Fall literature spoils on the bloated wooden boards. You recognise the shape of names--fiction you once knew and loved--now reduced to damp, cloggy promises that threaten your balance. The world has emptied out, yet these recollections stick to the sky, unbidden.

This week the gang cracks into Cormac McCarthy's seminal classic, The Road (2006) and try to unpick the behemoth that is the novel.

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00:00:00 - It begins

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You iron the shirt one more time, just in case. Your partner watches you from the corner of their eye, pretending to be distracted by the news. You've had it on for a week straight now, muted with the subtitles on. Barely able to leave the couch save for the essentials. You keep waiting for the moment it turns out to be a mistake. Of course it's a mistake. And then very suddenly it's the *the* night, and not until you sit in the car with the cardboard containing your pill in the breast pocket of your jacket that it becomes real.

The gang see out the year with the only Christmas Apocalypse film David could find, Silent Night, a blistering black comedy.

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00:03:15 - High level thoughts

The steady trickle of the river reminds you of home, but as you blink, you find yourself not on the abandoned streets of Night City, rather, the glittering white pillars and spires of Colony One surround you. There can be such oppression in order, can't there?

This week the cast analyses Emily St John Mandel's conclusion to a trilogy of novels to try and figure out what exactly is going on.

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Caiette sleeps beyond the treeline. Here in the forest you are truly alone. Your loafers perch on the lip where the sand meets the sucking mud. Here, so far from the world, there may as well not be a world at all. The horizon and the trees are the only real thing.

This week the team try to peel back the layers of Emily St John Mandel's perplexing time travel novel Sea of Tranquility.

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00:00:00 - The Sci Fi Twist

The collapse is an apocalypse first in your mind, then when you learn that it's all over, a sheer, cosmic relief. At least now the lies can stop, and this ugly thing can end at last.

David, Pat and  @DarthdYT  close out their discussion of Emily St John Mandel's sleep hit and try to figure out what the book is doing.

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00:00:00 - Relationships!

The novel prickles in your grasp. The sweat on your fingertips make turning the pages easier, but the sense of an axe about to fall remains. You glance up from the words: the gardener is attending the rhododendrons by the edge of the terrace, and once again you feel a flutter of anticipation.

David, Pat and Darth dip their toes into the heady, brilliant waters of Emily St John Mandel's brilliant novel.

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00:02:00 - Initial Thoughts

Rain patterns across the bitumen. Thunder peels over the horizon, white-blue flashes followed by calamity that vibrates the walls themselves. The smell of fresh rain on soil fills the empty city as the roads become spillways and the sewers overflow.

This week David and Darth are joined by Danielle from  ⁨@levelstoryplays⁩  and Alex to close out their discussion of what has turned out to be a fairly bad season of television.

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A steep wind blows across the golden field of swaying grass. Sunsets, painful in auburn beauty that only reminds you of what has gone from the wold. You think again of violence. That freedom born from the collapse: violence, and vengeance.

This week David, Alex and  @DarthdYT  are backed up by Danielle from  @levelstoryplays  to unpack the strangest adaptation choices so far.

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Bitter snow crashes against the window of your small room in Jackson. You shiver as you try not to think of the cordyceps that ravaged your patrol. Thank goodness you made it away in time before the creatures could pursue you.

This week David, Alex and  @DarthdYT  are joined by returning guest Danielle from  @levelstoryplays  to talk about The Last of Us Season 2's opening salvo.

Massive spoilers for this one folks.

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00:00:00 - opening bit: out running zombies