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Glee on the Rocks: 5x17 - “Funny Girl, Serious Delusions”

This week on Glee, Rachel Berry finally makes it to Broadway — and naturally, everyone else is forced to treat it like the moon landing. In 5x17, “Opening Night,” Rachel spirals over bad buzz and opening-night nerves, Sue takes a deeply unnecessary field trip to New York, Kurt’s loft becomes a site of multiple crimes, and Will Schuester pops in just long enough to cry and leave. It’s Rachel’s big moment, and Glee makes sure absolutely no one gets out alive.This episode we break down:🎭 Rachel Berry’s opening-night ego spiral📰 One bad preview and suddenly it’s DEFCON 1🗽 Sue Sylvester’s cursed New York adventureIs the episode a little self-indulgent? Of course. Is it also one of season 5’s more entertaining messes? Honestly, yes.We wouldn't want Glee any other way.xoxo,FotR

Glee on the Rocks: 5x16 – “Cronuts, Chlamydia & Relationship Crimes”

This week on Glee, everyone gets tested — emotionally, medically, and our patience. In 5x16, “Tested,” Blaine spirals over a cronut-based body image crisis, Kurt enters his gym bro villain era, Artie discovers that sleeping with everyone at film school has consequences, and Sam Evans somehow becomes the only functioning adult in New York City. Yes. Sam Evans. Bless him.This episode we break down:🥐 Blaine vs. the Cronut Industrial Complex💪 Kurt Hummel’s sudden transformation into That Guy from the gym🦠 Artie Abrams and the extremely literal STD storyline🙏 Sam Evans praying in a bathroom and still making the best decision in the episodeWe talk Klaine’s increasingly miserable relationship arc, the bizarre fat-shaming plotline assigned to an objectively fit man, and how an episode about sexual health somehow becomes mostly about… cronuts and insecurity.Is it messy? Absolutely.Is Sam Evans the moral center of the episode? Also yes.Because it’s Glee.xoxo,FotR

(S3E24) Pack Dynamics: A Teen Wolf Podcast - The Divine Move (Season Finale)

We made it to the season finale of Teen Wolf, but will the pack make it out? In 3×24 "The Divine Move," the pack go toe-to-toe (and claw-to-sword) with the Oni, but controlled this time by Void. They're taking every territory on the board — the Sherriff's station, the animal clinic, the hospital — and by the time they get to the school, our pack's had about enough.While Derek and his small gaggle of ex-Alphas go face-to-face with Void and the Oni, Scott, Stiles, Lydia, and Kira head inside, and right into a winter garden of horror. There's flashbacks, there's an attempted ritual sacrifice, there's the birth of the Muderpod™, and no one can tell what's real.Does Void-slash-The Nogitsune get transformed and irrevocably dusted? Does Isaac trap its weird, firefly soul in a box made of Nemeton wood? Does Derek get attacked in his own home by someone who was supposed to be dead and have a coma-esque dream that's eerily inspired by An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge?Suppose you'll have to listen and find out.xoxo,Fandom on the Rocks

(S3E23) Pack Dynamics: A Teen Wolf Podcast - Insatiable

In Teen Wolf 3×23, “Insatiable,” the pack is technically moving forward, but everything that matters is coming undone.There are two Stiles and only one real one, and while our Stiles survives the oni test, the relief barely has time to land. Void Stiles still has Lydia, our Stiles remembers everything the Nogitsune did while wearing his body, and it’s becoming clear this possession has caused real, irreversible damage. Whatever is happening to Stiles isn’t just supernatural — it’s killing him. Not great news.Lydia is taken to Oak Creek, trapped in echoes of past violence and repurposed as a supernatural alarm system. If the pack gets close, she’ll feel it — and the Nogitsune will know. It’s cruel, efficient, and exactly the kind of psychological torment Beacon Hills specializes in.Back in town, Meredith Walker escapes Eichen House and reveals she can hear death before it happens, which is both incredibly useful and deeply bad news. At the same time, the twins are hunted with wolfsbane for reasons the episode refuses to explain, and Derek continues to appear exactly where the plot needs him, not where the emotional logic is begging for him.At Oak Creek, the Nogitsune makes his biggest move yet by stealing control of the oni and turning Noshiko’s weapons against everyone. The fight erupts, and for one brief, shining moment, Alison Argent becomes exactly who she’s been training to be. She kills an oni with the silver arrowhead she made herself — a hard-earned, deeply deserved win.Teen Wolf, of course, does not let that victory stand. An oni strikes back, and Alison is fatally wounded. Excuse us, but why??Chris arrives too late, because of course. The Nogitsune disappears once again. And the pack is left shattered and grieving, staring down a finale that no longer feels uncertain — only inevitable.“Insatiable” sets the endgame in motion in the most Teen Wolf way possible — messy, emotionally brutal, and light on connective logic. The board is set, the losses are real, and Beacon Hills reminds us, once again, that loving something in this town always comes with a body count.xoxoFotR

Glee on the Rocks: 5x15 - "Hate Crimes as a C-Plot"

This week, Glee attempts a Very Serious Episode™ and somehow still makes it mostly about Rachel Berry. In 5x15, “Bash,” Kurt is the victim of a brutal hate crime, Blaine gets the worst phone call imaginable, and Burt Hummel shows up to remind everyone how emotions are supposed to work. Meanwhile, Rachel declares war on NYADA because accountability is oppression, and Sam and Mercedes try to navigate race, dating, and New York City while Glee makes deeply questionable choices about everything. Because it's Glee.This episode we break down:🕯️ Hate crimes as a C-plot (???)📚 Rachel Berry vs. the concept of school💔 Klaine hurt/comfort doing the heavy lifting🎤 Sam Evans committing crimes against social awareness (but we love him)We talk uneven storytelling, surprisingly effective hospital scenes, why Burt Hummel is the only adult in the room, and how Rachel Berry somehow becomes the worst part of an episode that includes literal violence. (Are we surprised though?)It’s not subtle. It’s not balanced. But it is very, very Glee.xoxo,FotR