#the sporkful podcast

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (7-13 Apr 2024)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰 If This Is As Far As We Go (BeauRadley) - 124K, stucky no-powers AU - after a year of being phenomenal hookup buddies, bucky ends their arrangement & throws steve into a tailspin - slow burn, angsty, oblivious steve slowly realizing his true feelings, good supporting cast

😊 Bunt! Striking Out on Financial Aid (Ngozi Ukazu & Mad Rupert) - cute graphic novel about art students forming a softball team to exploit a financial aid loophole

😍 Death in the Spires (KJ Charles, author; Tom Lawrence, narrator) - historical murder mystery set in 1905 Oxford - another KJC absolute banger: incredible sense of place, fantastic characters, perfectly done 'whodunnit' tension and a HIGHLY SATISFACTORY resolution. Loved every word

💖💖 +76K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

The Man, the Myth, the Legend (sparklyslug) - Check Please!: gen, 2.9K - Holster's beatboxing skills brings all the a capella groups to the Haus - a short, fun, funny, outsider POV fic

Say it louder for the people in the back (redhook) - MCU: shrinkyclinks, 14K - reread, forever fave - sometimes you just get a yearning to reread the best glory hole fic ever written

In Focus (sparklyslug) - Check Please!: zimbits, 6K - Jack's photography eye knows what's up before his conscious brain does

Entering Orbit (museaway) - Star Trek AOS: spirk, 30K - good post-AOS canon-divergent fic where Jim goes home to Iowa to escape the press & Spock joins him

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Hot Ones - Conan O'Brien

QI - series S, ep 13

Game Changer - s6, e5 {Bingoception}

Um, Actually - s9, e4

D20: Fantasy High: Junior Year - "Dawn of Justice" (s21, e14)

D20: Adventuring Party - "We're Running on 200%" (s16, e14)

Death In Paradise - s11, e4-8; s12 e0-8, s13 e0-8

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Working - How to Be Both a Critic and a Creator

Worlds Beyond Number - WWW #10: Of the Reaching Green

Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - Fireside Chat for WWW ep10 "Of the Reaching Green"

Short Wave - How Climate Change And Physics Affect Baseball

Consider This from NPR - Bad Omens Or The Cycle of Nature? How The Ancient World Viewed Eclipses

⭐ Armchair Expert - Anna Kendrick [Rerelease from 1/9/23]

Today, Explained - Is college still worth it?

The Sporkful - Jewish Food Is More Than Matzoh Balls

WikiHole - BEYONCÉ (with Zoë Chao, Nat Faxon and Poppy Liu)

⭐ All Songs Considered - Songs to make you laugh, with 'Weird Al' Yankovic

In Defense of Fandom - Season 2 Episode 2: Putting my theory to the test

Dinner’s on Me - Orville Peck

⭐ Switched on Pop - Chasing old sounds: Djo's "End of Beginning" with Joe Keery

⭐ 99% Invisible #577 - The Society of Ambiance Makers and Elegant Persons

⭐ Vibe Check - A Special Conversation with Ada Limón

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Brown Mountain Lights

Short Wave - The Order Your Siblings Were Born in May Play a Role in Identity and Sexuality

⭐ Code Switch - How Frederick Douglass launched generations of Black and Irish solidarity

⭐ Decoder Ring - Can the “Bookazine” Save Magazines?

⭐ Imaginary Worlds - African Sci-Fi Looks to a Future Climate

Worlds Beyond Number - WWW #11: Promises Promises

Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - Fireside Chat for WWW ep11 "Promises Promises"

What Next: TBD - Does Google Suck Now?

Short Wave - What To Know About The New EPA Rule Limiting 'Forever Chemicals' In Tap Water

Code Switch - Reflecting on the legacy of O.J. Simpson

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Atlas Obscura Live: Two Places And A Lie

Dear Prudence - I Lost a Lot of Weight and Now I Enjoy Being a Mean Girl. Help!

It's Been a Minute - The car culture wars; plus, the problem with child stars

Endless Thread - RIP Lil Miquela

Shedunnit - You Probably Imagined It!

