Streaming is scattered. What's worth watching? Taking It Down is intelligent Southern accents covering scattered TV, catered to thinkers in the working class. Recommendations first, insights and spoilers later. Watch TV from a different angle.
Every Tuesday morning, editor-in-chief of The Alabama Take Blaine Duncan is joined by Adam Morrow, Donovan Reinwald, and others to recommend and analyze what's on TV and streaming. You've earned your time; know where to spend it.
It's a great week on Taking It Down -- that is always the case when special co-host Natalie Morrow joins the podcast! This week, we discuss things that are on the pop culture horizon in television a…
In a rare bonus episode of Taking It Down, the guys continue their recent discussion on the 500 Greatest Songs List from Rolling Stone magazine. They have some thoughts on what seems right and what …
It's the weekly pop culture discussion podcast from The Alabama Take, and this week it all begins with COVID booster shots (1:15). Hear some first-hand accounts of what the booster shots were like. …
Come on in and give a listen to this week's episode of Taking It Down. We start with the lambasting of Jim Harbaugh and Michigan as well as other buffoons (1:10) before we talk about some of the spe…
Taking It Down this week begins with some customary college football talk, especially with all those overtimes (1:53), before moving into even more discussion on the fourth episode from the excellent…
For this week's episode, Taking It Down just has to discuss the college football chaos (0:59). Then the group decides to retire the COVID segment, but for how long (1:49)? The gang determines what t…
Taking It Down comes back from an unscheduled pause to first begin where the gang usually does: COVID-19. Just where are we with the virus now (1:10)? After that, it's the weekend antics, which aren…
After a two-week break, the guys from Taking It Down are ready to get back into the saddle of the horse that is television, movies, and music! This week, we start with some of our college football c…
We at Taking It Down won't let Covid talk (1:15) or football gab (2:01) stop us from opining on a movie we've never seen, Shang-Chi: The Legend of the Ten Rings (9:28). From there, we talk about The…
It's all here and a little more in this week's Taking It Down! We'll certainly return to all movies, television, and music next week, but we couldn't help but talk about the upcoming football seasons…
The gang tries to decipher if Rhode Island is a tennis state to begin (1:07) before discussing the usual COVID-19 segment (2:43). After that, it's a discussion on the latest album from James McMurtr…
After a week away, there are lots of television shows and movies to cover, and we somehow manage to squeeze in more than a few. We first talk about Obama's birthday party (0:58) before discussing CO…
Anger about low vaccination rates begins this week's episode of Taking It Down (1:44). Eventually, it's a brief discussion of Billie Eilish and her new release of which we know little (12:17). Then i…
On this week's episode of Taking It Down, the group discusses the real and infuriating possibility of having to bring back the COVID-19 segment (3:23) before Blaine makes the argument that the Olymp…
There are plenty of things to talk about this week, but we at Taking It Down managed to narrow it down somewhat. First, we each give some brief thoughts on the upcoming season of The Challenge and h…
It's a full slate this week! Taking It Down begins with some loose talk about tennis, namely the hours of Wimbledon watched this week (1:27) before sliding into a new streaming service called Metrog…
If there's a documentary to see this summer, it's Summer of Soul (...Or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) from Questlove. The good news is that it's streaming on Hulu. The people at Taking …
This week on Taking It Down: Donovan reports back from his quest to listen to the Grateful Dead truly for the first time (0:48). Then the group is all over the place on the Christopher Nolan film Te…
Taking It Down starts with Adam convincing Donovan to start summer as a Grateful Dead devotee (0:46) before the entire group talks about the news of the upcoming Beatles documentary from Peter Jackso…
In this week's episode of Taking It Down, it's mayhem as Donovan and Blaine disagree on the film The Personal History of David Copperfield, which is now streaming on HBO Max (1:27). Then, wow! They …