Episode 114: Fighting Horror with Horror

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In this episode, we discuss our pandemic coping mechanism, watching horror movies and television! Please note we recorded this in October 2020 (in case you’d like to compare that with the publication date of this post). In spite of how it sounds, we were not quarantined at opposite ends of a long tunnel during the recording. CW: frank discussion of various elements of horror.

Links:
American Horror Story
iZombie
Midsommar
Wicker Man
doesthedogdie.com
The World’s End
Far Out Film Discussion
Bosch
Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior
The Blacklist
Body of Proof
NOS4A2 (Joe Hill)
Stephen King
You (Caroline Kepnes)
Horns
Bird Box (Josh Malerman)
A Quiet Place

The Haunting of Hill House
The Haunting of Bly Manor
Episode 90: Anna’s Hard Pass, Episode 91: Alene’s Hard Pass
Castle Rock
Blumhouse: Into The Dark series on Hulu
Vulture: Which Into The Dark Episodes Are Worth Your Time?

Pilgrim, A Nasty Piece of Work, Pooka, Midnight Kiss, School Spirit, Good Boy, The Current Occupant, All That We Destroy
The Boy, Brahms: The Boy 2
Paranormal Activity
The Lodge
The Wretched
Pyewacket
Wounds
Tragedy Girls
The Outsider
Hannibal

Ratched
The Babysitter, The Babysitter: Killer Queen

Vampires vs. The Bronx
Pet Sematary
Harlan Coben’s ___

Musical Obsessions:
Alene: “Old Town Road” by Lil Nas X
Anna: “Somebody to Tell Me” by Tyler Glenn

Obsessions:
Alene: White Claw, Tsarina by Ellen Alpsten
Anna: When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole, The Mask of Mirrors by M. A. Carrick

Episode 57: What to Watch Next TV Bracket

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Sometimes when you’re having trouble figuring out how to narrow down your choices, you do a bracket. Well, you do that if you’re Anna. Alene likes to ask everyone she knows what they think. In this episode, we do both.

Links
Slash
HTGAWM Wig Scene
You Can’t Touch My Hair by Phoebe Robinson
Two Bossy Dames on Mahershala

BBC bracket
victoria
The Bletchley Circle
Broadchurch
The Crown
The Doctor Blake Mysteries
The Hour
Last Tango in Halifax
Luther
MI:5
Midsomer Murders
The Night Manager
Scott & Bailey
The Tudors
Vera
Victoria
Wallander

Comedy/Musical bracket
crazy-ex-girlfriend
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Galavant
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries
The Mindy Project
New Girl
Parks and Recreation
Playing House
Portlandia
Review
Trophy Wife

Crime bracket
the-fall
The Blacklist
Criminal Minds
Dexter
The Fall S2
The Good Wife
The Killing
Laws and Orders
Leverage
Person of Interest
Psych
White Collar

Realism bracket
blackish
The Americans
Atlanta
Black-ish [Hindsight is 20/20 note: This should probably have been in comedy, where it also would have won]
ER
Friday Night Lights
Homeland
House of Cards
How to Get Away with Murder
Jane the Virgin
The L-Word S2-S6
Make It Or Break It
Masters of Sex
One Day at a Time
Orange is the New Black
Parenthood
Scandal
Sports Night
The West Wing
The Wire

Science Fiction and Fantasy bracket
agent-carter
Agent Carter
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
American Gods
American Horror Story
Battlestar Galactica
Black Mirror
Buffy
The Dresden Files
Grimm
Handmaid’s Tale
Jessica Jones
Legion
The Librarians
Lost Girl
Luke Cage
Merlin
Once Upon a Time
Orphan Black
Penny Dreadful
Sleepy Hollow
Star Trek: Voyager
Stranger Things
Twin Peaks
The Vampire Diaries
Warehouse 13
Xena

Obsessions
Anna: Gardenscapes, The New York Times, Spotify
Alene: Red Carpet coverage (slideshow)

Musical Obsessions
Anna: “Chains of Love” by Erasure
Alene: “TNT” by AC/DC, “The Final Countdown” by Europe

Episode 18 Show Notes: Serial Killers with @loather

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We had a very special guest this episode: Dolly aka @loather aka one half of the Withdrawn podcasting team (@withdrawntweets) talked with us about serial killers and mysteries in general. And . . . Starbucks? Surprisingly, we did not talk about her star cats.

Links
Here’s Why We Love Serial Killers from Psychology Today
Best Fictional Serial Killers from Ranker
Dead Girls Sold Here” by Anna March for The Rumpus
Circulating Ideas podcast
Patricia Cornwell
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper – Case Closed by Patricia Cornwell
Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell
Thomas Harris
Criminal Minds
Sue Grafton
Shades of London series by Maureen Johnson
Zodiac
Heartsick by Chelsea Cain

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Musical Obsessions
Dolly: “Earned It” by The Weeknd
Anna: “Shut up and Dance” by Walk the Moon
Carolyn: “Can’t Do Without You” by Caribou

Obsessions
Dolly: Fox Confessor Brings the Flood by Neko Case and “F*ck the Police” by J Dilla and The Book of Strange New Things
Anna: Jem and the Holograms comic
Carolyn: The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence by Gavin de Becker and Yes Please by Amy Poehler