Storybroke: Miserably Ever After

Your Pretty Friend dive into Season 2, Episode 16: "The Miller's Daughter," where we finally learn the answer to the question that's been on everyone's mind: why is Regina's surname Mills? This week, Elaine and Mads spend an inordinate amount of time trying to remember the word "potential," Mads gives up on hiding the naughty words, Snow White's mom gets a drive-by character assassination, and we ask why there is this so much forced romance with Rumpelstiltskin when his skin is one big gross scab. Enjoy. Also, special thanks to our sponsor: Mads' bookshop, The Weary Wanderer! Visit wearywanderer.com and buy some books or something, idk.

This season's dead queen count is currently at set at 1 but that may be subject to change. Join us as we dive into the Season 2 episode "The Queen is Dead." We talk costumes and juicy drama. Check it out.

THE TRIUMPHANT RETURN OF STORYBROKE. It's been a long few months, but your pretty friends are back and ready to dig into Rumpelstiltskin's backstory in season two, episode 14's "Manhattan." You'll laugh, you'll cringe, you'll laugh some more. Remember to rate and review the show on your favorite podcatcher!

WE'RE BACK. This week, your pretty friends review Season 2's "Tiny." There's catching up, audio weirdness, and promises to release sooner! All in all, a certified Storybroke experience!

In which Your Pretty Friend(s) discuss a less-than-stellar episode of the Hit Drama Series from ABC featuring public domain characters! We've got the Rumbelle hate, an important revelation about Captain Hook's junk, some particular egregious use of the Saturation slider, and more! CW: This episode contains two brief mentions of suicide. Timestamps below. 24:53-25:45 51:19-52:17 

In which your pretty friend discusses why you should stand like... right in the middle of the road. Also some light misandry as we discuss Season 2, Episode 11: "The Outsider"

CORA has unlocked Fast Travel. REGINA has unlocked Fast Travel. GOLD has unlocked Fast Travel. This week, your pretty friend dives into Season 2, Episode 10: "The Cricket Game"

In which Your Pretty Friend talks about prophecies, the power of true love, and storylines done dirty. Listen as we review Season 2's "Queen of Hearts"

This week, Your Pretty Friend dives "Into the Deep" [mads add rimshot.wma here]. Tangents about redemption arcs, once again referencing how the show would be dramatically improved with more bi people, and questionable motivations abound!

Your Pretty Friend gets to talk about Vampire-coded Werewolves in Season 2, Episode 7: "Child of the Moon."

Sincere apologies for the delay, but your we're back! Happy new year, enjoy rants about our very specific region, timeline shenanigans, and suspending our disbelief that people in their mid-30s are teens*, and more! Listen as Storybroke dives in to Season 2's "Tallahassee."  *AKA The "Community Theatre" Principle.

Your Pretty Friend reviews and rants about Once Upon A Time's season 2 episode, "The Doctor." Appreciation for Howie Coats, reclaiming the wizarding world from the TERF lady, and pretending Joss Whedon doesn't exist. Check it out now!

Join your pretty friends for much wailing and gnashing of teeth over Season 2, Episode 4: "The Crocodile"

THIS WEEK: Elaine is out, so we welcome back Cory and dive into the Disney Channel Original Musical, Descendants. We laugh, we cry, we cry, we cry, we cry, we ask G-d what we did to deserve this film. It's a great time!

Today, Your Pretty Friend dives into Season 2' "Lady of the Lake." Tune in for relatable content about depression eating, the start of our Regina is Good, Actually™ era, and as always: desperate attempts to make sense of the way magic works in the world of Once Upon a Time.

This time, your Pretty Friend dives into Season 2 Episode 2 - We Are Both. Join us for frank discussions about soaking, applause for the better budget, and a pleasant lack of Belle and Gold!

Your Pretty Friend is BACK with Season 2 of Once Upon a Time! Tune in for rants about the worst relationship dynamic on the show thus far, an the least well-hidden reveals since the Season 10 finale of Drag Race!

It's the Season Finale! Nine months in and we're able to finally put a wrap on Season 1! 

Your Pretty Friend jump into the two-part Season One Finale with Episode 21: An Apple as Red as Blood! 

Your Pretty Friend talks about everyone's second favorite puppet: Pinocchio (the first being Lil' Poundcake, obviously), and an all-around pretty good episode of Once Upon a Time!

Join Your Pretty Friend for are particularly unfocused episode about a particularly unfocused episode of Once Upon A Time. This week, we dive into the season 1 episode "The Return."

