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Despite their wildly different tones, House of Cards and The West Wing are shockingly similar. We run through ten eerie similarities between the two s…

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This grand finale of our chapter-by-chapter coverage of the first A Song of Ice and Fire novel is a deep-dive retrospective of all the major thoughts,…

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Sinners is a fantastic drama, a killer horror movie, and a great vampire story - but it's something else too. Cam argues that the film feels almost li…

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A Game of Thrones ends with a massive curveball that threatens to totally upend the philosophy of life and death we’ve been tracking for 73 chapters. …

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After hundreds of hours, ups, downs, delights, and disappointments, The Light & Darkness saga of Destiny 2 is finally done. Cam is happy to report tha…

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So many chapters of this book have felt like ghost stories, but this is something else entirely. Cam argues that Catelyn’s final chapter brutally reso…

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The Woman in the Yard is the best Blumhouse movie since Insidious. Why? Its relentless and bold family drama, unflinching negotiation of tough topics,…

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The final Jon chapter poses a challenging question about his direwolf, Ghost: is he a loyal dog, an attentive wolf, or a superior reasoning intellect …

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Does a book have to be “necessary” to be worth reading? Maggie explores this idea in our spoiler-free discussion of the latest installment in the Hung…

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The final Tyrion chapter reads like both a reversal of fortunes and a funeral procession. Cam is tracking five of these eerie coincidences, while Magg…

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Everyone’s afraid of something, and nothing scares Cam more than freaky old people. The Rule of Jenny Pen introduces us to a brand-new subgenre: nursi…

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This chapter features the richest dream sequence of the book so far, and some of the most provocative fodder for our philosophy of death discussions. …

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We love Game of Thrones, we love The Witcher, we love The Lord of the Rings – but fantasy can be many things, including super silly stylized schlock. …

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What is the effect of the near constant mirage of George R. R. Martin killing off his protagonist? In this episode we examine this question from both …

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February’s onslaught of new horror comedies got us thinking about the trickiest and most rewarding subgenre of horror. Despite their modern sensibilit…

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This chapter has a little something for both of us. Maggie gets to talk about dreams and Cam gets to lose himself in the endless rabbit warren of phil…

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The fifth Dune novel feels like a master of the craft finishing his central story and then just continuing to explore the world he created. This is an…

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Spoiler alert: Ned Stark is finally dead. The chapter we've all been waiting for and dreading is finally here, and this episode tackles the one questi…

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Billions is the best show you haven’t seen — and that’s either because it aired on Showtime or because you assumed it was a Succession clone. Our miss…

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As we race towards the finale of A Game of Thrones, the supernatural elements are coming out to play. This chapter alone gives us blood magic, fatal p…