<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2188171/open_sms">Send us a text</a>Pardon our dust! It's Season 2 in the October-flesh! *dad pun* On tonight's Premiere, Dominic mixes up Fede Álvarez and H.G. Wells. Angie explains that your tailor-made dopamine hit is not on your phone. We also cover tracking your 4-head VCR, book wordie words from HP, and standing your ground on REBOOT/MAKEs.

Send us a text Pardon our dust! It's Season 2 in the October-flesh! *dad pun* On tonight's Premiere, Dominic mixes up Fede Álvarez and H.G. Wells. Angie explains that your tailor-made dopamine hit is not on your phone. We also cover tracking your 4-head VCR, book wordie words from HP, and standing your ground on REBOOT/MAKEs.

<a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2188171/open_sms" rel="noopener noreferrer">Send us a text</a>Pardon our dust! It's Season 2 in the October-flesh! *dad pun* On tonight's Premiere, Dominic mixes up Fede Álvarez and H.G. Wells. Angie explains that your tailor-made dopamine hit is not on your phone. We also cover tracking your 4-head VCR, book wordie words from HP, and standing your ground on REBOOT/MAKEs.

Season 2 Premiere: Instant Gratification is not Scrolling. It's also not Instant.

Your hosts Angie and Dominic discuss the unsettling, obscure, and darker themes surrounding our films, society, arts and literature. Specifically, the mechanisms in which we us these themes to "deal with it". NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks "Why do we like horror?" https://www.npr.org/2022/10/30/1132658607/why-do-we-like-horror ".....The lab identifies a category of fear-seeker it calls “dark copers”: people who report that “watching scary movies helps them control negative emotions of anxiety and depression that might arise from thinking about the more difficult aspects of life......" Have a question? Want us to review a flick? Have advice or correction that we screwed up? Contact us! thedarkcopers@gmail.com

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Your hosts Angie and Dominic discuss the unsettling, obscure, and darker themes surrounding our films, society, arts and literature. Specifically, the mechanisms in which we us these themes to "deal with it". NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks "Why do we like horror?" https://www.npr.org/2022/10/30/1132658607/why-do-we-like-horror ".....The lab identifies a category of fear-seeker it calls “dark copers”: people who report that “watching scary movies helps them control negative emotions of anxiety and depression that might arise from thinking about the more difficult aspects of life......" Have a question? Want us to review a flick? Have advice or correction that we screwed up? Contact us! thedarkcopers@gmail.com

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Season 2 Premiere: Instant Gratification is not Scrolling. It's also not Instant.

Season 2 Premiere: Instant Gratification is not Scrolling. It's also not Instant.