown Christmas   Extras Blitz — Recreating War-Torn London in 1940 Blitz — Steve McQueen and Hans Zimmer’s Boldest Collaboration Yet Blitz — Behind Saoirse Ronan’s Iconic 1940s Look Blitz — Behind the Scenes of Writing the Original Song "Winter Coat" Silo — Rebecca Ferguson Diving in Silo 17   Recap La Maison   TV App Highlights Queer Eye Venom: The Last Dance Red One Conclave Joker: Folie à Deux Dahomey Elton John: Never Too Late Cuckoo Small Things Like These   Up Next Are cinema lenses a scam? | Matti Haapoja Blink Carry-On   Send us a voice message all week via iMessage or email to magic@macstories.net. Subscribe to Magic Rays of Light on YouTube and follow us on Mastodon and Bluesky. Sigmund Judge | Follow Sigmund on X, Mastodon, Threads, or Bluesky Devon Dundee | Follow Devon on Mastodon, Threads, or Bluesky

Sigmund and Devon preview the new features coming in tvOS 18.2. Then, they recap the first German-language Apple Original series, Where’s Wanda?, and Spanish-language medical drama series Midnight Family.   Submit your question for episode 150 to magic@macstories.net or on socials using #Magic150.   Recaps Where’s Wanda? Midnight Family   Apple TV News ‎Simply Piano ‎Story: Spatial Storytelling ‎NowPlaying Apple Music Replay Super League: The War for Football   Trailer Talk The Secret Lives of Animals   Apple Original News Severance: 1 Blu-Ray (UK) Severance: Season 1 Blu-Ray (U.S.) See Complete Series Blu-Ray (UK) Surface — Season 1 Recap First Look at Surface Season Two   Releases Fly Me to the Moon MLS Cup ‎Talking Tom Blast Park ‎Boggle: Arcade Edition ‎PAC-MAN 256+ ‎Hot Wheels™: Race Off+ ‎Barbie Color Creations+ ‎Little Cities: Diorama ‎FINAL FANTASY IV (3D REMAKE)+ ‎FF IV: THE AFTER YEARS+   Extras Pachinko — Coming Together Through Food Blitz — “Winter Coat” Performed by Saoirse Ronan and Nicholas Britell The Cast of Fly Me to the Moon Taste Test Space Food A Conversation with Dan Taberski, Creator of Apple Podcasts Show of the Year Hysterical   TV App Highlights Exhibiting Forgiveness Juror #2 Light Shop Good One The Sticky The Great Christmas Light Fight Secret Level Heretic Sugarcane   Up Next West Side Story Wallace & Gromit Wallace and Gromit Video Shot on iPhone and Projected onto Battersea Power Station   Send us a voice message all week via iMessage or email to magic@macstories.net. Subscribe to Magic Rays of Light on YouTube and follow us on Mastodon and Bluesky. Sigmund Judge | Follow Sigmund on X, Mastodon, Threads, or Bluesky Devon Dundee | Follow Devon on Mastodon, Threads, or Bluesky

Sigmund and Devon discuss Steve McQueen’s Blitz, new Apple Original documentary Bread & Roses, and the first episode of Concert for One featuring an immersive performance by RAYE.   Submit your question for episode 150 to magic@macstories.net.   Highlights Blitz Bread & Roses Concert For One: RAYE   Apple TV News Black Anodized Mac mini New Plex Design Preview Apple Announces 45 App Store Awards Finalists for 2024   Trailer Talk Wonder Pets: In the City   Apple Original News First Look at Dope Thief First Look at Your Friends and Neighbors   Extras Stories from World War II Blitz Survivors in London | Blitz Bad Sisters (Season 2 Original Series Soundtrack) Apple Music’s Best of 2024 featuring Artist of the Year Billie Eilish Kendrick Lamar – GNX   TV App Highlights Dear Santa Conclave Memoir of a Snail Robot Dreams Nutcrackers Senna Last Summer Star Wars: Skeleton Crew   Black Friday Deals The MacStories Holiday Gift Guide for the Apple Nerd in Your Life Nanoleaf Essentials Smart LED Color-Changing Light Bulb Nanoleaf Essentials Smart LED Color-Changing Light Bulb (Four-Pack) CanaKit Raspberry Pi 5 Starter Kit PRO   Up Next Wicked A Man on the Inside   Send us a voice message all week via iMessage or email to magic@macstories.net. Subscribe to Magic Rays of Light on YouTube and follow us on Mastodon and Bluesky. Sigmund Judge | Follow Sigmund on X, Mastodon, Threads, or Bluesky Devon Dundee | Follow Devon on Mastodon, Threads, or Bluesky

