The Garnet Wager returns to extend its reach beyond the confines of the Genius for another season of Korean TV, meta-narratives, and garbage. This season, we're watching Society Game, a product of the same mind that brought us The Genius. It's a slow start for this show, but perhaps this one can win us over. If not, well... I have some ideas, let's say.

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There are a lot of elements of Haruhi that loom large over culture. The characters. The dance. The nonlinear storytelling- well, of the anime, since the light novel doesn't do that. But there is one that is spoken of in dark tones: the Endless Eight. What if you essentially made the same episode of anime eight times, but with like... startling production value? It's a truly bizarre thing. So obviously, we had to talk about it. And even more obviously, if we're gonna talk about something this strange it had to be Nick and Six.

Or at least, that was our original thinking. But this should be something special! So we got Allen from Chatz: A Television Podcast (@chatzpod on Twitter) on as well to really do the thing in style. For some reason, it felt like the end of a long journey.

There are a lot of elements of Haruhi that loom large over culture. The characters. The dance. The nonlinear storytelling- well, of the anime, since the light novel doesn't do that. But there is one that is spoken of in dark tones: the Endless Eight. What if you essentially made the same episode of anime eight times, but with like... startling production value? It's a truly bizarre thing. So obviously, we had to talk about it. And even more obviously, if we're gonna talk about something this strange it had to be Nick and Six.

There are a lot of elements of Haruhi that loom large over culture. The characters. The dance. The nonlinear storytelling- well, of the anime, since the light novel doesn't do that. But there is one that is spoken of in dark tones: the Endless Eight. What if you essentially made the same episode of anime eight times, but with like... startling production value? It's a truly bizarre thing. So obviously, we had to talk about it. And even more obviously, if we're gonna talk about something this strange it had to be Nick and Six.

A few images get referenced on air! When they come up, here are images one, two, three, and four, in the order they appear.

There are a lot of elements of Haruhi that loom large over culture. The characters. The dance. The nonlinear storytelling- well, of the anime, since the light novel doesn't do that. But there is one that is spoken of in dark tones: the Endless Eight. What if you essentially made the same episode of anime eight times, but with like... startling production value? It's a truly bizarre thing. So obviously, we had to talk about it. And even more obviously, if we're gonna talk about something this strange it had to be Nick and Six.

There are a lot of elements of Haruhi that loom large over culture. The characters. The dance. The nonlinear storytelling- well, of the anime, since the light novel doesn't do that. But there is one that is spoken of in dark tones: the Endless Eight. What if you essentially made the same episode of anime eight times, but with like... startling production value? It's a truly bizarre thing. So obviously, we had to talk about it. And even more obviously, if we're gonna talk about something this strange it had to be Nick and Six.

There are a lot of elements of Haruhi that loom large over culture. The characters. The dance. The nonlinear storytelling- well, of the anime, since the light novel doesn't do that. But there is one that is spoken of in dark tones: the Endless Eight. What if you essentially made the same episode of anime eight times, but with like... startling production value? It's a truly bizarre thing. So obviously, we had to talk about it. And even more obviously, if we're gonna talk about something this strange it had to be Nick and Six.

There are a lot of elements of Haruhi that loom large over culture. The characters. The dance. The nonlinear storytelling- well, of the anime, since the light novel doesn't do that. But there is one that is spoken of in dark tones: the Endless Eight. What if you essentially made the same episode of anime eight times, but with like... startling production value? It's a truly bizarre thing. So obviously, we had to talk about it. And even more obviously, if we're gonna talk about something this strange it had to be Nick and Six.

There are a lot of elements of Haruhi that loom large over culture. The characters. The dance. The nonlinear storytelling- well, of the anime, since the light novel doesn't do that. But there is one that is spoken of in dark tones: the Endless Eight. What if you essentially made the same episode of anime eight times, but with like... startling production value? It's a truly bizarre thing. So obviously, we had to talk about it. And even more obviously, if we're gonna talk about something this strange it had to be Nick and Six.

We're about to take ourselves a break, having finished The Genius and our big silly story. But before we do, we just wanted to have one last chat. Not keeping kayfabe, just talking about making this ridiculous season of podcast.

Our artwork is a commission from the amazing Bitmap Prager! Please enjoy seeing Scanline-chan as the Bandage Man, and consider checking out more of Bitmap's work!