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The continuation of our conversation with Claire Willett. Liz left us and Daphne and Claire just kept on going. We talk about art, the Black Sails finale, emotional truths, and fandom. Spoilers for all seasons of Black Sails!
We were bound to come back to talking about the ending of Black Sails some day, and we are so happy to do so with our fabulous guest, writer Claire Willett. We talk about good deaths for female characters, our love of Max, the finale, and the Sasspants Cutiepie (guess which character that is) Spoilers for all seasons of Black Sails!
How did we wait so long to think of this one? We have now proven once and for all that Schmitz and Jackson is even more lovely than Rackham and Featherstone. Enjoy this more informal than usual episode. Note: Spoilers for all seasons of Black Sails
This week of Fathoms Deep, we are joined by Adam Serwer, staff writer for The Atlantic, and Jon Steinberg, Black Sails show runner and wrangler of pirates. We talk politics, history, Treasure Island, and Jon tells us his parrot head canon. This episode dedicated to Robert Levine and his gentile encouragement.
This week on Can I Just Say, the last of our dispatches from 2019 Con of Thrones. We discuss fate and destiny for one who is so powerful, our shifting experiences of "Dracarys" the end of Season 8, and conquering vs ruling.
Elizabeth was on a fascinating Con of Thrones panel looking at the arc of Theon Greyjoy from start to end of Game of Thrones. Greyjoy or Stark? Theon's story ends up being one of the most interesting and heart wrenching story in Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire.
This week on Can I Just Say, the second panel dispatch from Con of Thrones: Daphne talked with Michael Monaco from Maester Monthly, as well as Luka Nieto and David Rosenblatt from Watchers on the Wall. We talked about power dynamics of the Common Folk who rose to be in the spheres of the Noble Families in the worlds of A Song of Ice and Fire / Game of Thrones and our favorite examples of those types of characters, including Melisandre, Varys, Davos and others.
This week on Fathoms Deep, we chat with Anna-Louise Plowman about the special space in which Mrs Hudson exists in the story of Black Sails. We talked about a very different face of civilization and how that perspective influences how we experience the world of of the pirates though very different eyes.
This week on Can I Just Say, the first panel dispatch from Con of Thrones. In a sequel to last year's Queendom panel, Daphne joins Kristine Kippins, Lauren Sarner, and Kim Renfro to discuss women and politics in Game of Thrones.
This week on Can I Just Say, we discuss Season 8 of Game of Thrones, for a long long time. Kristine Kippins is back and we are also joined by Petra Halbur who writes for the Game of Thrones dedicated site Watchers on the Wall. Daphne is a bit salty and Elizabeth is (as always) sweet.
This week on Can I Just Say, we look back at Season 7 of Game of Thrones, in our excitement for Season 8. Kristine Kippins joins Daphne for a continuation of our Con of Thrones panel discussions and a preview for our 2019 panel. We discuss Being the Dragon, leadership styes, bending knees, and who will bring the balance of The Force to Westeros (if anyone can)
This week on Can I Just Say, we enter the church of Baseball and find that we believe in belief. If you love something enough it can be profound. Annie and Crash are two of the most fascinating and fun characters you will ever meet, and Daphne proves that you don't need to know anything about baseball to love this film.
This week on Can I Just Say, Lindsey Romain of Nerdist joins us to discuss The Favourite by Yorgos Lanthimos. We chat about shooting, dancing, women in power and men throwing fruit.
This week on Can I Just Say, we discuss the 1987 film, Moonstruck. We howl at the moon and break our hearts and go to the opera. We both loved this story of a woman's self-discovery, set in NY but also in a modern fairy tale based on love, family, beauty, and wolves….
It is time to plug in our splitter and wander around New York listening to our playlists and talk about this delightful film that defies tropes and is truly a pleasure to watch.
This week on Fathoms Deep, our Captain was worth the wait. Daphne chats with Toby Stephens about leadership, moments of honesty, being Flint and also being not-Flint since Black Sails has ended. Spoilers for all 4 seasons.
