The Alethiometer: A His Dark Materials Podcast

It is so hard to say goodbye to Lyra and Will, and yet here we are. After three wonderful seasons, His Dark Materials has come to a beautiful and sad ending. And there is no better way to end our show than by hanging out via Zoom and chatting with

As they say, all good things must come to an end, and what a bittersweet ending we had! The battle was won, but the multiverse was closed and our heroes had such a sad parting. Yet we were uplifted and glad to be part of the journey just the same.

Sleep came easily to the intrepid voyagers who stepped through windows from across the multiverse… then they woke up and talked and talked about the incredible series finale of His Dark Materials! Yes, it's round 2 of our Finale Party panel discussion with Barb, Kathleen, Jim, Brian, and Fred! Hear

They came from across the worlds, or the multiverse if you prefer! Almost all our regular feedback contributors journeyed to Sunny Pine Knoll Shores, NC for our finale party! We reveled in the bitter and the sweet at the end of the epic and wonderful His Dark MaterialsI Come and

Could there be any more action, suspense and heart in a show? We don't think so! It's Lord Asriel and Mrs. Coulter versus Metatron and the hosts of The Authority in the penultimate episode of His Dark Materials, S03E07 “The Clouded Mountain”. It aired on HBO on December 26, 2022.

Could there be any more action, suspense and heart in a show? We don't think so! It's Lord Asriel and Mrs. Coulter versus Metatron and the hosts of The Authority in the penultimate episode of His Dark Materials, S03E07 “The Clouded Mountain”. It aired on HBO on December 26, 2022.

Who knew we could feel sorry for Mrs. Coulter? Or a harpy? We felt for both of them, and of course, the waterworks came on with Lyra and Lee, Lyra and Roger, and Will and John Parry! Plus we pour one out for Ruta and Sergi after watching His Dark

Who knew we could feel sorry for Mrs. Coulter? Or a harpy? We felt for both of them, and of course the waterworks came on with Lyra and Lee, Lyra and Roger, and Will and John Parry! Plus we pour one out for Ruta and Sergi after watching His Dark

What a journey for Lyra and Will – it's really dark and they see dead people, including Roger and a certain aeronaut! Plus Mary Malone meets a new friend named Atal and finds her relation to Dust! Then it's Mrs. C and Father President MacPhail in a Texas death match!

What a journey for Lyra and Will – it's really dark and they see dead people, including Roger and a certain aeronaut! Plus Mary Malone meets a new friend named Atal and finds her relation to Dust! Then it's Mrs. C and Father President MacPhail in a Texas death match!

Get out those handkerchiefs – Lyra and Pan are going to make you cry! Plus Mrs. Coulter goes to the Magisterium, and Lyra meets her own Death! It's all there and more in His Dark Materials S03E04 “Lyra and Her Death”, which aired on HBO on December 12, 2022. It

Get out those handkerchiefs – Lyra and Pan are going to make you cry! Plus Mrs. Coulter goes to the Magisterium, and Lyra meets her own Death! It's all there and more in His Dark Materials S03E04 “Lyra and Her Death”, which aired on HBO on December 12, 2022. It

What starts as a slow burn with chess pieces moving into place becomes an episode rich with emotion upon a second showing! See Asriel shed a tear, Iorek reforge a knife (with Will's help!), and Mrs. Coulter fly in His Dark Materials S03E03 “The Intention Craft”, which aired on HBO

What starts as a slow burn with chess pieces moving into place becomes an episode rich with emotion upon a second showing! See Asriel shed a tear, Iorek reforge a knife (with Will's help!), and Mrs. Coulter fly in His Dark Materials S03E03 “The Intention Craft”, which aired on HBO

Goodness gracious y'all, it turns out that Will and Lyra CAN catch a break. Just not the one they want! We are all over the worlds and Mary Malone is back in His Dark Materials S03E02 “The Break”, which aired on HBO on December 5, 2022. It was written by

Goodness gracious y'all, it turns out that Will and Lyra CAN catch a break. Just not the one they want! We are all over the worlds and Mary Malone is back in His Dark Materials S03E02 “The Break”, which aired on HBO on December 5, 2022. It was written by

