Sort of Brilliant

It's just a bunch of hocus pocus. Is it? Is it Max? Is a virgin lighting the black flame candle on All Hallow's Eve EVER just a bunch of hocus pocus???? You're lucky Binks didn't kill you with his cat disdain. ANYWAY. This isn't about Max, or Binks, or even Dani, it's all about the Sanderson sisters as it should be. Lauren is too much of a wimp to watch an actual scary movie, and Rachel wants to b...

"911, what's your emergency?" The emergency here is Lauren and Rachel have only seen three episode of 9-1-1 (and not even the same episodes - Lauren's a screw up, don't worry about it). You know what that sounds like - it's another shitsorting episode! We're joined this week by Hailee of former Outlander shitsorting fame and Illy, our graphic designer and the BIRTHDAY GIRL. Wish her a happy birthd...

THEY'RE BAAAAAAAACK. Meg and Carla of the BEWBs fame join us once again to help us sort Schitt's Creek! EW David!!! Just kidding, the show is simply the best. So best, we sorted not two, not three, but FOUR characters. That's right, David, Alexis, Stevie and Patrick all get their turn under the hat in this week's episode. There's tears, there's fighting, there's straight up refusing to admit they...

SORT OF BRILLIANT IN THE MoOoOoOoOoOoRNING! It's our first ever repeat, and no one deserves it more than Community! This (somehow) lovable study group from Greendale Community College are back, and this time we're exploring none other than Shirley, Troy and Abed. Spoiler alert: there is not a single Gryffindor in this entire bunch, which should really tell you something about the dynamic of the sh...

Wait, so you got a latte, went to the gym,, got a perm, came home...where you got in the shower? I think we have all established that the witness was IN THE SHOWER. No shade to her bone structure. This week we're going to Boston, MA to attend prestigious Harvard Law School! What, like it's hard? This episode was an interesting one because not only were Lauren and Rachel not totally solid on their...

Are you like, totally buggin'? I know you're probably going 'so is this like an Noxzema commercial or what?' But it's not. As if. It's totally not. This is SOB pod, and we're here to sort Cher, Dionne, and Tai (and maybe Josh and Murray if you're lucky). And we're NOT here to celebrate Rachel's birthday. Not at all. Ok, maybe a little bit. But she ages like Paul Rudd, so we can't actually know how...

What's up Pootie-cuties, welcome to Mythic Quest: Sort of Brilliant. We're the podcast Ian and Poppy would make if they ever got their act together long enough to make a podcast, except we argue less. We're joined in this episode by Jenn from Community Rewatch Pod, our resident Community-slash-Mythic Quest expert friend. We're here to sort Ian Grimm (a lion knows everything about his pack) and Pop...

Don't look now, because I'm about to spoil the whole episode, but this could only be called a Slytherin Extravaganza. First we had Loki and Sylvie, and sorting them inspired a whole philosophical question that we are NOT EQUIPPED TO DEAL WITH. They are both very good at things and know it, that is about the extent of the sortology going on here. Do they have the same soul? No clue, but they're in...

A LONG TIME AGO, IN A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY (not that Rachel knows that) SOB pod comes together to celebrate their producer Hannah's birthday with the OG trio of Star Wars. Did Lauren force Rachel to rewatch the trilogy with her? Absolutely. Did they then look up every time the internet has sorted these three characters in order to yell about how wrong the sorting was? YOU BET. Just be aware that w...

It's our first episode ever not dedicated to sorting fictional characters and it is WORTH IT. This week we're joined by Connie and Delia, of The Nerds are Typing podcast fame, to talk about the MBTI, the Enneagram, and the different ways we sort! It's the birth of sortology people! This is also, amazingly, the only episode in our library where we talk about Harry Potter, so tune in for that once i...

Have a heavenly day! This week we visit Cloud 9 and a truly insane cast of characters. But did we sort any of them? No of course not, predictably, Lauren and Rachel sorted the will-they-won't-they couple, the Jim and Pam of the retail world if you will. Sure Amy is married with a kid and Jonah is a college dropout with no direction in life but don't let it fool you, they are MEANT FOR EACH OTHER....

ARE YOU READY FOR THIS ONE? Lauren was not. Lauren saw exactly 80 minutes of this show and had her face covered for at least 53. You know what that means. It means blood and gore and stabby stab and eating people meat. It means we sorted Hannibal. Joined this week by our friend Isis (also of the Supernatural/Misha Collins fandom), we figure out what houses certified unhinged men Hannibal Lector an...

