The Backwards Bechdel Chokehold
The Lurid Family
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Pieces of Sylvia's Body
The Lurid Family
Your intrepid recappers return! Jules has performed a great sacrifice for all of us, by reading Whitefern, the revolting "sequel" to the V.C. Andrews masterwork of southern gothic horror, My Sweet Audrina. Though the book nearly destroyed her health and her sanity, Jules persisted. Much like Dawn, this is basically a celebration of misogyny, objectification, and at the end of the day, it's another book about boobs.
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17 The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring
The Lurid Family
It's time for Flowers in the Attic, Buttercups.
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16 - Did You Miss Me
The Lurid Family
Did You Miss Me? -
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15. We Have Always Lived in the Attic
The Lurid Family
In which Rachel experiences a spike in ADHD, defying Jules’ attempts to get her to just start the recap already. Eventually your intrepid hosts just lean into the mood, and wander down memory lane to discuss the past, present, and future of The Lurid Family.
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14. The Absence of Jillian
The Lurid Family
In which your not particularly humble recappers planned to get us all the way to Winterhaven, but were hijacked! By a handsome wolf in a bespoke suit, the rare man with magic hair, who's quest to dominate and control his environment reached right out of the text and grabbed us! Is it because he is a Time Magician? No! He didn't even need to use magic to pull us into his Toy Kingdom. We are talking about Anthony Townsend Tatterton, King of the Toymakers? Dangerous predator? Secretly vulnerable soft touch who
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13. Isn't It Necromantic?
The Lurid Family
It's a round-table! Hooray!
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12. Failing The Bechdel Test - A Tribute to Troy
The Lurid Family
OK, we actually did end up passing the Bechdel-Watson test because we both have names and at least SOME of this episode isn’t 100% devoted to the Best Boyfriend in Literature, the one, the only, Troy Langdon Tatterton. Take a note, ghostwriter, his middle name is not “Landon”, please at least pretend to care about these things.
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11. Of Late, I Think of Farthy
The Lurid Family
We are through the looking glass, Zolta Nation! That's right, it's Dark Angel time. Join us as we introduce Jillian and Tony Tatterton, and just as importantly, Farthinggale Manor. Home at last, like we never said goodbye, we think, like another orphan from American literature, we're gonna like it here.
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10B. Heaven Doesn't Live Here Anymore: The End of the 1st Casteel book, by V.C. Andrews
The Lurid Family
Listeners, we have reached the end of the first book of the Casteel. Join us as our heroine takes us full circle back to the Willies. Logan is back and as horrible as we told you he'd be, rivaling Cal for the title of grossest fake nice guy. Fanny is there and she has a bombshell to drop! Also, Rachel delves into her obsession with the Babysitter's Club Club podcast, and speculates that the BSC universe is the missing piece of an Andrews Universe puzzle and *dun dun dun* vice versa. Raise a glass to V.C. An
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