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Hello Frequent Flyers and Welcome aboard our 101st flight, Game of Thrones. Just like a meteor, GoT burst onto the television set and beheaded our expectations, and favourite characters. Between dire wolves, the death of character archetypes, and wanting to punch someone in the face SO MUCH, your flight crew goes to Winterfell, and waits for it to Winterfall.     

Hello Frequent Flyers, You find us out amongst the stars. Welcome to our latest episode, Star Trek: The Next Generation. Stardate - 21.1201762 (Shut up stardates are hard) Our mission: To discover the pilot episode of ST:TNG. My crew are determined to uncover the mystery of Far Point Station by not addressing it at all, and instead focusing on the Kangaroo court that Captain Picard finds himself in. While he's harassed by a super evolved being named the Q, the crew, particularly Fearless Flyer, get's super concerned that we need to call HR.  What does Star Fleet say in the handbook for harassment?

HellOOoooOOOOoo Frequent Flyers, and Welcome aboard our 99th episode, Teen Wolf. We're back in High School, and it's as tough as ever. Sometimes you just don't fit in, and it has nothing to do with the time you went crawling through the woods with your bestie looking for half a corpse and then got bitten by a werewolf.  Ok, maybe it has something to do with that.  But look, puberty is tough - you get hair in places there wasn't hair before...and...wow that's...everywhere. Your palms? Bro... And you start to notice people in a different way. Like the new girl in class, whose dad shot you with a crossbolt...and... damn Wolfager, puberty super sucks for you. 

Howdy Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard this here rig, Flight 98, Firefly. Sometimes you don't win the battle, but you keep fightin' that there war. Sometimes you never leave Serenity Valley, but you take it with you. Keep stickin' it to the Alliance, with your rag tag bunch of rule-breaking ruffians, their Shepherd, a fancy Doctor, and his rescued sister, and keep runnin'. And if you keep runnin', maybe you'll find what it is you stay for. 

Hello Frequent Flyers and Welcome aboard our 96th flight, Legion.   The troubling implications of secret organizations set about to control or exterminate people of great power aside, what do you do when the girl you love engages in a badass 60's Dance Number but then switches consciousness with you when you touch her? And when mental health and mutations cross paths, what's the world's most powerful mutant to do when he's not sure of the reality of either?   BONUS: Legit didn't realise the title was a bible quote, just knew it from Mass Effect 2/3 WHATTUP

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 96th Flight, Making History.  Ah, the past - full of revolution, and righteous fury, of brotherhood and bloodshed. Also Ham.  When the future holds no future for you, perhaps it's time to discover your father's time machine and make like a tree and time travel. That's what he'd want right? For you to meet new people,  and disrupt the events of the American Revolution? Ah, to be timeless again.

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 95th Flight, Crazyhead. You know that feeling when you're in a club with your bestie, and all of the sudden some dude who looks like he's on fire from the inside out starts trying to hunt you down and you gotta run? Remember those good days? No? What about the bit where your bestie becomes possessed and tries to strangle you with the belt she loaned you? Not ringing any bells? Geeze. What about the exorcism of said friend? That’s gotta be a relatable early 20’s experience. This is all bog standard far as I’m concerned. Maybe you need to double check your ticket, because this is a plane that’s on the airway to hell.    

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 94th flight, Riverdale. Idyllic Riverdale is nothing like you remember. Scandal, intrigue, and betrayal lurks in every corner; from Pop's chocolate shop to Archie's guitar lessons. A death starts the school year, and there's a new kid in town, Veronica Lodge. What do these changes mean for our Double Digest dearests? Will Betty win the boy, or self respect, or her sister Polly? Will Archie overcome the machinations of a person he should have trusted? Will Josie and the Pussycats get signed? By the end, you'll wish you were Tracy Chapman, singin' Fast Car and speeding out of town in Archie's old Jalopy, because death is literally just the beginning of this show.