Armchair Expert - John Cena

Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - [One Shot] A County Affair: Prologue

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Presenting Bonnie Raitt

Lowrider Oldies

Huge House Anthems

Djo

Classic Soul BBQ

A LA SALA [Khruangbin] {2024}

Presenting Khruangbin

Happy Beats

'80s One-Hit Wonders

Feel-Good Classic Rock

[sporkberries]

Local Archivist has beef with the most annoying group of Georgian era Gay men

[mpaizsounds]

The Sporkful (Podcast)

Mixing, mastering Favorite Episode: Are Shallots Bull$#!t? < LISTEN HERE >

[copperbadge]

Current Events Reading Reccs

I had a couple of people asking me about my “current events” reading in general (news aggregators, podcasts, etc) so I figured I’d just list them off here. 

I don’t read any tumblrs that are specifically focused on current events, I just kinda get news from various people I’ve followed, but I’ve found in general it helps to find people for whom the news is a hobby, not a consuming habit. I have communists and anarchists and prison abolitionists on my dash, but they aren’t people who have made that their identity, which removes the “You are insufferable” factor. So I guess find fandom weirdos with strong political views and follow ‘em. 

Also I want to state at the top that part of why I’m on top of shit that I get through Tumblr is that I have a policy of never reblogging or reacting to anything until I have 1. read the article being linked and 2. done my own research. This has saved me a vast deal of embarrassment, because sometimes I’ll save something outrageous to research and before I can even research it, it’s been rebutted. I cannot stress how important the process of reading and research is -- you can’t get your news from headlines and particularly not clickbait you see on Tumblr. 

As far as I know there’s no single tumblr clearinghouse for good high-level current events reporting and analysis (the analysis I think is a vital part) but if folks have resources they use, drop ‘em in the comments or reblogs.  

Anyway, some mailing lists I belong to are:

Quartz Daily Brief: finance and tech, mainly. Back when they were for-pay I paid for them, this newsletter was that entertaining. I believe they’ve now gone fee-free but they sometimes link to paywalls. I get it as an email newsletter, that’s just a link to the web version. 

Breakfast with ARTNews: Obviously a bit niche but I really like keeping up with the art world and they cover art crime too. The link is to the all-newsletters signup page, I only belong to Breakfast. 

The Futurist: This is the most insufferable nonsense masquerading as news ever. The ads are indistinguishable from the content. But it does help me keep a finger hard on the pulse of what irritating tech bros are into. Watch scams unfold in real time! 

I also follow a number of local interests -- community centers and neighborhood organizations primarily -- in Chicago, so those are always good to hunt up. Most major cities have a “citycast” podcast (just search “citycast [your city]” in your podcatcher) that is also good for local news.  

Some websites:

Longreads: Since longform.org went under, the best place to find the current longform pieces that everyone’s talking about.  

Brand Eating: Extremely niche, but I really love reading about “brand” food trends. It covers new food releases and sales and such in the areas of packaged food (potato chips, candy, etc), fast food, and casual dining. It’s also great as a resource for cheap eats. 

I stopped reading Bon Appetit recently (they ran this appallingly sympathetic story about a dickhead hiring manager) but like, honestly, if you want to track food trends, the BA email newsletter is kinda the way to go. If you’d like good food news in podcast form, I recommend The Sporkful (it’s in the podcast list). 

I used to read the Chicago Tribune, New York Times, and Fortune Magazine (which mostly scraped the not-awful stuff from Forbes) but I’ve cut it down to just the Trib; I don’t really need Fortune to keep me current and the NYT has morphed into a creepy proto-fash nightmare. The Trib has pretty good national/international coverage so if you don’t have a decent local paper it’s not bad, but I don’t know how much access you get as a nonpaying reader (I subscribe). 

Podcasts:

Quartz has a podcast, Quartz Obsession, which is off-and-on in terms of when episodes come out but very interesting when they do. 

Planet Money is a once-weekly podcast about economics, and has a daily show called “The Indicator” which is daily “small bites” current events coverage. 

The Late Show and the Daily Show both have an “ears edition” podcast that’s just the show audio; I’ve stopped listening for the most part but if you want good cultural commentary, that’s the place to go. 