Our very first Black Sails Commentary Track! The ladies watched Black Sails Episode I (1.01) and talked the whole time. There are Spoilers here for all Four Seasons of Black Sails so this is best to have us talk over a rewatch rather than a first watch. We will do commentary tracks for all of the episodes of Black Sails for our Patreon Subscribers - some with fun guests! Support us on Patreon to hear them all as they come out.
This week on Can I Just Say, the 1991 film, Impromptu. When discussion of darling film about the 1830's art world in Paris and a fabulously gender fluid writer (George Sand played by Judy Davis) becomes a grand sweeping debate of arts place in society, democracy, cultural norms.
This week on Can I Just Say, we discuss the 1994 film, Little Women. Gentlemen of the press. Hear! Hear! We so enjoyed the March family... enough to want to be a part of it (but not in quite the same way as Laurie)
This week on Can I Just Say, we discuss the 1985 Merchant Ivory film, A Room with a View. The wonderful Louise Barnes from Black Sails joins us for: Beauty! Joy! And the eternal Yes!
This week on Can I Just Say, we discuss E.M. Forster's A Room with a View - introspection or the lack thereof, bathing, piano, and fate all wrapped in some of the most beautiful prose. We so enjoyed ourselves! Next episode we discuss the film with actress Louise Barnes.
This week on Can I Just Say, we discuss the 1996 and 2009 adaptations of Jane Austen's Emma and we will try not to kill Knightly's dogs....
This week on Can I Just Say, we discuss Jane Austen's Emma, our well meaning and often misguided heroine of a very different sort than we have met up until this point. We talk of responsibility and pride and what may be the true meaning of 'extensive grounds'
This week on Can I Just Say, culture writer Lindsey Romain joins us to discuss Star Wars: The Last Jedi and we had the most fun talking about The Force, the characters, the themes.... and a few things we had not anticipated.
This week on Can I Just Say, Andrew Dyce joins us to discuss the 1995 and 2005 adaptations of Pride and Prejudice. We had a fantastic conversation, a crazy revelation mid-podcast, and sadly some tech problems and not our usual standard of audio quality (sorry!) We find great enjoyment in professing opinions which in fact are our own.
This week on Can I Just Say, we discuss Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. We talk about the beautifully flawed characters of Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, the choices (or lack thereof) for women of that time, and who we would choose to go to our Ball and who to our dinner party.
This week on Can I Just Say, our Jane Austen discussions continue with the beloved 1995 adaptation of Sense and Sensibility. We sing the praises of Emma Thompson, we have a really hard time picking one favorite thing, and we have a great time discussing the relationship between a book and a well done adaptation.
Special Episode: Dispatches from Con of Thrones - a series of podcasts of Daphne's panels at the Con. This one is from the Sisterhood of Sansa and Arya Stark panel with Lindsey Romain, Laura Stone, and Kristine Kippins where we talk about loving our Stark girls and how we experience their characterization and arcs as women in the Game of Thrones fandom.
Special Episode: Dispatches from Con of Thrones - a series of podcasts of Daphne's panels at the con. This one is from the Queendom of Thrones: Women in Game of Thrones panel with Lauren Sarner, Kim Renfro, and Kristine Kippins where we talk about our favorite characters, sexposition, and costuming as female transformation.
Daphne and Zethu finally met in person when Zethu came to New York for her new film, Mandela's Gun, to win 3 awards at the Harlem International Film Festival. The recorded in a hotel room audio isn't great but the conversation is. We discuss Zethu's two films and of course the last half of Season 4 of Black Sails.
We're (back) on the Road to Infinity War with our Marvel commentary series -- and this week, we discuss the best James Bond/Star Wars/Marvel movie we've ever seen, Black Panther!
