Spoil Me

Thank you to Joanna for commissioning this episode! In these chapters we get some major forward movement as Detective Turner witnesses his prime suspect teleporting in and out of a prison, and poor Alex once again gets attacked within an inch of her life and has to be brought back from the brink of death. Meanwhile, I'm sitting here trying to figure out what the hell is going on with Darlington. T...

Thank you so much to Joanna for commissioning this episode! These chapters are the ones where we finally find out both what happened in that room with Darlington, and what happened at Ground Zero. And I am HERE FOR ALL OF IIIIIITTTTTTTT Thank you for listening, and I will see you next week with a new episode!

Thank you very much to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! I have to say, while I'm super sad that this show is over, I feel that this finale was a perfect stopping place, in terms of the overall arc for the show's growth as well as tonally being a little melancholy but mostly hopeful. I think it's a good indicator that a TV series ended when it should if you're feeling both sad but satisfied...

Thank you to Claire for commissioning this episode! This is the one where Jane starts to realize that she's got some feelings going on for Raphael that are getting impossible to ignore. Meanwhile, Michael is over here lying more and more to cover up Petra's involvement and it's really beginning to snowball. Jane has decided that she's ready to have sex, but I'm glad that circumstances aligned so t...

Thank you to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! There were so many fun happy things going on in this one that I completely let my guard down and then the last scenes happened and knocked me on my ass. I hate this.

Thank you to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! This was a fun parents-only episode about the wildest night of their lives back in '77 when they were all in school living through some of the worst of the violence of the Troubles while trying to just have normal lives. I'm very into this secret, and the way they told the story was super fun to watch. I love this show! Thanks for listening, an...

Thank you to Claire for commissioning this episode! In the second delightful installment of this wonderful series, I once again underestimate how hard this show is willing to go. We've got injuries and murders, lies and deceptions, affairs, and a few people in the mix who really are just doing their best. I love this show!

Thank you to Joanna for commissioning this episode! I'm so VERY into this book, y'all (As of this posting, I have already read the 4 chapters that come after this and OH MY GOD), and I am starting to see the shape of what Leigh Bardugo is doing in this book. At least, I think I am. Sexual assault being tossed around as a plot point is something that I don't love, but she's clearly zeroing in on th...

Thank you to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! In this episode of Derry Girls, we get an interesting overlap in the plots where the girls are convinced the house they've been assigned to clean is haunted, while the parents are together trying to contact a spirit of their own. In the end, one of the ghosts is proved to be a regular flesh-and-blood man, but the other seems to be interested in...

Thank you so much to Florian for commissioning this special holiday episode! For this one I get to watch a couple of delightful drag queens really duke it out over their views on Christmas, with some truly funny songs and fucking FABULOUS holiday outfits. This was a total change of pace and a really great way to spend an hour during the holidays, so if you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. H...

Thank you to Gabriela for commissioning this episode! I'm very excited about the way this series has started out, because it has managed to make me care about characters almost immediately which is not an easy thing to pull off. The narrator is a really fun choice, and the absurdity of the series of events is well lampshaded and made to feel truly possible. I'm very much looking forward to more of...

Thank you to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! This is the one where the whole crew is heading down Portrush for a seaside holiday, and there's a lot of excitement on the train ride down. Poor Claire is left behind to take a separate train by herself, and James inadvertently switches bags with a criminal who is carrying a gun and cash and...a bag of crisps. Thank you all so much for listeni...

Thank you so much to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! This is the one where the girls decide that they're going to enter into a talent show as the Spice Girls, and are completely killing it, but end up being derailed by a very hot plumber that Erin thinks is railing her mom. Thanks for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!

Thank you to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! In this premiere for the third season of a truly delightful show, the crew decides that they're going to break into their school to find out their test results early, but they interrupt some intrepid robbers and unwittingly help them out. Meanwhile, Joe and Gerry nearly come to blows over the issue of Seamus the cat. Thanks for listening, and I...

Thank you to Joanna for commissioning this episode! In these chapters we're getting a look at one of the other Houses Of The Veil, namely Manuscript, which is a house that focuses on illusion magic. Darlington is none too pleased when they manage to drug him into making a fool of himself at party, but it's interesting that even after the drug wears off he still believes that what he saw was real....

Thank you to Joanna for commissioning this episode! So in these chapters we get a few further juicy tidbits about what happened at "Ground Zero" and I'm chock full of vague theories with no basis to them whatsoever. Also, we get info about the murder of Tara, which for some reason has gotten under Alex's skin and she's not sure why. And then there's the vague undercurrent of anxiety the comes from...

Thank you to Joanna for commissioning this episode! These are the chapters that tell us what happened all those years ago to cause Alex to fall apart. I was surprised to see what a supportive and loving mother she seemed to have, and I'm sure it broke her heart to watch her daughter start going down such a destructive road. Alex has had some truly harrowing experiences, and I'm not sure that Darli...

Thank you to Joanna for commissioning this episode! I'm kind of blown away at the direction this book is going, because there's a difference between "I'm not sure what to expect" and "There was no possible way to be prepared for the weirdness". And you know what? I'm into it. In these first chapters, we meet Alex, who is attending Yale and can see ghosts. But she's not a Yale student who can also...

Thank you so much to Asher for commissioning this remainder of this series! It's the final chapters, and there is so much happening that despite assuring Asher that I would get to their questions about favorite moments in the book, etc, I wrapped without ever mentioning them again. Sorry, Asher! I will try to pick things up in the Discord, meet you there? Thanks again so much to you all for listen...

Thank you to Asher for commissioning this episode! These chapters are pretty intense as Calder rushes to try some new things with the Emperor's powers, all in the midst of a pretty scary attack by Urg'naut that tears a chunk of the city into complete nothingness. Meanwhile, there's a whole thing with Bliss and I love this so much. Thanks a ton for listening, and I will see you soon with the final...

Thank you to Asher for commissioning this episode! These chapters are the ones in which Calder comes back to life, and it takes a scene between him and Kelerac to make me realize that I just don't really believe Calder's deep desire to become Emperor. I believe he wants more for the world, I believe he feels passionately in justice, but...ruling? Nah. I'm just not buying that. Meanwhile, Jyrene is...

Thank you so much to Andy for commissioning this episode! And this whole series! These final chapters are the ones in which Lindon and Mercy face off with Malice, and finally have a chance to tell Mercy the truth. Meanwhile, in the heavens the Mad King is planning his attack on Ozriel and Suriel, and Makiel is looking on with that kind of self-satisfied regret that I cannot stand because it's him...

Thank you so much to Andy for commissioning this episode! These chapters are the ones in which Malice seems to have convinced Mercy that Lindon has gotten so ambitious that he's willing to risk people's lives (basically accusing him of exactly the crime SHE'S guilty of), and Lindon & Yerin go off to rob a bunch of monarchs. This is all so so good. Thanks a ton to you all for listening, and I will...

Thank you to Asher for commissioning this episode! In these chapters we finally get to see Shera's attempt at assassinating Calder, and also find out a little more of Foster's history, which is truly harrowing and extremely difficult to read. There's also a delightful exchange between Andel and a shopkeeper, and I'm very interested in seeing what Andel goes on to do with this object. Thanks to you...

Thank you to Andy for commissioning this episode! These are the chapters in which Lindon levels up to a point that I didn't even think was possible. He's basically a dreadgod himself now? Which I should have kind of seen coming based on the title of this book and I didn't? Sometimes I can be a real ding dong. Also, the Mad King is up to some shit and I'm not sure what to think but it's all soundin...