Sigmund and Devon highlight the return of Silo, dive in to The Weeknd’s immersive music video for Open Hearts, and share their thoughts on Disclaimer following its seven-episode run.   Submit your question for episode 150 to magic@macstories.net.   Pre-Roll Snoopy Screensavers   Highlights Silo The Weeknd: Open Hearts   Apple TV News ‎Final Cut Pro ‎Final Cut Pro for iPad ‎Final Cut Camera DaVinci Resolve 19.1 ‎Kino ‎Quanta Three Months of Apple Entertainment Free (U.S. Only)   Trailer Talk The Studio   Apple Original News First Look at Mythic Quest Season Four First Look at Side Quest First Look at Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Season 2   Releases Blitz Bread & Roses Sago Mini Friends A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Concert For One RAYE: Concert for One (Live)   Extras Silo — Season 1 Catch Up Saoirse Ronan Reads Real Letters from World War II Blitz Survivors | Blitz Severance — Season 1 Recap Bad Sisters — Outsider’s Intro to Season 1 with Fiona Shaw as Angelica Collins DISCLAIMER* — Inside Chapter VII: Cate Blanchett, Alfonso Cuarón, and the Cast on Biases   Recap Disclaimer   TV App Highlights Goodrich Magpie Rumours Saturday Night Your Monster Emilia Pérez Hot Frosty Thelma Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead Smile 2 Alien: Romulus Interior Chinatown Cruel Intentions The Sex Lives of College Girls A Man on the Inside JOY - The Birth of IVF The Piano Lesson Spellbound   Up Next American Horror Stories Based On A True Story   Send us a voice message all week via iMessage or email to magic@macstories.net. Subscribe to Magic Rays of Light on YouTube and follow us on Mastodon and Bluesky. Sigmund Judge | Follow Sigmund on X, Mastodon, Threads, or Bluesky Devon Dundee | Follow Devon on Mastodon, Threads, or Bluesky

Devon and Jonathan highlight the sophomore season premiere of Bad Sisters and discuss the power of TV-tracking with Trakt.   Guest Co-Host: Jonathan Reed Mastodon Threads   Highlight Bad Sisters   Trakt Going Blindly Into Python Scripts to Move TV Time Tracking to Sequel ‎Trakt for Apple TV   Apple TV News ‎Channel 4 for visionOS Apple Music: 100 Best Albums Book   Trailers The Weeknd — Open Hearts Sago Mini Friends — Season 3   Releases The Weeknd: Open Hearts Silo   Extras Bad Sisters — Season 2 An Inside Look DISCLAIMER* — Behind Finneas O’Connell’s Musical Score Debut Silo — Season 1 Recap Silo — Judicial Catch Up Silo — Juliette Lives Catch Up   TV App Highlights Deadpool & Wolverine Twisters Dune: Prophecy   Up Next English Teacher Maid Anora   Send us a voice message all week via iMessage or email to magic@macstories.net. Subscribe to Magic Rays of Light on YouTube and follow us on Mastodon. Sigmund Judge | Follow Sigmund on X, Mastodon, or Threads Devon Dundee | Follow Devon on Mastodon or Threads Join Club MacStories. Subscribe to Apple TV+. Subscribe to MLS Season Pass.

Sigmund and Devon dive into 21:9 support and the other aspect ratio options in the tvOS 18.2 beta, grade their M4 Mac predictions, and share relaxing Up Next picks.   Submit your question for episode 150 to magic@macstories.net.   M4 Mac Announcements Apple Announces New iMac with the M4 Chip, a Nano-Texture Option, and USB-C Accessories Apple Releases Magic Keyboard, Trackpad, and Mouse with USB-C The More Mini Mac mini Apple Reveals New M4 MacBook Pros   Apple TV News Belkin Head Strap for Apple Vision Pro RF-S7.8mm F4 STM DUAL ‎Proton VPN for Apple TV   Releases ‎Wheel of Fortune Daily ‎Drive Ahead! Carcade ‎Arkanoid vs Space Invaders+ ‎Texas Hold’em Poker: Pokerist+   Extras Shrinking — Brett Goldstein on His Challenging Role in Season 2 DISCLAIMER* — Inside Chapter V: Cate Blanchett and Hoyeon on the Downfall of Catherine DISCLAIMER* — Inside Chapter VI: Cate Blanchett and Alfonso Cuarón on Trauma and Truth Silo — Season 2 Official Sneak Peek   TV App Highlights In the Summers My Old Ass The Day of the Jackal Look Into My Eyes Megalopolis   Up Next The Office Game Changer   Send us a voice message all week via iMessage or email to magic@macstories.net. Subscribe to Magic Rays of Light on YouTube and follow us on Mastodon. Sigmund Judge | Follow Sigmund on X, Mastodon, or Threads Devon Dundee | Follow Devon on Mastodon or Threads Join Club MacStories. Subscribe to Apple TV+. Subscribe to MLS Season Pass.

