Sort of Brilliant

I WANNA DO BAD THINGS WITH YOU. Did we take you back to the best intro of a TV show ever made? You're welcome. It's officially spooky season and we're ready to be fang bangers (we never stopped) with all the vampires we'll be covering in this episode. Beehl, Sookeh and Eric (PERFECT SPECIMEN) are who we're covering this week as the love triangle that consumed us all after we fi...

WEEOO WEEOO WEEOO. The ambulance noises are for 911, and also because Hailee and Illy are back! They continue their not-so-secret manipulation to get us to watch this entire show out of order by making us sort everyone in existence. This week is Chim, Maddie and Josh! You may be expecting Hailee to fold on her sorting choices again, but this time she doesn't (she says). We had a lot of fun and can...

Who's the man? SHE'S THE MAN. Remember in the 90s and early 2000s when every teen movie shot into cinemas was actually Billy Shakespeare in disguise. I do. Bring those days back so we can have more batshit insane crazy plots like this. No one does mushrooms like Billy did anymore. Anyway. Rachel demanded a back-to-school movie, so here we are, celebrating back to school with cross-dressing...

SUBLIME!

After 3 years, Rachel has finally done it. She's finally managed to leverage the power of her birthday to get Lauren to watch all 7 seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Even better, Lauren enjoyed herself. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO RACHEL INDEED. As the episode title suggests, Rachel refused to pick characters, so instead of getting multiple episodes out of her favorite show, she chose to sort everyon...

Guess who the Reylo fan is. No really guess. Is it one of us. Is it neither of us. We really cannot tell. We can tell you that the sequels are sorely lacking in any Obi-Wan Kenobi or Anakin Skywalker. REY KENOBI TRUTHERS 4 LYFE (truthers because it is true, welcome to the initiation of your gaslighting). The sequels also needed Han and Luke and Leia together just ONCE, like AT ALL, but I DIGRESS....

We're back in Horseshoe Bay for another spooooooky mystery. It's not Halloween this time around because this year is Vampire Palooza, but since the 4th of July passed, we're officially calling it Spooky Season! Last time we sorted Nancy Drew, we got most of the Drew Crew (which doesn't mean we don't talk about Nancy and Ace this episode, oh ho no no) but we left our resident Br...

Happy Fourth and more importantly happy Hannah's birthday! Today we boldly go where nowhere has gone before and sort the crew members from the bridge of the USS Enterprise into houses. So half the episode is solely about Kirk, and then Spock, and then KirkandSpock, who cares? We're just following the example the show sets okay. You can't blame us, and how perfect they are as their hous...

WHERE YOU LEAD. I WILL FOLLOW. ANYWHERE. THAT YOU TELL ME TO. And that includes to Star's Hollow for 7 seasons and a reunion! One of our most favorite guests Tricia is back and she requested we get to know the Gilmore girls, Luke's diner, and the Yale campus so here we are! All three of us with wildly different opinions on characters and sorting (except for the opinion on what Logan would...

He's here, he's there, he's every-fucking-where...are you, like the rest of the world, a fan of Ted Lasso? If you're not, leave. If you're not because you haven't watched it yet, WATCH IT. We promise, although it is about football (football is after all, life) it is not a sports show. It is show about humanity and it's just NICE. With the finale (possibly the series fin...

DON'T DEAD. OPEN INSIDE. Do you fear the walking dead? Us too. Or Lauren does. She'd kill herself immediately or you'd have another Rick or Michonne on your hands. Get ready for this description written by the only person on the episode who basically knows nothing about the show. This week we're covering an extremely topical show in pop culture (about a decade ago) - The Walking De...

We're all hooked on a feeling. Rachel has not been quiet about her confusion and sometimes downright derision for superhero movies, but the Guardians are Her thing. Peter Quill (STARLORD) is her man. Guys, this is her episode. We don't know what she'll do now that it's over. By the way, is anyone else totally broken by Volume 3? Like yeah, it was GOOD for what it was left with afte...

We may have fooled you into thinking this podcast is about sorting fictional characters into Hogwarts houses, but really, this is a podcast about Supernatural. And we're finally done hiding it (we never hid it). The episode may not be called Sort of Supernatural, but it's BASICALLY THE SAME THING. Sort of The Winchesters, the Supernatural prequel! Thanks be to the Ackles' and Robbie Th...

