Too Long; Didn't Watch: The lost season

Today's What's Alan Watching? newsletter coming up just as soon as we watch the Six Feet Under finale together...

Welcome to the first installment of the new bonus tier of What's Alan Watching?, aka What Else Is Alan Watching? I'm going to mix and match recurring features from week to week — next week's installment will feature an Ask Alan video (please send in questions if you haven't already), Emmy talk, and more  — and we're starting off our journey with a standalone example of what I'm for now calling First-World Problems: Tales of TV Criticism. I've been doing this job for nearly 30 years now (cue the Saving Private Ryan aging gif), and have done and witnessed a lot of weird things over that time. Hopefully, they amuse you as much as they did me.

First up is the answer to a question I've been getting since 2021: What happened to the promised second season of Too Long; Didn't Watch?

For those who didn't know, or have forgotten, TL;DW was a podcast I hosted with a high-concept premise: each episode, I would match a celebrity guest with a famous show they had never seen before, watch only the first and last episodes with them, then ask them how much they could guess about what happened in between those two. All 10 of the first season episodes are still available wherever you get your podcasts and were a lot of fun, if I can say so myself. If you only have time for one, I would suggest Paul Scheer expressing his extreme displeasure with the (original) Dexter series finale.

That was the last episode we released, with the promise of a second season to come quickly. That is... not what happened.