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The podcast where smart women talk about what they're watching — and not watching. Find us on your favorite podcast app!
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Further podcasts by Amanda Teuscher and Sarah Wides
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All the World's a Passive Aggressive Zoom Call (Boob Tube #3.13) from 2021-04-25T01:52:13
Amanda continues her quest to watch every British panel show ever created, while Sarah ventures over to the (QUITE) dark side of the internet to take in all of HBO Max's Into the Storm. We come tog...
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The Long-Awaited Search Party Episode from 2021-03-08T04:18:33
Yes, that's right, Amanda finally took Sarah's advice and watched Search Party. And now she's wondering what took her so long, because it really is as great as Sarah said. Why doesn't anyone ever *...
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A Proper Bridgerton Showdown (Boob Tube #3.12) from 2021-02-03T18:46
Once again we disappeared for a few weeks, but really isn't it more fun this way? To never know *quite* when to expect us, dropping a few months worth of frantic viewing habits in your laps? Maybe ...
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Queen for a Day, B*tch Eating Crackers for Life (Boob Tube #3.11) from 2020-12-04T03:27:45
You are cordially invited to a very royal (or alternatively, British) podcast episode, in which we talk at length about how to wish someone a nice holiday during a pandemic, why Amanda has held ont...
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A November 1st Surprise (Boob Tube #3.10) from 2020-11-01T14:27:33
Halloween, a full moon, the election, the Supreme Court....the Scaries Per Minute (SPM) (patent pending) rating for this week is off the charts. Luckily, Sarah and Amanda are back to distract you w...
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A Match Made in Heaven (Boob Tube #3.09) from 2020-08-10T00:52:12
No, not Sarah + Amanda (although that's also a heavenly match), but Netflix + yet another massively entertaining dating show. The streamer's Indian Matchmaking is certainly elevated from the likes ...
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Reminding Ourselves of the Bigger Television Picture (Boob Tube #3.08) from 2020-07-19T14:26:39
We've got a monster episode for you, so chances are you've seen at least one of the shows we're talking about. If not, well, there's a real range of recommendations to choose from, though you'll pr...
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So We Meet Again (Boob Tube #3.07) from 2020-06-17T18:36:01
We're back, and better than ever! Or at least the same as ever! Sarah has emerged from the experience of giving birth with strong opinions about the last two seasons of The Sopranos, and Amanda fou...
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We've All Got the Brain Scramblies Now (Boob Tube #3.06) from 2020-05-02T15:45:14
We're three for three here — three episodes in on three new seasons of television, which is an absolutely fascinating fact if weeks of self-isolation has given you the Brain Scramblies, too. Sarah ...
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Fires Everywhere, How Apt (Boob Tube #3.05) from 2020-04-11T14:13:45
Quarantine, week....could be four, could be fourteen, who's to say anymore? COVID remains bad for essentially every aspect of life except for television consumption, so we've still got you covered ...
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QuaranTV (Boob Tube #3.04) from 2020-03-24T16:33:21
Well, this episode was a long time coming thanks to a certain Boob Tuber's uploading failure (Amanda, we're talking about Amanda). But the good news — and let's be honest, we could all really use s...
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Burn It All Down (Boob Tube #3.03) from 2020-02-25T00:49:19
A sad week, in Boob Tube-verse (yes, all the weeks are sad ones these days, yes we....get a little distracted by the state of the world): the end of Bojack Horseman. We spend a good chunk of this w...
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Farewell to the Good Place, Hello to Evil Murderous Doppelgängers (Boob Tube #3.02) from 2020-02-11T04:33:41
At least, so far it looks like it's an evil, murderous doppelgänger in HBO's new series 'The Outsider.' What we are sure about is that we are NOT OK after the series finale of 'The Good Place.' We ...
