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The Last Kingdom With Mary & Blake: Episode 5.01 (SEASON 5 PREMIRE)

The Last Kingdom Hosts Mary & Blake chat about The Last Kingdom Season 5 Pemiere – Episode 5.01

We discuss the value of building out the emotional connection of your story world, if Brida is redeemable, and why Finan and Sigtryggyr would totally have a secret handshake…

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The MCU Diaries: LOKI: 1.01 – Glorious Purpose (SEASON 1 PREMIERE)

The MCU Diaries Host Blake Larsen chats the LOKI season 1 premiere: episode 1.01 – Glorious Purpose.

Blake discusses the exquisite use of exposition to break down character, how the show uses striking visuals and action to highlight the exposition, and why that leads to such an incredible emotional payoff by episode’s end…

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Loki: Episode 1.01 “Glorious Purpose” | Deconstructing Character Through Exposition

Loki episode 1.01 “Glorious Purpose” is a perfect entry into this series and serves as a flawless deconstruction of a character we thought we knew to a tee via a simple writing tool: exposition and payoff. 

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The Handmaid’s Tale: Pigs – Episode 4.01 (Season 4 Premiere) | Boy, That Escalated Quickly

Let’s chat The Handmaid’s Tale season 4 premiere, episode 4.01 – “Pigs”.  A story that wants to explore the differences (an occasional similarities) between justice and revenge.

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The MCU Diaries: The Falcon And The Winter Soldier: 1.01 – New World Order (PREMIERE)

The MCU Diaries Host Blake Larsen chats the season 1 premiere of The Falcon And The Winter Solider — episode 1.01″New World Order”.

Blake discusses how TFWTS echoes previous MCU films, our characters defining their purpose in new world, excellent direction in the therapy session, and why the episode begins and ends with “Captain America”…

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The Falcon And The Winter Soldier: Episode 1.01 “New World Order” | This Old World Is A New World

The Falcon And The Winter Solider episode 1.01 “New World Order” is certainly more conventionally Marvel than WandaVision, but it also reminds us that convention is what defines an old world struggling to become a new world. 

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Bridgerton With Mary & Blake: Diamond Of The First Water (SEASON 1 PREMIERE)

Bridgerton Hosts Mary & Blake discuss the season 1 premiere of Bridgerton – Diamond Of The First Water

We chat why the show doesn’t apologize for what it is, the brief history of Shonda Rhimes and Netflix, and why Blake cannot remember poor Eloise’s name…

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Keep Calm And Crown On: Gold Stick (SEASON 1 PREMIERE) | #NERDCLAN Preview

Keep Calm And Crown On Hosts Mary & Blake chat the season 4 premiere of The Crown – episode 4.01, “Gold Stick”.

We discuss a little history about The Troubles and the IRA, the star of show being Josh O’ Connor, and incredible direction with Tobias Menzies…

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This Is Us Too: 5.01 + 5.02 – “Forty: Parts One And Two” | SEASON 5 PREMIERE)

This Is Us Too Hosts Mary & Blake chat about the This Is Us season 5 premiere – episodes 5.01 and 5.02  – “Forty: Parts One and Two”.

Blake remembers back to what it was like when he heard “Hanks got he Rona”, we discuss the guts to tackle tough subjects but how it’s harder to root that choice in character,  and why Mary agrees he should be called “Meh”guel from now on…

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The Potterverse: Premiere (An Intro To Us & Our Harry Potter Experience)

    The Potterverse Hosts Mary & Blake are pleased to introduce our first episode of The Potterverse – a podcast dedicated to exploring the entire Harry Potter Universe! We discuss our favorite films, books, characters, best moments, worst moments, and why, when you really sit down and think about it hard, the series probably…

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