episodes

• episode 1: pilot
  • do you enjoy podcasts where good friends discuss bad tv?
  • are you someone who has watched gotham (tv) and has a love-hate relationship with it, or someone who has not watched gotham (tv) and would like to learn some deranged facts?
  • are you intrigued by the idea of a show that can’t decide if it’s a grim police procedural or a campy supervillain romp? a show that combines characters i want to put in the microwave with ideas that make me throw my hands in the air and say HOW DID YOU EVEN THINK OF THAT??
  • have you heard that kirby and i are beautiful geniuses?
  • you may enjoy Jim Gordon Must Die: episode 1
  • this podcast contains discussion of portrayals of police violence, gun violence, and domestic violence, and how they are handled (badly). on a lighter note, it also contains the backstory of how i live-texted kirby all of season 1 of gotham, a show she had not watched, in the immediate lead-up to having a mental breakdown and going on leave from undergrad.
• episode 2: riddler's daughter
  • We discuss S1E2 of Gotham, 'Selina Kyle'. Also we get substantially sidetracked by a DC comics wiki page.
• episode 3: cryptocurrency hater jim gordon

  • We discuss S1E3 of Gotham, 'The Balloonman.' This episode is good, actually.

    Typical content warnings for discussion of fictional police brutality, and then also, I guess, cartoonish murder by weather balloon.

• episode 4: the HR assassin

  • We discuss S1E4 of Gotham, 'Arkham.' Jim Gordon is confronted by the existence of bisexuality.

    Content warnings: brief discussion of death by fire and eye trauma.

• episode 5: load-bearing ethical billionaires

  • We discuss S1E5 of Gotham, 'Viper.' Sarah critiques a terrorist plot. Things are getting extremely weird in the mobster subplot(s).

    Content warnings: discussion of drugs, bad cgi body horror, and (technically??) suicide

• episode 6: peat moss filing

  • We discuss S1E6 of Gotham, 'The Spirit of the Goat.' Both of your hosts are so, so tired for reasons lost to history, but at least b gets jumpscared by a door.

    Content warnings: discussion of fictional gun violence, psych abuse, workplace sexual harassment, vague incest vibes??, and ableism.

• episode 7: tradwife assassin mommy

  • We discuss S1E7 of Gotham, 'Penguin's Umbrella.' It's, like, fine.

    Content warnings: discussion of fictional gun violence, self-harm, and animal dissection (briefly).

• episode 8: we get it, it's psychosexual

  • We discuss S1E8 of Gotham, 'The Mask.' Do y'all remember Birds of Prey? What if we watched Birds of Prey?? Also, a chilling window into a time before the hosts' Armand-centric beatlemania. (Recorded May '24)

    Content warnings: discussion of more fictional violence than usual, animal death, surgery, and bullying.

• episode 9: mr. dent's amazing plan

  • We discuss S1E9 of Gotham, 'Harvey Dent.' The illusion of regular podcast recording is destroyed as the hosts spend 10 minutes complaining about a heat wave. b reveals their venn diagram of 5'6 weirdos. (Recorded June '24)

    Content warnings: discussion of fictional ableism and bombing.

    Additional media discussed: Batman the Animated Series, Interview with the Vampire (season 2), Interview with the Vampire (books), Worm (again), Pennyworth, Person of Interest, Doctor Who, Dublin Murder Squad. We were very easily distracted this week.