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Tim Curry has become an important part of the podcast over the years. A third pillar of excellence we love to include. We were very sorry to learn of his passing and wanted to acknowledge him and his legacy with this short episode. Rest in Peace Tim Curry.

This week we wrap up Folk Horror Summer! We talk themes, favorites, and what’s up next for the podcast.

As our final entry into Folk Horror Summer we are playing a folk horror game called The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow. This very fun point and click, from Cloak & Dagger and Wadjet Eye was the perfect culmination, with similarities to all of the movies we watched this summer.

This week is our last movie of Folk Horror Summer, The Devil’s Bath, and it really brought us full circle, touching on many of the themes of our previous movies.

This week we are covering Netflix’s 2017 movie the Ritual. We talk about its interesting monster and find out what monster we are at the end.

This week we are getting into the real horror side of Folk Horror Summer with Ari Aster’s Hereditary. With some amazing acting, exceptional directing and truly terrifying scares we found a lot to dig into with this one.

As we begin the second half of Folk Horror Summer, we dip our toes into The Virgin Spring, Ingmar Bergman’s Academy Award winning movie from 1960. Parallels and themes are emerging and we are beginning to see what makes Folk Horror, Folk Horror.

This week for Folk Horror Summer we are watching Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock. Nymphlike girls clad in white, disturbing disappearances and mysterious landscapes give this classic a dreamlike quality that we found bewitching.

This week we are watching Mario Bava’s directorial debut, Black Sunday. It’s very atmospheric, a little vampiric, and chock full of curses and mayhem.

This week we timed our third Folk Horror Summer movie to align with the astrological calendar so we watched Midsommar for Midsummer. It was a very interesting movie that really captured the essence of Folk Horror and we had a lot to discuss.

This week we are covering Eve’s Bayou for Folk Horror Summer. Made in 1997 set in the 1960’s yet somehow timeless, this movie light on the horror but heavy on the atmosphere and excellent in every way.

This week we are kicking off Folk Horror Summer with a silent movie from 1922, Häxan. Not only is it about the history of witches but it a piece of the history of movie making and one of, if not the first, Folk Horror Movies.

This week we have a little bit of everything, our second Inland Empire watch, Jane Austen’s, The History of England written when she was just 15, and we talk about what’s on tap for Folk Horror Summer which starts next week.

This week we have reach episode 4 and it’s our last Twin Peaks for a little while. Luckily it’s an incredibly fun episode, chalk full of jokes, physical comedy, and silly situations.

This week we are covering part 3 of Twin Peaks season 3 aka The Return. We have new ethereal spaces, doppelgängers, jackpots, and calls for help.

This week we continue on with Twin Peaks Season 3, Part 2. So many mysteries and so few answers as of yet.

This week we are very excited to finally be starting Twin Peaks season 3. So many details, old friends and new, join us for this culminating series in our David Lynch exploration.

This week we covering the 2005 movie, The Jane Austen Book Club. a good cast, and fun concept but we still must ask ourselves, would we want to be in this book club?

This week we have one more loose end to wrap up before we start Twin Peaks season 3 and we’re glad we didn’t miss it. In a show that is spoiled with great soundtracks this may be the best of the bunch.

Back during our watchalong of Hallmark’s Loveuary we missed one, this week we go back and fix that, with our commentary on Paging Mr. Darcy.

We’ve been watching, listening and reading a lot of fun things lately and so we wanted to share them on the podcast.

This week we are covering the Twin Peaks season 2 soundtrack. This soundtrack has so much to discuss, it’s ‘50s, synthy, bluesy, jazzy, symphonic, and so much more. We really enjoyed this one!

This week is the thrilling conclusion to our coverage of 2008’s Sense and Sensibility. Will anything be different in this adaptation? Whose story is more important? What are the rules of duels? These are some of the many questions we ask/answer this episode.

