Anglo-Filles

Hello! Sorry we’re later than usual, but we had a good reason, we promise.

Lets talk about how the 2013 fall TV season has shaped up!

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NBC’s Dracula

Cleolinda’s recaps. Highly entertaining. (If anyone bugs her about them, I will make them very very VERY sad. Don’t do that.)

Cleo’s Victoriana Tumblr. Research purposes!

Sleepy Hollow

The Tumblr of Orlando Jones, god’s gift to fandom. Proving that a creator/actor can simply walk into fandom, if one has enough swagger. (Spoiler: he has swagger.)

Almost Human

The Blacklist

Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Emma Approved

Go forth and watch TV my pretties!

We will see you back in a couple of weeks with a special guest!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! It’s our one year anniversary, and we are kermit flailing to welcome back Cleolinda Jones to talk about all things Hannibal. We just kermit flail in general, actually.

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SPOILERS LIKE WHOA.

This month’s sacrificial avocado:

We didn’t want to take any chances.

If you are still on the fence about watching, here is a review that tells you why this is a fantastic show.

How to watch Hannibal:

Korean Promo, complete with sparkles:

Production Designer article. Amazing amount of detail.

Janice Poon’s blog, the food of Hannibal. Spoilers and recipes and gorgeous, gorgeous pictures.

Will Graham Has a Nice Day and nothing he eats is people.

Crack vid

Gag reel

Carpets for Airports. Look, it can’t be explained, it can only be experienced.

THE LITERARY STYLINGS OF MR. WILL GRAHAM #HANNIBAL pic.twitter.com/DP2vkQ2Ihb

— Bryan Fuller (@BryanFuller) October 12, 2013

Breaking news while we were recording! Charlie Hunnam cancelled the apocolypse and dropped out fo the 50 Shades movie. Somewhere, Rob Pattinson is raising a glass.

Our Senior ComicCon Correspoendent: PpyaJunebug livetumblred the Hannibal panels at San Diego Comic Con.

Hannibal Flower Pictures! We love this cast and crew SO. MUCH.

Thank you so much for listening to us ramble on for a whole year! Can’t wait to see what the next year brings us!

This is episode 12, which means we’ve been talking your ears off about girl-geekery for a year. We had a bunch of topics that weren’t involved enough for a whole show, so this is a GRAB BAG EPISODE. Warning: expect tangents.

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The Liberal Democrats of Great Britain are discussing fanfiction. Google for more about this story at your own risk.

Hugo updates: You can see the voting stats breakdown of the Hugo Awards here.

Best Fan Writer went to Tansy Raynor Robertsk, who is awesome. You should read her stuff on feminism and gender roles in SF/F. Mark Oshiro is still the fan writer of OUR HEARTS.

Seanan McGuire (along with Cathrynne Valente, Elizabeth Bear, Paul Cornell, and Lynne Thomas) won Best Fan Cast for SF Squeecast. (And then, because they’ve won two years in a row, they announced they are withdrawing from further consideration, because they are classy as hell.)

In Other Seanan News, her October Daye Series has been optioned for TV development. Yay!

Other podcasts we listen to, and you should too:

Welcome to Night Vale

Stuff Mom Never Told You

TechStuff and other How Stuff Works podcasts.

A Matter of Taste.

Fucking While Feminist

Dear Bitches Smart Authors Romance Podcast

Masters of Carpentry.

NPR’s Popculture Happy Hour

This is a linkBBC Radio 5 Film Reviews

TV On the Internet

Did you know screenwriters are being actively taught not to pass the Bechdel Test? They are.

The Methadone List, Reidan and Maya (our Senior ComicCon Correspondent) watch tv shows while we wait out the Hannibal HeAteUs. Currently, they are watching Orphan Black, which is awesome. This has been on hold a little bit while Maya has been in France and Reidan’s life exploded.

The Hollow Crown– the Beeb does Shakespeare’s Richard II, Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2, and Henry V. Airing on PBS in the US starting Sept 20th, and Region 1 DVDs available on Sept 17th (no, this does not make a lot of sense, but here we are). The UK got these ages ago, and by all accounts, it is wonderful.

Kayleigh has been watching The Bridge, an American show that is a version of the Swedish/Danish version called “Bron” in Sweden and “Broen” in Demark, and the UK will be remaking with France but that will be called “Tunnel.”

There are Emmy Nominations. Creative Arts awards happened inbetween recording and posting, and our Queen, Cat Deeley is again an Emmy loser. WE LOVE YOU CAT. Primetime Awards are on Sept 22nd, and Hannibal and Tatiana Maslany was snubbed so we’re mad.

Alina did not make it out to TIFF (shuuuun, shuuuun), but her friend Peter did. Click here to read his TIFF report. Thank you, Peter!

12 Years a Slave Press Conference:

The Congress Trailer

TV premier dates

Sleepy Hollow: Sept 16

Ben Affleck is your new Batman. A lot of people are cranky about this.