This week on Can I Just Say, we discuss Jane Austen's novel, Sense and Sensibility, with Black Sails actress, Louise Barnes... thereby creating possibly the best intersection of beloved stories ever? We discuss the charming Dashwood sisters, the elusive narrator, and our common love of Mrs Jennings.
This week, we grab our cameras and take to the streets to watch the world change in Marvels!
This week, we discuss secret identities, the nexus of Natalie Portman and bringing down the hammer in Mighty Thor Vol. 1: Thunder in her Veins!
This week on Can I Just Say, we discuss episodes 3 and 4 of the 4-part limited series of Howards End with special guest, Ellie Collins, writer and director of The Blood Crow Stories.
This week, we reach the end of the road and discuss great motivations, cosmic action and all the spoilers in Avengers: Infinity War!
We're on the Road to Infinity War with our Marvel commentary series -- and this week, we print pamphlets for the rebellion and enjoy some time with a friend from work in Thor: Ragnarok!
This week, we enroll in superhero school and dive deep into the most tangled corner of Marvel continuity in Wolverine & The X-Men, Vol. 1!
We're on the Road to Infinity War with our Marvel commentary series -- and this week, we crush on Aunt May and try not to engage Instant Kill Mode in Spider-Man: Homecoming!
This week, we learn the basics of the private-eye life and console ourselves with mini-doughnuts in Hawkeye: Kate Bishop Vol. 1: Anchor Points!
This week on Can I Just Say, we discuss episodes 1 and 2 of the 4-part limited series of Howards End. We talk of colors, looking in and out of windows, and being in the world (or not) See our last episode to hear us discuss the EM Forester book, Howards End, and in 2 weeks we will discuss episodes 3 and 4 of the limited series.
We're on the Road to Infinity War with our Marvel commentary series -- and this week we discuss daddy issues and charge up our Zunes in Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2!
This week, we cast the pod cosmic as we discuss the Doctor Who-inflected adventures of Silver Surfer Vol. 1: New Dawn!
We're on the Road to Infinity War with our Marvel commentary series -- and this week we master the arcane arts and American accents with equal ease in Doctor Strange!
This week: clones, claws and cliffhangers! We always heal but we never stop hurting in All-New Wolverine Vol. 1!
We're on the Road to Infinity War with our Marvel commentary series -- and this week, you got your Avengers movie in my Cap movie, and we all love Underoos in Captain America: Civil War!
This week, we unite the witches and the shifters by loving Molly Knox Ostertag's all-ages graphic novel The Witch Boy!
This week on Can I Just Say, we discuss class and gender and art and music and literature and politics and so many things that our heads are full and we also long to see the meadow at Howards End at sunrise with Mrs Wilcox. We cover EM Forster novel this week and will cover the BBC/Starz limited series in the next two episodes.
We're on the Road to Infinity War with our Marvel commentary series -- and this week, size isn't everything and Baskin Robbins don't play in Ant-Man!
We're on the Road to Infinity War with our Marvel commentary series -- and this week, the city is flying and we're fighting an army of robots, and we have bows and arrows. Nothing makes sense in Avengers: Age of Ultron!
We're on the Road to Infinity War with our Marvel commentary series -- and this week, we sing, we dance, we steal things in Guardians Of The Galaxy!
This week on Can I Just Say, we talk Music and Colors and Beauty and Love (kind of) and being swept away.....and also gender politics. We found the Coca Cola Lamour theme right in front of our faces and discussed Satine's very good customer service.
This week, we visit the far-future year of 2016 to talk about tiny cars, abandoned malls and imminent mortality in Paper Girls, Vol. 2!
We're on the Road to Infinity War with our Marvel commentary series -- and this week, get the Cap and Nat road movie the world demanded in Captain America: The Winter Soldier!
This week, we will talk about expensive dinosaurs, bisexual tension and the slowest hack in history in episodes six to ten of Marvel's Runaways!
We're on the Road to Infinity War with our Marvel commentary series -- and this week, we return to Asgard for the MCU/Doctor Who crossover the world demanded in Thor: The Dark World!
