We rolled right from our perfect Friday night, wherein we shared a large bucket of popcorn equitably and respectfully, straight to Joop Studio on Sunday— stopping only for a Saturday screening of seminal Halloween film Spooky Buddies. The fruits of our weekend labor? An episode where we discuss the above, the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s Verity, Jen Beagin’s Big Swiss, The Haunting of Hill House, Katherine Center’s The Shippers (kinda), and Rebecca Yarros’ Threshing Day. Enjoy, piggies!

Did you know about the word cunny? That’s just one of the amazing details in Ryan Murphy’s latest Monster series about Lizzie Borden. We dig into that this week, as well as Brett Goldstein’s All of You and Primetime. Finally, we discuss the new adaptation of The Love Hypothesis and we’re sorry to report that we liked it. You see how this looks, right?

You’ve caught us at a rare moment when Claire is neither waiting for her hot plate to heat nor giving in to the temptation to poke the water damage on her ceiling. Also at a special time in her life? Lizzy McAlpine (26). We discuss this and steak suppers, DTF St. Louis, Elspeth, and R.F. Kuang’s Katabasis. Finally, for our writing exercise, we went to a talk between multi-hyphenates David Duchovny and Gina Gershon and got a lesson in horniness from the crowd.