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They say its hard to do! This month, we're chatting about our experiences breaking up with a fandom or a piece of pop culture or both! We're talking drifting away versus rage quitting, staying in the fandom after you've given up a show as well as leaving just the fandom.
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Kate's Q&A with Amy Spalding about The Summer of Jordi Perez
This week, we're getting ready for the Oscars on March 4th! We're chatting about the various nominations: what we've seen, what we still plan to see, what we hated and what we want to win! Plus some news and recommendations!
We're back, y'all! After taking the holiday season off, we're chatting this month about what resolutions we've set for 2018 for pop culture consumption: what we're planning to read, watch, and listen to! As usual, we also talk about a few current news stories plus our regular "Don't Do the Thing" and "Do the Thing" segments.
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The Assassination Podcast
On this episode of the pod, we're talking about all the new shows of the Fall 2017 television seasons from the 5 major networks + a handful of streaming offerings. We're also discussing the upcoming Emmys and who we think will win, which is especially fun given that we don't watch most of the nominated shows!
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Todd VanDerWerff on Inhumans
Todd on the Fall season
Todd on The Deuce
Buzzfeed Fall TV Preview
Book of the Month club
In this episode of the pod, Kate & Holly are chatting about SDCC news, what new shows we're keeping up with this summer, what existing shows we're catching up on, and discussing a couple recent pop culture controversies.
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TV Time
Buffering the Vampire Slayer podcast
Not a Plan
We're tackling the topic of guilty pleasures this week! We're talking about various definitions of a guilty pleasure, whether we believe in them regardless of definition and how sexism and social perception play into the concept. Please note: in the news section we chat about the potential writers' strike that was looming at the time of recording. The threat of a strike was resolved before this episode posted.
This week on the pod, Carrie Raisler of The AV Club joins us to chat about the late, great The Vampire Diaries, which ended its 8 year run last month. We discuss not only our feelings on the show's finale, but also the lifecycle of television, what its like to cover a show weekly for years, and what made the show great in its heyday.
We're joined again in this episode for the second half of our chat with Poppy & Meredith from The Parabatai Podcast to talk about adapting books for movies and television, through the lens of The Mortal Instruments book series and Shadowhunters television show.
We brought friends again in this episode! In this episode and the next, Kate and Holly are chatting with Poppy and Meredith from The Parabatai Podcast about adapting books into movies and television shows. Freeform's Shadowhunters, adapted from Cassandra Clare's The Mortal Instruments series makes a great case study for talking about how adaptations work and how fandoms react to them.
We're talking about Norwegian teens today! Holly and Kate invited their friends, Carrie, Melissa and Serrae on to talk about the Norwegian teen drama, Skam. Up for discussion: how the format of the show makes it special, why its so darn good and whether or not an American version can be successful.
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