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Happy Wine Wednesday! We are back with a new episode and a new guest this week. Abbey rejoins me and brings along another amazing person I've met through them - Lauren.  Lauren is part-time freelance writer and full-time Marvel nerd based out of New York.  We all LOVE Thor, so I was delighted  to expand the podcast universe of Thor lovers.

Tipsy warning - I had a margarita cocktail in a bottle  this week and it shows!

5:06 - We discuss Love and Thunder's opening and how tonally different it is from Ragnarok.

8:40 - Thoughts on what message - if any - Taika is sending about religion. Particularly in light of the film's opening.

16:03 - Reflections on how Taika's imprint on the Thor-verse. We share favorite comedic moments, the visual aesthetic that is unique to Thor thanks to Taika, was there too much Guns N' Roses, and action sequences

56:31 - Abbey and Lauren share their thoughts on the exploration of grief in Love and Thunder. Did this film make up for the sins of Endgame?

1:25:25 - The Jane of it all. I also go on a bit of a rant about Gorr and my dislike for his origin story.

2:18:07 - Thoughts on whiny dude bros and whether the film is inclusive enough. 

2:29:25 - Thirst Segment - MCU Orgy!

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As you know - we drink, we know things, we use adult language, and we have a fun time. 

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Happy Wine Wednesday! Our coverage of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law continues this week with a discussion about episodes 5 and 6.  We kick off our discussion with our thoughts on favorite Easter Eggs, best "at law" moments, the lack of cameos in these two episodes, and the use of the secondary characters thus far.  The lack of cameos meant more time for Titania, so we chat about whether we like the social media influencer as a nemesis for Jennifer/She-Hulk. 

Perhaps Luke Jacobson is the true nemesis of the season because we were not feeling the so-called upgrade of Jennifer's wardrobe.  We were also overdue to discuss the show's fun closing credits, so we get into that as well. 

We then get into episode specific thoughts.  I had a few thoughts about Pug's code switching in episode 5 and episode 6 really left us wanting more wins and less humiliation for Jennifer.

The main discussion wraps  with our wishlist for the last 3 episodes of the season.  And we close out with a thirst segment inspired by episodes 5 and 6, including our best effort at coming up with a dating app tagline that rivals, "mean, green, and poured into these jeans."

Friendly reminder - we drink, we know things, we use adult language, and we have a really good time!

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Be sure to check out our prior episodes on the She-Hulk, Shameless,  Community, House of the Dragon, Justified, The Bob's Burgers Movie,  Queer As Folk (2022), Fire Island, Looking, Empire, Minx, Sons of Anarchy,  Abbott Elementary, Grand Crew,  Claws, True Blood,Orphan Black,The Walking Dead, Teen Wolf,  Euphoria, and The Sopranos.  

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Happy Wine Wednesday! Podcast superstar and entertainment journalist Andy B. joins me this week to discuss one of my favorite shows of all time - Showtime's Shameless.  We love this messy Southside Chicago family and Gallavich is unquestionably one of our absolute favorite ships.  

00:00:00 - Intro & Jocelyn/Andy Origin Story
00:21:22 - How We Got Into Shameless
00:29:47 - Have we watched the UK version of Shameless?
00:33:29 - We dig into the Shameless pilot.
01:44:59 - A few questions for sh*ts and giggles - some "shameless" character astrology, would you go on a second date with Fiona, ridiculous CGI, and why didn't Lip pick up that darn apple?
02:34:22 - You've been hired to create a Shameless reboot - what does it look like?
02:45:38 - Why you should keep watching Shameless.
02:52:28 - A Shameless inspired thirst segment in which we are shamelessly thirsty!
03:14:38 - Spoiler segment.

Content warning: we discuss the writers’ approach to handling sexual assault over the course of the series.  

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Friendly reminder - we drink, we know things, we use adult language, and we have a really good time. 

