Second Breakfast with Cam & Maggie

We’re tackling another heavyweight horror classic today. Cam’s got a freewheeling theory that starts with Faustus and runs through Jane Austen, Thomas Hobbes, Nietzsche…

The day is finally here: our third adventure in long-form literary analysis has begun. The prologue of A Game of Thrones gives you everything you need to fall in love …

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3,191 pages later, we’ve reached the end of our time with The Witcher. In this series-wide retrospective, we look back at our favorite and wildest running theories, fr…

Remember that feeling you got the first time you watched Dead Poets Society? What about the first time you watched National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation? Now imagine ha…

Discussion of Season of Storms, Ch. 16-Epilogue

The final Witcher book goes out with a bang – and by bang, we mean avalanche of echoes, questions, and titanic ideas. I…

Discussion of Season of Storms, Ch. 9-15

We’ve followed the witcher through short stories and novels, but this final book in the series really feels more like a play. …

Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla is a period piece biopic. David Fincher’s The Killer is a stylish revenge thriller. But if you look under the hood, these films are playing w…

The latest sprawling adventure from Bethesda has reawakened an old feud. Since the days of Fallout 3 back in 2008(!), Cam has been trying his damnedest to fall in love…

Discussion of Season of Storms, Ch. 1-8

Something has ended. Something is beginning. This final Witcher book is a prequel and a sequel. You could even call it a side-q…

The day has finally arrived. 160 episodes and many months later, we’ve completed the glorious, hysterical, convoluted death march that is 7 seasons of ABC Family’s Pre…

Discussion of The Lady of the Lake, Chapter 12

Here it is: the final chapter of The Witcher saga. Yes we’re sad, yes we’re emotional, but we’re also thrilled. This end…

Discussion of The Lady of the Lake, Chapter 11

'The Scouring of the Shire' hangs over this chapter like Eeyore's black raincloud. Sapkowski's poignant, hollow homecomi…

Diablo IV shouldn’t even be a live service game, but here we are! Cam played through this first season to see what it was all about, and this episode is an exploration…

Discussion of The Lady of the Lake, Chapter 10

Holy Woodward and Bernstein, Batman! Journalist Sapkowski is back to doggedly track the butterfly effects following the …

We've finally finished Diablo 4, after five months of dungeon crawling, demon hunting, and side questing. This sixth act is quite good, but it is haunted by all the sa…

Discussion of Lady of the Lake, Chapter 9

In three years of long-form literary analysis, we’ve never encountered a single chapter this dramatic or consequential. The s…

Sir Michael Gambon died last week at the age of 82. In this episode, Cam takes a look back at Gambon’s challenging, underrated, fascinating performance as Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter film se…

Ten weeks and $950 million later, we’re finally ready to talk about Oppenheimer. We’ve been hammering and polishing these ideas over the course of three viewings and a…

Discussion of Lady of the Lake, Chapter 8

The time has come for Sapkowksi to write his version of a sweeping epic fantasy battle – and it’s nothing like whatever you’r…