WE’RE BACK! Hello! This episode is about the wedding that wasn’t, and Lydia and Tay are annoyed. We recap & discuss Bridgerton s2, e6, "The Choice."Lydia’s recs:Watching: How to Build a Sex Room, House of the Dragon, and Rings o...

Lydia and Taylor are back, with a meandering and impassioned discussion of Season 2, Episode 5 of Bridgerton, An Unthinkable Fate.Lydia’s recs:  I haven’t been reading much the last several weeks…but I have been watching Kenobi and...

Lydia and Tay discuss s2, e4 of Bridgerton. Surprises, schemes, and double standards abound. We’ll be back in 2 weeks with episode 5.Our reccs:Lydia- EK Johnson’s Padme series, Moon KnightTay- Vita & Virgini...

Grab the Mallet of Death, listeners, because Bridgerton Pall Mall is finally happening! Lydia and Tay recap and discuss season 2, episode 3 of Bridgerton. Rants ensue.Our reccs:Tay: Maggie Osborn’s A Stranger’s Wife

Lydia and Tay recap and discuss season 2, episode 2 of Bridgerton. We go on at least three rants and detour into Austen, Newsies, Lord of the Rings, and My Fair Lady. Join us in celebrating poetry month this April by insulting Byron in true Bri...

Lydia and Tay recap & discuss episode 1, season 2, of Bridgerton. The Pride & Prejudice vibes are real, folks!What we're reading/watching:Both: Starstruck, a rom com series in the vein of Notting Hill, Our Flag Means ...

...and so are we! Lydia and Taylor return from an extended hiatus to discuss the upcoming Bridgerton season 2.Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYNCws-a6CQNetflix vide...

Lydia and Tay jump into gender roles and the logic of dominance among changelings with our discussion of Nalini Singh’s Branded by Fire. Mercy worries she’ll never find a mate as a dominant female and Riley thinks he wants a submissive...

Book 6 of the Psy-Changeling series starts with a bang, and Lydia is HERE FOR IT! Tay and Lydia recap Branded by Fire and add to our series playlist.We’re back again in 2 weeks with our deep-dive discussion of this book...

Lydia and Tay dive into themes of Hostage to Pleasure, book 5 of Nalini Singh’s Psy-Changeling series. Is Dorian a Mary Sue, and do we care? We get into a somewhat heavy discussion around women’s bodily autonomy, because sci fi is RELE...

Lydia and Tay recap Hostage to Pleasure, book 5 of Nalini Singh’s Psy-Changeling series. The Psy Council is stupid, Dorian is frequently shirtless, and high stakes shenanigans ensue. This one is a LOT less dark, and it has some of our ...

Lydia and Tay discuss Mine to Possess, book 4 of Nalini Singh’s Psy-Changeling series. Featuring morality in sci-fi and romance (with the usual shout outs to Captain America and Anakin Skywalker), plus vampires and zombies (you're welc...

Lydia and Tay recap book 4 of Nalini Singh’s Psy-Changeling series, Mine to Possess. Oof, we are really down on this one. *CW for child abuse. The whole plot and character backstory is child abuse. We won’t go into a ton...

Lydia and Tay talk about our love of sci-fi metaphors, and the main themes of Caressed by Ice, the third book in Nalini Singh’s paranormal romance series, Psy-Changeling. Romance novels ask some of the big questions, folks, am...

Lydia and Tay finish recapping book three of Nalini Singh’s Psy-Changeling series, Caressed by Ice. It’s still pretty dark stuff, but we’ve got you covered with pop culture references, from Scooby Doo to High School Musical (a...

Lydia and Tay recap the first 20 chapters of the third book in Nalini Singh’s Psy-Changeling series, Caressed by Ice, because we get... really... in depth. We agree that Judd and Brenna are TOTALLY Oliver and Felicity from

Lydia and Tay discuss ableism and whether Vaughn uses his cave mirrors like Brendan Fraser’s character in The Mummy. In this discussion of book 2 of Nalini Singh’s Psy-Changeling series, Visions of Heat, we decide that Faith is Rapunze...

Lydia and Tay recap book 2 of Nalini Singh’s Psy-Changeling series, Visions of Heat. Man buns, fated mates, high stakes, Council treachery and erotic mind readings abound.We’re back in 2 weeks with part 2, our deeper analysis in...

Lydia and Tay get deep, dark, & dangerous with our analysis of themes in Nalini Singh's Slave to Sensation, book one of the Psy-Changeling paranormal romance series. We talk dreams, Silence, skin privileges, Pirates of th...

Two enemies- one secret badass and one overt badass- meet and fall in love while catching a serial killer! Slave to Sensation, the first book in Nalini Singh’s Psy-Changeling series is packed full of psychic powers, leopards, magic sex...

Lydia and Tay are back, with a new direction for the pod: our foray into Nalini Singh’s Psy-Changeling series! We talk paranormal romance, the Psy-Changeling world, Val Kilmer, Anthony Bridgerton as a wolf shifter, gender, Alpha males, metaphor...

SPOILER ALERT! This episode contains spoilers for all of the Bridgerton books and their second epilogues. Lydia and Tay revisit our rankings of the books and wrap up Bridgertons until season 2. We’re going on hiatus for two months, ...

We’ve reached Peak Daphne, listeners. Lydia and Tay chat about adaptation, romance, and Lord of the Rings in the 8th & final episode of season 1 of Netflix’s Bridgerton, “After the Rain.” We’re already excit...

Lydia and Tay chat about the largely filler episode 7 of Netflix’s Bridgerton, “Oceans Apart.” We discuss adaptation and fallout from the last episode, and conclude that:Women face the consequencesEverybody is angr...

Tay and Lydia take on episode 6, “Swish,” of Netflix and Shondaland’s "Bridgerton." Lydia mulls over which piece of music fits the honeymoon episode better, “It Wasn’t Me” by Shaggy or Taylor Swift’s “Wildest Dreams” arranged and performed by D...