Mar 29, 2022
Maddie and Charlie join Caitlin for an extra special episode. We tackle the X Files' spin on monstrous motherhood in "Terms of Endearment." That's episode 7 of season 6, if you'd like to watch before listening. We examine the monstrous feminine beats of this particular episode, and we do a deep dive on the X Files as...
Mar 22, 2022
Caitlin is joined by fellow podcaster Natalie Katona to talk about 2018's The Wind. We dig in to monstrous motherhood and the brutality of the frontier. We also do a deep dive on prairie madness, which is as harrowing as it sounds. Natalie shares about her podcast To All the Men I've Tolerated Before, which you can find...
Mar 15, 2022
Codename Thor joins Caitlin to talk about 2012's Byzantium, which is the first vampire movie we've covered on the show. It's a beautiful movie, and we had a great time dissecting its themes of mothers and daughters, carrying the past, and sex work. I quiz Thor on his vampire knowledge, and we somehow land on X-Men for a...
Mar 8, 2022
Nick and Mary join Caitlin to talk about 2019's We Summon the Darkness. That crackling you hear? Oh, that's just us sitting around a bonfire playing Never Have I Ever, just like the characters in the movie. Definitely not a mic malfunction of any kind. (It was resolved in the end!) We had a great time covering the...