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Whither the Watchmen, and Why the Witcher? (Boob Tube #3.01) from 2020-01-17T23:44:36
Ms Wides discusses why you should watch 'Work in Progress,' and we all wonder about one of the great mysteries of our time — why Amanda watched all of 'The Witcher,' a show that 100 percent was not...
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It's the 2019 Booby Tubey Awards! (Boob Tube #2.21) from 2019-12-27T19:55:40
Audio issues, rampant illness, malfunctioning software, it's the end of the year as we know it and we feel fine. That's right folks, a whole 2019's worth of television, and what the hell did we wat...
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Get Stuffed with our Thanksgiving Special! (Boob Tube #2.20) from 2019-12-01T16:55:24
Sarah goes deep into the Bon Appétit Cinematic Universe (tm) and is, by the way, still riding a high from Chris Morocco liking her BA sausage and corn nut stuffing on Instagram. She continues the f...
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Three Mehs, a Bake-Off and Half a Bojack (Boob Tube #2.19) from 2019-11-08T13:33:39
We have to get a few things out of the way before we talk about the promising first half to Bojack Horseman's final season. We watched a few episodes each of Living With Yourself, The Hook-up Plan,...
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Do Women Make Better Detectives? A Boob Tube Investigation (Boob Tube #2.18) from 2019-10-17T18:09:59
After Sarah takes a brief dive into the utterly bizarre Transparent Musical Finale, Sarah and Amanda discuss a number of women-fronted crime shows, including the UK's Scott & Bailey and Netflix's U...
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Try, But Don't Try Try to Watch Undone (Boob Tube #2.17) from 2019-09-26T13:27:15
Check, check, 1, 2, 3 — Yep, Amanda's mic sounds way better this episode. Maybe that's why we went a little long — or maybe it's because the Emmys were this week and we have our usual measured take...
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Back on Our Bullshit! (Boob Tube #2.16) from 2019-09-11T23:02:40
Our bullshit, of course, being Australian mysteries and wry but warm British comedies. The Great British Bake-Off is back in session, complete with awkward innuendo and a contestant who somehow pop...
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Hunting Mimes and Taking Your Time (Boob Tube #2.15) from 2019-08-29T02:35:41
Oh, the show is about hunting MINDS, m-i-n-d ... that makes a lot more sense! But is it worth getting back into the game of tracking serial killers for a second season of Mindhunter? Sarah has the ...
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Back to School Season (Boob Tube #2.14) from 2019-08-10T04:16:45
Sarah is convinced that if last summer's HBO sleeper hit was Succession, maybe this summer's is Euphoria, an intoxicating (see what we did there?), glittery show about extremely cool teens. Will it...
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Sequels and Revivals: The Good, the "Eh, Fine" and the Ugly (Boob Tube #2.13) from 2019-07-31T23:59:29
Sometimes, a show's second season don't end nearly as well as it starts, and you wonder, "Why didn't she destroy the train set earlier?" and also, "Why?"
Sometimes, you aren't even sure wh...
Big Little Lies 2: The Lies Get A Little Bigger (Boob Tube #2.12) from 2019-07-03T14:13:31
Ok it's easier to lose track of time as the days get longer, so it has been a full MONTH since we last talked TV, but my what a month it's been. Sarah hits you with micro-reviews of a few different...
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From Ukraine to Laguna Beach (Boob Tube #2.11) from 2019-06-04T12:04:47
Some bad news this week: Sarah broke her promise and started watching Chernobyl, and ABC is definitely *not* bringing back that one show. We talk about the sadness of Jared Harris and the terrors o...
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Is Fleabag the Best Show of 2019? (Boob Tube #2.10) from 2019-05-22T20:46:19
I mean, we'll see what the next six months throw at us, we're not ones to doubt the power of Peak TV, but....yes, it almost certainly is. We discuss the devastating genius of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's...
