Latest Snobbery Podcast Episodes
UBS #82 Caroline Was Right (for now)
Unabashed Book Snobbery - March 23, 2023 16:07 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsJulia, Kylie, Caroline, and Gretchen name their dragons, define antagonists, and wonder if they're secure in trusting House of the Dragon as they discuss the first season in full. Please visit TheFandomentals.com for full show notes. Episode Breakdown 0:00 - Intro 3:15 - The adjective gam...
HotD 1x10 We Did It, Visenya!
Unabashed Book Snobbery - February 17, 2023 02:18 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsJulia, Kylie, Caroline and Bo celebrate Emma D'Arcy stealing the show, while Vhagar fulfills her own Targ destiny in the House of the Dragon season finale, "The Black Queen." Please visit TheFandomentals.com for full episode notes. Episode Breakdown: 0:00 - Intro, asks, recap, and Florid...
HotD 1x09 Rhaenys Flew Over The Coup Coup Nest
Unabashed Book Snobbery - February 09, 2023 02:27 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsJulia, Kylie, and Caroline get out their #girlboss mugs and smash through smallfolk to celebrate the first penultimate season episode for House of the Dragons, 'The Green Council'. Please visit TheFandomentals.com for full show notes. Episode Breakdown: 0:00 - Intro & episode recap 12:05 -...
HotD 1x08 Toastmasters
Unabashed Book Snobbery - January 26, 2023 02:57 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsJulia, Kylie, and Caroline reunite with Musa for an awkward family dinner where they toast the 8th episode of House of the Dragon, "The Lord of the Tides". Musa agrees Targs are boring with the exception of one particular edgelord. Please visit TheFandomentals.com for full show notes. Episode...
HotD 1x07 Miguel Turns Off The Lights
Unabashed Book Snobbery - January 19, 2023 01:56 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsJulia, Kylie, and Caroline strain their eyes to watch House of the Dragon episode 7, 'Driftmark' thanks to Miguel Sapochnik, and begin their own familial strife over Alicent's poo face. Please visit TheFandomentals.com for full show notes. Episode Breakdown: 0:00 - Intro, asks, and recap 12:...
HotD 1x06 The Babe Won't Come
Unabashed Book Snobbery - January 05, 2023 02:10 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsJulia, Kylie, and Caroline are thrust forward in time 10 years where they discuss engorgement, dig up Criston Cole's 4chan posts, and shout "polycule" repeatedly. Please visit TheFandomentals.com for full show notes. Episode Breakdown: 0:00 - Intro & episode recap 7:15 - Rhaenyra takes ...
HotD 1x05 Patriarchy Brains Break
Unabashed Book Snobbery - December 22, 2022 02:36 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsJulia, Kylie, and Caroline celebrate the royal wedding by squeeing through their entire discussion of episode 5 of House of the Dragon, "We Light the Way." Please visit TheFandomentals.com for full show notes. Episode Breakdown: 0:00 - Intro & episode recap 7:00 - UBS corrections 8:45 ...
HotD 1x04 Thematic Parmesan Crisps
Unabashed Book Snobbery - December 15, 2022 02:13 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsJulia, Kylie, and Caroline welcome back Gretchen to chat about sex and sex rats, aka episode 4 of House of the Dragon, "King of the Narrow Sea". Please visit TheFandomentals.com for full show notes. Episode Breakdown: 0:00 - Introduction & episode recap 7:17 -Some kind of chronological ...
HotD 1x03 Dance of the Crabs
Unabashed Book Snobbery - December 08, 2022 01:31 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsJulia, Kylie, and Caroline watch episode 3 "Second of his Name" and get distracted by Mary Bennet and hairnets. This week's Dornish rant is nothing compared to the discussion of symbolic stags and crab dances. Please visit TheFandomentals.com for full show notes. Episode Breakdown: 0:00 - In...
HotD 1x02 Her Hair is Full of Patriarchy
Unabashed Book Snobbery - December 01, 2022 02:13 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsJulia, Kylie, and Caroline continue their viewing of House of the Dragon with its second episode "The Rogue Prince" and crap...are they starting to really enjoy it? Only minor Dornish rants ensue, and we learn why Rhaenys's hair is so big. Please visit TheFandomentals.com for full show notes....
