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Only Weirdos in the Building
REC Spoilers For: Dead Bodies, Red Herrings, and Theories Episodes 1-4. MEET MEETS: Murder, She Wrote MEETS "My Favorite Murder"...
Susannah Powers Stengel
Sep 10, 20212 min read


Brand New Cherry Flavor: Hex, Eyes, and Videotape
RAVE/RANKING Spoilers For: Some Small Episodic Details for Ep. One and Two, but I keep my overall flavor pretty pure. What would you do...
Susannah Powers Stengel
Aug 27, 20213 min read


Love is Blind, Deaf, & Fun
Blind Date Matchmaker Spills Tea on Love is Blind: After the Altar RECAP Spoilers For: Love is Blind: After the Altar and Love is Blind...
Susannah Powers Stengel
Aug 11, 20217 min read


Schmigado It!
RAVE/RANKING Spoilers For: The First Three Episodes of Schmigadoon Apple TV+ continues its siren song on your wallet, imploring you to...
Susannah Powers Stengel
Jul 30, 20214 min read

Ginny & Georgia & Taylor Swift
& TV That Refuses to Shake It Off RECAP/RANTING RANKING Spoilers For: Ginny and Georgia Season One Ah, the reckless pleasure of angst....
Susannah Powers Stengel
Jul 12, 20214 min read


Zaddy's Home: Ranking TV Daddies
RANKING/RANT Spoilers For: Dad Stuff ZADDY: a sexually appealing man, in particular an older individual, who possesses vitality or...
Susannah Powers Stengel
Jun 22, 20213 min read

An Immodest Broposal
RECAP - CATCH OF THE SERIES Spoilers For: Season 3 Workaholics, but I think you'll forgive me. I just finished a "Let's Get Weird" full...
Susannah Powers Stengel
Jun 7, 20215 min read


Tellyfishing for Yourself
For a Turnt-Ass Summer of Small Screen Self-Discovery RECAP/RAVE Spoilers For: Why I'm Still Working on My Night Cheese. Paging Dr. Tell...
Susannah Powers Stengel
May 24, 20213 min read

Why Invincible Slaps Harder
RAVE/REC Spoilers For: Daddy and Lady Drama. Fathoms-Deep Trauma Fells Fake Tension! Women Empower Their Own Autonomy! Super Stakes Save...
Susannah Powers Stengel
May 10, 20214 min read


The Todd Man Out: Ranking My Top TV Todds
RANKING Spoilers for: Many Todd duck storylines. Want to feel awkward? Want to threaten your own masculinity? Call a Todd. If you name...
Susannah Powers Stengel
Apr 26, 20214 min read


Let's Get High Maintenance
High praise after watching most of High Maintenance. I have the feelings. RAVE/REC Spoilers For: One-puff plot lines in Seasons 1 and 2...
Susannah Powers Stengel
Apr 12, 20215 min read

Bring Out Your Dead! Hopeless Necromantic TV
REC/RANT/RAVE Spoilers For: We keep it pure this Easter. A dolorous bell tolls. Your show has tagged out its final beat. A hollow void of...
Hannah Pearson and Susannah Powers Stengel
Apr 5, 20215 min read

Rec-ipe for #Blackchelor Nation: Jerk Chicken Anticlimax Enchiladas
REC Spoilers For: I spoil the ending. Just call me Reality Steve, baby!! Can The (Bachelor) Nation Ever Stomach a Self-Critique?...
Susannah Powers Stengel
Mar 15, 20213 min read

My Favorite TV Masochists: Inner Saboteur de jour
RANKING RuPaul calls it your “inner saboteur”—the perennial voice of perfectionism and self-doubt that seduces you to become the worst...
Susannah Powers Stengel
Mar 8, 20212 min read

Black TV Herstory Makers
RAVE/REC Spoilers For: Nothing. Sip on this greatness. Celebrating the stories that gut you with a collaborative list of creators who...
Hannah Pearson and Susannah Powers Stengel
Feb 22, 20215 min read

When I’m Caught Up, You'll Know: Rec-ipe for a Sweet & Salty Friendcap
Shared TV as Visceral Pleasure Bonding From Afar Spoilers For: Season 4 of Insecure, Tayshia Adams’ season of The Bachelorette,...
Susannah Powers Stengel
Feb 2, 20213 min read


Three Cheers for Queers . . . It’s RuPaul’s Triple Premiere!
RECAP/RANT/RAVE JUST HOW FRESH WAS YOUR SERVING OF PORK CHOP? Spoilers For: The First Three Episodes of Season 13 Were you gagged? Utica...
Jordan Wilkerson and Susannah Stengel
Jan 18, 20215 min read

My 12 Plays of Christmas: A Romantic TV Sleigh Ride with My Parents
RECAP/RANT/RAVE Spoilers For: The long-gone innocence of my youth and for The Bachelorette December 2020. ‘Twas the 12 family-bonding...
Susannah Powers Stengel
Dec 28, 20203 min read

Our 25 Yuletide Yearnings Christmas Wish List to Santa
RANKING Spoiler For: Season 4 of Insecure Dear Santa, We know you watch TV. It’s great bonding for you and the Mrs. What else do you do...
Hannah Pearson and Susannah Powers Stengel
Dec 21, 20203 min read

Big Mouth Season 4 Makes Fun of Your Childhood Trauma
The Dark Animated Puberty Comedy Slaps Anew with a Magical Mix of Masturbation, Periods, Anxiety, Depression, & Hand Stuff RECAP Spoilers...
Susannah Powers Stengel
Dec 7, 20203 min read
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