The Journal by the Wall Street Journal is a weekly podcast focusing on one or two news stories, generally pretty relevant. 

Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me is a panel show but it’s a fun way to get bite-sized news you can look up later in more detail if you want. And it’s taped in Chicago! If you listen you can hear me in the audience laughing. :D (I’m going to another taping in a few weeks!) 

Behind The Bastards is actually a history podcast but if you’re listening current he does a bit of current-events commentary, and also I just really like it as a podcast.

Stuff You Should Know is a trivia podcast but they occasionally do current-events stuff.

The Sporkful is pretty good about current food news, although I run hot and cold on it.

I used to listen to a really good “professional” medical podcast, but it went full paywall when it started to offer certain forms of professional credit, so I found The House Of Pod as a very good free replacement. It’s not really for non-doctors, but as a non-doctor I still find it accessible and informative. (For medical history and curiosity, I do highly recommend Bedside Rounds, but I wouldn’t call it a current events cast.) 

So that’s how I get my news -- it’s not what I would call fully comprehensive but it’s reasonably informative! 

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

Do you have any good podcast recs? I need some new material 😔

here's what I've been extremely into of late

Betwixt the Sheets

Gender Spiral

If Books Could Kill

Maintenance Phase

Rude Tales of Magic

The Sporkful

The Stacks

Vibe Check

Why Won't You Date Me?

Worlds Beyond Number

[monolaguesong]

Someone tell me that they also watched the New Heights podcast with Kylie and that we can make jokes about sporking people

[mhalachai]

word of the week: Portmanteau

the word of this week is one of those that most people on fandom tumblr use with frequency, but since the term itself has morphed, you might not know it.

So, let's learn!

Portmanteau

Noun, from the French: Porter (v., to carry) + Manteau (n, mantle) - with its origins in the mid 16th century.

1)  a large trunk or suitcase, typically made of stiff leather and opening into two equal parts, either as a trunk (below) or in smaller bag format - the distinction being the two equal sides. Some hard-shell suitcases that open down the middle are technically portmanteaus.

Do you have any idea how hard it was to find a picture on the internet of this thing

and also:

2) a word blending the sounds and combining the meanings of two others, such as:

brunch (breakfast + lunch)

motel (motor + hotel)

spork (spoon + fork)

podcast (iPod + broadcast)

cosplay (costume + roleplay)

Etc.

Portmanteaus exist in every language*, as there is nothing humans love more than making up new words to describe things. Wikipedia has some examples.

*Probably, haven’t done a comprehensive review of all human languages, but I'm going on odds of humans being human

And here is where the fandom connection really kicks into overdrive:

Ship names

some examples:

Sculder: Scully/Mulder from X-Files

Sterek: Stiles/Derek from Teen Wolf

Every possible pairing in the Untamed (WangXian, XiYao, NieLan)

Destiel: Dean/Castiel from Supernatural

McShep: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard from Stargate Atlantis

SwanQueen: Emma/Regina from Once Upon a Time

and then the MCU with their Stucky and Stony and Clintasha and WinterFalcon and Pepperony and FrostIron ETCETERA

There are some portmanteaus in the original Star Trek, but i'm one of the fans that prefer not to use Spirk.

Seriously, they're everywhere, and TV Tropes has gone to town in detailing them all:

The portmanteau as couple name

In film

In TV

So now you know!

Tell me about your favourite portmanteau in the replies.

Until next week,

[threebooksoneplot]

This is a cursed suggestion but have you thought about doing a season on 50 shades of grey? It is a twilight fanfic and has a book with the female character and a book with the male character just like twilight/midnight sun.