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Two Words: Confidence, Tuca, and Bertie (Boob Tube #2.09) from 2019-05-08T12:52:42
Were you missing anthropomorphic cartoon animals dealing with serious issues as much as we were? You're in luck, because Lisa Hanawalt, the illustrator and producer of Bojack Horseman, has a new Ne...
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The Curtain Closes on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (Boob Tube #2.08) from 2019-04-25T21:01:29
One of our favorite (but criminally under-appreciated!) shows comes to a satisfying end, albeit an end that Amanda managed to watch all out of order. Oh well, there's always the next Rachel Bloom p...
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Veep Is Just Cynical Enough — And So Are We (Boob Tube #2.07) from 2019-04-07T15:57:22
In case you can't get enough of the machinations of self-serving and occasionally inept politicians, Veep is back for its seventh season! We discuss why the show has remained a favorite (and maybe ...
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Swimming Against the Current (Boob Tube #2.06) from 2019-03-21T21:53:42
This week, we bid farewell to Catastrophe, which is such an absolute gem of a show, one that has always been brutally, painfully honest but hysterically funny about the highs and low lows of marria...
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Watching What's Hard to Watch (Boob Tube #2.05) from 2019-03-06T13:27:03
TV isn't always easy (see: Leaving Neverland) but it can often provide valuable insight into the stories you didn't fully comprehend decades ago (see: Lorena). We talk about those two docu-series, ...
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You're Gonna Want to Join the Pen15 Club (Boob Tube #2.04) from 2019-02-20T20:49:09
Do you remember the "creaky door" sound of someone signing on to AOL Instant Messenger? What about, say, making out during the movie Wild Things? The band B*Witched? If the answer is yes, you defin...
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Gotta Get Up, Gotta Get Out, Gotta Watch Russian Doll (Boob Tube #2.03) from 2019-02-11T03:22:27
Sweet birthday baby! If you haven't yet watched all of Russian Doll, stop what you're doing and watch it (maybe even twice). Then come back here for our discussion of Netflix's new show starring Na...
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They're Just More Enlightened Across the Pond (Boob Tube #2.02) from 2019-01-26T15:27:16
Let's talk about SE-ok, ok, we're not going to do the song. But this IS a week of sexy British comedy-dramas, or drama-comedies, or whatever the parlance of our times determines them to be. We talk...
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The Golden Gl'Oh Brothers (Boob Tube #2.01) from 2019-01-09T01:25:35
Yes, we know award shows don't matter, but these days isn't it refreshing to get righteously indignant about things that don't matter? Among the eye rolls (Kominskyyyy!! *shakes fist*) were some re...
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Let's Not Think About How Much TV We Watched in 2018 (Boob Tube #36) from 2018-12-23T17:56:11
In which we comb back through 12 months of Google docs to answer the age-old question: what the hell did we watch this year, anyway? Only in the year 2018 can one have watched approximately 40 diff...
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If John Travolta Introduced Midge Maisel (Boob Tube #35) from 2018-12-12T02:51:54
What does it say about us that we, like Eleanor Shellstrop, find John Travolta's egregious attempt to say Idina Menzel to be utterly hilarious? Or that we think parental neglect in The Marvelous Mr...
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What in the Name of Grayskull Are We Watching? (Boob Tube #34) from 2018-11-29T20:40:43
Did you know there's an explicitly queer, body-positive, gender-fluid re-boot of She-Ra: Princesses of Power currently airing on Netflix? Well, Amanda knew, and she's here to tell you that it's not...
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Schitt's Creek Is the Real Good Place (Boob Tube #33) from 2018-11-22T03:31:18
Sometimes, the place you think is heaven turns out to be hell, and sometimes the place you expect to be terrible turns out to be, well, enriching, funny and ... charmingly/vaguely Canadian. It's an...
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Praise Satan, It's the Boob Tube Spookiversary! (Boob Tube #32) from 2018-11-02T20:23:32
Netflix doesn't have another Stranger Things installment to bore us with quite yet, so instead they've debuted two spooky new series just in time for our favorite time of year (and our first annive...
