Snark Squad

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"Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" is back for its final season! We watched the first 3 seasons for the podcast and it made us laugh, cry, cringe and sing. We are joined by two special guests this episode, Snark Squad Pod regular Ceri Riley and Snark Lady Democracy Diva.

Find us all on Twitter: Sam: twitter.com/democracydiva Ceri: twitter.com/ceriley Nicole: twitter.com/sweeneysays Marines: twitter.com/mynameismarines twitter.com/snark_squad www.snarksquad.com patreon.com/snarksquad

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charmed reboot - pilot

Mari: Maggie hears a noise, but it turns out to be a puppy!!! But it turns out to be a demon puppy, so she runs away.

Liz: What do you think the Demon Dog’s rating on @WeRateDogs would be? I’d say 666 out of 666.

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After gushing about our love for Avatar: The Last Airbender cartoon last week, this week Ceri Riley joins us again to sort through our issues with the 2010 film adaptation.

Thanks to Stefan Chin for our theme music: www.twitter.com/itsmestefanchin

Find us all on Twitter: Sam: twitter.com/ceriley Nicole: twitter.com/sweeneysays Marines: twitter.com/mynameismarines twitter.com/snark_squad www.snarksquad.com

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This week we are watching our first animated series in an episode that Marines has been excited to make since the beginning of this podcast. We are joined on this chosen one journey by the always thoughtful Ceri Riley.

Thanks to Stefan Chin for our theme music: www.twitter.com/itsmestefanchin

Find us all on Twitter: Sam: twitter.com/ceriley Nicole: twitter.com/sweeneysays Marines: twitter.com/mynameismarines twitter.com/snark_squad www.snarksquad.com

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Nicole & Marines have some strong feelings on anti-hero stories and this week we are joined again by Samantha Lane from Thoughts on Tomes who has her own very strong feelings on the matter. Hear about some of our favorites as well as the kinds of things turn us off from these stories.

Thanks to Stefan Chin for our theme music: www.twitter.com/itsmestefanchin

Find us all on Twitter: Sam: twitter.com/thoughtsontomes Nicole: twitter.com/sweeneysays Marines: twitter.com/mynameismarines twitter.com/snark_squad www.snarksquad.com

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Spies! Badass lady spy! Charlize Theron! This week we are joined by the incredibly delightful Caitlin Hofmeister to discuss 2017's Atomic Blonde.

Thanks to Stefan Chin for our theme music: www.twitter.com/itsmestefanchin

Find us all on Twitter: Caitlin: twitter.com/snarkyfern Nicole: twitter.com/sweeneysays Marines: twitter.com/mynameismarines twitter.com/snark_squad www.snarksquad.com

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In anticipation of the second season of Westworld, we watched the first season of HBO's sci fi mystery. We're joined by our good friend Abi and this conversation escalates from 0 to #deep real fast. As always we have an abundance of feelings.

Thanks to Stefan Chin for our theme music: www.twitter.com/itsmestefanchin

Find us all on Twitter: Abi: twitter.com/abi_jean Nicole: twitter.com/sweeneysays Marines: twitter.com/mynameismarines twitter.com/snark_squad www.snarksquad.com

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While we ride out the long winter waiting for the final season of Game of Thrones, we decided it was finally time to dive into the books. We are joined by Sam (@DemocracyDiva), fellow Game of Thrones recapper and book fangirl. Find out what we all thought of this first installment.

Thanks to Stefan Chin for our theme music: www.twitter.com/itsmestefanchin

Find us all on Twitter: Sam: twitter.com/democracydiva Nicole: twitter.com/sweeneysays Marines: twitter.com/mynameismarines twitter.com/snark_squad www.snarksquad.com

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We're talking about another adaptation this week, though this time time from the comic book world: Marvel's Runaways, the story of a band of teenage superheroes who come together after discovering that their parents are super villains. We are joined again this week by the brilliant Ceri Riley.

Thanks to Stefan Chin for our theme music: www.twitter.com/itsmestefanchin

Find us all on Twitter: Ceri: twitter.com/ceriley Nicole: twitter.com/sweeneysays Marines: twitter.com/mynameismarines twitter.com/snark_squad www.snarksquad.com

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Ava Duvernay's film adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time, starring Storm Reid, was released this weekend. After chatting about the book and adaptations more broadly, this week we are joined by our wonderful friend Megan Toenyes to chat about what worked and didn't work in this movie.

