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In this glorious return to your podcast player, Paul and Cat are back to run down this final season of The Boys! With this first podcast, we combine our discussion of the first two episodes into one, including a review of where we left our major characters at the end of last season.

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Season 4

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8

Season 3

1+2+3 Pt 1 | 1+2+3 Pt 2 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8

Season 2

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8

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THE TESTAMENTS – “Stadium” – As the Aunts sift through ancestry records to finalize matches, Agnes plots for her chance at love. Meanwhile, Lydia contemplates the choices that shaped her rise in Gilead. (Disney/Russ Martin)
CHASE INFINITI
What an episode! In “Stadium”, we finally looked into Lydia’s backstory. We’d gotten a peek only once during the entire run of The Handmaid’s Tale, but now we know where Lydia’s journey to becoming Aunt Lydia truly began. No one was more surprised than your hosts to see that Commander Judd had been there since the beginning. For better or worse, Aunt Lydia became what she needed to become as her drive to live her life according to her “resolve” fell to survival mode. We think Aunt Lydia has secretly switched back to “resolve” mode, but time will tell.

THE TESTAMENTS – “Stadium” – As the Aunts sift through ancestry records to finalize matches, Agnes plots for her chance at love. Meanwhile, Lydia contemplates the choices that shaped her rise in Gilead. (Disney/Steve Wilkie)
THE TESTAMENTS
Meanwhile, during the current timeline, the Aunts converged and created matches between the new greens and the eligible commanders. Think of how much harder the process must have been, given their lack of access to technology! By hand, the Aunts must manage not only the political impacts of their decisions, but the limited gene pool in Gilead’s reproducing population. I wonder how close the relations can get before they nix a match.

THE TESTAMENTS – “Stadium” – As the Aunts sift through ancestry records to finalize matches, Agnes plots for her chance at love. Meanwhile, Lydia contemplates the choices that shaped her rise in Gilead. (Disney/Steve Wilkie)
ROWAN BLANCHARD, MATTEA CONFORTI
THE TESTAMENTS – “Stadium” – As the Aunts sift through ancestry records to finalize matches, Agnes plots for her chance at love. Meanwhile, Lydia contemplates the choices that shaped her rise in Gilead. (Disney/Steve Wilkie)
ANN DOWD
THE TESTAMENTS – “Stadium” – As the Aunts sift through ancestry records to finalize matches, Agnes plots for her chance at love. Meanwhile, Lydia contemplates the choices that shaped her rise in Gilead. (Disney/Steve Wilkie)
ANN DOWD, CHASE INFINITI
THE TESTAMENTS – “Stadium” – As the Aunts sift through ancestry records to finalize matches, Agnes plots for her chance at love. Meanwhile, Lydia contemplates the choices that shaped her rise in Gilead. (Disney/Steve Wilkie)
ZARRIN DARNELL-MARTIN, ANN DOWD
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THE TESTAMENTS – “Ball” – At a debutante-style ball where Green girls are paraded before Commanders; the illusion of elegance begins to fray. Agnes discovers Garth’s status has changed. (Disney/Steve Wilkie)
CHASE INFINITI
Agnes’ season 1 journey has led up to this point, the ball (or the prom as some call it) is her chance to make an impression on eligible commanders. The prospect of it all scares and excites her. The chances that she’s ever touched a man for an extended time are low – and that’s all she’s expected to do at the ball! For her, it’s overwhelming and exhilarating – for the viewers, it’s just sad and pretty uncomfortable watching the older men with the young women.

Meanwhile, our supporting characters endured a much less exciting time. One of Becka’s dance partners offered to spike her drink – which she could not refuse. Shu and Daisy rally behind the scenes to try and help Becka minimize the damage her drunken stumbling could cause her chances to find a good match (little as she wants a match). Daisy learns that she doesn’t have an easy path out of Gilead through her Mayday connections from Garth. Now that we mention Garth, Mr. Perfect gets a chance to dance with Agnes, leaving her breathless and riddled with desire.

And upon learning that Garth’s promotion to Commander is only a couple weeks away, her fantasies may indeed become reality. Paul and Caroline really doubt it, but it’s nice for her to have had that moment of romantic dreaming.