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God Subscribed to My Podcast (Boob Tube #31) from 2018-10-03T19:51:34
There's finally one tiny bright spot on the network television landscape once again, and no, it's not God Friended Me (the actual name of a show currently airing on CBS) — it's The Good Place! Wher...
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Male Anti-Heroes Are Bad, But BoJack (the Show) Is Good (Boob Tube #30) from 2018-09-26T16:57:46
This week, we're getting REAL. We're talking about the high points of season 5 of BoJack Horseman (which are sorta also the low points?) and how it, a cartoon about a deeply flawed male anti-hero, ...
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Save Yourself, Skip the Emmys (Boob Tube #29) from 2018-09-19T18:51:27
The Emmys had their all-time lowest viewership, and it's not hard to see why. The hosts were boring, the jokes were awkward, and — wait, how is that different from any other awards show telecast? S...
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Still Great, Still British, Now with Noel Fielding (Boob Tube #28) from 2018-09-06T17:35:48
Is Sarah going to tell Amanda why Jessica Biel murdered that guy in 'The Sinner'? Is the season of 'The Great British Baking Show' that just arrived on Netflix still as charming and soothing with n...
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Dollhouses Are Always Creepy, No Exceptions (Boob Tube #27) from 2018-08-30T22:31:27
Everything we're watching right now is scary and sad — why is that? From the ravages of dementia (paranormal dementia?) in Castle Rock to the...whydunnit murder mystery The Sinner to the deeply uns...
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Don't Vacation in Castle Rock (Boob Tube #26) from 2018-08-16T16:23:51
The Hulu show Castle Rock provides us with a lot of eerie set-up, a great cast, and some pointed commentary on the American private-prison industry. But come on, show, just scare the pants off of u...
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Sharp Objects: It's a Mood (Boob Tube #25) from 2018-08-01T17:00:21
This week, we're mainly talking about HBO's adaptation of Sharp Objects, and It checks our boxes for a)utter creepiness, b)hot detective, and c)Patricia Clarkson, but what does it all add up to? Al...
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A Very Special Emmy Nominations Episode (Boob Tube #24) from 2018-07-19T00:24:12
It may surprise you to learn that We Have Some Opinions about the Primetime Emmy nominations, announced last week. Why the fork did they so overlook The Good Place? Do they know there are other sho...
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Battle of the Margaret Atwood Adaptations! (Boob Tube #23) from 2018-07-11T19:34:48
OK, we're not really pitting The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace against each other (well, maybe Sarah is), but we do think that Alias Grace is not to be missed. Don't make our mistake and not get ...
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It's Too Hot for Wrestling or Dystopian Feminist Nightmares (Boob Tube #22) from 2018-07-03T17:18:08
What do women wrestlers in the 1980s have to do with women forced to endure rape and give birth while living in a patriarchal theocracy? We could probably make some important feminist comparisons, ...
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This Week in Rich White Guys with Problems (Boob Tube #21) from 2018-06-22T14:13:20
OK, so they're rich white guys with problems, but at least they're REAL problems: Patrick Melrose is a drug addict who survived a traumatic childhood, and over on The Staircase (or is it The Suitca...
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Back in the U.S.S.R. (Boob Tube #20) from 2018-06-07T21:58:26
Amanda and Sarah talk about one of the greatest TV finales of all time, and theorize as to why it's always so cold on The Americans. And Sarah watched the first episode of Ryan Murphy's new show, P...
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The Assassination Special! (Boob Tube #19) from 2018-05-31T20:15:54
This week we're talking television's favorite psychopaths—man, murder was hot this spring! Now that we're moving to summer, what's next? Maybe some good old-fashioned money laundering and drug cart...
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Our Favorite Fantasy Show (Boob Tube #18) from 2018-05-16T17:49:02
After Twitter* erupted in protest at the canceling of the beloved cop sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Amanda gave Sarah a homework assignment: She needed to suspend her snobby and highbrow television ha...
