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French Exits & Love Triangles of Sadness
RECAP/RANT Spoiler For: All of Season 3 There are only a few film/television hills I choose to die on--Tokyo Drift was the best Fast &...
Hannah Pearson
Jan 3, 20234 min read


Precious or Nasty Little Bezos?
Listening to the Gollum and Sméagol on my Shoulders RANT Spoilers For: Nothing These are dark times, beloved existing IPs that we once...
Hannah Pearson
Sep 21, 20222 min read

Televisionally Frustrated
Sitting Down. Tuning In. Not Getting Off. Rant Spoilers For: Nothing Are you tired after a long week of hard work? Do you just want to...
Hannah Pearson
Apr 15, 20223 min read

The Prize for Rotten Judgment: Weaponizing "I'm in Love" for the Bachelor Nation Bedroom
How the Producers Ate Clayton's Emotional Immaturity for Breakfast and Made Us All Hate Declarations of Love on a Love Show RANT/RECAP...
Susannah Powers Stengel
Mar 11, 20225 min read

Ms Couch Potato Head: My 2021 Body of TV
RECAP/RANT/REC SPOILERS FOR: Why I hate the Sex and the City revival and other mini televisual traumas. 2021. The year of "This will be...
Susannah Powers Stengel
Dec 17, 20214 min read

Spanksgiving: Our Great Flit-ish Bake Off
REC/RANT Spoilers For: Our Personal Hopes and Failures Hannah Giving Spanks: If you polled my friends about how many siblings I have...
Hannah Pearson and Susannah Powers Stengel
Dec 2, 20215 min read

The Only Bummer in the Building
"And I'd have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for those meddling kids!" RANT Spoilers For: The Person under the shark mask aka...
Hannah Pearson
Oct 28, 20213 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


I Was Told There’d Be Cake
How Watching Season 4 of Handmaids Tale Left a Bitter Taste in My Mouth. RANT Spoilers For: The whole 13 courses and the lackluster...
Hannah Pearson
Jun 30, 20213 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

Hey Mister DJ, Turn the TV On
How Decision-Fatigue is Making Me Miss Cable RANT? Spoilers For: Nothing When I was seven my family finally got cable. Honestly, I don’t...
Hannah Pearson
May 17, 20214 min read

Sketch Ideas for Elon Musk
Live from New York it’s…. Oh God Please Not Him! RANT Elon Musk is hosting SNL this week and it’s the mother’s day that NO woman wants. I...
Hannah Pearson
May 3, 20212 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

Gazing into the Golden Globes Future
REC / RAVE / RANT Spoilers For: Nothing... unless I really am psychic! So Golden Globes nominations dropped last week and as with every...
Hannah Pearson
Feb 8, 20213 min read

Call Me When it Gets Funny
Call it whatever you want, Fox's new show Call Me Kat, fails to deliver the laughs. RANT Spoilers For: Expectations that the show would...
Hannah Pearson
Jan 25, 20214 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

New TV Year's Resolutions @TellyfishTV
RANT Spoilers For: Nothing. Who know what 2021 will bring!? There is something about the ritual of waiting till the New Year to set goals...
Hannah Pearson and Susannah Powers Stengel
Jan 6, 20213 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

Good Place, Bad Ending: Series Finale Effs the Ineffable
RANT/RECAP Spoilers For: I explore many of the show's ultimate finale failures here. #sorrynotsorry “Damn it Janet. What the fork? I...
Susannah Powers Stengel
Nov 16, 20203 min read
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