A book podcast (and sometimes movie) about literary and character analysis. With over a decade of "you have to read this," Alex and Lindsey finally pull up a chair for you. One book per episode, taken apart in full spoiler detail: themes, character motivation, structure, cry count, and rating.
New episodes every other week.
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke — Locked From the Inside
Natalie is a tradwife influencer with a farm called Yesteryear, an audience across America, and a hired staff quietly doing the work she's filmed doing. Then she wakes up with no electricity, no plumbing, and a husband and children who seem wrong. Full spoilers throughout, including the twist. Content note: child abuse and sexual assault.
Alex and Lindsey get into Natalie as a woman who refuses, over and over, to learn the one thing the book keeps trying to teach her, and they disagree about whether she ever actually believed the faith she used to justify it. They work through the cost of an ideology that tells you not to trust your own gut, the tradwife boom as a response to an economy that makes real choice expensive, and what patriarchy does to Caleb, a man who might have made a good kindergarten teacher if anyone had let him.
Plus whether Natalie deserves pity, why the ending is really the beginning of someone else's story, and a surprise phone call from Alex's dad; who has strong opinions despite not having read the book.
Cry count and ratings at the end.
14 Sept 2026
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides — One of the Lucky Ones
Alicia Berenson shot her husband five times and has not spoken since. Theo Faber is the psychotherapist who takes a job at her secure unit specifically to treat her. Full spoilers throughout, including the twist. Content note: suicide.
Alex and Lindsey get into Theo as a narrator you're set up to trust and shouldn't, and the gap between being fluent in therapy language and having actually done the work. They track the chance his own therapist offers him to break the pattern, and what he does with it instead. Plus the book's central question, whether anyone is born evil or whether that's just a more comfortable story than admitting you made choices, and why Theo's answer changes by the end.
They also compare notes on when each of them clocked the twist, which turns out to be two different wrong theories arriving at roughly the right suspicion.
Also: how much sympathy Alicia deserves as the person all of this happened to, what the snow is doing at the end, and the difference between putting a coping mechanism down and quietly swapping it for another one.
Cry count and ratings at the end.
31 Aug 2026
The Seven-Year Slip by Ashley Poston — Me With More
Clementine is twenty-nine, a book publicist in New York, six months into grieving the aunt who left her an apartment. The apartment occasionally deposits her seven years in the past, where a man is subletting for the summer. Full spoilers throughout. Content note: suicide.
Alex and Lindsey get into what the book argues about change: that loving someone means falling for them again as they become new people, and that refusing to let someone change is its own denial of the future. They work through the aunt as the cautionary version of the same story, a woman who kept moving so nothing could ever sour, and try to untangle whose timeline is ahead of whose, which turns out to be genuinely hard to hold in your head. Plus a defense of romance as a genre that does more with personal growth than it gets credit for.
Then it gets personal. Coming up on eight years married, they ask whether they'd date each other's seven-years-ago selves. Neither answer is yes.
Also: a pronunciation crisis over the male lead's name, two pigeons with an unprintable one, and the discovery that the book's cover matches this podcast's colors.
Cry count and ratings at the end.
17 Aug 2026
Morning Star by Pierce Brown — Winning is Easy (Red Rising #3)
Darrow has spent nine months in a box. Morning Star picks up there and closes out the Red Rising trilogy. Full spoilers throughout, including the ending, plus Hunger Games spoilers in the final segment.
Alex and Lindsey argue that this is actually Sevro's book rather than Darrow's, and trace him from imitating his father and Darrow to the moment he stops performing and does something real. They get into a death that lands far earlier than either of them was ready for, whether the Jackal was ever redeemable or simply committed to his own victimhood, and Darrow's late reckoning with who Eo actually was: brave, reckless, and gone before she had to live with what she started. Plus the compromises Darrow makes here that are harder to defend than anything he's done before.
Then the question the trilogy leaves open. Taking the throne turns out to be the easy part, and there are four more books about what comes next.
Also: a listener question comparing this to The Hunger Games, one meme that yanked someone clean out of the book, and the cover art making sense.
Cry count and ratings at the end.
3 Aug 2026
The Odyssey directed by Christopher Nolan — At What Cost?
Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, seen on 70mm in a sold-out theater. Full spoilers throughout. Neither of them has read the poem all the way through, so this is about Nolan's retelling rather than Homer.
Alex and Lindsey get into the Trojan Horse as a violation of the one rule nobody broke, that a stranger at your door might be a god in disguise, and what happens to a society after that pact is gone. They make the case that this is a pointed follow-up to Oppenheimer, another story about a weapon that can't be un-invented, and argue about whether the modern equivalent is the phone in your pocket.
Also: Anne Hathaway and Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson doing the thing Odysseus gets songs written about, and a theater that applauded at the end.
Cry count and ratings at the end.
20 Jul 2026
Invited to Consider: Theo of Golden
A review of Theo of Golden by Allen Levi.
6 Jul 2026
Live for More: Golden Son
A review of Golden Son by Pierce Brown.
22 Jun 2026
Comfortable Cages: Strangers—A Memoir of Marriage
A review of Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden.
8 Jun 2026
Devil in the Details: The Invisible Life of Addie Larue
A review of The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by VE Schwab.
25 May 2026
Power in Suffering: Red Rising
A review of Red Rising written by Pierce Brown.
11 May 2026
First Time Living: The Correspondent
A review of The Correspondent by Virginia Evans.
27 Apr 2026
Seldom Correct: Emma
A review of Jane Austen's Emma.
13 Apr 2026
Farm Adjacent: Broken Country
A review and discussion on Broken Country, written by Claire Leslie Hall.
29 Mar 2026
Anthropomorphizing a Rock: Project Hail Mary
A review of Project Hail Mary, the movie, starring Ryan Gosling, directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller. We also talk about the book which was written by Andy Weir.
28 Mar 2026
Know Your Enemy: Sunrise On the Reaping
A review of Suzanne Collin's Sunrise On the Reaping.
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