Binary System Podcast

On tonight’s recap of Welcome to Night Vale we learn that Night Vale’s newest attraction, Hysteria Land, is not an amusement park, it’s a theme park. And the theme is “amusement.” We’d argue that the theme is also “existential dread” and “impossibly frightening.” Arms inside the ride, kids, watch out for the dead animals. After...

“That’s a good question.” “Thank you!” “It’s best to not ask questions. Especially good ones.” If the title to the Welcome to Night Vale episode sounds familiar, we’re seeing the return of a harrowing duo from Night Vale’s past: The Man Who Is Not Tall, and The Man Who Is Not Short. And unfortunately The...

It took two, maybe two-and-a-half months longer than everyone else, but the Binary System Podcast team finally watched the final episode (ever?) of Arcane: League of Legends. Ten out of ten. No notes. Of course it takes us an entire episode to go into detail about why we think this episode was the perfect way...

Welcome to Night Vale is back from hiatus this week so we’ve gotta talk about the Flakey-O’s employees as they celebrate their return from a Season of Unstoppable Churning Death. (Otherwise known as corporate takeover.) Totally understandable that they’d want to cut loose for a bit, and what’s a little grave robbing among friends? After...

Wow, we’ve got a real rhythm going with these posts! We’re back again this week to discuss the second-to-last episode (ever!) of Arcane. What can we say about this show that we haven’t said before? It’s beautiful, it’s terrifying, it’s powerful, it’s violent. We finally get the backstory on what’s been happening with Mel, but...

Second verse, same as the first: we’re back this week to talk about Star Trek: Lower Decks (the Star Trek future is the best future: good hearted and occasionally sexy!) and Beastars (okay but WHY did Louis say he was a virgin, does having sex with Haru not count? Did they actually HAVE sex?), and...

This week it’s thirty minutes and three topics as the Binary System Podcast team does an in-depth recap of…okay, so the first two topics are gonna be kinda fast. Kathryn watched Season 2 Episode 6 of Star Trek: Lower Decks (foley artists, take a bow), and Elizabeth and Kathryn both watched Season 3 Episode 3...

Wonder of all wonders we actually managed to watch another episode of Beastars season 3. Never mind the fact that Elizabeth only finished watching it five minutes before the recording, it got done and that’s what counts. (Keep telling yourself that, slacker. ~ Kathryn) (Oy! ~ Elizabeth) After recapping the various Beastars heartbreaks (poor Juno...

Happy New Year everyone! Hope everyone’s 2025 is already shaping up to be calm and stress-free and completely absent of any kind of drama. This week’s recap is actually way late, but we’ve got to get through a whole month of Welcome To Night Vale being on hiatus, so why not wait until January to...

Hope everybody is having safe and happy holidays! This week’s episode is super short because one: at time of recording we were on the road, and two: we haven’t caught up with much In the way of TV, movie, and books this week. Elizabeth’s only finished the second to last episode of Star Trek Lower...