Spoil Me

Thank you to Heather for commissioning this episode! In these chapters of Ascend we get the team mobilizing against Aftermath, and we lose one of the team. I wasn't expected Chance to go, and I wasn't expecting it to be so brutal when it happened. Also there's a whole thing with Brian having the creepiest ability ever. Thanks for listening!

Thank you to Max for commissioning this episode! In this episode, we get to see more of the history of Hempstool, and there's a little more insight into what his deal is with his weird body and the struggle of dealing with whatever. There's not enough real information to assess what his role, if any, is in what's going on with the Homunculi, but we at least find out that there's a decent reason fo...

Thank you very much to Max for commissioning this episode! So this episode we get a little more insight into the motivations of the homunculi, though it is by no means a full explanation. After Sloth is led outside and frozen in place, Ed & Co. go exploring in the tunnel Sloth had come out of, and begin to piece together that the shape of Amestris in conjunction with some of the most bloody atroci...

Thank you very much to Max for commissioning this episode! So it's time to get to know General Armstrong who is clearly nobody to be fucked with, and she questions them about their business at Fort Briggs. She's no fool though, and realizes that the Elric brothers are hiding something. The two of them are sent to work, and get a tour of the place and learn a little about the culture of teamwork he...

Thank you to Heather for commissioning this episode! In these chapters, we get a closer look at what has happened to Brian, and I realize that there are some serious drawbacks to his condition that I hadn't given proper weight because I was so excited. Meanwhile, we touch base with Elgen Spears and his work with Tretyak, and the two of them get in the usual dick measuring contest while Briar Young...

Thank you very much to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! I have been resisting posting this ep because I didn't want it to be over. What a fantastic season this has been.

Thank you to Max for commissioning this episode! This episode is the one where our friends get to the North and we get to meet Armstrong's extremely intimidating sister, who rips up his letter of introduction exactly as he supposed she would. Meanwhile, Kimblee is pursuing Scar with more confidence now that he's narrowed down the man's direction, and they wind up having a showdown on the train. Ki...

Thank you so much to Max for commissioning this episode! This episode is an odd one, as we wind up accidentally getting swept up in a chance meeting with the Fuhrer's son, Selim. Turns out that he's a fanboy of the Elric brothers, and this makes everything so awkward. Meanwhile, Kimblee is on Scar's trail, trying to figure out where he's heading and why. For some reason, every time that we see Sca...

Thank you very much to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! Y'all, the next episode of Sex Education is the last one of the series so far, and I'm devastated. This episode was so good, this season has been so good, and I'm just really impressed with how much this show has evolved. We have the saddest and happiest things going on, from Maureen reconnecting with her ex to Jean WARNING: I cry a L...

Thank you to Max for commissioning this episode! First of all, it turns out that Dr. Marcoh is still alive, and he's been taken into custody by Scar for reasons that I do not think are clear to us yet. I expect that Scar thinks Marcoh can do something for him regarding alchemy...bu Scar isn't hungry for power, he's hungry for vengeance against someone that he now knows is a Homunculi. Does he thin...

Thank you very much to Max for commissioning this episode! So this is a really heavy episode, in which we learn a lot more about the genocide of the Ishvalan people and the ways in which the folks we have gotten to know reacted to the orders they were given at the time. There's something reassuring about the fact that some of them had a major issue with what they were being asked to do, but it's u...

Thank you to Heather for commissioning this episode! This is the point at which we discovered what happened to Brian, and I'm very excited over the fact that he's going to wind up being a superhuman after all. I wasn't sure what direction we were going with him and it seems like he's going to be okay...in terms of actually continuing to be alive, at least. But he's definitely sort of a freak now....

Thank you very much to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! I'm so relieved that things in Nigeria don't go the way that I was fearing they would, and interestingly we've got Michael showing up at Jean's house for an impromptu therapy session. There's a lot going on at the school in the meantime, which I think might be one of the more disturbing but accurate portrayals of the kind of "discipli...

