Binary System Podcast Archive

This episode originally broadcast on October 2, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/10/binary-system-podcast-475-wtnv-274-the-hoa/ There’s a new Homeowners’ Association trying to muscle its way into Night Vale, and the residents of the Desert Grove neighborhood have a  lot  of questions. Will the new HOA have rules against owning more than 36 iguanas? Are abando...

This episode originally broadcast on September 25, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/09/binary-system-podcast-474-robert-redford-and-the-sting/ It's a travel edition this week, featuring the return of special guest Hannah Wallace ! Listen in as we discuss (accompanied by tree frogs and crickets) the life and work of Robert Redford, specifically The Sting s...

This episode originally broadcast on September 11, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/09/binary-system-podcast-473-wtnv-273-horror-recs/ As longtime Welcome To Night Vale fans  and  two people who love horror movies and are always accepting recommendations (with some terms and conditions*), the latest episode could not be more perfect. Not only does Cecil share...

This episode originally broadcast on September 4, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/09/binary-system-podcast-472-star-trek-lower-decks-and-wednesday-season-2-premiere/ “We’re not talking Uncanny Valley, we’re talking Uncanny Grand Canyon.” In this week’s  Star Trek: Lower Decks  recap we discuss Dr. Migleemo’s attempt to cook for two food critics from Klowahka...

This episode originally broadcast on August 28, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/08/binary-system-podcast-471-wtnv-272-horoscopes-and-lower-decks/ Well if you know us you know we love some Night Vale horoscopes, except for the fact that Capricorn is ALWAYS getting the shaft. Luckily this week Capricorn made it out fairly unscathed, other than that whole accid...

This episode originally broadcast on August 21, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/08/binary-system-podcast-470-station-eleven-series-finale/ We watched the series finale of  Station Eleven  this week, only three and a half years late, that’s a record for us! (Except for when we watched  Mayor of Kingstown  season three the same month it was released. Or  Love...

This episode originally broadcast on August 14, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/08/binary-system-podcast-469-wtnv-271-the-festival-and-station-eleven/ Welcome To Night Vale is back from hiatus, and they’ve brought us the perfect summer episode! The description of a mysterious festival in the desert made us nostalgic for Dead & Company shows, and the desc...

This episode originally broadcast on July 31, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/07/binary-system-podcast-468-san-diego-comic-con-galaxycon-and-lower-decks/ This week we've got recaps of ALL the Conventions. And by all we mean two. But they're big ones! The West Coast branch of the podcast was at San Diego Comic-Con, while the East Coast branch was at G...

This episode originally broadcast on July 24, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/07/binary-system-podcast-467-station-eleven-and-star-trek-lower-decks/ The Station Eleven episode we recap this week is number 7, "Goodbye My Damaged Home", and oh boy. If you're watching this show then you know why this one just knocked our socks off. (And if you're not, well, you...

This episode originally broadcast on July 17, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/07/binary-system-podcast-466-station-eleven-lower-decks-superman-and-the-spectacular-failure-of-the-star-wars-hotel/ It's a bonus-sized (and spoileriffic!) episode this week because we've got a lot to go over. Another episode of Station Eleven of course, with gorgeous cinem...

This episode originally broadcast on July 19, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/07/binary-system-podcast-465-station-eleven-star-trek-lower-decks-and-picard/ First up this week we start with a spoileriffic recap of the  Station Eleven  bottle episode “The Severn City Airport,” where we find out how the Prophet became so  intensely creepy,  tho we’re still not...

This episode originally broadcast on July 3, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/07/binary-system-podcast-464-station-eleven-and-star-trek-lower-decks/ Our journey through a post-pandemic world continues this week as we discuss the fourth episode of Station Eleven. The lines are being drawn between the people still mourning the world that existed before the pand...