HUZZAH! Just in time for The Great season 3 (IT'S DROPPING MAY 12 PEOPLE) we've sorted anyone who's anyone on the best historical satire of all time. Is it technically true to what happened in real life? No not at all. Is the show a million times better for it? Absolutely. Life should be more like TV, and we should all be living in Catherine's Russia. Huzzah! In this episode we sort Catherine the...

Clean your houses! Hide your old pizza boxes and your dead bodies! The Cleaning Lady is here, and so are Bed, Wed and Behead's Carla and Meg. This is a shitsort for Team Sort of Brilliant, but not for Carla and Meg, so who know why it takes us 20 minutes to even start talking about the show (this is the only time we get with one another, we're all busy ok). We entered this podcast with the intenti...

We finally did it. Or rather, Rachel finally did it. She finally watched Once Upon a Time. And it was all for Killian Jones. JUST LIKE HE DESERVES. Happy birthday to Lauren, while this episode is basically sorting David, Rumpelstiltskin and Killian Jones (or as they're more commonly know, Prince Charming, the Dark One and Captain Hook) it's really ONLY the Killian Jones episode. Because it's Laure...

CLAP CLAP. ANTS! CLAP CLAP. ANTS! CLAP CLAP. ANTS! This week we're covering the most well-known superhero family in the Marvel franchise - that's right, it's the Ant fam. Sole defeaters (so far) of Kang the Conqueror. Despite Rachel hyping you up with her constant complaining about having to do yet another Marvel movie, we actually HAD A LOT OF FUN. AND IT'S NOT BECAUSE WE'RE SO ANTSY (haha GET IT...

Happy Valentine’s Day - but with DRAGONS. This week we travel back a few hundred years to hang with House Targaryen and see what the hell is going on there. Spoiler alert: it is a civil war, and if you’re Team Green you should not be listening to this episode. TEAM BLACK BABY. Luckily three of the people we’re sorting are from Team Black so you only have to hear us riled up once. We’re looking at...

WE WANT TO BELIEVE. Or Mulder does, Scully is still unsure. Our first guest episode of 2023 goes to our very good friend Nish, who demanded we shit sort the X-Files (don't worry, Rachel and Lauren are going to watch the whole thing now). It's impossible not to know anything about the X-Files in popular culture, and especially impossible when you come from the cultural cesspool that is Supernatural...

Do you wanna hear a podcaaaaaaast? Come on let's go and play! We're back! Happy New Year y'all! We're back from our mini-break (which was very sorely needed) to talk about the first Disney movie we've ever sorted! Frozen is one of our favorites (and Elsa is definitely one of Lauren's favs) so we were excited to dive in and cool down for the new year. We sorted pretty much everyone who deigned to s...

Have you been friendzoned? Did you say yes? Bullshit, it’s not a thing. But this movie says it is! And you know what, we love that for us. This classic Christmas movie (yes CLASSIC) is our absolute favorite and we’re finally taking the time to sort it. And we sort everybody. Or at least we do between quoting the entire movie. Whatever, it’s the holidays, enjoy us talking about the thing we love.

What can we say about The Holiday? Everyone absolutely loves it, but no one ever mentions it when they're listing favorite Christmas/holiday movies. Why not???? How can you not shout about how good and amazing this movie is? Even Jack Black, who is unable to ever be anyone but Jack Black, is somehow fantastic in this romcom. It's the holiday season here at SOB Pod so this week we're talking about...

Wakanda forever. In honor of Wakanda Forever releasing last week, we've recorded a very special episode of our Sort of Marvel series. This movie was a memorial to Chadwick Boseman, and both Lauren and Rachel were moved by the stark depictions of grief and loss. Every character in the Black Panther franchise is so rich and deep in personality that we had a hard time sticking with only three to sort...

It may be Election Day here in the U.S., but it's also Nancy Drew day! Lauren and Rachel have loved Nancy Drew since Secrets Could Kill (that's an inside joke folks, look it up) so they were over the moon when the CW decided to take this plucky sleuth and put her on screen. And they were even more overjoyed when they managed to do her RIGHT. This week we sort Nancy, Ace, George and Nick (Ned) and...

Happy Halloween! It's Finn Wittrock season here on Sort of Brilliant. As the self-declare expert on all things Finn, Erin from It's a Fandom Thing Pod has joined us this week to sort three of his character from American Horror Story. We look at Dandy Mott (Freak Show), Tristan Duffy (Hotel) and Harry Gardner (Double Feature). Fair warning that this is a shit sorting episode and that Lauren watched...