Thanks to Stefan Chin for our theme music: www.twitter.com/itsmestefanchin

Find us all on Twitter: Megan: twitter.com/megan10yes Nicole: twitter.com/sweeneysays Marines: twitter.com/mynameismarines twitter.com/snark_squad www.snarksquad.com

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This week we're joined by Sam of Thoughts on Tomes to talk about what makes adaptations work – and what makes them fall apart. We'll talk about some of our favorites and least favorites as well as what we're looking forward to seeing adapted.

Thanks to Stefan Chin for our theme music: www.twitter.com/itsmestefanchin

Find us all on Twitter: Sam: twitter.com/thoughtsontomes Nicole: twitter.com/sweeneysays Marines: twitter.com/mynameismarines twitter.com/snark_squad www.snarksquad.com

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With the upcoming theatrical release of A Wrinkle in Time, we Snark Ladies decided it was about time to give the 1962 science fantasy novel by Madeleine L'Engle a read. Since we're both coming to it for the first time as adults, we're joined by Chelsea of The Reading Outlaw, who has loved this book since childhood.

Thanks to Stefan Chin for our theme music: www.twitter.com/pilocrates

Find us all on Twitter: Chelsea: twitter.com/anoutlawlife Nicole: twitter.com/sweeneysays Marines: twitter.com/mynameismarines twitter.com/snark_squad www.snarksquad.com

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On the most recent episode of the podcast, we discuss The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel with our dear snarky friend, Sam, or as she's known around the internet, Democracy Diva. We talk about our favorite parts of Amy Sherman-Palladino's Amazon series, our love of Rachel Brosnahan, and our contempt for a certain fuckboy.

Thanks to Stefan Chin for our theme music: www.twitter.com/pilocrates

Find us all on Twitter: Sam: twitter.com/democracydiva Nicole: twitter.com/sweeneysays Marines: twitter.com/mynameismarines twitter.com/snark_squad www.snarksquad.com

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We invited Reel Bad’s Nick Jenkins so he can spend some time chatting about a movie that doesn't suck. We let him pick any movie he wanted and he chose Kathryn Bigelow's 1987 vampire thriller Near Dark. Find out why he chose it and what we thought of it on this week's episode.

Thanks to Stefan Chin for our theme music: www.twitter.com/pilocrates

Find us all on Twitter: Nick: twitter.com/ngjenkins Nicole: twitter.com/sweeneysays Marines: twitter.com/mynameismarines twitter.com/snark_squad www.snarksquad.com

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This week, we're talking about ABC's summer series about psychics, vampires, angels, and more based on novels by Charlaine Harris. We're joined by our good friend Marie Ann Fernandez-Silva to talk about why this one...didn't quite work for us.

Thanks to Stefan Chin for our theme music: www.twitter.com/pilocrates

Find us all on Twitter: Marie Ann: twitter.com/mfdezsilva Nicole: twitter.com/sweeneysays Marines: twitter.com/mynameismarines twitter.com/snark_squad www.snarksquad.com

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Twilight racism

The site “snarksquad” is talking about “Twilight: Breaking dawn” book and it just remember me how bad these books are:

“I just read the next paragraph and had to stop and stare at the wall in rage for two minutes, something that hasn’t happened since I read Captive Prince in 2016. I’m just going to give you the whole thing verbatim because you cannot paraphrase this bullshit:

I was amazed at the easy acceptance the visiting vampires had for Jacob; the problems Edward had anticipated had never materialised. Jacob seemed more or less invisible to them, not quite a person, but also not food, either. They treated him the way people who are not animal-lovers treat the pets of their friends.

I don’t know about you guys, but what I’M getting from that? Is that the super white perfect characters treat the person of colour as invisible, not human, and a pet. WHAT THE FUCK, STEPHENIE MEYER. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU. HOW DO YOU NOT SEE HOW PROBLEMATIC THIS IS JESUS H CHRIST I HATE EVERYTHING.”

link: http://www.snarksquad.com/2018/01/breaking-dawn-chapter-32.html

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One of many examples of why Twilight is the worst. Not enough people talk about how racist it is and how much it appropriates Native culture.

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This week, we're talking about actress Krysten Ritter's debut novel, Bonfire. To join us in this discussion, we invited our friend Rincey, who in addition to having some of the best and most consistent content on BookTube, is a regular contributor on BookRiot and their podcast Read or Dead. We're real lucky to have her and we hope you enjoy us trying to decide how much we liked this book and how much we actually just like Jessica Jones.

Thanks to Stefan Chin for our theme music: www.twitter.com/pilocrates

Find us all on Twitter: Rincey: twitter.com/rinceya Nicole: twitter.com/sweeneysays Marines: twitter.com/mynameismarines twitter.com/snark_squad www.snarksquad.com