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The Sarah and Amanda Show with Sarah and Amanda (Boob Tube #17) from 2018-05-09T17:30:38
OK, Amanda didn't watch a whole lot on her travels, but give her a break, she only has one foot now. She still made time for Joel McHale (as well as the sexiest lord of hell on network television)....
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Talk (and Sing) German to Me (Boob Tube #16) from 2018-04-19T16:46:43
If you haven't watched Babylon Berlin, you should ask yourself "Warum?" This week, we're talking history and mystery. Incredible music and bonkers set design. Communists and Nazis. Hot detectives a...
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Sandra Oh and Paige Davis Return to Television(Boob Tube #15) from 2018-04-12T16:49:18
It's 2001 all over again baby, because TRADING SPACES is back on the air! (Sarah and Amanda have much better hair now, though.) Our hosts posit the question: How many Donald Sutherland sex scenes c...
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Richard Ayoade's Travels and Roseanne Barr's Travails (Boob Tube #14) from 2018-04-05T00:19:57
He may have an upset tummy from the car ride, but Richard Ayoade sounds like a hilarious travel buddy. And the jokes in the 'Roseanne' reboot might be funny, but being asked to feel bad for Trump v...
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Sarah and Amanda's Opinion About the X-Files Finale, UNLEASHED (Boob Tube #13) from 2018-03-27T16:07:14
That X-Files finale? Oh boy oh boy do we ever hear you. Unsurprisingly, we have some things to say about it, and some of its hilariously questionable lines ("Have you seen the internet?"). Don't wo...
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Travel Back in Time and Have More Women on Your Food Show (Boob Tube #12) from 2018-03-14T15:37:36
Amanda discovers the horrors (and joys!) of German television. What are Germans into these days, anyway? Sarah wonders why there aren't more women in high-end food docs (well, we know why), and our...
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From Broad City to Atlanta (Boob Tube #11) from 2018-03-08T18:47:44
Sarah just started the second season of Atlanta, and Amanda...just started it. But they've both seen all of Broad City's fourth season and agree on how great it was, even if they're not quite in ag...
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Is It My Fault This Show Was Canceled? (Boob Tube #10) from 2018-02-28T16:14:08
What's the German word for when you discover a great show, then find out it was canceled because you didn't do your part? Amanda's feeling a little of that, but luckily Sarah's doing her part to ta...
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Not Guilty by Reason of Crazy for Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (Boob Tube #9) from 2018-02-22T20:02:11
Trent?! Trent! This week Amanda finds the hidden link between Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and The X-Files, and Sarah laments the lack of Third Eye Blind songs in the current television landscape.
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We're Finally Talking About the Motherforking Good Place (Boob Tube #8) from 2018-02-08T19:41:27
The real Good Place was the friends we made along the way. Sarah discusses her "white whale" of streaming shows, and Amanda really is going to get HBO this week. Really!
Shows discussed: T...
The Found Art of Darin Morgan X-Files Episodes (Boob Tube #7) from 2018-02-01T04:24:06
Listen. This (likely final) X-Files season isn't long, and the remaining episodes might not be as good. So we're diving into this past week's "The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat." We also watched some ...
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Read Any Good Aziz Ansari Thinkpieces? (Boob Tube #6) from 2018-01-24T04:18:45
We've been gone two weeks, and a lot has happened. ER came to Hulu, Mulder and Scully had sex (what is their relationship status?), Blake Bortles lost (poor Jason Mendoza), and a bouncy castle took...
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#TimesUp, #MeToo and the Gee Gees (Boob Tube #5) from 2018-01-10T18:25:22
How about all that emotional labor women did at the 2018 Golden Globes?
Shows discussed: The Good Place, The X-Files, Wanted (Netflix), Twin Peaks
Plus: THIS IS US/ME!