📺 The Media Guide S5E18

sturdy as a house of cards

By , & foofaraw

May 5, 2025

5 min read

📺 The Media Guide S5E18 — A house of cards (1904)

Happy Monday... hope you're in for another long and exhausting week. The first round of the NBA Playoffs gave us two seven game series', which had me in an absolute dizzy.

I want to start sharing cool things I find around the web a la The Hiro Report in these intros, but I didn't think of that until just now, so instead, you get another poorly written, boring introduction from yours truly. And—

Away.

We.

Go!

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📺 New Shows

🃏 Poker Face S2 (Peacock) — 8 May

Quiet week overall in TV, but one of the best shows of 2023 is back with its second season and the first three of twelve episodes dropping on day one. Rian Johnson and Natasha Lyonne struck gold with their throwback of a monster of the week detective show a la Columbo and I have no doubt they can recreate the magic from season one here.

📝 What Else?

Blood of Zeus S3 (Netflix)
Conan O'Brien Must Go S2 (HBO)
Long Way Home (Apple)

*days based on streaming availability for the majority of people*

Tuesday

The Studio (Apple) 1:8
Government Cheese (Apple) 1:7
Andor (Disney) 2:7-9

Thursday

Your Friends & Neighbors (Apple) 1:6
Hacks (HBO) 4:6
Poker Face (Peacock) 2:1-3

Sunday

Last Week Tonight (HBO) 12:11
MobLand (Paramount) 1:7
Lazarus (Adult Swim) 1:6
The Last of Us (HBO) 2:5

💽 Release of this Week

🦮 Who Will Look After the Dogs? by PUP

I could be wrong, but I remember digging PUP's last record, but don't remember them rocking this hard. It was actually a bit surprising when I first threw it on Friday. Jeff Rosenstock, who we at foofaraw HQ are huuuge fans of—HELLMODE was our #1 album of 2023—is featured on a couple tracks here, and is going on tour with PUP, but his influence is felt throughout the entire album. I can tell I'm going to be listening to this one on repeat for awhile.

🏃 Runner-ups

😀 Joy Coming Down by Club Night

If you are looking for some teenage angst shouty emo, boy have I found the album for you.

🐕‍🦺 Dogs by Cash Langdon

Continuing the dog theme of the evening, Cash Langdon gives us a bit of a singer-songwriter type vibe, but with a lot more fuzzy folk-like bite to it that makes for an enjoyable experience. This won't be making an top ten lists and I'm not sure how often I'll revisit it, but there's a lot of potential here that has me excited for what he might do next.

📝 What Else?

If You Asked for a Picture by Blondshell
The Scholars by Car Seat Headrest
And You Who Drowned in the Grief of a Golden Thing by KiNG MALA
To All the Ones That I Love by Press Club
Be Kind. Rewind. by The Royal Foundry

🦸 No. 1's

🩸 Blood & Thunder (Image)

A new book with "Story by" Robert Kirkman, written by Benito Cereno, who has been out of the comics game for awhile, and art by EJ Su. It's about a bounty hunter with a talking gun set in a far future Earth where aliens have been integrated into society. Yeah, sounds pretty cool. Who doesn't love a talking gun.

🌍 Free Planet (Image)

This is a new book from Aubrey Sitterson that seems to go balls to the wall. If you like the early Image stuff a la Rob Liefeld, I think you'll find yourself a good home here. It's set in the first complete free planet in human history after winning its independence and now a group of heroes has to defend it against hostile intergalactic powers. Oh, and art by Jed Dougherty.

🚀 Star Wars (Marvel)

New Star Wars #1 from Alex Segura and Phil Noto. Pretty cool creative team even if I haven't been reading Star Wars books... This one follows a new adventure with Luke, Leia, and Han in the wake of Return of the Jedi.

🦈 It's Jeff: Jeff Week (Marvel)

If you aren't familiar with Jeff, you should be. This collects the It's Jeff Infinity comics 25-36 and Jeff Week Infinity Comics 1-5 from Kelly Thompson and artists Gustavo Duarte, Gurihiru, and Neo Fuji.

🪐 Captain Planet (Dynamite)

I have zero hope a Captain Planet comic from a team of creators I don't know (David Pepose and Eman Casallos) will actually be good, but I couldn't not include it given the run of solid comics Dynamite has managed to put out.

📝 What Else?

The Moon is Following Us #9 (Image)
What's the Furthest Place From Here # 22 (Image)
Kaya #26 (Image)
Monkey Meat: The Summer Batch #3 (Image)
Grommets #7 (Image)
Farmhand #21 (Image)
Adventureman: Family Tree #2 (Image)
Resurrection Man: Quantum Karma #2 (DC)
Absolute Green Lantern #2 (DC)
Absolute Superman #7 (DC)

*movies hitting the big screen this week*

🎥 New Movies

👬 Friendship (Limited—May 23rd Wide)

Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd together in what could be the comedy of the year and easily one of my most anticipated movies right now. It comes from writer/director Andrew DeYoung, who is also working on Tim Robinson's The Chair Company show for HBO, which is expected later this year. DeYoung has a lot of experience directing TV episodes for shows like Our Flag Means Death, DAVE, The Other Two, and Shrill. So I'm really excited to see his talents pair with Tim Robinson's absurdity, and Paul Rudd's Rudd-iness in a movie about adult male friendship.