Dear Traumateers,
Lorraine: I had a cryfest at some point in the middle of this month, and I’m blaming it mostly on exhaustion. I’m only a little bit ashamed to admit the cryfest happened while watch The Voice. I always tear up during that show, though, because people’s dreams coming true makes me emotional.
What was I saying? Oh yes, exhaustion. I’ve been working a crazy schedule for the past couple of months, and it’s a safe bet that any lapse in posting you saw this month were either courtesy of my extended work hours or Sweeney’s multiple trips.
Sweeney: There was a small possibility of leaving town this weekend and for the first time probably in forever my response was, “PLEASE NO DON’T MAKE ME.”
Also, you neglected to mention all the illness. First you and now me. It’s been a month.
Lor: Because we’re basically the same person.
All said and done, though, we did pretty okay with posting! You know, through the tears and airports and snot.
The good news is that a new lady started at my job. I mean, that’s my good news. We also have some exciting blog stuff coming up this month, but first, here’s what happened in March:
Last Month:
After seven seasons and nearly two years on the Snark Squad, we finished Buffy the Vampire Slayer. We closed off the journey by ranking the season 7 episodes and then heading back and ranking season 1. We continued to rank all the things when we ranked the seasons and then each posted our best and worst of lists: Kirsti’s Worst Of, Kirsti’s Best Of, Sweeney’s Worst Of, Sweeney’s Best Of, Lorraine’s Worst Of and Lorraine’s Best Of. Finally, we watched the original Buffy movie for a #snarkathon.
We also wrapped up the last of the Firefly episodes. First up was a trip to a whore house, where Mal and crew defended the house against an angry baby daddy. And finally, a bounty hunter sneaks onto Serenity, and River saves the day by pretending to be the ship.
We started the month with a fresh season of Angel. We were introduced to the new set-up at Wolfram & Hart and it kind of felt like a giant reset button. Spike gets mailed to the Fang Gang and we aren’t really sure why, but he’s a ghost now! Angel saves a werewolf from being eaten for dinner. There is a ghost serial killer at Wolfram & Hart who is after Spike. The mail guy at Wolfram & Hart is actually an evil fighting luchardor who is called back into action on the Day of the Dead.
Speaking of new starts, we added Orphan Black to the line-up! In episode one, Sarah Manning watches a woman who looks just like her jump in front of a train and then pretends to be her in order to steal her money. Things get complicated when Sarah soon finds Alison, a soccer mom who looks just like here and later, Cosima, a third (living) look-a-like. Cosima explains that they are actually clones. Another of their clones is trying to kill them off. Sarah confronts Helena who think they share a connection, all while Alison impersonates Sarah for a visit to her child.
Over in Neptune, Veronica faces her meddling ways when she becomes invested in locating her next door neighbor. A purity test makes the rounds at Neptune High, and Veronica helps get to the bottom of who is leaking answers. A couple hires Keith after their son joins a cult, but it turns out it’s like a really nice, happy cult. Unfortunately, that couple kidnaps their own son and makes him a jerk again. Logan hosts a poker game and the pot goes missing, so Veronica interrogates all the players and finds the butler(‘s son) did it!
The Winchester brothers investigate a bug-related death and it was just about as ew-worthy as you’d expect. Next, the boys return to their hometown after Sam has some nightmares about a poltergeist. Sam’s bad luck continues when they investigate an old asylum and an evil ghost doctor drives him crazy, though Dean burns the corpse and saves the day.
In Rosewood, April Rose turns out to be a shop, not a person, and Spencer finds Alison’s missing anklet there. Hanna visits Mona in the hospital, and Mona speaks to her in a code that leads the Liars to Maya’s secret website. Spencer gets Caleb’s help breaking into the site, while Aria meets Ezra’s mom, who offers to buy her out of the pedo-lationship. Spencer and Aria go to a party and play truth or truth, where they don’t actually learn much of anything, other than people know Aria is dating her teacher.
In book news, Lorraine reviewed The Weight of Blood and gave it a B. Sweeney reviewed Beauty Queens and gave it an A-.
Coming Up:
In April, we’ll finish Firefly properly by watching Serenity and, of course, ranking the episodes. We talked about this a bit in comments, but Sweeney and I have plans to replace Firefly with another single-season-wonder show, though we haven’t decided on which one quite yet. We’ll probably hold off on premiering that, as we will both be doing (even more!) traveling during this month and it’s not like we’re guilty of being over ambitious or anything.
On the subject of premieres, GAMES OF THRONES is back on April 6th! As always, when you watch it (even if you can’t watch it live!) Tweet your thoughts with the hashtag #GameofSnark, and we’ll pick our favorites and feature them at the end of every post. #GameofSnark is seriously one of my favorite things we do, and I cannot wait for it to start back up again.
Season 2 of Orphan Black premieres on April 19th, and we’ll be moving those recaps to real time! It’s possibly we’ll be a tad late with the first episode (again because of travel) but after that, it’ll be real time. Real-ish time.
We’ll be celebrating our three Snarkiversary in April as well! THREE YEARS.
Sweeney: THREE. YEARS.
Lor: Finally, Sweeney’s birthday is this month! We asked her to pick the month’s #snarkathon movie, and she chose Ever After! Join us on Saturday, April 5th at 5:00pm EST.
I know that we have so many movies on our list to snark (Top Gun! Heathers! I can’t remember the other popular ones!) so we ask that you just stay patient with us as we cycle through the list. We promise, we’ll get there.
Welcome, Questionable New Friends!
In honor of the end of Buffy, why not a Buffy themed search from last month? “Buffy seeing red therapy” led a brave searcher to our website. I wouldn’t even really call this questionable, but I wanted to recognize this person. Yes, dear sir, we felt like we needed therapy after that one too.
Honorable mention goes to the 17 times people were led to our blog looking for “Snark Squad Twilight.” Not yet, dear friends. Maybe one day.
♥
The Snark Squad