Join Your Pretty Friend for chat about family dynamics, upsetting uses of magic, misplaced grudges, and holding the idiot ball as we dive into Once Upon A Time episode 18: "Stable Boy"

Your Pretty Friend is joined by their good friend, Cory, to discuss The Mad Hatter, Sebastian Stan and his leather pants, and personal space. For a look into our Guest Host’s mind, check out his Once Upon A Time Fanfic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/18196061/chapters/49130960

Your pretty friends talk about Season 1 Episode 16: Heart of Darkness. Dumb David is SOOOO Dumb, Regina definitely has no ulterior motives, Snow White hobbles a guy, and everyone forgets how to solve crime!  Elaine and Mads will be performing LIVE (online) on May 7, 2021 as part of Supercollider: https://fb.me/e/hPPejASta and with Silverbacks Improv Theatre during the Baton Rouge Improv Festival: https://www.facebook.com/batonrougeimprovfest

Elaine and Mads get down to business talking about the Murder Mystery arc of season 1: what happened to Kathryn Nolan? We also talk a lot about several shows that aren't the one we're supposed to. Put some quarters in the jar, kids! It's Storybroke!

Mads and Elaine are left with more questions than answers in this episode about Dwarf Birth, Jellyfish dresses, and secular nuns.

Welcome to Sunnybroke, a brand new Buffy the Vampire Slayer Rantcast. This week we'll b talking about Season 2's "When She Was Bad," If drinking blood gives vampires a buzz, and early Spike's accent work. 

Mads & Elaine talk about Buffy (again), writers, Cowardly Curses, Good Good Actresses, and reiterate that the Girls Night Out storyline was not only unnecessary, but also completely useless.

Join Your Pretty Friends as they discuss Season 1, Episode 12: Skin Deep. Enjoy crosstalk, the worst color grading of the season, and a completely unnecessary plot. Out now!

This week, your pretty friends chat about the extremely OOC Once Upon a Time Fan Project, "Fruit of the Poison Tree." This is allegedly a canon episode, but everyone took their stupid pills this week. Maybe it's the curse? Enjoy Mads being too upset over zippers, Elaine roasts the writers, and we successfully don't freeze solid during recording.

Your pretty friends discuss OUAT Season 1, Episode 10: 7:15 AM. Cat noises occur, shoutouts are given, and Mary Margaret needs an intervention for her stalking.

An episode we enjoyed! It's been a few weeks. Elaine makes a big announcement, Mads goes off-topic more than usual with the hottest Buffy the Vampire Slayer takes, and your pretty friends dissect Season 1, Episode 9: "True North." Find us on Twitter @storybrokepod

We chat about Once Upon a Time episode 8: "Desperate Souls." There's nothing like starting off 2021 with an episode about an election, something none of us are completely burnt out on. Also this week, the power of gold body glitter and learning that the Darkness was actually inside of us all along!

We're back for our first post-holiday break episode of Storybroke: Miserably Ever After! Today we have a real adult conversation about consent, how Regina is in fact hella problematic, and debate what Mr. Gold is doing in the woods with a shovel. Is he A) Burying a body, B) Burying two bodies, or C) Burying three bodies? Who knows!! 

We're back! This week we dive into Episode 6 of Once Upon a Time, "The Shepard." Last week, our hosts wished the men of this show could have wigs, and one finger of the monkey's paw curled. Join us as we talk about fantastical metallurgy, ABC's episode by episode gore budget, and the ethics of leaving your wife after coming out of a coma!

This week we dive into Season 1, Episode 5: That Still Small Voice. As Graham makes Emma a deputy, a mysterious sinkhole appears at the edge of town and Henry's life is placed in danger, while flashbacks show Jiminy Cricket's yearning to leave the family business. Tune in as we insult Jiminy Cricket's lack of ethics, Mads has strong words about Emma's coat, and the sound of crickets.

This week we chat about Episode 4: "The Price of Gold" and discuss full-face bronzer, clipper cuts, and all things best left in 2011. 

This week, our pretty friends talk about Snow White's backstory, try to ignore cat noises, discuss the intricacies of Orcs vs. Trolls.

It's episode two, so we get into the nitty-gritty of #SwanQueen minutes after acknowledging the two are related by marriage, discuss the intricacies of stacked wigs, lace as bangs, and THE LIE OF SO-CALLED "RED DELICIOUS" APPLES.

Welcome to Storybroke: Miserably Ever After, a brand new rant-cast about ABC's Once Upon a Time. Elaine and Mads chat about how they got into the show, drag Snow's wigs, and introduce the pilot episode!