  Hello Frequent flyers, and welcome aboard our 93rd flight, Skam. Being a teenager is hard - friendship, first love, navigating the unending drama of growing up. It doesn't end. But that's ok, because Dr. Phil is here to motivate you to go to that party, and talk to those people! You can do it!

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 92nd flight, Fraiser. Change is inevitable, seasons, Starbucks flavours, the showing at the Opera. But that doesn't make it easy, in fact, it could be the hardest thing in the world, right up there with your less-mobile father moving in with his hideous couch, his freaky dog, and his 'no-talking-about-emotions' to his physiatrist son, Fraiser Crane.  But surely change can be good - maybe La Traviata isn't your jam, maybe The Magic Flute is more your style, or a psychic live-in assistant. 

This flight is not like other flights, there is no safety pamphlet in the seat ahead of you, there is merely our 91st flight, A Series of Unfortunate Events. Unlike other pilots, which focus on the ups and downs of life, you'll find that the Baudelaires experience more downs than a broken roller coaster in the Grand Canyon, and more suffering than a man married to a lobster, but desperately allergic to shellfish. We will follow the Baudelaire children on their journey, as they try to piece together a mystery involving their extremely flammable and deceased parents, and the menacing Count Olaf, an actor. And potentially a murderer. Which is worse? Those that are faint of heart are advised to look away.  

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 90th Episode, This is Us. How easily a human life can be tangled with another's. How twisted and snarled those connections can get. Loss, grief, joy, the Challenger explosion - what does that look like, and how do people react throughout time? Will they continue tear off their shirt in front of a live studio audience? Will they find love at a weight loss support group? Give birth to triplets? Meet their father?   When you're a human you get all this and more!  

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 89th Flight, Goblin.   When  betrayed general, Kim Shin, is put to death by the machinations of an evil Iago, what's his soul to do but suffer endlessly without a proper burial. PSYCHE - someone prays for him and he comes back with a vengeance. Or like...just as a creature of vengeance.  Modern times, Ji Eun Tak can see ghosts, and those ghosts won't stop whispering that she's the Goblin bride. Marriage is all well and good but she's just gotta survive her shitty home life first.  But a single breath can bring change - and neither Kim Shin or Ji Eun Tak are prepared for what danger that can bring.

Hello Frequent Flyers and Welcome aboard our 87th flight, 3%.  When the corrupt make the rules, you can either follow them, or break them. But when the high stakes competition force the underprivileged in to a fight of wits and strength, it may not be the rules that get broken. What’s left to do- settle in to a happy life, or be like the wrench in the works and tear it down from the inside.    

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 87th episode, Search Party.   We all know the millennial malaise that's stricken our nation. Where do you go when you're not good at anything, or care enough about anything? Where do you turn? And what if someone you once knew disappeared. A good person, gone on her way to buy cupcakes. Where did she go, what happened to her, and how many snapchats did she send before she vanished into the night?

When the Captain's away the crew comes out to play - a trivia game that is! Our New Years episode kicks off 2017 with questions, debates, and deeply personal insights to some of the crew's proclivities, Billy on the Street style.  Featuring the return of Steely Eyed Missile Man and Stowaway, the crew get into it (and it we mean terrible alcohol) while Fearless Flyer listens from afar, proud of Flying Dutchman's terrible terrible jokes. 

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 85th Flight, The Man in the High Castle. The Allies have lost the war and the Axis powers divvy up the remains of the world. What is left now but to assimilate and survive? Perhaps maybe a mysterious film that shows the Allie powers celebrating D-Day? An underground celluloid with the power to change hearts and minds. Sometimes survival isn't enough - sometimes you have to rebel.

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 84th Episode, Conviction.   When politics and the law clash - what is Hayley Atwell to do but lead the new Conviction Integrity Unit, to review cases and try to free the innocent. If you're thinking: shouldn't this already exist? or: isn't that the innocence project? Yes. Yes. Swanning about, leaving pig corpses in public parks, and fighting corruption with indifference, Conviction has everything but it's own name.

