The Descent is Easy: A Shadowhunters Podcast

Website - Tumblr - Twitter Episode 41a of The Descent Is Easy is the first half of our Season 3a Roundup, in which we discuss the themes of this half season and spend a lot of time pondering theology and demonology, and wondering if our characters ever stop to think about any of this, and how high the chances are we're gonna get Magnus and Alec sitting down and exploring this. We reckon low, by th...

Website - Tumblr - Twitter Episode 40 of The Descent Is Easy discusses Erchomai, Episode 10 of Season 3 of Shadowhunters. In which we culminate our long long loooong day of Shadowhunting, which consisted of watching 03x09, podcasting it, then watching the season 3a finale and podcasting that… We refrained from hitting the whiskey but god, we could have done with one of Alec's drinks because "it's...

Website - Tumblr - Twitter Episode 39 of The Descent Is Easy discusses Familia Ante Omnia, Episode 9 of Season 3 of Shadowhunters. In which we discuss the stunning cinematography of the cold open and the show's bravery in revelling in this episode's gruesomeness – maggotballs and all - and then complain about the number of characters that had to take their moron pills, to get the plot to where it...

Website - Tumblr - Twitter (Due to a houseguest, we had to abandon our normal recording space, so we'd like to apologise for the audio jump between the first 27 minutes and the rest of the episode.) Episode 38 of The Descent Is Easy discusses A Heart of Darkness, Episode 8 of Season 3 of Shadowhunters. This week we have issues with Luke and Ollie, however we are in LOVE with the Lightwood Siblings...

Website - Tumblr - Twitter This week we discuss Magnus and Luke's amazing disappearing act; how the long awaited Simon Alec interaction isn't quite what was wanted, but was maybe what was needed; the many ways in which Alisha Wainwright is awesome; a hug 40 episodes in the making; how Magnus and Alec continue to be a basket of onions; the surprisingly brutal departure of Mimi Kuzyk; how the Owl se...

Website - Tumblr - Twitter Episode 36 of The Descent Is Easy discusses A Window Into An Empty Room, Episode 6 of Season 3 of Shadowhunters. Frankly, this episodes is a ball of amazing, beautiful, poignant parts, wrapped up in a ball of What the hell are you doing ? It's quite frankly a mess, saved only by the Lightwoods. However, Ruth is disarmed by bare feet and we spin the most crack theory abou...

Website - Tumblr - Twitter PSA: This episode is over 3 hours. Make sure you're sitting comfortably! Episode 35 of The Descent Is Easy discusses Stronger Than Heaven, Episode 5 of Season 3 of Shadowhunters. We discuss themes running through the episode, such as clothes sharing and what it says about intimacy, Jace and what being a soldier means for him, Alec showing his age and Magnus showing how m...

Website - Tumblr - Twitter Episode 34 of The Descent Is Easy discusses Thy Soul Instructed, Episode 4 of Season 3 of Shadowhunters. First of all, apology for the sound quality of this episode. Failing to turn a mic on for the first 15 minutes as well as flu and a new episode of Shadowhunters landing on the same day is a bad, bad combination… We tried our best. If you can get past that, in this epi...

Website - Tumblr - Twitter Episode 33 of The Descent Is Easy discusses What Lies Beneath, Episode 3 of Season 3 of Shadowhunters. We're going to keep this short and sweet. This episode is fantastic. Great writing, great directing, great acting. Everyone turned up to work this week and it really shows! Bring on the rest of Season 3! Don't forget to join our new  Quote Guessing Game !  

Website - Tumblr - Twitter Episode 32 of The Descent Is Easy discusses The Power That be, Episode 2 of Season 3 of Shadowhunters. We lament the lack of thigh runes and reveal the first winner of #QuotetDiE before discussing the wonderful and vast amount of Malec domesticity, terribly awkward double dates and try to unravel our feelings over finding ourselves in the middle of a crossover between a...

Website - Tumblr - Twitter Episode 31 of The Descent Is Easy discusses On Infernal Ground, Episode 1 of Season 3 of Shadowhunters. Ruth and Michelle discuss the trauma of having had to watch this episode separately from each other, due to conflicting schedules and real life, before geeking out over Magnus' clothes and Alisha being included in the new and shiny credits before Ruth, on air, pretends...

Website - Tumblr - Twitter SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS In preparation for the start of Shadowhunters Season 3, we're looking at the tweets and teasers we've had during the hiatus, and talk through our hopes and dreams for the upcoming season, some of which seem very likely (Hello, Magnus backstory! Welcome, downworld world building); and some less so (we'll never give up hoping for the full episode...