Wow! What a tour of the worlds we got this week in the triumphal return of His Dark Materials! New people, old faves, and more await in S03E01 “The Enchanted Sleeper”, which aired on HBO on December 5, 2022. It was written by Jack Thorne and Amelia Spencer and directed

Wow! What a tour of the worlds we got this week in the triumphal return of His Dark Materials! New people, old faves, and more await in S03E01 “The Enchanted Sleeper”, which aired on HBO on December 5, 2022. It was written by Jack Thorne and Amelia Spencer and directed

Testing…testing…is this Alethiometer on? Why yes it is! And His Dark Materials is back just in time for us to read the truth! With the upcoming return of the final season of the BBC/HBO smash series, we needed to do a rewatch to remind ourselves of the brilliance of this

What an AMAZING ride we had with His Dark Materials Season 2! Now that we have had some time to digest the adventure and the heartbreak, we have assembled a roundtable of our frequent contributors to break it all down together! Joining us are our friends Fred, Jim, Brian, Barb,

Wow – who saw all that coming? What a heart-breaking ending to Season 2! So many battles, and sadly so many people who do not survive the hour. It's His Dark Materials S02E07 “Æsahættr”, which aired on HBO on December 28, 2020. It was written by Jack Thorne and directed

Wow – who saw all that coming? What a heart-breaking ending to Season 2! So many battles, and sadly so many people who do not survive the hour. It's His Dark Materials S02E07 “Æsahættr”, which aired on HBO on December 28, 2020. It was written by Jack Thorne and directed

Can we get any more tense? Witches, angels, Spectres! Airship attacks! Murderous children! Poison! Whoa! Everyone and everything is coming together in His Dark Materials S02E06 “Malice”, which aired on HBO on December 21, 2020. It was written by Lydia Adetunji and Jack Thorne and directed by Jamie Childs. This

Can we get any more tense? Witches, angels, Spectres! Airship attacks! Murderous children! Poison! Whoa! Everyone and everything is coming together in His Dark Materials S02E06 “Malice”, which aired on HBO on December 21, 2020. It was written by Lydia Adetunji and Jack Thorne and directed by Jamie Childs. This

Every week we think we have seen the best episode of His Dark Materials, and then we get one we love more! This week continues the trend! We have world shifts, slices in the fabric of universes, and good old-fashioned fighting! Plus wolverine Pan versus the Golden Monkey! It's all

Every week we think we have seen the best episode of His Dark Materials, and then we get one we love more! This week continues the trend! We have world shifts, slices in the fabric of universes, and good old-fashioned fighting! Plus wolverine Pan versus the Golden Monkey! It's all

We were loving this season before this week, but now “His Dark Materials” has kicked into overdrive! Lee finds Grumman! Will gets a swell new knife, but careful of those fingers! Lyra and Pan are super supportive, Mrs. Coulter and Lord Boreal get icky together! Witches are burning zeppelins! And

We were loving this season before this week, but now “His Dark Materials” has kicked into overdrive! Lee finds Grumman! Will gets a swell new knife, but careful of those fingers! Lyra and Pan are super supportive, Mrs. Coulter and Lord Boreal get icky together! Witches are burning zeppelins! And

Have we had a fave episode yet of “His Dark Materials”? This week we certainly have a contender! We've got Lyra and Will working together, the return of Lord Boreal, and a startling encounter between Lee Scoresby and Mrs. Coulter! All this and more await you in S02E03 “Theft” which

Have we had a fave episode yet of “His Dark Materials”? This week we certainly have a contender! We've got Lyra and Will working together, the return of Lord Boreal, and a startling encounter between Lee Scoresby and Mrs. Coulter! All this and more await you in S02E03 “Theft” which

The pace and cars are accelerating this week on “His Dark Materials”! We get a convergence of Dust and Dark Matter and newcomer Mary Malone! CARDINAL MacPhail! And that evil duo, Mrs. Coulter and Lord Boreal are up to no good! Thank the stars Lyra and Will are together and

The pace and cars are accelerating this week on “His Dark Materials”! We get a convergence of Dust and Dark Matter and newcomer Mary Malone! CARDINAL MacPhail! And that evil duo, Mrs. Coulter and Lord Boreal are up to no good! Thank the stars Lyra and Will are together and