THE TESTAMENTS – “Ball” – At a debutante-style ball where Green girls are paraded before Commanders; the illusion of elegance begins to fray. Agnes discovers Garth’s status has changed. (Disney/Steve Wilkie)
LUCY HALLIDAY, BRAD ALEXANDER
THE TESTAMENTS – “Ball” – At a debutante-style ball where Green girls are paraded before Commanders; the illusion of elegance begins to fray. Agnes discovers Garth’s status has changed. (Disney/Steve Wilkie)
STEVE CUMYN, MATTEA CONFORTI
THE TESTAMENTS – “Ball” – At a debutante-style ball where Green girls are paraded before Commanders; the illusion of elegance begins to fray. Agnes discovers Garth’s status has changed. (Disney/Steve Wilkie)
BRAD ALEXANDER
THE TESTAMENTS – “Ball” – At a debutante-style ball where Green girls are paraded before Commanders; the illusion of elegance begins to fray. Agnes discovers Garth’s status has changed. (Disney/Steve Wilkie)
NATE CORDDRY, CHASE INFINITI
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Welcome to Decorating the Set: From Hollywood to Your Home with Beth Kushnick!  This week on Decorating the Set, Beth and Caroline sit down with actor, writer, director and producer of 2022’s Forty Winks and 2025’s Atrabilious, William Atticus Parker. Will is here to discuss his new movie, The Auction, which is in pre-production (and which Beth is Production Designer), and his journey to becoming a filmmaker in a changing industry.

As Beth says in the interview, young filmmakers like Will give us hope for the future of the industry. Don’t miss this interview!

The Interview with Will begins at Time Code: 3:37

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GUEST BIO: WILLIAM ATTICUS PARKER  

William Atticus Parker is a writer, director, producer, and actor living in Brooklyn, New York. At twenty-one years old, he has already written, directed, and produced two micro-low-budget feature films. Forty Winks, starring Justin Marcel McManus and Susan Sarandon, had a successful festival run and is now streaming on Prime Video, Tubi, Roku, and more. Atrabilious, starring Leon Addison Brown, Mark Boone Junior, Jeffrey Wright, and Whoopi Goldberg, had a successful festival run and will release on Prime Video July 18th, 2025. Forty Winks was filmed in Black & White with Atrabilious drenched in a neon color palette. Despite technical and financial limitations, both films did very well with critics and audiences alike. Forty Winks was filmed in less than a week with a budget of $5,000 when he was 17 and Atrabilious was filmed in a week and a half with a budget of $20,000 when he was 18 – both films were entirely self-funded. The Auction, his upcoming third feature starring Raúl Castillo & Mary-Louise Parker, is set to take his small-scale darkly comedic thrillers to a science-fiction horror spectacle. His acting career began as a seven-frame cameo in Forty Winks. He has now taken on roles in The Gray House (directed by Roland Joffe), Obstacle (short film with Megan Boone) and Their Town (written by Mark Duplass) as well as being set to appear in The Auction. His inspirations include Jordan Peele, Ari Aster, Donald Glover, Spike Lee, Wes Anderson and Joel & Ethan Coen.

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For over 35 years, Beth Kushnick has created character-driven settings for countless award-winning television series and feature films. As a Set Decorator, she’s composed visuals that both capture and enhance any story. Now, she wants to help you capture and enhance YOUR story.

Join Beth and her co-host, Caroline Daley, each week as they go behind the scenes of Hollywood’s magic, and give you approachable, yet sophisticated tips to realize the space that best expresses who you are.

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THE TESTAMENTS – “Green Tea” – As the Green girls gather for a tea party, Daisy struggles to keep on task, while Agnes begins to understand what being a woman in Gilead means. (Disney/Russ Martin)
HEATHER KOSIK, LUCY HALLIDAY
This week’s episode of The Testaments, “Green Tea”, takes us further into Gilead’s arcane traditions with the plums hosting high tea as an expression of thanks to the Aunts. BUT there are also subtleties with lasting consequences for even the slightest misstep. Needless to say, the girls are on edge.

Meanwhile, Daisy has no official role in the tea. She attends and observes the behind-the-scenes activities… and snoops around and speaks with Garth, the young Mayday agent masquerading as a Mackenzie family guardian. She’s getting nervous that Gilead’s forces are tightening the noose around her as she sees her Mayday comrades swinging from the gallows. Needless to day, she is also on edge.

You know who’s not on edge? Aunt Lydia. She’s just here for the cake.

THE TESTAMENTS – “Green Tea” – As the Green girls gather for a tea party, Daisy struggles to keep on task, while Agnes begins to understand what being a woman in Gilead means. (Disney/Steve Wilkie)
MATTEA CONFORTI, CHASE INFINITI

THE TESTAMENTS – “Green Tea” – As the Green girls gather for a tea party, Daisy struggles to keep on task, while Agnes begins to understand what being a woman in Gilead means. (Disney/Russ Martin)

LUCY HALLIDAY, NATE CORDDRY

THE TESTAMENTS – “Green Tea” – As the Green girls gather for a tea party, Daisy struggles to keep on task, while Agnes begins to understand what being a woman in Gilead means. (Disney/Steve Wilkie)

ANN DOWD, MABEL LI

THE TESTAMENTS – “Green Tea” – As the Green girls gather for a tea party, Daisy struggles to keep on task, while Agnes begins to understand what being a woman in Gilead means. (Disney/Steve Wilkie)

AMY SEIMETZ, BIRVA PANDYALook HERE for more Pod Clubhouse coverage of The Handmaid’s Tale.

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