This week on Can I Just Say, we go to Fair Verona to discuss Baz Luhrmann's Romeo+Juliet with giant drug-fuled parties, stages, violence, fish tanks, and Liz exposes Daphne's truest aesthetic (hint: it involves Mercutio) This is Part Two of our three part discussion of Baz Luhrmann's Red Curtain Tryptic with Moulin Rouge up next!
This week, we will talk about heroism, identity, building bridges and the wonderful women of Wakanda in Black Panther!
We're on the Road to Infinity War with our Marvel commentary series -- and this week, we get heated about Extremis and WAR MACHINE ROX in Iron Man 3!
We're on the Road to Infinity War with our Marvel commentary series -- and this week, we bring the party to you with The Avengers!
This week, we talk about dinosaurs and domestic drama in the first five episodes of Marvel's Runaways!
This week on Can I Just Say, we chose to celebrate a favorite film - Strictly Ballroom, and found ourselves quite moved. Like a certain awkward girl in glasses, there is so much more to this seemingly simple, lovely romance than we expected once we started talking about it. This is Part One of our three part discussion of Baz Luhrmann's Red Curtain Tryptic with upcoming episodes on Romeo+Juliet and Moulin Rouge.
We're on the Road to Infinity War with our Marvel commentary series -- and this week, take the super soldier serum and plant ourselves like a tree by the river of truth with Captain America!
This week, we fire up our phone-tasers and talk about teen supergeniuses with Nadia Pym, The Unstoppable Wasp Vol. 1: Unstoppable!!
This week on Fathoms Deep, we are lucky enough to have a second visit with Toby Schmitz to discuss Season 4 of Black Sails and the Rat that got the whole Damned Boulangerie.
We're on the Road to Infinity War with our Marvel commentary series -- and this week, we chase Meow-Meow to New Mexico in the beautiful and bombastic Thor!
This week, we share magical-girl adventures with our favorite magical boy in Steven Universe!
This week, we're looking forward to blowing up The World of Tomorrow at the Stark Expo in Iron Man 2!
This week, we dive into the magical mysteries and mysterious magic of Wanda Maximoff in Scarlet Witch Vol. 1: Witches' Road!
In the lead-up to Avengers: Infinity War, we're going to watch all of the MCU movies, and talk all over them -- and this week, we're hungry! And angry! It's The Incredible Hulk!!
This week on Can I Just Say, Elizabeth made Daphne an offer she couldn't refuse.... to watch one of Daphne's all time favorite films, The Godfather. Join us to discuss what is personal, what is business, and a great story of building a world within another world.
This week, we dive into a world of talking cats, moon magic and pretty guardians with the first volume of Naoko Takeuchi's Sailor Moon!
In the lead-up to Avengers: Infinity War, we're going to watch all of the MCU movies, and talk all over them -- and this week, we begin in a cave! With a box of scraps! It's Iron Man!
This week on Fathoms Deep, we discuss both historical and Black Sails versions of Woodes Rogers with Luke Roberts. We establish that Rogers is complex and also absolutely a pirate and give us a minute to adjust our rings nonchalantly while we prove it.
This week, Santa Claus in the Marvel universe, the powerset of Carol Danvers, the right to be called "Cap", and the inexplicable Rocket and Groot: join us for a festive commentary track for Marvel Super Hero Adventures: Frost Fight!
This week on Can I Just Say, Daphne and Lauren take our very special beauty baths, smack down Capt...oops, we mean Leftanants (we are unfamiliar with the somewhat liberal practices of the Navy), and enjoy our turtle soup. We have much to say about episodes 311-313 of Outlander and about Season 3 as a whole.
This week, we make friends and celebrate the excessively kind and gleeful Lumberjanes Vol. 1: Beware The Kitten Holy!
This week, we discuss boxes of kittens, cybernetic Nazis and pamcakes in Hellboy (2004)!
