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Jenny and Ted discuss Prey 14.x. Episode Notes: Taylor picks Skitter’s next target Skitter takes her minion’s loyalty for granted Can Taylor work around the Noelle problem? Would Coil even be threatened if he knew they were turning on him? Taylor has her friends back and Skitter has notoriety The last two arcs have basically been a season of 24 It’s like Skitter’s back from the dead Skitter thinks she’s scary enough that she can bluff… and she’s probably right? Ted wishes for slightly less acceptable targets Bryce sucks but Sierra might be tough to have as an older sister Three girls that…
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S1 · E159 · 2 Oct 2026 · 1 hr 2 min
15.2 - "Rational Bullying"
Jenny and Ted discuss Colony 15.2. Episode Notes: Who's chosen and who's pure, here? Trio trauma The fault in our Undersiders A slightly less easy case for body control A questionable hierarchy of acceptable targets Help us with our portmanteaus, listeners The harem continues, perhaps Regent and Imp have some real personalities to contend with An impreg by any other name... A potential Brian-Genesis collab Parametaphysical speculation Imp is borrowing bits of lots of people's roles right now Raggedy Aisha Undersiders > Othersiders Are the Chosen really more dangerous than Coil right now?…
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S1 · E158 · 29 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 56 min
15.x (bonus) - "Reading Between The Lines"
Jenny and Ted discuss Colony 15.x (bonus). Episode Notes: Jenny’s feeling frustrated Let’s all get mad about… Sarah! Did Carol ever want to be a mom? Amy raped Victoria The vagueness and strangeness somewhat eclipses the awfulness and horror Don’t believe Amy’s lies A mistake so big there have to be consequences The lack of cover-up is striking Amy wanted love but built a sex doll At some point, Amy chose this The way this is written makes it hard to talk about the rape Ted finally starts yelling about Carol Carol abandons Victoria without a second glance “We need to get Grue in here to make…
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S1 · E157 · 25 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 10 min
15.1 - "It's Only Up From Here"
Jenny and Ted discuss Colony 15.1. Episode Notes: The gang's back together! But what about the Unravelers? The problem of Shatterbird and the complication of Alec Optimism might be inaccurate, but pessimism sucks Alec is an oddly good friend The Undersiders have been remade in Taylor's image Actually, Taylor should be even more optimistic than she is A second trigger event for Aisha? The communication difficulty with Bitch goes both ways We're glad Taylor is taking her role in Bitch's life seriously Coil: torturing Bitch deliberately or accidentally? We examine the bitchlings Maybe we should…
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S1 · E156 · 22 Sep 2026 · 2 hr 8 min
15.mailbag - "Leading Her Deeper In"
Jenny and Ted discuss listener questions! Episode Notes: Thanks to everyone who wrote in with questions, and sorry we couldn’t get to all of them! We are gonna try to make this more of a Ted Talk Ted immediately regrets letting Jenny ask him some questions Casting ourselves in Worm: The Musical Jenny reflects on her expectations and Ted sets some new ones A meditation on tropes Does Skitter seem like a supervillain? Willingness to killingness Putting the die in Dinah In this essay, will Jenny see monsters in the hearts of humanity? Only time will tell! Who Goes Nine? By Dorothy Thompson Amy…
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S1 · E155 · 11 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 26 min
14.y - "Cauldron's Pocket"
Jenny and Ted discuss Prey 14.y. Episode Notes: The chapter was dark, but Legend weirdly wasn't Legend had way more illusions about Cauldron than we did Why do the Case 53s get released in the first place? Reasons for stirring the Cauldron Creating a Legend Ah, rationalizations The tragedy of a wasted charge Legend vs. Piggot Taylor was so right about the heroes Gay headcanons There's no es-caping trauma We demand Dragonmaster vs. Cauldron A big thumbs down to Alexandria and Eidolon We see why Legend is legendary Who is motivated to hamper Endbringer preparedness? We ponder condemnation We…
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S1 · E153 · 4 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 15 min
14.11 - "The Shipping Industry Is Dead"
Jenny and Ted discuss Prey 14.11. Episode Notes: Mailbag episode incoming, get your questions in! The most sapphic chapter so far Jenny isn't locked in on a particular Taylor ship yet but we discuss the potential options Taylor-Siberian parallels Taylor and Lisa as bookends Is Lisa a good friend if you aren't Taylor? Brian got kiss-blocked The particular trauma of this miasma for Brian Why kissing, though? Is it because of Taylor's [REDACTED]? Is it queerbaiting? (no) We try to count the remaining Nine Fates worse than death The Nine arguably lost but Jack definitely won Hookwolf, we love to…
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S1 · E152 · 1 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 21 min
14.10 - "Someone To Feel My Pain"
Jenny and Ted discuss Prey 14.10. Episode Notes: An unlikely Undersider tier list Xenia High If this is basically the status quo by the end of the arc… where do things go from here? How fast acting is the cure? What if Alec is the only other one who remembers things? Who exactly escapes with Jack and Bonesaw? Ted raises a mystery that didn’t come up in Jenny’s summary of the chapter Miasma High We don’t really know Marquis well enough yet to know if Jack is right about him Does Jack do any better against Panacea than he did against Skitter? Jack’s talent for exploiting daddy issues Jenny is…
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S1 · E151 · 28 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 7 min
14.9 - "The Temptation Of Skitter"
Jenny and Ted discuss Prey 14.9. Episode Notes: We're really confronting the themes of the work in this arc Jack aaaaalmost manages to stop underestimating Skitter A big L for Jack Twangin’ that bowstring Her key? Stoned. Women and children first for Taylor? Cherish isn't good ~~at manipulation~~, actually Consensus-based decision making among the Undersiders The Skitter-supervillain seesaw Taylor's actually the worst person to try to isolate and defeat like this Regret vs. grief The perils of a narrative that could do anything Coil, buddy. Be more paranoid, and also figure out what gangrene…
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S1 · E150 · 25 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 2 min
14.8 - "Fog With Bad Vibes"
Jenny and Ted discuss Prey 14.8. Episode Notes: A delicious cliffhanger The (tattle-)tell-tale signs of deception that Jenny (bone-)saw Why do they want Cherish? The art of being subtly out of character What are Bonesaw’s favorite tropes? Arc 1 Taylor wasn’t easy prey, either Jack forces the issue Major theme alert When you can’t beat ‘em, plague ‘em Was the water warning a bluff? It’s not like the city has the infrastructure in place to distribute a cure efficiently, even if it’s just Gloracea Do the Unravelers have enough plot armor to get through this? Lonely is as much a Sundancer thing…
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S1 · E149 · 21 Aug 2026 · 52 min
14.7 - "A Snuff Film About Brockton Bay"
Jenny and Ted discuss Prey 14.7. Episode Notes: Why isn't Legend letting the Unravelers play anymore? They say they've killed Crawler... Emily might be good at something after all (But not everything) Legend: honest to a fault Taylor coming full-circle with Legend Mercy killings Legend and the inscrutable plan Swan thoughts Did Jack and Bonesaw know about Siberian before today? The challenges of having a real body Undersider chain of command difficulties Love a good failed plan Lisa would not be a great therapist Hero feelings and actions vs. identity Taylor's hearing is improving!…
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