Mallory Rubin

you want to do with that.

It's just such like an empowering, an empowering thing.

So it's been really, really, really great to get to spend time with Giles and with this performance.

And God, it's going to be, it's going to be sad to boot up season five.

curb my impulses there if she wants to i have no book knowledge in this case it's it's an interesting experience it's fun to be you know and and i guess if anybody is checking out uh this pod for the first time and didn't hear our gift exchanges you know this to you is a this is a sacred text a big part of your life for a long time the show has been your one of your seminal indeed

You've been there from minute one for the show.

I had not read the books.

I had not seen the show.

And I consumed seasons one and then two subsequent holidays as part of our gift exchange in the annual tradition.

And just loved the show.

I thought it was just sensational.

The writing is like God-tier.

The performances were wonderful.

I really thought both seasons were excellent.

I thought season two was like

spectacularly good.

I still have not read any of the books.

And so I, you know, that is obviously different to how I typically am covering text on this pod.

But I'm kind of looking forward to it a little bit.

Actually, there's something very different about, you know, thinking of the experience exclusively through the lens of what I am consuming inside of each episode.