It’s super cursed but it could be fun to do like 3 or 4 episodes

(Also side not thank you for making this podcast when I’m lonely I listen to an episode and it feels like I’m hanging out with my friends and I don’t feel so lonely anymore)

G has actually read one of EL James’ twilight fanfictions (not what 50 shades was based off of, but a different one) and done some hilarious commentary on it. but as far as reading fifty shades goes?????? uhhhhhh idk about all that LMFAO. I have such low tolerance for bad smut and have no desire to read whatever 50 shades has to offer 😩 i’m SO tickled that we’re able to keep you company though 🥺 that gets me so weepy and happy all at once🤧 —shannon

you're speaking my LANGUAGE!! I did mention Grey on the podcast at least once (in, I think, Episode 0?) and it won't be a close read like season 1 of 3B1P, but I have in fact proposed an EL James one-off special episode that would put her work under a microscope like a phase of mitosis. together we can make it happen (by bullying shannon) —G

ps you can find my sporking of EL James' lost masterpiece Safe Haven here!

[autisticangus]

not to Discourse but genuinely sometimes i will see a new "travis is AT IT AGAIN!!!!!!" post and be like oh what this time? and legitimately 99.9% of the time it will be a tweet of him like. "oh boy! im a goofy guy! heres my Cringe thing im gonna say! *holds up spork* tacos are random or whatever!" and everyone in the notes like "this is the single most disgustingly manipulative thing he has EVER SAID why hasnt anyone put one between his eyes yet" and its like

man idk i just listen to podcasts a lot and think hes funny and thats apprently parasocial but ppl will comb through his like decade old tweets to find an arguement on why hes the antichrist and thats apparently normal, healthy behavior?

like im diagnosed w NPD and even i gotta say thats straight up narcissism lmao ur obsessed w seeing the downfall of others because you crave the validation of feeling better than someone else. thats all it is. travis isnt a bad person, but hes someone who makes you feel like a better person so you take any chance you can to make him look even worse. seek help, therapists would LOVE to unpack whatever else is going on up there lol

[haveyouheardthispodcast]

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (21-27 Jan 2024)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰 Cat Person (The_She_Devil) - 72K, shrunkyclunks - Bucky's the SHIELD agt tasked with bringing newly defrosted Steve up to speed on the 21st century - there's really hot sex in a secluded cabin PLUS feelings. All around deliciousness.

😊 Dark Carnivals: Modern Horrors and the Origins of American Empire (W. Scott Poole, author; Enrique McGavin, narrator) - interesting, edifying, depressing. Not as much discusssion of the films as I expected/would have liked - like 70% rundown of USian imperial activities of the last two centuries, 30% horror/scifi film discussion. [In hindsight, should have read this in text, as there were passages I really wanted to highlight/quote and the narration was…weird. Voice sound & tone was OK but there were lots of bizarre pauses. Sometimes when reading a quotes from a notable figure, the narrator did do some very credible imitations of Clinton & Reagan.]

😍 Waking Up Slow (odetteandodile) - 44K, shrunkyclunks - single dad Bucky, living in a isolated lighthouse in Canada, finds an amesiac, just-thawed Steve Rogers washed up on his beach… (reread for stucky bookclub, forever fave!)

😊 for a good time, call… (EvanesDust) - 46K, sterek, omegaverse fake-dating - solidly enjoyable

😊 Maurice (E.M. Forester, author; Peter Firth, narrator) - read this for a discord book club, can't believe I hadn't read it before & it's been 30 years since I watched the movie. Forester's language & turn of phrase is amazing.

🥰 And My Love Life Waits for Me (Bittersweet_in_Boston (author); Alaskan_Outsider (artist)) - 62K, shrunkyclunks soulmate fic - satisfyingly enjoyable, not nearly as dark as the tags might make you think

💖💖 +190K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

Own Me series (nrnyx) - TW: Jordan/Derek /Stiles, 62K (series) - Stiles gets picked up by husbands Jordan & Derek at the club and what starts as a very hot one night stand becomes so much more. Very werewolfy omegaverse stuff. Hot quality smut but also action-y plot!

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Goncharov (berlincorpography) - Goncharov (1973): OFC / OFC, 6K - very clever & funny fic featuring disaster lesbians, film criticism & academia

Once Upon a Time (softestpunk) - The Sandman: Dreamling, 14K - just so soft & warm, pure delight! They're both single dads! Falling in love! Dream is a children's librarian!