This episode originally broadcast on June 26, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/06/binary-system-podcast-463-station-eleven-the-phoenician-scheme-and-28-weeks-later/ We've clearly been kidnapped by aliens and replaced with clones who are much better at watching movies, because this week we caught up on a show that's only four years old, and watched a m...

This episode originally broadcast on June 19, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/06/binary-system-podcast-462-wtnv-270-deeper-than-purpose-older-than-thought-love-death-robots-and-star-trek-lower-decks/ The Welcome To Night Vale writers decided to prepare for the July hiatus by wrapping up two storylines this episode. And we can thank good-natured, heart-of-the...

This episode originally broadcast on June 12, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/06/binary-system-podcast-460-wtnv-269-a-story-about-me-love-death-robots-station-eleven-and-star-trek-lower-decks/ "My GOD the way this show delivers information…" We've got a lot to cover this week, starting with what's quickly becoming our favorite kind of Night...

This episode originally broadcast on June 5, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/06/binary-system-podcast-460-station-eleven-series-premiere-with-special-guest-hannah/ The Binary System Podcast team has been getting a little better at TV lately, but we're still three years late in watching Station Eleven (based on the best-selling book that Kathryn reviewed...

This episode originally broadcast on May 29, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/05/binary-system-podcast-459-love-death-and-robots-and-star-trek-lower-decks/ This week we watched three whole episodes of the new season of Love, Death + Robots (yes we want pats on the head for that thank you) and while there's a lot to discuss regarding Robert Valley's am...

This episode originally broadcast on May 22, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/05/binary-system-podcast-458-wtnv-268-home-office-and-love-death-and-robots/ In this week's recap, Steve Carlsberg is fitting into his job at Labyrinth as well as can be expected. By which we mean he's working himself to death, losing connection with his family, and his atte...

This episode originally broadcast on May 15, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/05/binary-system-podcast-457-star-trek-lower-decks-and-dark-knights-of-steel/ “ALL the Cali-class ships ALL OF THEM.” Kathryn watched three episodes of  Star Trek: Lower Decks  this week, and Elizabeth rewatched two of them, so she can contribute something helpful.  (For once – Kath...

This episode originally broadcast on May 8, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/05/binary-system-podcast-456-wtnv-267-missed-connections-and-more-star-trek-lower-decks/ s week in Night Vale, Cecil's starting a new segment: Missed Connections. I'm sure you're all familiar with the concept, where you throw all of your longing and regret into the public...

This episode originally broadcast on May 1, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/05/binary-system-podcast-455-wtnv-266-the-return-of-poetry-week-and-random-trailers/ It's poetry week in Night Vale! Let's all pull together and submit at least a couple hundred poems each, and this time could we please not have any incidents with the menacing obelisk in the...

This episode originally broadcast on April 24, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/04/binary-system-podcast-454-black-mirror-uss-callister-into-infinity/ We actually DO have a Welcome to Night Vale episode to recap...but we also watched an episode of the latest season of Black Mirror. Believe it or not this is actually what we said we were gonna do, so of course...

This episode originally broadcast on April 17, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/04/binary-system-podcast-453-star-trek-lower-decks-black-mirror-love-death-robots-and-godzilla-minus-one/ "It’s beautiful. It's really intensely weird, but it’s beautiful." So like the title says, this week we're talking about Star Trek: Lower Decks, Godzilla Min...

This episode originally broadcast April 10, the original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/04/binary-system-podcast-452-wtnv-265-labyrinth-and-beastars-season-3-finale/ Okay, we need to address that (?) in the episode title. Raise your hands, how many of you out there knew that Beastars Season 3 was going to be in TWO PARTS? Wow, that many of you? Okay, well we'd ask everybo...

This episode originally broadcast on April 3, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/04/binary-system-podcast-450-beastars-star-trek-lower-decks-and-wondercon-2025/ FIrst up this week we do a quick breakdown of WonderCon 2025, discussing everything from the amazing cosplay to low-frills motels, with some quick tangents into Cowboy Bebop (gotta love the anime rooms...