The Sludge Report
Added 2024-08-16 14:00:12 +0000 UTCIt's been a while since we last checked in on The Franchise. This week, we batten down the hatches and prepare to dive into the sludge. Or is it mold? We chat about JK's ugly wallpaper and whether or not it's giving her brain spores, speculate about the upcoming HBO show and whether or not we'll even bother looking at it, take a refresher course on our favorite house elf, and mourn the loss of the 3D Pin Experience--and then we get sidetracked exploring the official store.
Comments
When you said “Harry Potter Apricot Collection” I was picturing individually packaged fruits with maybe someone’s face on the box and the flimsiest connections. My sincerest disappointment on learning the truth.
Crock272
2025-02-06 03:53:59 +0000 UTCalso coming back to old post and comment but so beautifully said. I've been slowly relistening with my partner, who read HP once as an adult, on road trips and we constantly marvel at how it's almost performance art, how perfectly you guys accidentally covered the death of the fandom, franchise, the corporate IP, the creator. Not just JK but even going back to see you guys cover the sad, ambling transition of Pottermore (Pottermore was around when you started l m f a o) to Whizarding Whorld. Pulitzer when. You guys really should be proud!!
Susan T
2024-10-01 12:26:36 +0000 UTCActually I have more to say even though this episode is old now lol. This ep marks my official catch-up after spending about a year listening to the entire backlog. I just wanna say again, I know the hosts are feeling very cringe now about having had a harry potter pod, but they really shouldn't. I honestly think the coverage of JKR's fall from grace from the very beginning in REAL TIME as it happened, while simultaneously tearing apart the books piece by piece, deserves a Pulitzer for real. I was so impressed how well the old eps hold up, even from all the way in 2019, and how prescient the hosts were at a time when most people were still putting their head in the sand about JKR. I couldn't ask for a better, more final conclusion to my lapsed hp fandom. I feel cleansed and totally exorcised. Excited for more HG!! p.s. go geoducks lol..
Angela N
2024-09-11 21:59:32 +0000 UTCOoh ahh im slurping that sludge yum yum
Angela N
2024-09-11 21:40:55 +0000 UTCTo me that wallpaper looked like a misty ink landscape painting on silk, so appropriately colonial for a rich British person. And such an ugly shade of yellow!
Barbara
2024-09-07 21:51:11 +0000 UTCI think besides the really major stuff surrounding the franchise, the other thing I feel bad about with the TV show is god help whatever kids get cast as the main trio. I feel like the original trio lucked out in that they were in the franchise before both the fanbase and socmed exploded, and esp now after seeing the shit that's gone down with Star Wars actors (Lloyd, Tran, Boyega, etc.) I feel really bad for whichever kid gets cast into this nightmare
Arlo
2024-08-31 16:51:43 +0000 UTCExcited by the implication that there's hours of cut audio of Xeecee accidentally dunking on charities Curb Your Enthusiasm style but saddened we'll never hear it
Kzinssie
2024-08-18 14:35:54 +0000 UTCThinking about the show balancing the horrors with the audience, calling it now, I think in the intro to the Dursleys, we’ll get some sort of snide remark from them about trans people in a way that’s plausibly deniable that that’s who it’s about, and Harry will say something about how that’s mean or shitty or whatever. It’ll be horribly hamfisted.
Cruxist
2024-08-17 16:56:33 +0000 UTCRe the mold, I like to think she went on Etsy and got one of those black wall stickers with a floral pattern
A sudden absence of bees
2024-08-17 08:29:17 +0000 UTCAbsolutely howling at the Hooters Font Hagrid Shirt
Susan T
2024-08-17 05:55:53 +0000 UTCFor anyone interested, the Ministry ride is centred around the trial of Umbridge—that’s definitely because Imelda Staunton is one of the few actors who will sign off to work on anything with JKR involved
Jordan Elbualy
2024-08-17 05:45:21 +0000 UTCThe i love mold collage in the thumbnail is so funny 😭
Ellison Estephan
2024-08-17 05:25:43 +0000 UTCohhh right, I forgot they had a branch of the studio tour in NYC!
The Shrieking Shack
2024-08-16 18:56:12 +0000 UTChell yes
The Shrieking Shack
2024-08-16 18:56:00 +0000 UTCAs someone currently living in NYC, i regret to inform you that the official NYC Harry Potter store isn't the Cursed Child broadway show store, it's part of this huge stupid Harry Potter exhibition that's been here for years
Commander Freddy
2024-08-16 18:49:59 +0000 UTCI am trying to find some remains of that pin experience, and I'd just like to share that if you download their app and enter a "secret code" that used to come with the pins, it says "well done, tap for a reward!" then the app brings up a blank white panel and soft locks. The mold is everywhere.
Zachary Coleman
2024-08-16 17:38:40 +0000 UTCnever been more excited for a post notification. thank you for covering The Horrors
sam
2024-08-16 14:53:18 +0000 UTCif it's NOT mold it's expensive wallpaper that LOOKS like mold and that might honestly be funnier
Kate Ashwin
2024-08-16 14:30:05 +0000 UTC