This week we are on to the second episode of the 2008 Sense and Sensibility miniseries, in which we observe the majority of the Marianne/Willoughby drama.

This week we are starting the 2008 BBC/Masterpiece adaptation of Sense and Sensibility. It is very atmospheric and has a great cast.

This week we finishing up our thoughts on Inland Empire, seeking wisdom from other Lynchians, and finding out what our dreams say about us.

We couldn’t stop thinking of Catherine O’Hara so we decided to watch Beetlejuice and record a commentary track while we did it.

Join us this week as we watch the 2005 Pride and Prejudice and commentate upon it.

This week we finish our recap of Inland Empire. A movie where the closer you get the further away it seems.

This week we start our final David Lynch movie and it is a doozy. In part one of out Inland Empire coverage we try to make since of some of the disparate dream like elements and wonder is it the characters or us who are having memory problems.

This week we are counting down our ten favorite couples and ranking them from least healthy to most healthy relationship.

This week we are taking a break from our regularly scheduled fun break from reality, to actually talk about reality. Sometime you just need to talk about the moment and we decided to share that with you. We hope it doesn’t feel burdensome but helps us connect as humans going through troubling times.

This week we are having some fun with a Top Ten list. We are counting down our 10 favorite locations from David Lynch and Jane Austen.

This week we are delighted to share an episode of The Blue Rose Taskforce that featured Maya hosting a panel on the topic of Magic in Twin Peaks. Thank you to John Bernardy and Mitch Proctor from Ruminations Radio network for hosting and allowing us to play the episode here. And thank you to the wonderful panelists Chelsey Weber-Smith (American Hysteria), Indigo Baloch ( Full Blossom of the Evening), Jess Purser (Jess Purser Art), and Lindsay Hallum ( Sci Frights)

Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday’s to everyone! This week we are talking Scrooged, looking back on 2025, and figuring out which Christmas icon we are.

This week we follow up Home Alone with Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. We question if adults in this universe are all dumb and ask which Home Alone is best?

This week we are starting our countdown to Christmas with a classic, Home Alone. Does it still hold up? Is it secretly a horror movie? Is it the best Christmas movie? Come laugh along with us as we discuss it.

This week we are talking Turkey and holidays and what’s left on our master list. We would love to hear from you about your traditions and anything we are missing from our future plans.

This week we finish our commentary of Over the Garden Wall with episode 5 - 10. It was a delight!

This week we are doing a commentary on the exceptionally cute animated show Over the Garden Wall. We get through the first five episodes in this episode and will finish up next week with the second half. Fire up your Hulu or what have you and watch along with us!

Due to life and many technical kerfuffles, this week are re-releasing our episode on the 1940’s Pride and Prejudice.

This week we talk all things Halloween, we catch up on the things we’ve covered so far this fall, and take a fun quiz to see which creature of the night we are.

This week we are celebrating Halloween and encoring musical summer with the 1986 classic Little Shop of Horrors. Is it a perfect musical? Should we add all movies with muppets to our list? Who sang it better Audrey or Ariel? All questions we ponder as we sing our way through this week’s episode.

This week we are headed back to 1960 with a cult classic B movie, The Little Shop of Horrors. Is it silly or is it scary and how will it compare with the musical?

This week we close out the emotional mini-series Miss Austen. Rude relatives, and difficult love stories abound, just like in any Jane Austen novel.

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This week we are starting the Masterpiece/BBC mini series about some of Jane Austen’s nearest and dearest. We cover the first two episodes this week.

This week we are watching The Art Life, a documentary about David Lynch, his childhood and his approach to art.

This week we are enjoying the recent film Jane Austen Wrecked My Life. It’s quiet, french, and introspective and also a bit funny.

This week we are making lists and ranking things. Who will come out on top of our list, of worst villains in Jane Austen and David Lynch?

This week we wrap-up musical summer and talk about what’s coming in the fall. We also find out which Rocky Horror Picture Show character we are.