HotD 1x01 - Fine, We'll Watch the Boring Targs
Unabashed Book Snobbery - November 17, 2022 01:40 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsJulia and Kylie reunite with Caroline to cover yet another HBO A Song of Ice and Fire-universe show House of the Dragon...this time with actually nice things to say? In addition to, dare we say it, a degree of dramatic satisfaction. This episode focuses on the series premiere, "The Heirs of the ...
UBS #72 HotD 1x01 Review
Unabashed Book Snobbery - November 17, 2022 01:40 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsJulia and Kylie reunite with Caroline to cover yet another HBO A Song of Ice and Fire-universe show House of the Dragon...this time with actually nice things to say? In addition to, dare we say it, a degree of dramatic satisfaction. This episode focuses on the series premiere, "The Heirs of the ...
UBS #71 Remembering Season 8 Part 2
Unabashed Book Snobbery - March 25, 2020 15:41 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsJulia and Kylie continue their laborious journey back through Season 8, as they recap the final 3 episodes that broke fandom forever. Please visit TheFandomentals.com for full show notes and links. Episode Breakdown 0:00 – Intro from the future! 8:30 – “The Last of the Starks”; 1:03:...
UBS #70 Remembering Season 8 Part 1
Unabashed Book Snobbery - March 19, 2020 13:26 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsBack with a vengeance, Julia and Kylie begin their work revisiting Season 8 with one of their famous high level recaps of the entire season! Analysisishness ensues. Please visit TheFandomentals.com for full show notes. Episode Breakdown: 0:00 - Intro from the future! 8:00 - "Winterfell"; ...
The 4th Primetime Carol Awards - GoT Season 8
Unabashed Book Snobbery - August 14, 2019 01:14 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsKylie, Julia, and Caroline return as MCs for the most prestigious award show in all of television: The Carol Awards! Celebrating the best in dramatic satisfaction, they take you through Game of Thrones Season 8's greatest hits in 40 categories, once more. The full Season 8 Carol Awards Cere...
UBS #68 Season 8 Grab Bag
Unabashed Book Snobbery - June 07, 2019 00:59 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsAfter taking a few weeks to recover, Julia and Kylie are finally ready to talk about Game of Thrones season 8, by clearing out Kylie's ask-box in a very unstructured conversation, as is fitting. Due to the grab-bag nature of this episode, a proper "breakdown" was not possible. Please visit T...
8x06 "The Iron Throne" UBS Review
Unabashed Book Snobbery - May 22, 2019 02:35 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsJulia, Kylie, and Caroline, are joined by Gretchen for the FINAL EPISODE EVER of Game of Thrones. They discuss the dramatic satisfaction that obviously ensued, as well as a pesky little thing that begins with 's' and ends with 'ism'. Please visit TheFandomentals.com for full show notes. Episode...
8x05 "The Bells" UBS Review
Unabashed Book Snobbery - May 15, 2019 03:15 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsJulia, Kylie, and Caroline, welcome Blaire to their bell choir, which is deeply significant to all involved. Topics include whether this is the worst episode to date, the reemergence of Carol, and Harry Strickland's horse. Due to yet another epic battle episode on the show, this episode does ...
8x04 "The Last of the Starks" UBS Review
Unabashed Book Snobbery - May 08, 2019 03:22 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsJulia, Kylie, and Caroline, welcome Jana back to the feed, to chat about the set-up for Game of Thrones's final theater. It is...not looking promising. Please visit TheFandomentals.com for full episode notes. Episode Breakdown: 0:00 - Intro & recap; 10:15 - Mad Queen Dany & her boyfriend; ...
8x03 "The Long Night" UBS Review
Unabashed Book Snobbery - May 01, 2019 02:53 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsJulia, Kylie, and Caroline, are joined by fellow book-snob Musa to discuss one very long nighttime fight. It shouldn't need more emphasis than that, right? Please visit TheFandomentals.com for related posts and the CAROL board. This week, we are episode break-down-less, as there's really no use...