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Be sure to check out our prior episodes on the She-Hulk, Community, House of the Dragon, Justified, The Bob's Burgers Movie,  Queer As Folk (2022), Fire Island, Looking, Empire, Minx, Sons of Anarchy,  Abbott Elementary, Grand Crew,  Claws, True Blood,Orphan Black,The Walking Dead, Teen Wolf,  Euphoria, and The Sopranos.

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Happy Wine Wednesday! Our coverage of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law continues this week with a discussion about episodes 3 and 4.  Candi and I continue to really love this show.  We kick off our chat by talking about themes and stylistic choices that the writers continue to develop in the series.  We talk about Jennifer continuing to break the fourth wall, addressing misogyny in Jennifer's life and the fandom, and using cameos of fan faves.  We were absolutely delighted about Wong's involvement in these episodes.  The show is called She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, so we talk about our favorite "at law" moments as well. 

Candi didn't love the randomness of Titania in the show's pilot, so I thought episodes 3 and 4 provided a perfect opportunity for us to check-in on how the writers have been handling Jennifer's foes thus far.  We wrap up the main discussion by talking about our wish list for the next few episodes and then we get thirsty.  We talk about who we would like to meetup with on the Hollywood Hookup app, which MCU character we'd like to thirst trap like Nikki did Wong, and we revisit some Hulk smashing thoughts as well. 

We have a very quick spoiler segment at the end so that Candi can share a few comic book tidbits.  Don't worry - you'll have plenty of advance warning. 

Friendly reminder - we drink, we know things, we use adult language, and we have a really good time!

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Be sure to check out our prior episodes on the first 2 episodes of She-Hulk, Community, House of the Dragon, Justified, The Bob's Burgers Movie,  Queer As Folk (2022), Fire Island, Looking, Empire, Minx, Sons of Anarchy,  Abbott Elementary, Grand Crew,  Claws, True Blood,Orphan Black,The Walking Dead, Teen Wolf,  Euphoria, and The Sopranos.  

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Happy Wine Wednesday! Matt of The Communies fan account joins me this week to talk about one of my absolute favorite shows and fandoms of all time - Community! Our conversation is part of the podcast's Boozy Beginnings AKA pilot project series in which we discuss the pilot episode of various tv shows. 

Matt and I head over to Greendale and kick off our discussion with what drew us to Community, whether we we completed the series, and then the deep dive into the pilot. We start by talking about the pilot's introduction to two of the more memorable characters from the series - Craig Pelton and Greendale Community College.  From there, we talk about our initial impressions of Jeff Winger and other memorable introductions to the study group members.  We were both struck at how fully realized these characters clearly were from the very start. Y'all know I love a little lighthearted zodiac fun, so I asked Matt to identify his big three signs in the form of Community characters. 

Although we were both huge fans of the episode, there were a few minor things we might do differently.  Related to that topic, I asked Matt to share what his version of Community would look like if he were in charge of a revival or reboot of the show.  No discussion of Community would be complete without talking "Six Seasons and a Movie" - so of course I asked what his Community movie would look like.

The main discussion closes with our thoughts on why you should keep watching, our favorite fandom moments, and we get a little less than wholesome with some fun Community-inspired thirst prompts. 

Matt graciously stuck around and discussed overall thoughts about the series in a spoiler segment following the main discussion.

Thanks for listening! Friendly reminder - we drink, we know things, we use adult language, and we have a great time! Be sure to support the Communies account on Twitter.  Follow the pod on IG and Twitter and send longer feedback to  [email protected].

Check out our prior episodes on She-Hulk, House of the Dragon, Justified, The Bob's Burgers Movie,  Queer As Folk (2022), Fire Island, Looking, Minx, Sons of Anarchy,  Abbott Elementary, Grand Crew,  Claws, Orphan Black,The Walking Dead, Teen Wolf,  Euphoria, and The Sopranos.  

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Happy Wine Wednesday! Candi is back this week to kick off our  coverage of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.

