I'm Obsessed With This

This week, host Bobby Finger welcomes writer and comedian Halle Kiefer (@hallekiefer) to the studio to talk with writer, creator, and star of the new Netflix original series Special, Ryan O'Connell (@ryanoconn). During our chat Ryan opens up about his writing career, the long process of adapting his 2015 memoir into a series (thanks to some help from his "gay mafia"), the importance of representation and specificity in art, and why TV needs more gay sex. Skip segments you'd like to keep spoiler-free with these handy time codes: Final Destination 5: 5:30 - 7:30 Special: 7:30 - 31:45 Call 754-CALL-BOB and share your current obsessions, and we may discuss it on a future episode! Once again, it's 754-CALL-BOB.

This week, host Bobby Finger welcomes writer, editor, and author of Basic WitchesJaya Saxena (@jayasax) along with writer and creator of the weekly newsletter High DramaLouis Peitzman (@louispeitzman) to chat about the second half of the very witchy (and surprisingly demonic) Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, the shockingly hypnotic docu-soap Selling Sunset, what the name "Chrishell" stands for, why Our Planet is both essential and tough to watch, and (weirdly) our favorite A) songs from Disney's Hercules, and B) lines from The Birdcage. Skip segments you'd like to keep spoiler-free with these handy time codes: Our Planet: 5:45 - 8:20 Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: 11:08 - 22:50 Selling Sunset: 22:50 - 36:05 The OA: 36:15 - 39:30 Call 754-CALL-BOB and share your current obsessions, and we may discuss it on a future episode! Once again, it's 754-CALL-BOB.

On today's very special episode of I'm Obsessed With This, Bobby chats with Queer Eye's Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown, and Tan France. Everyone seems to be obsessed with their show, but what are they obsessed with? And how has becoming the object of people's obsessions changed their lives? Learn all that and more–including the story behind Tan's instantly iconic belt and why you should all be using #QueerEyeSwitch–during their revealing conversation. But before that, Christine Friar updates us on the latest installment of her obsession: Terrace House. Skip segments you'd like to keep spoiler-free with these handy time codes. (But wait, why on EARTH would you want to skip Bobby, Karamo, and Tan?!) Terrace House: 1:50 - 3:35 Queer Eye: 5:11 - 38:26 Call 754-CALL-BOB and share your current obsessions, and we may discuss it on a future episode! Once again, it's 754-CALL-BOB.

This week, host Bobby Finger has New York Times Books Review columnist Jaime Green and comedian Emmy Blotnick to the studio to hop on the horse and discuss the inspirational new Netflix film Walk. Ride. Rodeo.–what it does well, what it does not-so-well, and what blintzes have to do with all of it–as well as the baffling and wonderful Australian competition series Instant Hotel–which needs a U.S. adaptation immediately. We also discuss our other current obsessions: the lovely and life-affirming Amy Adams vehicle Junebug (Bobby's), Britain's serene gardening show Big Dreams, Small Spaces (Jaime), Bob Ross's timeless The Joy of Painting (Emmy), and *checks notes* Russia's Toughest Prisons (also Emmy). Skip segments you'd like to keep spoiler-free with these handy time codes: Walk. Ride. Rodeo.: 9:48 - 23:15 Instant Hotel:  23:15 - 35:27 You can read Jaime's column here, and watch Emmy's new Comedy Central special here. Call 754-CALL-BOB and share your current obsessions, and we may discuss it on a future episode! Once again, it's 754-CALL-BOB.

This week, host Bobby Finger has io9 writer Charles Pullium-Moore and Jezebel Managing Editor Megan Reynolds to the studio to discuss Sunday's Oscars (where Netflix won four awards and Glenn Close didn't win enough), all that is good (and frustrating) about The Umbrella Academy, and why Dating Around is the most fascinating dating show in nearly a generation. Later, Oscar-winning screenwriter Tarell Alvin McCraney calls in to chat about the powerful women in his new film, High Flying Bird, and why he can't get enough of "Watch It Again." Skip segments you'd like to keep spoiler-free with these handy time codes: The Umbrella Academy: 13:23 - 23:10 Dating Around: 16:02 -  23:10 - 32:45

This week, host Bobby Finger has Vanity Fair's television critic Sonia Saraiya and writer/co-host of Who? Weekly Lindsey Weber to the studio to discuss Russian Doll (created by Natasha Lyonne, Leslye Headland, and Amy Poehler),Velvet Buzzsaw (starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Rene Russo), and the shocking documentary Abducted In Plain Sight. As usual, there are spoilers in this episode, so proceed with caution! Skip segments you'd like to keep spoiler-free with these handy time codes: Russian Doll: 04:45 - 16:02 Velvet Buzzsaw: 16:02 -  26:20 Abducted In Plain Sight: 26:20 - 33:16  

Host Bobby Finger invitesVariety's chief tv critic Daniel D'addario and Vox's senior culture reporter Alex Abad-Santos to the studio. They talk all about You, Sex Education and Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened.Warning, there are spoilers ahead! In case you're cautious and want to skip through, here are the time codes for the title's we're discussing– You: 03:24 - 10:22 Sex Education: 10:22 - 17:30  Fyre: 17:30 - 31:22

In the first episode of I'm Obsessed With This, host Bobby Finger invites writer Christine Friar and The Verge features editor Kevin Nguyen to the studio. They dig into Bird Box, Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, Bandersnatch, and the Internet crazes surrounding them. We also have the people behind Bandersnatch here to answer your questions from Twitter. Writer Charlie Brooker and producer Annabelle Jones set the record straight on Frosties vs Sugar Puffs, Stefan, and more.