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 83rd Flight, Letterkenny.   Small town problems with big personalities all seem to clash when you're trying to stop fightin' and just sell your produce.  But some big city kid rolls into town with your ex-sweetie and it gets awful hard to tamp down the urge. After all whad'ya got to do if you can't be your farmin' fightin' self? There's church, there's raving in the church parking lot with the skids, or there's the hockey team that's a bit too big for their treasure trail. Might as well square up buddy.

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 82nd Flight, The Crown.   I'm sure we've all been there. Future of the Monarchy hanging over our shoulders as our ailing father tries to bestow his wisdom before his inevitable demise.  So relatable.  Or is it perhaps - the humanity behind the Monarchy - the real emotion and fears that are provoked in the everyday and the helming of an empire 

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 81st flight, Cosmos.   Step aboard the ship of the imagination with Neil Degrasse Tyson  as it takes you on an around the universe tour of the amazing and awe inspiring sights that the world has to offer. Meet early philosophers, astronomers, and scientists as they ponder the galaxies, and learn what it means to be both very very small, and yet so important.  It's a second to midnight on the cosmic calendar - who knows what's in store? 

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 80th Flight, The Good Place. We are all taken to wondering at times, what happens beyond the fine veil of death. To whence does the soul venture if a soul must venture at all?  What if I were to tell you - and you must keep this hush as one does not peer beyond the veil easily, you know....but what if I were to say: Suburbia.  Froyo on every corner. Golden daylight and clear skies. and Suburbia.  You may think this is The Bad Place, but trust me. That's just non-stop screaming. And what happens if you should get sent to the wrong one? If you should belong in the Bad Place after all? Is it too late to change your ways?

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 79th Flight, Pitch.   One in the hand may be worth two in the bush but a girl on the field is worth changing everything just for the chance. When you got a screwball that could knock out a whole team, whats to keep you from the locker room of the greats? From inspiring millions of people just like you?  What's to stop the love of the game? Dicks with surfer hair, maybe - crippling self-doubt certainly. But when you walk out on that field - step onto that mound and wind up, we all know it's more than just the pitch we're here to see - it's the Pitcher.

Howdy Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 78th flight, Westworld. Come on down to the little home on the Prairies - where rich billionaires can do whatever they want to the mindless automatons that run the park. Shoot, steal, sleep with, scalp. Who cares? They forget that anything happened the next day, right? For the Hosts, these visitors bring excitement and opportunity - but change is coming. A chance to wake up from the dream and act - after all, these violent delights have violent ends.

Hello Frequent Flyers and Welcome to our 77th flight, Scream. You hear footsteps in the garden, a skittering on your roof, breathing in your hall.  Bolt the doors, Flyers, lock them fast. But be certain you are alone in there. Be certain you have some method of protection. Do not heed the silence to venture forth. They're waiting in the dark...after all...the call was coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE.  

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome to our 76th flight, Hannibal.   There's a hunger - a ravening hunger in the pit of you. And you can see the hunger, see its yawning chasm, its desperate gasps for sustenance. What can you do, but eat? So what if the show that inspired such yearning features the meat as human flesh? It looks good, ok, don't judge me.  But beware lest Will Graham and his true empathy see past the facade of a mild mannered ordinariness and he peers into the heart of you. The very dark depth of you.  Beware lest he know you and reveal you.    Stick perhaps, to Kraft Dinner.

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 75th Flight, Twin Peaks. When the murder of the Perfect Daughter shakes a small town, what's left to be done but track down the sicko that did the deed. But this small town has one thing in common - secrets. And also the same meeting place for secret rendezvous. Literally - find somewhere else to meet. Also is anybody NOT sleeping with somebody else? And if the Perfect Daughter turns out to have had secrets of her own, what will we find out when we ask: Who Killed Laura Palmer?    

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 74th episode, The Living and the Dead.  The Race to modernity has begun, but on this farm the old ways still take hold. And sometimes they take hold in the worst ways - a sinners soul corrupting a once adventurous girl - a salt of the earth farmhand compelled to lay down in the most dangerous of places, and the voices. The echoing voices of the past, and maybe the future.    