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Brooklyn Nine-Nine - s8, e5-10

D20: Fantasy High: Junior Year - "Not All Who Wanda Are Lost" (s21, e3)

D20: Adventuring Party - "I Wanda'd In" (s16, e3)

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

What Next: TBD - Have Algorithms Ruined Our Culture?

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Whimzeyland

The Sporkful - Deep Dish With Sohla And Ham: Delta Tamales

Today, Explained - Frosty the Tesla

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Slowjamastan

It's Been a Minute - Benny Safdie on 'The Curse' — and performing goodness

Shedunnit - A Reading Life

Pop Culture Happy Hour - 2024 Oscar Nominations

Switched on Pop - Kali Uchis takes on the world

Today, Explained - Modi’s temple grandstanding

⭐ Vibe Check - A Special Conversation with Cord Jefferson

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern

Code Switch - What happens when public housing goes private?

ICYMI - The TikTok Joy of Mychal the Librarian

Vibe Check - Heavy Negro Sigh

Culture Gabfest - True Detective’s Coldest Case Yet

Ologies with Alie Ward - Carcinology (CRABS) Part 2 with Adam Wall

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - A Giant Spectacle in Goffstown

Films To Be Buried With - Vincent D'Onofrio

The Sporkful - Deep Dish With Sohla And Ham: Tteokbokki

Off Menu - Ep 218: Jada Pinkett Smith

Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - Into the Huluverse

Endless Thread - The schism at the end of the tunnel

Dear Prudence - My Husband Stopped Using Soap and He Stinks. Help!

⭐ 99% Invisible #567 - The Double Kick

You're Dead to Me - Pythagoras

It's Been a Minute - South Africa's case for preventing genocide in Palestine; plus, why people love cults

Today, Explained - Music’s Pitchfork in the road

99% Invisible - Roman Mars Describes Chicago As It Is

Hit Parade - The Bridge: The Number of the Nominees Shall Be Five

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Folk Radio • Chill

Pop Radio • Downbeat

Dive Bar Karaoke

"Unholy" [Sam Smith & Kim Petras] radio

Essential New Wave

Melanie Radio • Familiar

My Mix 4 (Jimmy Buffett, Gordon Lightfoot, Jim Croce, Eagles)

[looloolooweez]

September

Books

Finished reading:

Audiobook – Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, 1977

Book – The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1954–1955

Book – The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts by Loren Grush, 2023

Currently reading:

Audiobook – Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier, 1938

Book – The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft, 1928

Media

Finished watching + listening:

Movie – Death Becomes Her starring Goldie Hawn, Meryl Streep, and Bruce Willis, 1992

Movie – Red, White, and Royal Blue starring Nicholas Galitzine and Taylor Zakhar Perez, 2023

Currently watching + listening:

TV series – Strange New Worlds starring Anson Mount, Babs Olusanmokun, Celia Rose Gooding, Christina Chong, Ethan Peck, Jess Bush, Melissa Navia, and Rebecca Romijn, 2022–TBD

TV series – Only Murders in the Buildings starring Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez, 2021–TBD

TV series – What We Do in the Shadows starring Kayvan Novak, Matt Berry, Natasia Demetriou, and Harvey Guillén, 2019–TBD

Podcast – Maintenance Phase hosted by Aubrey Gordon and Michael Hobbs, 2020–TBD

Podcast – The Sporkful hosted by Dan Pashman, 2021–TBD

YouTube series – The Knitting Pickle Podcast starring Laura Penrose at Penrose Knits, 2021–TBD

YouTube series – NE Knits Podcast starring Amy Best at NE Knits, 2022–TBD

Projects

Finished projects:

NA

Current projects:

Recipes – Food and Wine 40th Anniversary Special Edition ed. by Hunter Lewis et al., 2018

Recipes – Appetites by Anthony Bourdain, 2016

Recipes – The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook by Deb Perelman, 2012

Recipes – The Big Texas Cookbook by the editors of Texas Monthly, 2022

Wine tasting – Wine Folly by Madeline Puckette, 2015

Cross-stitch – Feminist Cross-Stitch by Stephanie Rohr, 2019

Cross-stitch – "No Body, No Crime" by Cross-Stitch Vienna, 2023

[desert-fern]

Tag Game!

