BSG #32: Back in the Habit / The Memory Police

September 9, 2019 The Squad

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Bachelor in Paradise S6 Week 5: No More Mustaches for Me

September 8, 2019 Ben & Emily

Emily: Hi Bachelor Nation. It’s me, ya girl. This week, Susan is busy with some work thing (she told me but I already forgot because I’m that friend). Anyway, we’re all sad Susan can’t be here. But I’m happy to announce my husband and BFF Ben will be joining us this week instead! Say hello to the people, Ben, and maybe tell them a little bit about your thoughts about this season so far and The Bachelor franchise in general?

Ben: Hello to the people! It is great to be here experiencing the 20-car pile-up known as Bachelor in Paradise. And I mean that in every sense of the metaphor. There’s been a lot more stalling, yelling, and waiting around than action this season than past seasons, and I’m blaming ABC for this one. They ramped up stability this season with a more grounded opening cast to prep their delicate viewers for the decade past-due “bombshell” of a bi-sexual woman on the reality small screen. Maybe they’ve never seen MTV? But I digress . . .

Emily: So now that our introductions are out of the way, let’s get into the episode? We return to where we left off, with Nicole reiterating that Clay makes her feel “sexy and confident and proud” before dun dun dun… Angela shows up.

10 Weeks of Spooktober: Malevolent (Week 2 of 10)

September 7, 2019 Emily

It’s Week 2 of Spooktober, and we’re edging ever closer to Halloween, week by week.

This week, we’re looking at a horror movie starring Florence Pugh about a group of young adults who get more than what they bargained for when they accept an invitation to a strange place. Okay, no, it’s not that movie. It’s the OTHER Florence Pugh horror movie. The one from director Olaf de Fleur about a group of twenty-something “ghost hunters“ who are actually just scam artists feeding off of other’s need for closure in the face of grief and loss.

But then things get weird.

Are You the One? Season 8|E11: Tonight Our Theme is Take Your Son to Work Day

September 5, 2019 Emily

It’s baaaaack!

After waiting two weeks to find out of we can keep shipping Jax or if our Max and Justin ship has been sunk, this week we got our answer. And I’m not going to wait any longer to let you know the answer. Max and Justin are officially not a match, which means Paige and Jenna and Danny and Kai are a match.

Let’s take a minute to let this sink in while Max melts into a pool of tears and crushed dreams. We now know five of the eight matches: Brandon and Aasha, Jonathan and Basit, Jasmine and Nour, Danny and Kai, and Paige and Jenna.

Bachelor in Paradise S6 Week 4: I Don't Wanna Be On Your Podcast!

September 2, 2019 Susan & Emily

Love is in the air, and we will be getting to Krystal and Chris’s wedding in a bit. But first!

Emily: Hi Bach Nation. I just want to start by apologizing for this recap being so late. Frankly, Susan and I are getting BiP fatigue and recapping this show is actually driving us insane. We regret everything. And yet here we are, finishing out this godforsaken show because we have made a promise to you, the people, to bring you this BiP content. So let’s do this so I can go to bed.

Susan: We’re just starting this recap and I’m already tired. Strap in because you’re in for a lot of JPJ in a lot of different moods. Derek is sad about Demi, but he’s moving on by letting people bury him in the sand. Paradise is weird. Meanwhile, Tayshia tells Kristina she’s interested in Derek because he’s established and has his stuff together (read: not 24 years old).

10 Weeks of Spooktober: Ready or Not (Week 1 of 10)

August 31, 2019 Emily

Welcome to Week 1 of 10 Weeks of Spooktober!

Hello, Emily here. I’m reintroducing myself to you because this 10 Weeks of Spooktober blog series is a personal project of mine, as we enter into my favorite time of the year, pre-Halloween. College football starts today (Go Dawgs), NFL football starts next week (Geaux Saints), the weather (eventually) promises to get cooler, Starbucks and their competitors have started rolling out their pumpkin spice offerings, and MOST IMPORTANTLY… it’s scary movie season.

So this year, to count my way through pre-Halloween season and make the most out of this, the best time of the year, I am offering up 10 Weeks of Spooktober. In this blog series, I will watch and review one new (to me) horror movie each week. And we’re starting it all off with a movie now in theaters: Ready or Not.

