Mary & Blake’s Blog

This will be the spot for the latest news that’s happening in our network, our crazy personal lives, our thoughts on shows and movies that were are not podcasting about, sports, music, and pretty much anything that you would like us to discuss!

Battle of the Brothers: Brotherly love in Outlander episode 212

Leon Tolstoy wrote famously in Anna Karenina “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” We saw this in spades in the Outlander season 2 episode, “The Hail...

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[Relatively] LIVE Blog: Episode 2.12 – “The Hail Mary”

Do you find yourself obsessively gabbing on about Outlander to your friends and family? Wishing your Saturday nights included a living room full of people with whom to watch, discuss, comment,...

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What happened to the sex in Outlander season two?

We all knew when we started Season 2 of Outlander that eventually we would have to face #Droughtlander — that long interminable break while Ron D. Moore et al...

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Shouldn’t We Tell Stories Realistically?

Written by: Emem Uko Nothing is good about rape. It leaves victims in horrible psychological states. Even when the outward effects, such as bruises are healed, inwardly, only the...

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Episode 2.11 Re-Cap – “Vengeance is Mine” – Living on a Prayer, Sweet Revenge and Gabaldon’s Triumph

Written by: Anne Gavin What I really want to know after viewing Episode 2.11 – “Is there anything that Diana Gabaldon CAN’T do?”  Lots of good stuff in this...

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Laoghaire’s “Pious” Persistence

Written by: Anne Hawkinson Wow. I thought I’d seen the last of Laoghaire, that trouble-making, scheming, two-faced —–. Good riddance, and all that. You get my drift. Yet, here...

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