So your best friend effed off back in time to marry the girl he left behind over 75 years ago and left you with a shield. A SHIELD. What the heck are you supposed to do with that? Well, Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes are gonna figure it out. This episode of Sort of Brilliant, Lauren and Rachel talk about two unlikely friends who are left to figure out what to do now that their bestie has ditched them...

We don't know what happened this episode. We blacked out. Our brains are too hot. They went BRRRRRRRR the whole time. It was supposed to be 45 minutes. Listen I don't know where to begin. Dean is a Gryffindor. Cas is a Hufflepuff. They're in love. This is how they love each other. That's it. That's the episode. It's been 6 months since November 5, 2020 and we're not slowing down, when will we be f...

Suit up in your best eagle costumes, jabronies, it's time for an episode where it's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and we took it all the way to Paddy's Pub. This week Lauren and Rachel do the impossible and manage to sort four characters in one episode. But nothing is too far fetched when it comes to a sociopath, a bird, an ocular security guard and the Rat King. Where will everyone be sorted? Is...

AUCH LADS AND LASSIES, IT'S TIME TO OUTLANDER. Welcome to our first shitsorting episode! Lauren and Rachel have never seen an episode of Outlander in their lives, but how could we deny you, the Outlander fandom, our expertise in sorting? We couldn't. It would be cruel. So we brought in resident Outlander expert and shitsorting pilot tester Hailee to recommend two episodes she thought showcased Jam...

Strap on your taser and grab your Backup, we're in for a real treat this week Marshmallows. If this show can disappear into the ether for almost a decade and come roaring back in a blazing fire of Kickstarter incentives and last second explosions, then gosh darn it, we can do an episode on it and you will ENJOY IT. What's that? You haven't seen nor heard of The CW's hit series Veronica Mars (2004-...

wanDAvisION. Could you hear that. Could you hear the chord. There's no visuals here so you get to decide what sitcom we're in. Welcome back to another week of SOB sorting, we're talking Marvel again, but more specifically, we're talking WandaVision. Have you not seen WandaVision? No need to worry about this episode. Not because there aren't spoilers (there are) but because Lauren spends half the e...

Good day, dear listeners, and welcome to another episode of Sort of Brilliant. I'm your host Lady Whistledown, a much classier and much Regency-er version of Gossip Girl, and I'm here to reveal the houses of Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings, and Miss Daphne Bridgerton. Is our sorting correct? Yes always. Are you going to get sick of this specific type of romantic pairing? Probably! This isn't our fa...

Say it...out loud...it's the Twilight episode. This Valentine's Day, SOB explores the romance story to end all love stories. Bill, Sookie and Eric? Katniss, Peeta and Gale? They all walked so Edward, Bella and Jacob could run, and run they did to five books, five movies, a BDSM fanfiction offshoot and a Renaissance that puts Italians to shame. Michael Sheen died for these movies guys. Robert Patti...

Goooooood morning Greendale! Inspector Spacetime back to November, 2020, when SOB's audio was as shitty as the community college they're covering in this week's episode. Everybody at Greendale Community College may be a fellow Human Being, but not everybody is Jeff, Britta and Annie, quite possibly the weirdest examples of their respective houses we have yet seen. Strap in for a lot of laughs beca...

Our show is growing, so the next logical step was to invite on friends who know very little about Harry Potter or sorting. That's right, it's a ~CROSSOVER EPISODE~. Meg and Carla, cohosts of Bed, Wed and Behead and new resident fandom experts in the f*ck, marry kill market, join Lauren and Rachel on this heavily edited episode where they scrutinize the women of Once Upon A Time. What houses will t...

Warner Brothers finally caved and gave us Wonder Woman 1984, and civilization and movie theaters as we know them are ending, but we're not here to talk about any of that. Hell, we're not even here to talk about WW84 (the spoilers don't even start until about 20 minutes in). What we're here to do is talk about how hot Steve Trevor and his fanny pack are. That's it. This podcast is 60+ minutes of er...

Would you believe in the episode called Sort of Dash and Lily the SOB girls are sorting...Dash and Lily? No? Too obvious for you? Us too to be honest, these sortings were EXTREMELY OBVIOUS, although we did get to delve deep into what are the two most overlooked houses in the HP world, since they were mostly ignored by the narrative. Funnily enough, this romantic pairing are somewhat of a unicorn t...

Getting tired of Supernatural? We weren't, but our research team tells us it was time to let go. No one in this episode liked Endgame but here we are anyway with the longest episode yet (someone stop us please). Join Lauren, Rachel and special guest (our producer) Hannah to discuss what houses MCU Avengers Tony Stark, Steve Rogers and the Mighty Thor belong to. Think you know the answer? This is o...