Binary System Podcast Archive

This episode originally broadcast on March 27, the original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/03/binary-system-podcast-450-beastars-and-star-trek-lower-decks/ Episode 450! That's...kind of a milestone, right? To celebrate, let's do the same thing we've been doing for a few weeks now! First up, Beastars Season 3, episode 10. This episode merits a trigger warning, sinc...

This episode originally broadcast on March 20, 2025, the original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/03/binary-system-podcast-449-wtnv-263-duet-beastars-and-star-trek-lower-decks/ On this week's Night Vale we got to hear from Cecil's former boss Leonard Burton, who's much more than just a radio host. He's also dead! After the recap we jump into episode 9 of the fi...

This episode originally broadcast on Marcy 14, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/03/binary-system-podcast-448-beastars-and-star-trek-lower-decks/ The episode of Beastars that we recapped this week isn't  quite  as unsettling as last week's episode. That civet cat is still off-putting and weird, but my goodness do the animators do an excellent job with...

This episode originally broadcast on March 6, 2025, the original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/03/binary-system-podcast-447-wtnv-263-hysteria-land-beastars-and-the-oscar-nominated-animated-shorts/ On tonight's recap of Welcome to Night Vale we learn that Night Vale's newest attraction, Hysteria Land, is not an amusement park, it's a theme park. And the theme is &...

This episode originally broadcast on February 27, 2025, the original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/02/binary-system-podcast-446-wtnv-262-the-man-who-is-not-tall/ "That's a good question."  "Thank you!"  "It's best to not ask questions. Especially good ones." If the title to the Welcome to Night Vale episode sounds familiar, we're see...

This episode originally broadcast on February 13, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/02/binary-system-podcast-445-arcane-series-finale/ It took two, maybe two-and-a-half months longer than everyone else, but the Binary System Podcast team  finally  watched the final episode (ever?) of Arcane: League of Legends. Ten out of ten. No notes. Of course it takes us an...

This episode originally broadcast on February 6, the original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/02/binary-system-podcast-444-wtnv-261-brought-to-you-by-flakey-os-beastars-and-lower-decks/ Welcome to Night Vale is back from hiatus this week so we’ve gotta talk about the Flakey-O's employees as they celebrate their return from a Season of Unstoppable Churning Death. (Otherwise...

This episode originally broadcast on January 30, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/01/binary-system-podcast-443-arcane-star-trek-lower-decks-and-bojack-horseman/ Wow, we've got a real rhythm going with these posts! We're back  again  this week to discuss the second-to-last episode (ever!) of Arcane. What can we say about this show that we haven't s...

This episode originally broadcast on January 23, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/01/binary-system-podcast-442-star-trek-lower-decks-beastars-and-bojack-horseman/ Second verse, same as the first: we’re back this week to talk about Star Trek: Lower Decks (the Star Trek future is the best future: good hearted and occasionally sexy!) and Beastars (okay but WHY d...

This episode originally broadcast on January 16, 2025, the original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/01/binary-system-podcast-441-star-trek-lower-decks-beastars-and-arcane/ This week it’s thirty minutes and three topics as the Binary System Podcast team does an in-depth recap of…okay, so the first two topics are gonna be kinda fast. Kathryn watched Season 2 Episode 6 of Star Tr...

This episode originally broadcast on January 10, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/01/binary-system-podcast-440-beastars-and-star-trek-lower-decks/ Wonder of all wonders we actually managed to watch another episode of  Beastars  season 3. Never mind the fact that Elizabeth only finished watching it five minutes before the recording, it got done and that’s what...

This episode originally broadcast on January 2, 2025, the original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/01/binary-system-podcast-439-wtnv-260-the-december-monologues/ Happy New Year everyone! Hope everyone's 2025 is already shaping up to be calm and stress-free and completely absent of any kind of drama. This week's recap is actually way late, but we've got to get through a whole m...