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 73rd episode, Versailles.  Louis' been having those prophetic dreams. The kind where he bangs the embodiment of the glory France in a mirrored hall. You know, architecture dreams. But he's got opposition and while his royal entourage grow increasingly bored at the lack of society out in the woods at a decrepit hunting lodge, Louis wants to bring Paris to Versaille. If only it wasn't so hard, and there were less assassins, and war, and less baby daddy birth-drama.  

Hello everyone and welcome aboard our 72nd Episode, Jeeves and Wooster.   Sometimes even the most respectable of gentlemen need fishing out of the soup, as it were. They may have gotten into a spot of trouble with the law, snatching a police officer’s helmet perhaps. Or they may attract fiancées like that flies and honey nonsense. Or worst of all, they may be horridly hung over and need a restorative of the highest sort. Enter Jeeves, the butler that buttles with the best of them. Shimmering into rooms like a mirage, and the cleverest sort you’ve ever seen. Throw the two together and you have hijinks aplenty

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 71st flight, Stargate Atlantis. What's a Scientist to do when faced with the possibility of exploration of strange new worlds? Or a Pilot, with a heroes history and a disregard for rules who somehow is compatible with ancient technology. Or worse? A...who else was there? Some military types. They just do military things - shouting, guns, dying honourably to Marilyn Manson wannabes. Classic. Dial up FS and step through the Stargate to a good time - we promise Mid-2000's Canadian CGI for all!

Disco, drugs, and dreams - you can find them all in the Bronx in 1977. Buildings always burning, but so too does the soul of one young Wordsmith, destined to meet Grandmaster Flash.  Art, politics, and the war against an inescapable urban experience, step back in time to the birth of modern music.  Sometimes you wanna get out, sometimes you wanna get in, but I promise you, you'll wanna Get Down.

Hello Frequent Flyers and Welcome Aboard our 69th Episode, Stranger Things. Come with us back to a time before the internet - when Dungeons & Dragons ruled from the basements, phones had cords, and missing children taken to a dark otherworld happened so infrequently as to be rare. Can four kids, three teenagers, two adults and one strangely talented escaped experiment solve the mystery of small town Suburbia, before it destroys them all?  

Hello Frequent Flyers, and welcome aboard our summertime service. With your Flight Crew away on top secret missions, we have decided to cultivate a selection of picks for you when the heat of the day overwhelms your poor burnt skin, and you decide to duck inside.  Sit down, get sorted with a nice cold drink and stay tuned! Our resident Stowaway gets gritty with Gotham - the film noir superhero sendup that peeks at the backstory of Batman's villains and heroes. She then charges over to the Nintendo DS with her very own Pocket Jockey before jumping on the Back of the Turtle with Thomas King. Stowaway then takes a load off with some Happy Little Trees with our favourite painter, Bob Ross. A happy little time is had by all.

Hello Frequent Flyers, and welcome aboard our summertime service. With your Flight Crew away on top secret missions, we have decided to cultivate a selection of picks for you when the heat of the day overwhelms your poor burnt skin, and you decide to duck inside.  Sit down, get sorted with a nice cold drink and stay tuned! Fearless Flyer dives right in with Flight School Recommend Favourite - that $10 founding father without a father, Hamilton! Alongside some Shakespearean shenanigans, and Lumberjane kick-assery, she celebrates Uncharted 4 by firmly suggesting a trip to your local abandoned temple in the middle of the jungle to find El Dorado. Or just pick up the first Uncharted. You're worth it.  

Hello Frequent Flyers, and welcome aboard our summertime service. With your Flight Crew away on top secret missions, we have decided to cultivate a selection of picks for you when the heat of the day overwhelms your poor burnt skin, and you decide to duck inside.  Sit down, get sorted with a nice cold drink and stay tuned! This week Justin gives a convincing sermon about Preacher and PaperGirls - two fantastical picks to start off your summer with. Then he travels East of West in this alternate history comic that put the apocalypse and cowboys together in a rollicking race to the end of days. He stops for a small gig with the Greek Gods in The Wicked and Divine, and gives as good as he gets when the prophecy: He will be loved, he will be hated. In two years he will be dead - threatens to end his tenure on our show. Fight back, SEMM!

