The Best Worst
Hosted by Joseph Fink and Meg Bashwiner and Joseph · Night Vale Presents
4.6from 74 ratings
- 88
- Episodes
- 40
- Transcribed
- 74
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About The Best Worst
Welcome to Night Vale's Meg Bashwiner and Joseph Fink consider the Golden Age of Television, at its best and its worst. Each episode, we consider a classic show by watching first its worst IMDB user rated episode, and then its best. What can we learn by watching the best and worst of classic TV? Let's find out together.
- Publisher
- Night Vale Presents
- Category
- tv & film
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 4 Mar 2025
- Latest episode
- 27 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
40 of 88 episodes have a transcript.
27 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
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Ep 85: Supernatural
Published 27 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] His wife, also a TV writer, co-created Being Human with him. And most importantly, she wrote the Middlest episode of Dawson's Creek. Most importantly. Most importantly of all, we have met her before. She is a best worst alum. this is we're still in the kripke years as far as showrunners go this is our kripke's last season as showrunner this was the season where he felt like his story the story that he had intended to tell was uh was complete which not coincidentally doing some looking at the reddit it seems like fan sentiment overwhelmingly is that the first five seasons are by far the best and it it There is a noticeable, even if it remains fun, there is a noticeable dip in quality starting in season six. […]
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 42 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.4 / 5
- 32 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 42 / 100
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- Quality
- 49
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 85
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Joseph Fink and Meg Bashwiner and Joseph host the show. Published by Night Vale Presents.
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