This episode originally broadcast on December 26, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/12/binary-system-podcast-438-holiday-travel-edition/ Hope everybody is having safe and happy holidays! This week’s episode is super short because one: at time of recording we were on the road, and two: we haven’t caught up with much In the way of TV, movie, and books this week....

This episode originally broacast December 19, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/12/binary-system-podcast-437-arcane-season-two-beastars-season-3-episode-1/ Happy Holidays from the Binary System Podcast team! Our present to everyone this year is an extra-long episode, because there is just so much content. The final season of Beastars dropped while we were look...

This episode originally broadcast on December 12, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/12/binary-system-podcast-436-wtnv-259-chrysalis-and-star-trek-lower-decks/ "…the chrysalis is showing signs that it may soon open…" It's Night Vale, so that could either mean Steve Carlsberg leaving his old life for a new one, or it could be the VERY LITERAL chrysalis with a mo...

This episode originally broadcast on November 28, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/11/binary-system-podcast-435-arcane-season-two-episode-3/ The first arc of Arcane Season 2 wraps up with a glorious one-on-one battle between Vi and Jinx (well, one-one-one, if you don't count Caitlyn and Sevika fighting it out in the wings, and the Orphan Moppet who's latched...

This episode originally broadcast November 21, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/11/binary-system-podcast-434-wtnv-258-swap-meet-arcane-and-ren-faires/ Night Vale's holding its first-ever Swap Meet this week, and the Sanitation Department wants to make sure you follow all the rules: there's no money of any kind allowed, tangible and intangible swaps are encour...

This episode originally broadcast on November 14, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/11/binary-system-podcast-433-arcane-season-two/ This week the Binary System Podcast team watched the first episode of Arcane: League of Legends season 2. That's it, that's all you need to know; we watched it and it's amazing. Okay, yes, we also talked a little bit about what we...

This episode originally broadcast on November 7, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/11/binary-system-podcast-432-wtnv-257-traffic-2005s-constantine-and-lower-decks/ On this week's Night Vale recap we're taking about the brand new innovation the venture capitalists have come up with: a ride share where a bunch of people take the same big car, and it goes around...

This episode originally broadcast on October 31, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/10/binary-system-podcast-431-the-exorcist-iii/ Happy Halloween! We're officially in the middle of spooky movie season, so this week we're talking about a classic horror film. It's the Exorcist...Three! Not a perfect film by any means; you can see the heavy hand of the producers...

This episode originally broadcast on October 24, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/10/binary-system-podcast-430-wtnv-256-the-book-of-lost-things-and-the-mayor-of-kingstown-season-series-finale/ The head of Night Vale's new Unnamed Religion Seriously Nobody Ever Says What It Is They All Avoid Telling You The Name That's Not Suspicious At All is in Cecil's broad...

This episode originally broadcast on October 17, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/10/binary-system-podcast-429-return-of-the-sit-rep-take-two/ We didn't actually plan to do a second sit-rep episode so soon. Unfortunately another gigantic event hit the US in the last week, causing a lot of uproar and basically making everyone's lives harder. That's right, Netf...

This episode originally broadcast on October 10, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/10/binary-system-podcast-428-wtnv-255-the-john-peters-imaginary-corn-maze-experience-and-more-catch-up-tv/ The air's getting cooler and the nights are getting longer, so Night Vale is celebrating with a corn maze and all the fun stuff that goes along with it: caramel apples, pum...

This episode originally broadcast on October 3, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/10/binary-system-podcast-427-return-of-the-sit-rep/ The next Night Vale episode didn't drop early enough for us to do a recap this week, and there's been enough stuff going on that we figured it was a good time to bring back the Sit Rep (With Beers!) The good news is that Elizabe...

This episode originally broadcast on September 26, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/09/binary-system-podcast-426-the-crown-kaos-time-bandits-better-call-saul-and-star-trek-lower-decks/ This week's episode features the triumphant return of special guest Hannah Wallace , as she and the East Coast branch of the podcast fight their way through the wilds of Ga...