As the 12 months attracts to a detailed, Spotify’s The Ringer is celebrating the most effective of 2024 with an thrilling lineup of retrospective podcast episodes. This December, listeners can look again on the 12 months’s standout moments throughout films, TV, music, sports activities, and popular culture.
“2024 has been a landmark year for storytelling and analysis at The Ringer,” stated Geoff Chow, Head of Podcast Studios and Managing Director for The Ringer. “Our podcasts have captured the highs, lows, and everything in between, across sports, culture, and entertainment. These episodes celebrate the moments that brought us all together and dive deeper into the conversations that defined the year.”
Here’s a roundup of the collaborating reveals and episodes you possibly can discover now, in addition to a couple of you possibly can anticipate later this month:
Available now
Podcast: The Big Picture
Episode: “The Top Five Movies of 2024”
Sean Fennessey is joined by Chris Ryan and Adam Nayman to share their prime 5 films of 2024: a mixture of broadly seen blockbusters, smaller art-house films, massive swings from emergent auteurs, and extra.
Sean remarks on the discharge of the Oscars shortlists in below-the-line classes, worldwide options, and documentary options, earlier than discussing his 5 most underseen films of 2024. Then, he’s joined by a rotating solid of Ringer colleagues to debate every of their favourite underseen films of the 12 months.
Podcast: The Watch
Episode: “The Top 10 TV Shows of 2024”
Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald replicate on the state of tv in 2024. Then, they rank their prime 10 reveals of the 12 months, together with favorites like 3 Body Problem, Black Doves, English Teacher, and extra.
Episode: “The Best TV Episode of 2024”
Chris and Andy discuss a few of their runners-up for greatest TV episode of the 12 months, and why they in the end selected Shogun Episode 9, “Crimson Sky,” because the winner. Then, they’re joined by present creators Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo, author Caillin Puente, and lead actress Anna Sawai to speak about how making this episode was much less about planning and extra about immersing themselves within the story as they made the season.
Podcast: The Ringer-Verse | The Midnight Boys
Episode: “2024 Naughty & Nice List: Ryan Reynolds, X-Men ’97, and Star Wars | The Midnight Boys”
Van Lathan, Charles Holmes, Jomi Adeniran, and Jonathan Kermah fill you in on all issues 2024, supplying you with their naughty and good checklist of the 12 months.
Podcast: The Prestige TV Podcast
Episode: “The Top TV Moments of the Year and the Best Shows We Missed”
Joanna Robinson and Rob Mahoney have a look again on the 12 months in (status) tv! They begin by studying by means of listener emails that make the case for reveals they missed in 2024 after which debate which streamer gained the 12 months. Later, they current their prime TV moments of the previous 12 months.
Podcast: Trial by Content
Episode: “The Worst Thing We Watched in 2024”
Dave Gonzales, Neil Miller, and Joanna Robinson talk about the worst issues they watched in 2024. They begin by going over the outcomes of the good film guess. Then they undergo their checklist of the ten worst issues they watched in 2024, all whereas Dave and Neil obtain their punishment for dropping the guess—Tubthumping! Later, they discuss a few of the issues they favored from the 12 months.
Podcast: Dissect
Episode: “Best Bars of 2024. Plus: Drake vs Kendrick Retrospective”
Cole Cuchna is joined by Touré, King Green, and James Francis to replicate on the historic 12 months in hip-hop. They start by revisiting the Drake and Kendrick Lamar battle, nominating their favourite music, lyrics, and quotable that got here from the meat. Then they award and dissect their favourite rap lyrics of the 12 months earlier than closing out the present with their favourite music and album of 2024.
Episode: “Our Favorite Music of 2024”
Cole and Camden Ostrander award their favourite music of the 12 months throughout quite a few classes, together with Favorite Albums, Favorite Songs, Favorite Underground Album, Most Surprising Album, and extra.
Podcast: Every Single Album
Episode: “The Best Five Albums of 2024”
Nora Princiotti and Nathan Hubbard rely down their 5 favourite albums from this 12 months in pop music.
Podcast: The Dave Chang Show
Episode: “Dave and Chris Reflect on 2024”
Dave Chang and Chris Ying have had a busy, wild 12 months: Dinner Time Live, Thursday Night Football, and all the things in between. They grade their predictions from 2023 about 2024: How did Davestradamus do? Dave and Chris additionally share their highlights of the 12 months, from the most effective dishes they ate to the most effective cities they visited.
Podcast: Fairway Rollin’
Episode: “The 2024 Rollies!”
It wouldn’t be the tip of golf season with out The Rollies. Joe House and Nathan Hubbard are joined by The Fried Egg Golf Podcast’s Brendan Porath at hand out essentially the most absurd awards in all of golf.
Coming quickly
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