The battle was a long time coming, and now it’s here: the panserbjørnebowl! Beloved Iorek versus evil Iofur in “The Fight to the Death”! Plus Mrs. Coulter down, but not out. Lyra helping Iorek and heading North with Roger to see Asriel! And Will and Elaine facing off with Lord

We are careening towards the end of Season 1, and the action is intense! Lyra’s time in Bolvangar is harrowing to say the least! And Roger is alive! Those poor severed children are heartbreaking, while the evils of the Oblation board and its minions are sickening. Thank goodness for the

We are careening towards the end of Season 1, and the action is intense! Lyra’s time in Bolvangar is harrowing to say the least! And Roger is alive! Those poor severed children are heartbreaking, while the evils of the Oblation board and its minions are sickening. Thank goodness for the

After all the talk of the North, we finally get a glimpse of it, and in terrifying and heartbreaking fashion. Plus we learn about a boy who is as central to our story as Lyra! And we encounter our first witch, the enchanting Serafina Pekkala!  All that plus Iorek running

After all the talk of the North, we finally get a glimpse of it, and in terrifying and heartbreaking fashion. Plus we learn about a boy who is as central to our story as Lyra! And we encounter our first witch, the enchanting Serafina Pekkala!  All that plus Iorek running

As book readers, we were really looking forward to the arrival in Trollesund because of the characters we meet there, and we were so happy to see them! Yes, we got Lee Scoresby and Hester, and the incredible Iorek Byrnison! Plus Lyra took control! What a wonderful experience to be

We love those Gyptians, don’t you? And Mrs. Coulter is even darker than we thought! Plus Lyra can read the alethiometer with no training? Grumman is Parry? Poor Benjamin! There was so much going on in this week’s episode of His Dark Materials! It was all in S01E03 “The Spies”!

Who knew that the pilot was just a warmup for a blow-your-mind episode of His Dark Materials? Mrs. Coulter is kinda, um, unhingy? There’s…another universe? More than one? Lyra is just trying to figure out the grown ups with us, as we cringed and shouted at the twists and turns

We are thrilled to have had such a great introduction to the world of His Dark Materials this week! Seeing Lyra, Lord Asriel, the Master, the Gyptians, and of course Mrs. Coulter made us so happy! Plus: Pan and Stelmaria and that darn monkey daemon! Of course, this is S01E01

Welcome to Lyra’s world! We are Sara and Chip, hosts of the podcast Watching The Americans,  which explored the world of Soviet spycraft in the 1980s on FX’s “The Americans”. Now we are turning to another place and time, that of our heroine Lyra Belacqua, and the adventures that lie