Thank you to Max for commissioning this episode! This episode is wild in that we're getting Wrath basically telling Ed and Al everything and saying, "So glad to get that off my chest, as you were, gentlemen." He's so cavalier about it that even Roy is like "WTF" and when he shares this info with Armstrong we find out that our sweet cinnamon roll protested what he was asked to do in Ishval and was...

Thank you very much to Heather for commissioning this episode! This episode starts with the final escape of Scorp and Viper from Dr. Spears' facility, which surprisingly is pulled off essentially without incident, and without a discovery of Brian because it turns out he's in a totally different place, namely at Dr. Spears' private home. Meanwhile, Ryan is grieving the damage that she's done to Jen...

Thank you very much to Max for commissioning this episode! So this is the episode where the boys finally meet Father, but if I hoped that this was going to be a major reveal of what the objective is for this crew of homunculi, I was disappointed. Instead of getting a straight answer out of him regarding what he's doing and why, we've got a convergence of almost all our characters (except for Roy's...

Thank you so much to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! This is the episode where everyone is taking trips to new places, either to France as in the case of most of the class, or to Nigeria in Eric's case. I remain extremely concerned about Eric's trip and will breathe a huge sigh of relief when he's safely home. Our friends in France, meanwhile, are getting up to a lot of hijinks, whether i...

Thank you to Max for commissioning this episode! So this episode was a little tough to cover because most of it is re-treading a lot of things we've already seen. While it's understandable that we might need a refresh while watching this in real time, for the way I'm watching it just feels really redundant. However, there are also the interspersed scenes of Hempstool dreaming that he's at a party...

Thank you to Heather for commissioning this episode! So in this section we get a pretty cool series of scenes that have me really wondering what's in store, between Brian deciding to undergo the procedure and Ryan contacting Jenna the AI. Also, there's something shady going on with Reggie and I'm dying to know what it is, because Chance can tell something is up and he's bound to find out eventuall...

Thank you to Max for commissioning this episode! This one is pretty fascinating because we've got the confluence of a few things going on. First, we've got Al heading to see the Father with Gluttony, and their journey underground in an area guarded by weird creatures. They're being pursued by Scar and Mei Chang, who wants her panda back, and I'm fascinated by what's going to happen when Al meets T...

Thank you to Max for commissioning this episode! In this one, Ed is stuck (with Ling and Envy) inside Gluttony's belly, which it turns out is actually a failed attempt to recreate a portal. They spend a lot of time looking for an exit without success, and then we get to see Envy's true form and it's TERRIFYING. Meanwhile, Al is out in the regular world making a deal with Gluttony that the big guy...

Thank you to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! This episode is the one where we actually get an attempt at real sex-education in the school (and by real attempt, I by no means mean accurate or correct, I mean that there's a full class setup instead of weird little asides thrown out there before the start of chemistry or whatever) and it goes VERY poorly. As it should. Meanwhile, Maeve is co...

Thank you so much to Max for commissioning this series! So this episode goes in a direction I never saw coming, and which I find deeply concerning. Apparently everyone in the government (at least at a higher level) is aware that Bradley is a fucking homunculus?! I hate this so much. Oh and Ed gets eaten by Gluttony. Thanks for listening!

Thank you to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! So this is the episode where everyone has had to transition to school uniforms, and it goes better than Hope should have expected, but not as good as she wanted. Because she's looking for automatons and not human beings. Meanwhile, Jakob and Ola have moved in with Jean and Otis and it's...not going great. The main event in this episode though i...

Thank you to Max for commissioning this series! I was worried this episode was going to be about Winry getting somehow roped into things again, but thankfully she's put into a train at the end of the episode and sent safely away. Lan Fan though, is forced to sacrifice her whole arm to throw Bradley off her scent, which is so badass but also people just keep losing their arms!? Things culminate in...