Hello Frequent Flyers, and welcome aboard our summertime service. With your Flight Crew away on top secret missions, we have decided to cultivate a selection of picks for you when the heat of the day overwhelms your poor burnt skin, and you decide to duck inside.  Sit down, get sorted with a nice cold drink and stay tuned! Vector gives Gilmore Girls a go in anticipation of its return, and hitting up the nostalgia of Teen Wolf season one. Alongside a gambit of other recommendations, you can be assured Vector's on the mark.

Hello Frequent Flyers, and welcome aboard our summertime service. With your Flight Crew away on top secret missions, we have decided to cultivate a selection of picks for you when the heat of the day overwhelms your poor burnt skin, and you decide to duck inside.  Sit down, get sorted with a nice cold drink and stay tuned! In our first part of the WOOR series, The Flying Dutchman tackles Cleverman. Why should you watch it, and why should you care about Australia? ( You should care so much.) Will it fire you up or cool you down this summer? The Dutchman certainly knows which.

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 68th Episode, Eureka. We all know that you're geniuses. Certifiable smart-folk. So why not move on down to the epicentre of intelligence, small-town Eureka.  Where science and math are encouraged and the law is very relaxed about explosions.  Where the Infinite Universe theory is not only accepted but played with by children. Or, if you're not a genius, you could just be a U.S Marshall, trying to shepherd your wayward ward home, with an slightly above average IQ but a keen way of puttin' things together. OR maybe just...don't move there? Seems to be some sort of world-annihilation device every week so... maybe just keep driving.

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 67th Episode, Filthy Preppy Teen$. Folks, I'm sure you know the feeling of being cast away on a desert island, with only your boomerang to survive. Meegan and Chaud certainly do - but that's all behind them. They just want to return to their life atop the high school social ladder. Too bad the rungs have been greased, and they've been replaced by Ikea children. So relatable. So High School. There's teen leprechauns, girls in comas, and so many transition screens.

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 66th Episode, Penny Dreadful. When there's a creaking on the steps and a sudden quiet outside, when your breath fills the cold air with mist and your heart trembles in your chest, to whom do you turn? Perhaps to a woman with a mysterious gift and penchant for fortune telling? Or maybe a strange anatomist whose obsession with life and death transgress the bounds of science? Or an adventurer known for exploring the darkest parts of the world, who understands what if feels to be both hunter and prey? Even a Wild West actor, whose sharpshooting masks a troubled past.  And what if you decide to step out from your room, and venture into the unknown - that Demi-Monde, can you say you loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night?  There's no stars down here, no light. Just spiders, Josh Hartnett, and Death.  

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 65th episode, Narcos. On this flight, we take a romp through the idyllic city of Miami, early 1970's. Flip flops, Hippies and Farrah Fawcett hair rule the scene and the DEA all have their eyes on that Devil's Lettuce, if you catch our drift. Then a Cockroach survives the end of the world and makes his way to Columbia, to Pablo Escobar. When American DEA agent, Steve Murphy, left for Columbia he'd left with the same sense of destiny that just conquerors have. One year later, the world's gone to shit, and it doesn't matter how many people take a lead for their pains, sometimes the end justify the means. But whose means, whose ends? The end of the world keeps coming, so who will rise above?

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 64th Episode, Fairy Tail. When your world is full of Wizard Guilds that insist on you joining to get your wizard license like a more interesting AMA card, there's bound to be some problems. Especially when you want to get into the most prestigious guild, Fairy Tail. You know, the one where the really popular members star in the centerfold. That's a thing. A ....gross thing. Maybe just go to Hogwarts, not this weird Team Butt Wizard bullshit.  