8x02 "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" UBS Review
Unabashed Book Snobbery - April 24, 2019 03:05 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsJulia, Kylie, and Caroline, put Danzie on trial. That's what the cool kids are calling conversations these days, right? Then they wheel-spin even longer than the show's wheel-spinning in the newest episode "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms." Please visit TheFandomentals.com for full episode not...
8x01 "Winterfell" UBS Review
Unabashed Book Snobbery - April 17, 2019 02:12 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsJulia and Kylie welcome back Caroline, because the final season of Game of Thrones is here! Join them as they discuss Dave Hill's "Winterfell," catty women, casual dragon riding, and of course elephants. Please visit TheFandomentals.com for full episode notes and the CAROL board. Episode Breakd...
UBS #61 Season 4 Rewatch
Unabashed Book Snobbery - March 20, 2019 12:30 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsJulia and Kylie are joined by Caroline and Jana for yet another overly litigious episode. Having just completed The Wars to Come rewatch project, the four chat about Game of Thrones season 4, spooky skeletons, thunderstorms, and cough drops. Please visit TheFandomentals.com for full show notes. ...
UBS #60 Season 7 Odds and Ends Part 2
Unabashed Book Snobbery - February 06, 2019 03:45 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsJulia and Kylie close out their Season 7 retrospective series with yet another conversation about the geographically scattered plots of the year. Part 2 features all Ironborn and one Redwyne. Please visit TheFandomentals.com for full show notes. Episode Breakdown: 0:00 - Intro & Theon's ar...
UBS #59 Season 7 Odds and Ends Part 1
Unabashed Book Snobbery - January 21, 2019 03:55 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsJulia and Kylie jump around in time to bring you their conversation of the many scattered plots of Game of Thrones Season 7 that ended up comprising their final retrospective. Here in Part 1, they discuss Dorne, Sam, Jorah, Sandor, and the Brotherhood without Banners. Please visit TheFandomenta...
UBS #58 Season 3 Rewatch
Unabashed Book Snobbery - December 18, 2018 03:47 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsJulia and Kylie are joined by their season-commenter Caroline, and welcome Bo back! Today’s topic: Season 3 insights from participating in the Fandomentals GoT rewatch project: The Wars to Come. Please visit TheFandomentals.com for full episode notes. Episode Breakdown; 0:00 - Season impres...
UBS 57 Dragonstone S7 Retrospective Part 2
Unabashed Book Snobbery - October 22, 2018 02:32 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsJulia and Kylie finish their discussion of Game of Thrones Season 7's main plotline, with its knotty politics and breathtaking romance. Then they figure it all out. Please visit TheFandomentals.com for full show notes. Episode Breakdown: 0:00 - Intro from the future; 5:30 - Fandom nicknam...
UBS #56 Dragonstone S7 Retrospective Part 1
Unabashed Book Snobbery - October 06, 2018 03:03 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsJulia and Kylie discuss the main plotline of Game of Thrones Season 7, involving two or three love triangles, two or three trips right past the North, and only one abandoned island. Please visit TheFandomentals.com for full show notes. Episode Breakdown: 0:00 - Intro, nicknames, & 'Dragonston...
UBS #55 Season 2 Rewatch
Unabashed Book Snobbery - October 02, 2018 01:41 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsJulia and Kylie welcome back season-commenter Caroline, and welcome for the first time Danzie! Today's topic: Season 2 insights, after having participated in the Fandomentals GoT rewatch project: The Wars to Come. Turns out Season 2 has been on theme this whole time! Please visit TheFandomental...
UBS #54 Season 1 Rewatch
Unabashed Book Snobbery - July 17, 2018 02:36 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsJulia and Kylie welcome snobby book fans Caroline and Jana to discuss Season 1 as a whole after participating in the GoT rewatch project: The Wars to Come. This is objectively the best season, so everyone's happy, right? Right? This is what happiness feels like! Please visit TheFandomentals.com ...