Our Fairy Tales 2.0 topic closes out with a discussion of all our referenced topics: The Bloody Chamber, Shrek 1 and 2, and The Wolf Among Us season 1. We dig into the history of fairy tales and how our selected stories relate to that cannon, as well as t

With Clio back, we wrap around to our Read for this series: Angela Carter’s collection of short stories, The Bloody Chamber. We work our way through the entire collection, which contains everything from from unconvincingly disguised tigers to the triumpha

We make our way up Manhattan for a trip to Fabletown in our second Fairy Tales 2.0 episode as we discuss Telltale Games’s take on Bill Willingham’s Fables with The Wolf Among Us, Season 1. Heads up: we talk a bit about the original Fables comic series, bu

We’ve mixed up our usual release schedule for this topic and are starting with a trip to Far Far Away by way of Duloc to check out Shrek and Shrek 2! We discuss the evolution of the series over time, what makes a Shrek, and class struggle.

We close out our Witches series with a discussion of witches through the ages. We discuss the gradual shift from the Satan-worshiping terrors depicted in The Witch to Halloween-friendly caricatures like Grunthilda, and all of the facets that have changed

The third and final witch in our series is none other than Gruntilda, the villain from Rare’s classic N64 game Banjo-Kazooie. Before getting to our (surprisingly sympathetic) examination of Grunty herself, we talk about Banjo-Kazooie as a whole and its pl

The second witch of our series comes from the deep woods of New England. We dig deep into Robert Eggers’s 2015 film The Witch (or the VVitch, as we discover it’s stylized) and its symbolism and place in witchy history. Also, we take a quick dip into anoth

Our first witch takes us to the wastes and beyond in Diana Wynne Jones’s novel Howl’s Moving Castle. We briefly discuss some of the ways the book differs from the 2004 Miyazaki film, then dig into the book itself. Topics include found families, magic, van

In our final Women of the Apocalypse episode, we take a broad look at our three apocalypses and the women who inhabit them. We discuss the ways we see the post-apocalyptic genre setting changing, the similarities and differences between our three examples

We jump to the far future for our final apocalypse, Guerrilla Games’s Horizon: Zero Dawn.