Spoil Me

Thank you eternally to Melanie for letting me use this commission slot towards a property of my choice! This episode was really tough to sit through in places because the tension is through the fucking roof. My god, whomever thought of Villanelle breaking into Eve's house to force to her to have dinner is a goddamn genius. What a fucking scene. And then there's the whole thing with fucking Frank....

Thank you ever so much to Melanie for commissioning this episode! Oh boy I am so excited to be getting into the next season of the show y'all. This is a real pleasure to cover, and so strange and different in so many ways while still feeling deeply familiar in its humor and friendliness. I expected this season to begin with an explanation of what the hell Grunkle Stan is up to. If not his overall...

Thank you very much to Jacqui for commissioning this episode! Whew, it's been a long journey to get here but damn has the ride been wild! This finale episode is really really satisfying in a lot of ways, but there are some things that really didn't rub me the right way. I'm struggling to sort through the things I thought were great and the things I find kind of ugly. First of all, there's the reve...

Thank you so much to Abbey for commissioning this episode! Wow so I was tempted to say that this is when things really begin to pop off, but there's so much left of this book that I'm actually guessing that isn't true at all. Because you know what? Nick is still alive, and I have a terrible feeling that things won't really be popping off until he's dead. And I hate it. In these chapters, the dead...

Thank you very much to Martin for commissioning this episode! I'm blown away that we're almost done with this whole book, and I have to laugh at the fact that I almost accidentally read into the next section because I AM OVEREAGER OKAY. In this section, the girls are taken ranging and are assigned a meeting place that they have to get to on their own. It's a smart and brutal test, and they're allo...

Thank you to Melanie for commissioning this episode! Yay! This episode of this show was so damn tense that I almost couldn't handle it. I still haven't had a chance to watch the next one, and I'm not at all sure what the hell is going to happen to Frank. To be honest, I'm not totally sure I care because he has been fucking people's lives up real bad, but I'm curious. We get a little more of Villan...

Thank you so much to Jill for commissioning this episode! I feel like for some reason, this episode really hammered home to me that the narrative of this show is not going to follow the model that I had expected at all. I think it's because of the fact that we see what happened to Ulrich and it's so unthinkably bleak that it made me reevaluate everything. In other news, this episode deals a lot wi...

Thank you very much to Karyn for commissioning this episode of Travelers! I really appreciate you, and I love this show! This episode has an interesting premise in that it's mostly about all of the crew coming to terms with living in their new bodies and lives without any sort of mission. They're feeling rather unmoored and probably frightened, and none of them is coping especially well. However,...

Thank you again so much to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! We're returning to the world of Kyralia and Imardin, and we're already about to leave it! Well, at least a few of us are leaving...and I'm curious about what the plot will focus on for those characters that are remaining in the city. I suppose we're going to be zeroing in on these murders? For Dannyl and Lorkin, it's going to be a...

Thank you so much to Denise for commissioning this episode! Y'all, I'm continuing the grand tradition of crying while live on camera, and I'm just gonna assume this will continue until the end of the series. Whew. These chapters, we see to the heart of what's going on with Essun, and she's really struggling with putting the welfare of the comm ahead of her own personal feelings for vengeance and,...

Thank you very much to Ashleigh for commissioning this new episode! It's time for a new book, y'all! I can't tell you how excited I am to be returning to the time and place where it all started for me. I'm a big fan of the world that Canavan created in the outskirts of the Imardin, because the common people always interest me way more than the upper classes, and we just didn't get a look at that t...

Thank you so much to Melanie for commissioning this episode and for being so patient even though I royally fucked it up. She's a pure angel and I am lucky we were able to work it out and do the Shorts instead, which were HILARIOUS and I highly recommend. This episode was a fantastic finale, and full of little surprises that were delightful and funny, until we got to the BIG surprise at the end...G...

Thank you very much to Abbey for commissioning this episode! These chapters are really interesting to me because things don't really go according to plan, and yet they all work out for the best (at least in the short term). Lirael and Sameth attempt to cross the wall under a glamour to make them look like soldiers, but the people who work there are no fools and they can tell something is up. Which...

