513 Cooking Shows

How many times can you say the word lovely in an hour and a half? We test that out this week as we delve into our favourite (or favorite) cooking competition shows. Tune in for Great British Bake Off spoilers, Masterchef Australia, Masterchef Junior, Masterchef, Top Chef, Barefoot Contessa, Paula Deen, and more. And then we get de-railed by One Direction and take a detour into fandom meta, because of course we did. Come on, listen to us wax poetic. Bring a snack.

Links:

Buzzfeed: 51 Facts You Need To Know About “The Great British Bake Off”

Buzzfeed: Nadiya’s Facial Expressions Are One Of The Best Things About “Bake Off”

512 Hannibal

How creepy can we be about a cannibalistic serial killer and fetishizing his gorgeous dinners before the NSA comes after us? Find out, by tuning into our post Season 3 conversation with Raz and Kit. We talk the two arcs of S3, we talk the passionately bonkers Hannibal fandom, and we talk where we think those two crazy kids ended up...after ending up at the bottom of a cliff. 

Links:

• A Conversation With Dr. Lecter on the Strange New Season of Hannibal
• Grace Cafe by loghain
• Chine by gryvon
• Entertainment Weekly's "Everything Hannibal Wore"
• (Bonus rec!) Fanmix: "I have seen all the things you have seen"
• Consenting to Dream by Emungere
• In Keedysville by becks
• Vid: Silver Linings Playbook by Mental Rebellion
• Vid: Blank Space Hannibal edition by Sam

511 Time Travel Ask Us Anything side B

It's Canadian Thanksgiving, so guys, please don't listen to this in front of your family, or the police, or, idk, small children. This week we talk Neon Genesis Evangelion, the fact that everyone and their mom is in the Tom Hardy/Taron Eggerton movie, fandom and journalism, why the government of Canada should support this podcast, why Canadian lit is terrible, and how neither of us was sober. Oops.

There was a link we were supposed to include here from an ask. We lost it! If you sent that to us, send it again and we'll post the link here. Thanks!

510 Time Travel Ask Us Anything part A

What hiatus? As Pru will tell you this week, time is a flat circle. Don't worry about it. This week we talk about fanfiction vs fanart again, the Bruno & Boots movie, briefly touch on PKane, Jurassic World, and Dark Matter before getting into the first half of an Ask Us Anything episode.

This episode we also talk about Slash the card game, which you can check out here.

509 Kingsman

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It's been awhile since we've come down so starkly on different sides of an issue but here it is: this week we talk about Kingsman, which Pru loved and MK despised. But before that, we're going to talk about Rizzoli & Isles, Community, and the X-Files before answering a few questions and giving you some hot recs.  

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Recs:

Beta Testing by andavs [TeenWolf/Eureka, Derek/Stiles]

Little House by aerospaces [Kingsman, Harry/Eggsy]

Pig Latin by aerospaces [Kingsman, Harry/Eggsy]

Class Of Conduct by fideliant [Kingsman, Harry/Eggsy]

Every Club's Got a Secret Handshake by ChuckleVoodoos [Kingsman, Harry/Eggsy]

Squeeze by rageprufrock [Kingsman, Harry/Eggsy]

508 Empire

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People, brace yourselves, because this week we dive into the dazzling, dizzying world of FOX's mega hit Empire. Pru is joined by Zara (Amazonziti), Merelyn and Tiffany to drink wine out of plastic goblets in the shape of skulls and scream loudly about the two-hour season finale of the freshman series staring Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard. We talk furs, crazy plots, gay sons, eluding death, and how this show has proven so magnificently addictive.

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Links for this episode

Empire episodes on Hulu
Empire's IPO on the Wall Street Journal

507 Series Finales; Theory of Fic Gate

This week, we talk about the sad news of Leonard Nimoy's passing, the crazy news of Mentalist's series finale, and the leopard print banana milkshake news of the greatest new show on television, Empire. We'll also check in with Waldorph on the recent Theory of Fanfiction kerfuffle, and go through some reader questions and a correction from last week's episode, so stick around! You should follow us on Twitter.