Sigmund and Devon discuss the first five years of Apple TV+ and where the service stands today. Plus, they highlight new Apple Original series You Would Do It Too and Before.   Apple TV+ at 5 March Event 2019 | Apple   Apple TV News ‎Blackmagic Camera 2.1 ‎Controller for HomeKit ‎Vimeo for Apple Vision Pro Currents: Teaser Chick-fil-A’s Legends of Evergreen Hills Trailer How Apple developed the world’s first end-to-end hearing health experience What It’s Like to Hear Better with AirPods Pro 2   Trailer Talk Severance Season 2 Teaser   Apple Original News First Look at Prime Target   Highlights You Would Do It Too Before   Releases Before: An Inside Look DISCLAIMER* — Inside Chapter IV: Cate Blanchett and Sacha Baron Cohen on Marital Rows Blitz: An Inside Look Steve McQueen interviewed by Danny Leigh | BFI London Film Festival Screen Talk 2024   TV App Highlights Joker: Folie à Deux Treasure Wizards Beyond Waverly Place Martha Piece by Piece Despicable Me 4 The Substance Janet Planet Doc of Chucky Music by John Williams Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story A Different Man The Outrun   Up Next And Then There Was Shawn Trick ’r Treat   Send us a voice message all week via iMessage or email to magic@macstories.net. Subscribe to Magic Rays of Light on YouTube and follow us on Mastodon. Sigmund Judge | Follow Sigmund on X, Mastodon, or Threads Devon Dundee | Follow Devon on Mastodon or Threads Join Club MacStories. Subscribe to Apple TV+. Subscribe to MLS Season Pass.

Sigmund and Devon predict Apple’s M4 Mac announcements and recap the second season of Pachinko.   Pre-Roll‎ Infuse 8 CineUltra Apple Vision Pro “Get Ready” Ad Tailscale MacStories Fall Membership Drive   Apple TV News Sonos Arc Ultra and Sub 4 ‎NBA App Apple Projector Patent   Trailer Talk You Would Do It Too (Tú También Lo Harías) Bad Sisters Season 2 Bread & Roses   Apple Original News Spotlight: Bad Sisters Returns on Apple TV+ We Are Parable x Apple TV+: BLITZ Free Nationwide Previews   Releases Before MLS Awards Extrasensory Apple Fitness+: ⁨Treadmill with Scott featuring Apple Music Radio Host Jayde Donovan⁩ Apple Fitness+ Artist Spotlight: ‎Kygo The Cast of Shrinking Give Life Advice Shrinking: Jessica Williams, Christa Miller & Lukita Maxwell Discuss Therapy and More Silo: Rebecca Ferguson Breaks Down Fan Theories | Theoretically DISCLAIMER* — Inside Chapter I: Cate Blanchett on Confronting the Past DISCLAIMER* — Inside Chapter II: Cate Blanchett on Disliking Her Character DISCLAIMER* — Inside Chapter III: Cate Blanchett and Lesley Manville on Losing a Son   Recap Pachinko   TV App Highlights Transformers One What We Do in the Shadows Somebody Somewhere   Up Next Olivia Rodrigo: GUTS World Tour World Series   Send us a voice message all week via iMessage or email to magic@macstories.net. Subscribe to Magic Rays of Light on YouTube and follow us on Mastodon. Sigmund Judge | Follow Sigmund on X, Mastodon, or Threads Devon Dundee | Follow Devon on Mastodon or Threads Join Club MacStories. Subscribe to Apple TV+. Subscribe to MLS Season Pass.