Website - Tumblr - Twitter As usual, the Round Up is a monster! We discuss our characters in a new, flow flow floooow chart style! It kind of helped. It could have been 5 hours... MalecCrazedAuthor's meta discussed at the end of this episode can be found HERE  and we thoroughly recommend that you read it!  For listening ease, as always, have a list of where each group discussion starts, to give yo...

Website - Tumblr - Twitter Episode 29 of The Descent Is Easy discusses Beside Still Water, Episode 20 of Season 2 of Shadowhunters. This is the end. The end of Season 2. The end of Valentine Morgenstern. The end of Jace Herondale. The end of Alec's competency… did we say that out loud? Yeah, yeah we did. And we will repeatedly say it in this episode. Clary however is awesome. She is fierce and plu...

Website - Tumblr - Twitter Episode 28 of The Descent Is Easy discusses Hail and Farewell, Episode 19 of Season 2 of Shadowhunters. In which the Shadowhunters go shadowhunting; Alec gets a hero shot that almost makes up for his last one on a shopping cart; we attempt to psychoanalyse Jonathan Morgenstern (good luck to us...); we discover much to our shock that the mortal mirror plot line is kinda n...

Website - Tumblr - Twitter Episode 27 of The Descent Is Easy discusses Awake, Arise, or Be Forever Fallen, Episode 18 of Season 2 of Shadowhunters. Unsurprisingly, this episode is long… We talk about this episode containing all of the awesome and also, all of the awful. If you listen closely enough, you can hear the moment where Alec's heart breaks in half and so do ours, because Alec lets go of M...

Website - Tumblr - Twitter In this episode Clary discovers her mother has even more plot significance than previously thought; Alec makes a grave error, possibly because he was distracted by lobster; Magnus is scary cross; and thank goodness for Luke. Meanwhile we're totally down for Maia and Simon - we ship it, and we take a moment out of our previously scheduled broadcast to discuss Freud. 

Website - Tumblr - Twitter Episode 25 of The Descent Is Easy discusses Day of Atonement, Episode 16 of Season 2 of Shadowhunters. We lament the absence of Luke and Magnus, discuss this weeks' Lightwood drama, disturbing childhood memories of skinning things and ongoing confusion over werewolf law... mostly we raise a lot of questions in this episode and answer very few of them, so if you've been w...

Website - Tumblr - Twitter In this episode of The Descent is Easy we totally solve all the blood related red-tape issues of the Shadowworld, Simon makes some peculiar choices, we meet the many faces of Sebastian Verlac (Evil; Cupboard; Toast), we lament missed opportunities, and conclude that really none of that matters because Harry rocks... like really seriously awesomely... 

Website - Tumblr - Twitter In Episode 23 of The Descent Is Easy we discuss The Fair Folk - Season 2, Episode 14 of Shadowhunters. We talk about various Public Alec Announcements, Maryse's transformation, the Seelie court and its queen, Jace's scarf, cryptic fire messages, Ollie's confusing motivation for stalking Luke, Alec's (dumb, dumb, dumb ) decision to put the cute British boy in charge of se...

Website - Tumblr - Twitter In which Shadowhunters considers becoming a film noir - bodies turn up, Jace makes some super awesome decisions, and Luke is actually quite a lot like a cop. Magnus is in an odd place following last week's wacky adventure. Maia is awesome, Simon is awesome, and the NY institute has a change in management. 

Website - Tumblr - Twitter (PSA: We have new recording equipment and promise to work on our microphone discipline if you promise to stick with us! Sorry for any ups and downs in volume!) In this episode, Magnus is Valentine, Valentine is Magnus. Harry is Valentine, inside Magnus and Alan is Magnus, inside Valentine. And it's all giving Michelle a headache. Damn you, body swapping episode! Luckily...

It's a new year and we are back with season 2 episode 11, in which we meet some new characters, Izzy eats soup, Valentine is locked in the basement, and Jace has all the feels.  Website - Tumblr - Twitter

Website - Tumblr - Twitter In which we learn that our living room echoes terribly and that alcohol makes us less talkative rather than more – what's up with that?? We are unsure about the success of this as a podcast episode, but it sure as hell works as a drinking game! After nearly a full bottle of rum, we ponder starting a second podcast, lament the fact that whatever we do in life, we will nev...

Website - Tumblr - Twitter Our Season 2a round up turned into a monster, so tDiE 19a discussed our main characters, and this episode is looking at relationships, behind the scenes stuff such as costumes, and what Magnus' clothes are saying about him, our 2a favourite scene, episode and season MVP as well as your thoughts! Thanks to everyone who's been with us this year. We hope you have a wonderfu...