We have actors for the 50 Shades of Grey movie, and a lot of fans aren’t happy about that, either, and launched a petition to get them replaced. (Of course, Charlie Hunnam once famously said he wouldn’t take a role just for the paycheck, but… come on, Charlie.)

Queen JK is doing the script for a NEW POTTERVERSE MOVIE OMG.

Alina has read The Casual Vacancy and The Cuckoo’s Calling, and thinks you should too.

Sorry this episode is later than usual- we originally recorded a week later than we’d normal do, thanks to nutty schedules, and then the Podcast Gods were angry about something, so we rescheduled, and an avocado was sacrificed, and WE’RE BACK AND BETTER THAN EVER.

Sherlock Holmes has been a part of the cultural consciousness since his inception, and Les Filles discuss (with varying levels of squee) several of them.

(There are spoilers for the end of Elementary at around the 1h45min to 1h55min mark. Proceed at your own risk.)

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First things first: Kayleigh has spent the month at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival reviewing many many many shows for The Skinny!

There was also a guy who dressed up as Predator outside a Starbucks everyday. The Skinny gave him Six Stars (out of five).

On to the Holmes of it all!

Watson’s Wives (Reidan thinks he has a bit of a Cartwright Curse problem. Alina and Kayleigh have no idea what that means.)

Arthur Conan Doyle and an Ontario Ghost problem

The Basil Rathbone Era (1939 – 1946)

Russian Holmes (1979 – 1986) You can even get them on Amazon!

Russian Holmes comes complete with pimp cane:

(You can find many, many, many screen caps on Alina’s Tumblr

The Great Mouse Detective (1986)

Best Villain Song ever:

Jeremy Brett Series (1984 – 1994)

The Guy Ritchie movies (2009, 2011)

Sherlock (2010 – )

Moffat’s “revelation” on Irene Adler.

The Blind Banker and Sherlock’s problem with race.

Elementary (2012 – )

Credits inspired by The Great Mouse Detective

Jonny Lee Miller and his approach to Holmes.

Joan Watson is not impressed with your shit, Sherlock.

EVERYONE’S FAVORITE TORTOISE! CLYDE! (It’s okay, the Elementary writers have said that Clyde is being taken case of by Mrs. Hudson while Joan and Sherlock are in London.) (They know what we like.)

Various adaptations with Sherlock as a cat: Surprisingly accurate

Hannimentary: It’s a thing. It’s a glorious thing.

It’s summer! it’s disgustingly hot! it’s time to flee to the movie theaters and watch stuff get blown up and knocked down! A LOT.

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First, we have Kayleigh’s triumphant return from the wilds of Dundee where she reviewed a Scottish version of Let The Right One In. Enjoy!

GO SEE PACIFIC RIM. IT IS AWESOME. This review says it’s like Mighty Morphin Power Rangers on really expensive acid. He seems to think this is a detriment. We think it’s a movie we’ll see about eleventy billion times.

Box Office Mojo chart for the summer so far. Numbers for Pacific Rim have improved since we recorded, but GO SEE IT.

Other summer blockbusters we discussed: Man of Steel (meh bordering on liked), Star Trek Into Darkness (really didn’t like), Iron Man 3 (loved), The Lone Ranger (None of us watched, we’ll tell you why!), White House Down (Die Hard in the White House, Alina liked it).

Anne Helen Petersen’s A Concise Case for Leo: The Perfect Gatsby.

I Saw The Lone Ranger So You Don’t Have To: a Native blogger explains the (many, many, many) problems with the representations of Native Americans in The Lone Ranger. Worth a read.

Kyle Kallgren’s Brows Held High review of Dead Man, and why Johnny Depp should know better.

Reel Injun: a documentary about the representation of Natives in film.

I will also note here that I was wrong about Taylor Lautner—he’s not as Native American as I thought. Sorry!

The last couple blockbusters of the summer are The Wolverine (aka This One Doesn’t Suck We Promise!) and Elysium (AKA the 1% live in spaaaaaaaace!). It’s a long hot summer, people. Stay cool.

(Yeah, we noticed there aren’t a lot of women involved in these movies, either.)

Frozen, and Alina’s favorite version of The Snow Queen (in Russian, no subtitles, but pretty!)

Snowpiercer trailer!

Spielberg and Lucas have Things to say about summer blockbusters. They are not flattering and also… really hypocritical.

Bradley Cooper and Gerard Butler at Wimbledon. They’re ADORABLE.

As a thank you for helping Hannibal get renewed for a season 2, Mads is buying us all beer. (The beer may be people. We don’t care, Mads is buying us beer.)

Reidan still doesn’t like Pushing Daisies, and Alina and Kayleigh are betrayed.

Upcoming episodes! the fall TV season looks like it’s going to be GEEKTASTIC and we want to discuss it all.

YES THE RUMORS ARE TRUE (you can tell, because we started them): WE ARE DOING AN EPISODE ON HANNIBAL WHERE WE WILL BE JOINED BY THE LOVELY CLEOLINDA.

See you next month!