5 Things to Do at the End of Summer

August 30, 2019 Mary

The summer is almost over and with it, the free time that many of us enjoy in the hottest months of the year. Fall feels more productive, more busy. I’m savoring those last few moments of summer as I begin teaching and wrapping up all my summer projects.

That being said, there’s a lot of great media floating around at the end of summer, so here are five things you could be doing as summer wraps up:

Othersode #31: Laurence Fishburne is an E-mail / Where'd You Go Bernadette & Interview w/Kate Davies

August 26, 2019 The Squad

whered you go.jpg — Othersode #31: Laurence Fishburne is an E-mail / *Where'd You Go Bernadette* & Interview w/Kate Davies

Go missing with the #BookSquad as we discuss the new movie Where’d You Go Bernadette?, based on the novel by Maria Semple. We talk about how the epistolary form translates on screen, the depiction of a few female characters, and the thing everyone is wondering: What is Bernadette’s deal anyway? In the second half of this #othersode, Emily interviews Kate Davies, author of the new novel In at the Deep End, which has been described as a “lesbian Bridget Jones.” Then we get into listener feedback on The Lion King (including the politics of asking for refunds at movies) and what’s on the #BookSquadBlog! Read along with us for our next #bookpisode on The Memory Policy by Yoko Ogawa (September 9) and for our next #othersode on We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, featuring special guests Lisa Kroger and Melanie Anderson (authors of Monster, She Wrote and co-hosts of podcast Know Fear) on September 23.

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Superstore, Immigration, and Finding Heart in Adversity

August 25, 2019 Mary

On its face, Superstore is a show about the rights of retail workers, laborers people sometimes overlook or abuse. A disgruntled cast of employees struggle with daily events in a Walmart-style box store named Cloud9, with plenty of interstitial weird scenes from customers (think, a melting carton of ice cream in an aisle of kitchen appliances, which the show revisits throughout the episode as it slowly melts).

Created by Justin Spitzer, whose pedigree includes Scrubs and The Office, Superstore has a comedy pedigree to be proud of. The writing walks a line between heartfelt and funny, mean and realistic. The cast is stacked, with America Ferrera both starring and producing, and Ben Feldman (who you might remember as the guy who cut his nipple off on Mad Men) acting alongside her as co-star. Other notable cast members are Lauren Ash (playing the weird, gruff Dina), Colton Dunn (Garret), Nico Santos (Mateo), Nicole Bloom (Cheyenne), and Mark Mckinney (as the overtly religious Glenn). Mark Mckinney, a true comedy treasure, is a particular gem among the cast, as he balances the role of store-father and boss well. With this ensemble, the show is bound to be funny, but it’s also full of such heart that it deserves a more critical eye.

(Spoilers for seasons 1-4 of Superstore to follow)

Bachelor in Paradise S6 Week 3: It's Not My Fault You Take 12 Naps A day

August 22, 2019 Susan & Emily

Lots to cover on this week of Bachelor in Paradise, so let’s hop right to it.

Susan: Leave it BiP to bring us back right in the middle of a fight we all forgot was happening. It’s Jordan vs. Christian and his piñata, and it’s not going well.

Emily: It’s clear Jordan’s feeling a little “YOLO” as he doesn’t have any romantic attachments at this point, and Jordan is trying to recreate the iconic throwing the stuffed animal into the ocean moment from last year. But shit gets real real fast, and Jordan body slams Christian off of a platform and into the sand? Yikes.

Susan: Jordan saunters off after, and it takes like six security people to restrain Christian who has actual murder in his eyes. Nicole says this is the last thing she wanted to happen, but like five minutes ago she was talking about how she wants someone to be aggressive. Aggression is less cool in practice, and I think she sees that now.

Emily: Wills, the voice of reason on this show, is like, “Jordan, you’re an idiot bro.” Mike says, “If someone does that, you just need to be G about it.” Jordan is not at all a G. Meanwhile this piñata is just sitting on the ground NOT busted up and I’m like okay but what is in this piñata, my dudes? The world may never know.

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