It seemed like forever to come back, and at long last it's here! Season 2 of “His Dark Materials” hits the ground running, as we shift to a new world and Lyra and Will finally meeting! We are talking about S02E01 “The City of Magpies” which aired on HBO on

It seemed like forever to come back, and at long last it's here! Season 2 of “His Dark Materials” hits the ground running, as we shift to a new world and Lyra and Will finally meeting! We are talking about S02E01 “The City of Magpies” which aired on HBO on

Ta-da! It's time at last for the debut of Season 2 of His Dark Materials! Before it begins, we have gotten together again with our roundtable of listeners to talk about what we saw in Season 1, likes, faves, etc., and what we are looking for out of Season 2!

It's been forever since the last episode of His Dark Materials, but it's returning on November 16 in the US! During the long break, we decided to watch the 2007 film version of the first book of the series called “The Golden Compass”! Then we asked some of our regular

What a first season we got from His Dark Materials! There is so much to unpack, and so much to ponder during the long hiatus before Season 2 begins later this year. Who better to help us reflect on Season 1 than a roundtable of our regular contributors! Through the

We read the books. We knew what was coming. We steeled ourselves for tragedy. We cried anyway! Everything comes crashing down in the Season 1 finale of His Dark Materials! It's S01E08 “Betrayal” which aired on HBO on December 23, 2019. It was written by Jack Thorne and directed by

We read the books. We knew what was coming. We steeled ourselves for tragedy. We cried anyway! Everything comes crashing down in the Season 1 finale of His Dark Materials! It's  S01E08 “Betrayal” which aired on HBO on December 23, 2019. It was written by Jack Thorne and directed by

The battle was a long time coming, and now it's here: the panserbjørnebowl! Beloved Iorek versus evil Iofur in “The Fight to the Death”! Plus Mrs. Coulter down, but not out. Lyra helping Iorek and heading North with Roger to see Asriel! And Will and Elaine facing off with Lord

The battle was a long time coming, and now it's here: the panserbjørnebowl! Beloved Iorek versus evil Iofur in “The Fight to the Death”! Plus Mrs. Coulter down, but not out. Lyra helping Iorek and heading North with Roger to see Asriel! And Will and Elaine facing off with Lord

We are careening towards the end of Season 1, and the action is intense! Lyra's time in Bolvangar is harrowing to say the least! And Roger is alive! Those poor severed children are heartbreaking, while the evils of the Oblation board and its minions are sickening. Thank goodness for the

We are careening towards the end of Season 1, and the action is intense! Lyra's time in Bolvangar is harrowing to say the least! And Roger is alive! Those poor severed children are heartbreaking, while the evils of the Oblation board and its minions are sickening. Thank goodness for the

After all the talk of the North, we finally get a glimpse of it, and in terrifying and heartbreaking fashion. Plus we learn about a boy who is as central to our story as Lyra! And we encounter our first witch, the enchanting Serafina Pekkala!  All that plus Iorek running

After all the talk of the North, we finally get a glimpse of it, and in terrifying and heartbreaking fashion. Plus we learn about a boy who is as central to our story as Lyra! And we encounter our first witch, the enchanting Serafina Pekkala!  All that plus Iorek running

As book readers, we were really looking forward to the arrival in Trollesund because of the characters we meet there, and we were so happy to see them! Yes, we got Lee Scoresby and Hester, and the incredible Iorek Byrnison! Plus Lyra took control! What a wonderful experience to be

We love those Gyptians, don't you? And Mrs. Coulter is even darker than we thought! Plus Lyra can read the alethiometer with no training? Grumman is Parry? Poor Benjamin! There was so much going on in this week's episode of His Dark Materials! It was all in S01E03 “The Spies”!

Who knew that the pilot was just a warmup for a blow-your-mind episode of His Dark Materials? Mrs. Coulter is kinda, um, unhingy? There's…another universe? More than one? Lyra is just trying to figure out the grown ups with us, as we cringed and shouted at the twists and turns

We are thrilled to have had such a great introduction to the world of His Dark Materials this week! Seeing Lyra, Lord Asriel, the Master, the Gyptians, and of course Mrs. Coulter made us so happy! Plus: Pan and Stelmaria and that darn monkey daemon! Of course, this is S01E01