The Sink is not the kind of podcast that will have you guffawing immediately – in fact, you may be confused by this parody of sleep-inducing meditation shows. But once you get acclimated to its surreal conceit – the process of dredging up “what’s stuck in your tubes” and remedying the “bad smell” in your brain – Natasha Hodgson’s comedy-horror show is full of brilliantly unsettling laughs.
Hannah J Davies, Guardian deputy TV editor
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Nicole runs the gamut from incredibly filthy and raunchy to deeply heartfelt in the conversations she has with her guests about therapy, the daily struggles of maintaining a relationship, grief, the realities of existing in a body that society sees as Other (fat, Black, POC, trans, etc). There’s no dating lately because of Covid, but it seems like the podcast is even better because the tangents run all over. One thing is for certain: it’s always so damn
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I WONDER how detective pairings come about in real-life? I don’t imagine human resources engage in an elaborate matching service. Officers just have to take who they get. Television is different. On television, it is practically the law that opposites should attract. It has been the same since the original and best match, that of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. Sherlock was a flash of lightning, Watson was a stick in the mud; Sherlock was brilliant but mercurial; Dr Watson was a steady as he goes type. To put it another way, the Donny and Marie Osmond way, it is best if one detective is a little bit country and the other is a little bit rock and roll. If nothing else it helps the viewer distinguish between them and generates friction, adding to the drama.