This year has been fairly eventful due to political and in-show tensions that the participation of a certain country carries. But even in normal circumstances, November is when Eurovision starts, with all the countries starting their song selection process. So, there's some hype about that, too.

Direct link, by the way.

Also, small nitpick: while I fully understand the use of background music to avoid awkward silences, I feel it's a tiny little bit too loud sometimes and drowns the voices. But maybe that's my non-English native brain necessarily having to focus a bit more on the audio to process it. [3/3]

...would have explored more the opposite approach: countries like 🇮🇹, 🇦🇱 or 🇵🇹, who pretty much don't care for those Nordic and Central European songwriting camps and keep things very in-borders with a strong focus on supporting their own local music industry. Maybe an idea for a future episode. [2/3]

"OK ou KO" is such a fantastic song. And a great performance in the NF too. What a shame France's broadcaster is such a prick when it comes to copyright. It's pretty much impossible to find any footage from that national final, it's ridiculous they allow a 2018 show to be lost media.

I think you might have a typo in there: "Poland's score was: 83.6%". ;)