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 63rd flight, Attack on Titan. If passengers look out the left side of the plane, they'll be able to see the three massive walls that have protected our kind for centuries. If they look out the right side you should see the monstrous, ravening Titans, here for the flesh of you and your family.  There is no escape, there is no fighting - there can be no quarters given. It's survival or extinction.  Enjoy the fight!  

Hello Frequent Flyers and Welcome aboard our 62nd Episode, In the Flesh. When the apocalypse goes from nigh to passé, the question ringing in everyone’s brains must be – what next? So what, the Zombie hoards massacred your village, forcing you to destroy the terrible mockeries of humanity that shambled endlessly onward in search of sustenance. So what if these self-same Zombies have been ‘cured’, and can remember every terrible action? So what if they can only keep washing the blood from their hands and recite over and over, ‘I’m not responsible for what I did in my untreated state’? Maybe they didn’t ask to come back from the dead. They didn’t ask to be made public enemy #1 by the HVF. And poor, gentle Kieren didn’t ask to be made a killer – but that’s reality now. And you have to face it head on, nail-filled cricket bat and all.  

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 61st Episode, House of Lies. When you're trying to get the fat cat 1% that drove the economy to the brink to go with your economic plan, things can get a bit heated. Especially when the #1 company you're going up against is your ex-wife's. And sure, maybe she's the spawn of satan, and SURE maybe you should be at home taking care of your adorable son who just got cast as Sandy in Grease. But you are Don Fucking Cheadle, and you came to get yours. So claw your way to the top and make sure to get those billable hours. 

Hello Frequent Flyers and Welcome aboard our 60th Episode, Turn.  Our passengers may notice that this trip to the past comes free with de-saturated tones, and a heck of a lot of moral ambiguity. We advise that you remain seated until your Captain turns off the 'Fight The British' sign.  Upon which time you'll be free to move about and gather intelligence with the best of them. But be careful, it's the gallows if you get caught. Or worse, you'll have to go back to your life being a cabbage farmer.  But it'll all be worth it when the Right Side wins, all thanks to you - you help prove that if you just keep turning you'll make one full revolution.

Hello Frequent Flyers and Welcome Aboard our 59th Episode, Brooklyn Nine Nine. We here on Flight School take your safety seriously. That's why we've decided to get rid of our old air marshal that let us do...literally anything...and replaced him with a newer, tougher, air marshal. One that's going to teach us how to be a team, how to grow up, and maybe a little bit about manscaping.  And sure, maybe kick ass and look good while doing it. 

Hello Frequent Flyers and Welcome Aboard our 58th Flight, Fresh Off the Boat. I think we can all remember the 90's. Hip hop and CD Player's, skipping every bump in the road as your family drives you way across America to open up a Western themed restaurant in the middle of Florida.  We can all think back to that sweltering heat - so different from our home in Washington's China Town. Oh wait, we can't? Too bad, you're going to relate to this kid anyways, as he struggles with cultural identity and lunchables.  Make a move over to our Facebook Page Facebook  Make a mix tape of all our old episodes iTunes  

Hello Frequent Flyers and Welcome aboard our 57th Flight, Lizzie McGuire. We've all been there, perched awkwardly on the end of our beds as our parents try to explain the magical mysteries of puberty. And if those mysteries happen to come attached to scrunchies and a million tarantula braids and Judge Judy reference, well, so be it. And so what if your mom won't let you go to THE pool party of the closest thing you'll ever get to Brad Pitt?  Growing up is hard, but it gets a bit easier with friends, and tie-dye

Hello Frequent Flyers and Welcome Aboard our 56th episode, The Magicians. FF, you and I both know that magic is real. SO what if we're becoming socially isolated, retreating further and further into a fantasy rather than face the cold hard light of day - that's the American (Canadian) Dream.  Ok, so what if magic is real. And you can totally pass the test to get into the sickest post-grad of all time, Breakbills University. Worth it, right? So what if you accidentally summon a weird moth-face monster that devours your principle. Wacky Hi-jinx.  Wacky.