The Great Obsession

By RiLee and SamArts Books

The Great Obsession episodes

August 08, 2023 KARDASHIANS S3 | are you keeping up?
We won't blame you if you haven't been keeping up with the Kardashians, they have gotten DULL. As two certified reality tv devotees, we've got some strong opinions on this one. No need to watch the latest season, we give a FULL debrief of what America's most allegedly hard working family has been up to....spoilers, it's not much.

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1 hr 18 min
August 01, 2023 BARBIE | summer of the girl
This episode is powered by the creative mind of Greta Gerwig and NOT Mattel.
It's BARBIE BABY!!! and just Allan. Get ready for some surprisingly philosophical musings about the patriarchy, capitalism, and of course the color pink.

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1 hr 22 min
July 25, 2023 FANFICTION | one direction, groot + more
Kick back, relax, and learn from our resident expert, Sam, about the wide world of fanfiction and all of its quirks. You’ll learn how 1D fanfic altered our brain chemistry as teenagers, and get Sam's pointers on navigating AO3 to find the best (and worst) fanfic content. We even read part of AO3's top explicit Marvel fanfic for you...you'll be surprised.
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1 hr 6 min
July 18, 2023 FOURTH WING | eragon for hot girls
We finally joined booktok and 1 million of our closest friends in reading viral sensation Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros. We had a lot more mixed feelings about this book than we anticipated...many high highs and several low lows. Most importantly, we spend 5 minutes contemplating the likelihood that we would fall off a dragon....spoiler it's highly likely.

6.5/10

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1 hr 28 min
July 11, 2023 SPEAK NOW (TV) | album review
Time for us to get EMO. Speak Now Taylors Version has FINALLY dropped!! We unpack all the songs, all the discourse and all the emotions. Tune in to find out which one of these rerecords made RiLee cry.

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1 hr 18 min
June 27, 2023 ASHES AND THE STAR-CURSED KING | there she is....again
It's been awhile since our brains have produced an original thot, but in this episode I think we might finally achieve one. Enjoy our extensive rants about body positioning and repeated near death experiences.
In this episode we discuss Carissa Broadbent's Ashes and the Star-Cursed King, contains spoilers for the entire book and for The Serpent and the Wings of Night.

Rating: 6.5/10

Also shout out to RiLee's stupid disco cup and all the noise I had to edit out. IYKYK.

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1 hr 17 min
June 20, 2023 THE SERPENT AND THE WINGS OF NIGHT | worlds longest title
Get ready for MANY useless thoughts and confused tangents as we discuss Carissa Broadbent's The Serpent and the Wings of Night. Full disclosure...we were not at peak brain usage for this episode. After recording we reflected a lot more on the book and had some shifting thoughts, a lot of these thoughts were captured in our episode on the sequel the Ashes and the Star-Cursed King.

Initial rating: 8.5
Adjusted rating following reflection: 7

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1 hr 21 min
June 13, 2023 THE ULTIMATUM QUEER LOVE | justice for Mal
"Im going to create an environment that is so toxic" - Sue Sylvester and Netflix Producers making this show. The premise of this show is pure chaos and maximum emotional distress...WE LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT. In this episode we discuss the Ultimatum - Queer Love (which interestingly is not called The Ultimatum season 2?? they are considered by Netflix to be separate shows with identical premises??? only difference is queer vs het relationships???) and contains spoilers for the entire season including the reunion episode.

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1 hr 17 min
June 06, 2023 CHAIN OF THORNS | well. that was a book.
Today we are filling the room with negative energy by talking about Chain of Thorns by Cassandra Clare. The long-awaited final installment in The Last Hours series has given us a LOT to rant about in what's possibly our most passionate episode to date. This episode will contain spoilers for all of The Last Hours trilogy as well as lightweight spoilers for both Cassie Clare's The Infernal Devices and The Mortal Instruments series.

Rating: 4/10

“Mine is a complicated story, and people do not want to hear complicated stories. They want simple stories, in which people are either good or evil, and no one good ever makes a mistake, and no one evil ever repents.” - Jesse Blackthorn

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1 hr 41 min
May 30, 2023 CHAIN OF IRON | Thostair for life
This episodes is all about ships on ships on SHIPPPPSSSS. Also plot holes. And poor character development. And more plot holes. This episode is full of spoilers for Chain of Gold and Chain of Iron with gratuitous references to the entire Shadowhunters universe. You just have to get past the American Girl content first.

Rating: 7/10

“Love is not always a lightning bolt. Sometimes it is a creeping vine. It grows slowly until suddenly it is all that there is in the world.”

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1 hr 33 min

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Got an all-consuming obsession you NEED to talk about? We know the feeling. With fun little drinks in hand, join best friends RiLee & Sam as we discuss our recent fixations and long-term…