Thank you ETERNALLY to Julia for commissioning this episode! I'm absolutely in love with this weird fucking show, y'all. I'm already a little worried because there aren't many episodes commissioned and I'm simply dying for more, but I'm going to have faith that y'all will come through for me because I NEED MORE OF BOTH THESE STRANGE WOMEN. So in this episode, we've got Villanelle killing a man in...

Huge thanks to Abbey for commissioning this episode! I'm delighted to have so much of this book left to go, because it's been a huge amount of fun and I'm not ready to say goodbye to these characters yet. In fact, I'm not ready to say goodbye to this world yet. In these chapters, we've got a whole lot going on with Lirael and Nicholas. She's got her work cut out for her to convince him that there'...

Many thanks and many apologies to Melanie for commissioning this episode. Because I made a crappy mistake, and it's entirely my fault. This episode was supposed to lead into a live-watch of the finale episode of Season 1, but like a giant dodo I went and watched this episode AND the finale episode, rendering Melanie's commission of a voyeur episode moot. Although I've already seen the finale, in t...

Many thanks to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! This episode is the final one of the book, and it's leaving me with a variety of feelings. Part of me is pleasantly surprised by the way she's handled certain characters, and I'm feeling as if this author deserves more faith than I gave her. But there are some things that I'm kind of puzzled by, interesting details that I feel were barely men...

Thank you ever so much to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! We're so close to the end of the book, and I still feel a little off-balance about where we're heading in terms of the final conflict. So far I'm pretty compelled by what's going on with Hanara, and I like that the Emperor read his mind because it's going to give him a huge advantage in seeing what Takado was really up to. There's...

Thank you so much to Martin for commissioning this episode! This is starting to get more and more interesting as we finally begin to inch closer towards finding out what a Shipheart is. We're also finding out about Arks, which are basically like Shiphearts on steroids. And I share my own suspicions on exactly how the people of the ice really live, considering that there are Arks that have been bur...

Thank you very much to Michael for commissioning this episode! This episode of Travelers is really fascinating because they're finally getting to the main mission that they were sent here to take care of. There's a lot of interesting components at play here, from the busload of other travelers that get added to the mix, to the implementation of technology too advanced for our present, to the learn...

Thank you very much to Andrea for commissioning this episode! I can't believe how different this show feels now that we're in a new season. There's still the whole old crew of characters, but we're getting even MORE added to the mix, which I have to admit I didn't think was something that could be done and still have me keep them all straight. It helps that many of these characters are the same pe...

Thank you so much to Melanie for commissioning this episode! In this one, I'm covering 'Boyz Crazy' and 'Land Before Swine. The first one is arguably one of the most silly setups in a lot of ways, but it's done so well, with such deeply sincere jokes that it still winds up being funny even though I was sure I was going to be able to see it all coming. I'm always impressed when that happens. The se...

Thank you very much to Jacqui for commissioning the live watch of this episode and the episode itself! This is a bonkers episode and I'm so mad that the damn finale isn't going to be until January! I don't know how I'm going to manage right now. The finale is also a voyeur episode, and that means I literally have to wait until then not just to record, but to watch. AGH. There are so many things co...

Thank you very much to Abbey for commissioning this episode! I'm so into this book, y'all. I feel like the groundwork laid in the previous books has really paid off, and I've grown very invested in what happens to everyone. Even Mogget! He's back, and he's acting suspicious and I'm absolutely dying to know what his deal is. In these chapters, there's a rescue op for poor Nicholas, and I feel so fu...

Thank you to Rachel for commissioning this episode! Man, we've got some threads beginning to come together here and yet I still can't quite get the shape of things. Obviously there's something majorly shady and sinister about Woody Goodman, but I can't decide if it's a personal thing or if it's organized with someone else. Then there's the whole thing with Veronica finding out she's got Chlamydia,...