I stopped watching Episodes after about the third episode, so I didn’t see this when it first aired on Showtime. However, my lovely wife spotted it when it was on BBC2 last night, so you have her to thank for this.
Just to set you up for the clip, Friends’ Matt LeBlanc plays a version of himself in Episodes and this ‘Matt Leblanc’ has a big tax bill to pay so has accepted half a million dollars to attend a party hosted by a rather horrific, genocidal SE Asian dictator… who’s also a big fan of Friends. While he’s there, he sees a rather familiar face.
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