Rules: tag nine people that you want to know better! I was tagged by the lovely @lt-spork 🥰

Last song I listened to: Traitor by Daughtry

Last show I watched: Criminal Minds

Currently watching: Terrorism Close Calls (Netflix docuseries)

Currently reading: Fanfiction (tumblr, AO3) & nursing textbooks

Current obsessions: TGM, LOTR, the Kinky History podcast (by Esme Louise James), Marvel, too many damn things to list here!

No pressure tags: @fandomxpreferences @blathannabeaga @lilpunkrock @subwaysurf45 @buckysimp101 @roosterscock @deakyjoe @tongue-like-a-razor @roosterforme + anyone else who feels like joining in just because 😊

[elcomfortador]

We Finally Do Soap

Content warning: In discussing plotlines on Soap, we do bring up suicide and, very briefly, sexual assault.

"Episode 4.1" (November 12, 1980) *

Finally! It's one of the biggest cult favorite sitcoms of all time *and* it's also a show famous for having a LGBT character in the main cast. The only reason it's taken us this many years to tackle Soap is that it's so much more serialized than mostly anything else we cover, so while we focus on one particular episode, we're also discussing the entirety of Billy Crystal's gay character, Jodie Dallas. Good thing we have longtime Soap fan and TableCakes' Katherine Helmond correspondent Gwynedd Stuart on hand to discuss the show in general and the awesomeness of Jessica Tate in particular.

Check out our sponsor, Spaces! And join our spaces for Gayest Episode Ever and Cartoons That Made Us Gay.

Also check out Gwynedd's work on Sporked.

Listen to Gwynedd’s episode of Monday Afternoon Movie about The Legend of Lizzie Borden.

See the full text of "the Soap memo." And then read the full piece on Newspapers.com (subscription required).

The Susan Harris quotes in this piece come from this 2018 Yahoo interview.

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* By some counts, this is actually episode 3.22.

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[artificial-condition]

2022 Media Overview

I consumed a lot of media this year and want to organize the highlights in my mind so here we go!

Favorite Media

Book Series: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

Book Standalone: This is How you Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Honorable Mentions: The People We Keep by Allison Larkin, The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang, Crying in H-Mart by Michelle Zauner, Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel, and the three most recent Taylor Jenkins Reid books (Carrie Soto is Back, Malibu Rising, Daisy Jones and the Six)

TV Show: What We Do in the Shadows

Honorable Mentions: Bee and Puppycat, Abbott Elementary, The Great, Veronica Mars, Bridgerton, Moon Knight, The Bear, Single Drunk Female

Video Game: Stray

Honorable Mention: Disco Elysium (didn't get to play much before the year was over but so good so far), Kirby and the Forgotten Land, Unpacking

Movie: When Marnie Was There

Honorable Mention: Scream (2022)

Not a very movie heavy year.

Songs: Bubblegum Bitch by MARINA, Rumors by Lizzo, Level of Concern by Twenty One Pilots

Honorable Mentions: September by Earth, Wind & Fire; MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name) by Lil Nas X, Rasputin, Goodbye Earl by the Chicks

Podcast: A Little Bit Culty

Honorable Mention: The Sporkful, Home Cooking (would be number one but there was only one random bonus episode dropped this year)

Least Favorites

Book: The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

Reason for Hating: The misogyny was incredibly painful to read and the story didn't at all make up for the pain.

Dishonorable Mention: The Paper Palace

Reason for Hating: I found the book to be uninspired and lacking creativity. Did not really like or care for the characters.

TV Show: Wednesday

Reason for Hating: I felt like they glossed Wednesday Adams over. I wanted her to be more unsettling and disturbing and not someone people would like. They took the Adams Family and turned it into a high school drama/romance/murder mystery?????? Did not enjoy.

Movie: every single hallmark movie played in my vicinity

Reason for Hating: so. cheesy. no. complexity. will. die.

I don't play music/podcasts/video games I don't like so no least favorites for those!

If anyone read this thanks for the attention :)