In this episode, we discuss episode 1 and 2 of the series.  First Candi and I share our level of engagement with the source material.  Candi enlisted some help from some fellow Blerds and I am coming into the series with no prior knowledge of Jennifer Walters. 

The first part of our discussion focuses on the pilot - our thoughts on the opening scene, Jennifer's origin story, the casting of Tatiana Maslany in the role, and what worked for us in the introductory episode.  We then discuss episode 2 - Superhuman Law - and Jennifer's ongoing tension between returning to her normal life and the call to duty that often comes with superhuman abilities. 

We close things out by discussing our wishlist for the rest of the season, whether or not we were distracted by the show's CGI, and then we have a riveting discussion about whether the Hulk can smash in our thirst segment.  As mentioned during the thirst segment, check out this article about the Hulk's sexcapades.  And support the talented Stephanie Williams  - here's her Twitter where you can follow her work.

Friendly reminder - we drink, we know things, we use adult language, and we have a really good time! Thanks for listening!

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Be sure to check out our prior episodes on House of the Dragon pilot, Justified, The Bob's Burgers Movie,  Queer As Folk (2022), Fire Island, Looking, Empire, Minx, Sons of Anarchy,  Abbott Elementary, Grand Crew,  Claws, True Blood, Orphan Black,The Walking Dead, Teen Wolf,  Euphoria, and The Sopranos.  Check out  full series coverage of Pose and the Bob's Burgers episode all about Linda Belcher - our favorite wine mom.

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Happy Wine Wednesday! Maddie graciously hung around to discuss House of the Dragon spoilers based on her book knowledge.  As a follow-up to my predictions about character arcs, Maddie tells me why my predictions were hot or cold.  If you are trying to avoid spoilers, you should skip this episode until the first season wraps.  Looking for our spoiler-free discussion? You can find it here.

Friendly reminder - we drink, we know things, we use adult language, and we have a good time.  I love you for listening!

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Happy Wine Wednesday! Podcast fave Maddie returns this week to discuss the pilot episode of HBO's House of the Dragon.  This is a long one, so pace yourselves! And to help with your listening experience, check out the chapter markers below.  Keep an eye out for a short bonus episode next week in which Maddie and I discuss book spoilers.  REMINDER: We drink, we know things, we use LOTS of adult language, and we have a really good time.  Cheers!

0:00 Intro and Drinking Selections

10:01 Our engagement with the source material.

13:08 Maddie discusses how the HotD source material differs from the GoT source material.

17:54 How does the HotD opening scene stack up against GoT's opening scene? Also - no opening title sequence? We have thoughts!

29:34 Thoughts on music from the episode and the magic of Ramin Djawadi.

39:01 How the discussion of character introductions will flow.

40:48 Rhaenyra

56:14 Daemon

1:16:32 Criston

1:31:34 Alicent

1:45:03 Rhaenys

1:55:23 Corlys

1:59:57 Rant about racism in the fandom.

2:11:42 Kurt Sutter would love this.

2:30:56 Other standouts.

2:33:22 Appreciation for the set design. 

2:35:33 Maddie notes Iron Throne differences.

2:38:35 High Valyrian sounds a little different in HotD.

2:39:39 Miscellaneous Targaryen thoughts.

2:47:36 More praise for the pilot.

2:51:29 Was there anything from the pilot that didn't work for us?

2:57:17 Does HotD work best as a show that comes after the audiences introduction to Westeros after 8 seasons of Game of Thrones? 

3:10:34 How bad does one smell after riding a dragon? Also, Maddie is a WHOLE vibe.

3:16:22 What GoT references did we enjoy most?

3:33:10 Maddie shares  thoughts on GoT season 8.

3:44:33 Maddie shares why you may want to stick with HotD. Jocelyn also goes on a tangent about the lovely Patina Miller and a few other shows that you should check out on Sundays. 

3:56:48 Closing out with thirsty thoughts.