This week, we discuss the first eighteen issues of Brian K. Vaughan's story of teenage angst and justified rebellion, Runaways!
This week on Can I Just Say, we discuss three adaptations of Jane Eyre - the 1996 with Charlotte Gainsbourg, the 2006 with Ruth Wilson, and the 2011 with Mia Wasikowska .... and some ok actors play Rochester as well.
This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end, but it is perhaps the end of the beginning. In this special episode, we discuss the amazing trailer for Infinity War!
My man! This week, we discuss the highs and the lows and asterisks of the long-awaited DC team movie Justice League!
This week on Can I Just Say, Daphne is joined by Lauren Sarner and Barrie Hardymon to discuss Outlander episodes 307-310. And we are not gentlewomen. We can't wait to get back to Lallybroch even though the reception is...... mixed? Then we hit the high seas in some very very familiar ships and learn that the 18th century version of millennials are consistently the best.
This week on Fathoms Deep, Daphne chats with Natasha Simonova, a Fellow and Lecturer in English Literature at Exeter College, University of Oxford. We discuss the books within the story of Black Sails, other books of the period, and the fact that Thomas Hamilton's favorite color was absolutely and undoubtably Blue.
This week, we finish up our listicles, catch up with cult TV, and love the superhero life in Faith Volume 1: Hollywood and Vine!
This week, we are the lords (and lady) of the nine realms as we discuss our new favorite character, Valkyrie (and the rest of Thor: Ragnarok)!
This week on Can I Just Say, Elizabeth and Daphne discuss Charlotte Brontë's gorgeous novel, Jane Eyre. We are all Jane and she is the best of us. In one month we will discuss TV and film adaptations of this story that moves us so.
This week on Fathoms Deep, Daphne chats with Meganne Young about everyone's favorite - Abigail Ashe. We discuss pianos (sorry), pirate culture shock, and how powerful the words 'good' and 'stop' can be. Also, we choose our own Abigail adventures because we miss her!
This week, return to the Burtonverse and fall in love with Catwoman in Batman Returns (1992)!
In our extra-special live finale of Disney Villain Deathmatch, we discuss the Grand Vizier of Agrabah and the King of Pride Rock!
This week, we hooq up with Babs in Gotham's coolest neighborhood in Batgirl Vol. 1: Batgirl of Burnside!
This week on Can I Just Say, Daphne is joined by Lauren Sarner and Barrie Hardymon to discuss Outlander episodes 304-306. We stare into yet another baby carriage while agreeing that Isobel and Lord John are the best. Also, you got this, Roger? Ok. Cool. Because Claire has a taxi and a puddle waiting for her. Oh right, also a Print Shop.
You wanna get nuts? This week, we give a name to our pain as we discuss Batman (1989)!
It’s our last sermi-final round! This week, special guest Lily joins us in this penultimate villain battle. It’s Sleeping Beauty’s Maleficent versus The Lion King’s Scar! Support us on Patreon!
This week, we delve deep into the noir-inflected shadows of Gotham in Batman: The Long Halloween!
This week on Can I just Say, we discuss the woman and the icon that is Cate Blanchett... er, Elizabeth I. We play a Volta, wrinkle our noses at Dukes, and agree that Sir Francis Walsingham is the best.
This week, we microwave our Lobster Thermidor while waiting for The Lego Batman Movie!
This week, it’s two of Disney’s most iconic villains in the gladiatorial arena! Plus, our very VERY special guest, Mr. Alan Beck! Support us on Patreon!
This week, we discuss the Big Blue Boy Scout in Superman For All Seasons by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale!
This week on Can I Just Say, Daphne and Lauren have the first of a series of conversations about Outlander's Third Season, covering episodes 1 through 3. We discuss Lord John Grey! And also bed configurations, cooking configurations, closed-eyed sex, and the (generally unsuccessful) search for home in this part of the story. But its ok because Joe Abernathy and Jenny are both generous with the drinks.