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Happy Wine Wednesday! This week a new guest to the podcast, Jay Giles, joins me on a trip to Eastern Kentucky for the pilot episode of the FX series, Justified. 

We kick off the discussion by sharing what drew us to Justified and whether we read  the source material written by Elmore Leonard.  We then get into a deep dive of the pilot - starting with the very memorable standoff between Raylan Givens and Tommy Bucks.  Justified premiered in 2010, which was a much different world in terms of social awareness around police brutality, so Jay and I discuss whether or not this opening standoff between Raylan and Tommy would fly in 2022.  Although Raylan was very confident in the justification of his actions towards Tommy, we discuss whether we agreed with him.

Justified has a very memorable, catchy theme song so of course we share our thoughts about it and where it ranks among our favorite tv show theme songs.  We also talk about the choice to pair this hip-hop meets bluegrass song with this show featuring modern day cowboy Raylan.

Next, we get share our thoughts on our introductions to Boyd and Ava.  Timothy Olyphant and Walton Goggins were without question the standout performances in the pilot, so we talk about which actor left us wanting to know more about their respective character by the end of the pilot.

We give our elevator pitch as to why you should continue on with Justified if you have not watched the entire series.  We also briefly discuss the Justified revival currently in production and whether we plan to watch.  Spoiler alert - of course we do! We both loved Justified. 

Jay is officially introduced to the podcast thirst segment.  He shares his thirsty picks from the pilot and also accepts my challenge to guest cast an actor/actress that he has a crush on that he would like to see in the Justified universe. 

There's a brief spoiler discussion in the main discussion.  Thanks to podcast editor Daniel, you'll get an alert when that discussion begins and I've flagged it in the chapter markers.  The brief spoiler detour begins around 1:02:44 and ends around 108:16 - just in case chapter markers aren't supported wherever you listen.  After the main discussion concludes, Jay and I discuss our thoughts on the series as a whole.  As always, you'll get a heads up before that discussion begins.

I love you for listening! Please find and follow Jay on social media at the following links: Jay's Personal Twitter, Jay's Movie Talk, the Keda N Jay show, and TVZone Podcast Network.

You can give this pod a follow as well on IG and Twitter.  Send longer feedback to [email protected]. I'm also happy to announce we are members of the Boundless Audio Network.

Be sure to check out our prior episodes on The Bob's Burgers Movie, Queer As Folk (2022), Fire Island, Looking, Empire, Minx, Sons of Anarchy,  and Abbott Elementary.

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Happy Wine Wednesday! Candi returns this week to discuss The Bob's Burgers's Movie.  Bob's Burgers is our favorite comfort show, so we were delighted when it was announced that the Belchers were coming to the big screen.

You know I love discussing which characters we relate to from a show and there was no way I would pass on an opportunity to discuss which Belchers we see in ourselves.  We then touch on how the writers manage to acknowledge real life issues, such as the Belchers' financial struggles, while still creating a property that is both comforting and humorous.  Next, we get into whether there were any noticeable differences between the Belchers on film versus television.

It wouldn't be Bob's Burgers if there were no musical numbers, so of course we share our favorite selections from the film.  Following that, we share our thoughts on the various arcs for each Belcher family member.  The secondary characters have become just as memorable as the Belchers, so we talk about which characters outside of the Belcher family we like most. It would be a little weird to share thirsty thoughts about animated characters, so this week's thirst segment has a little twist to it.

As always, we love you for listening.  Find and follow Candi on Twitter here.

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Be sure to check out our prior episodes on Queer As Folk (2022), Fire Island, Looking, Empire, Minx, Sons of Anarchy,  Abbott Elementary, Grand Crew,  Claws, True Blood, Orphan Black,The Walking Dead, Teen Wolf,  Euphoria, and The Sopranos.  And check out our full series coverage of Pose and the very special Bob's Burgers episode all about Linda Belcher - our favorite wine mom.

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