Aurora & Cat chat real casual like about what they have been watching. Highlights include Tokyo Vice and Severance. 

It's a Christmas miracle! Cat & Aurora conclude their discussion on Midnight Mass, which is a great show to watch with the fam over the holidays. We interrupt this Ryan Murphy podcast to bring you a discussion of the newest creation from Netflix horror powerhouse Mike Flannigan. In this episode we cover parts 5-8 of the Netflix miniseries MIDNIGHT MASS. 

We interrupt this Ryan Murphy podcast to bring you a discussion of the newest creation from Netflix horror powerhouse Mike Flannigan. In this episode we cover parts 1-4 of the Netflix miniseries MIDNIGHT MASS. A hot young priest comes to a small isolated island under mysterious circumstances. A man returns home after a deadly mistake looking for redemption. Can they be saved? Listen and find out!

Episode 5 (BA'AL): Billie Lourd plays a woman struggling with infertility whose desperation to conceive awakens an ancient evil...OR DOES IT? Episode 6 (FERAL): A missing boy, an opportunistic hunter who knows how to find him, desperate parents, and one sexy Australian park ranger meet in the dark foreboding woods. IN RYAN MURPHY WE TRUST: presented by Downward Facing Death A podcast that explores the insane, brilliant, and often frustrating work of Ryan Murphy. We dive deep into the...

Episode 4: The Naughty List A group of 20 something Youtubers living in a house together get more than they bargained for when they go to extreme lengths to get more subscribers.

Episode 3: Drive In A group of teens goes to see a cursed film screening for one night only at a local drive in. The last time Rabbit Rabbit was shown, the crowd went nuts and started killing people. It's creator attacked Tipper Gore and was thrown in prison. But now he's out and he wants the world to see his creation... Cat & Aurora talk censorship (heavy stuff), the Exorcist, subliminal, liminal, and SUPER liminal messaging.

Episode 1: Rubber (Wo)Man Part One A new family moves into the murder house with plans to turn it into a haunted bed and breakfast. Troy and Michael soon realize that the evil house is having an effect on their already troubled teen daughter Scarlett. Episode 1: Rubber (Wo)Man Part Two A new ghost reveals herself to Scarlett at the house. Michael and Troy’s marriage is on the rocks when a hot contractor enters the picture. Can the murder house become a happy home?

AHS ROANOKE: Season 6, Part 5 (Episodes 9 & 10) Episode 9: Some wayward teens venture into Roanoke and get impaled by the real butcher. Lee makes a deal with Scáthach and is allowed to leave with her life after killing Monet. Audrey survives til help arrives but gets shot when she takes a police officer’s gun to kill Lee. Episode 10: Lee is the sole survivor of Roanoke and her story fascinates the public. She is interviewed by Lana Winters and learns that Flora has gone missing. Lee...

AHS ROANOKE: Season 6, Part 4 (Episodes 7 & 8) Episode 7: The cast and crew of My Roanoke Nightmare start getting killed off quick. Agnes goes too method and starts chopping people up. Dominic tries to stir the pot and reveals to Shelby what Matt has really been up to. We meet the real ghosts of Roanoke and they are terrifying. Episode 8: We learn the “backstory” of the Polks and their cannibalism. Cat is all about Steven King and is watching The Outsider and The Last of Us: Part 2....

AHS ROANOKE: Season 6, Part 3 (Episodes 5 & 6) Episode 5: We meet Edward Mott, the original owner of the house and Mama Polk and her cannibal family. The Butcher comes for Matt and Shelby, but they manage to escape to safety with Lee and Flora. Episode 6: Breaks the format and introduces new characters as we get to see the behind the scenes filming of My Roanoke Nightmare. An unethical TV producer gets the original Miller family, as well as their reenactment counterparts together in the...

Episode 3: We meet some wacky new characters including some gray children and Cricket, the pushy psychic who claims he knows where Lee's daughter Flora is. We learn the backstory behind Kathy "The Butcher" Bates' character. Shelby sees Matt engaging in some questionably activity in the forest. Episode 4: Dr. Elias to the rescue! Kind of...The gang learns about the Blood Moon Curse of the land and the fate that befell the former inhabitants. Matt finds himself drawn to Lady Gaga, the...

We dive head first into the outdoor wooden hot tub that is Roanoke and recap episodes 1 & 2. Cat gives some background on how the season was promoted and received and Aurora talks a little bit about the history of the Roanoke colony. Cat praises Aurora for her incredible taste in recommending the show Evil. Aurora raves about the Netflix original horror HIS HOUSE. https://www.instagram.com/downwardfacingdeath/ email us at [email protected]

Episode 13: The season finale. Lana is being interviewed in present day and looking back on what happened to the gang after Briarcliff. Jude was taken in by Kit where she lived the rest of her days in relative comfort. Except she was maybe given cancer by Kit’s alien kids? Speaking of aliens, we get no resolution on that front. Kit gets cancer in his 40s and disappears without a trace. Johnny infiltrates Lana’s team to confront her after the interview. But she’s been briefed by the police...

AHS ASYLUM: Season 2, Part 6 Episode 11: We get more unnecessary background on Bloodyface 2.0 aka Johnny’s Mommy Issues. Kit and Grace return home with their new baby but Alma is already there and she’s got a baby of her own! Lana and Threadson have one final showdown. She can’t go through with her abortion and gives birth to a little Bloodyface at the end of the episode. Babies everywhere! Episode 12: Opens with Kit covered in blood. Turns out he’s been living in polygamist bliss with Alma...

We cover Asylum Episodes 9 & 10 and Cat does a deep dive on Jeannine Deckers the singer/ songwriter of “Dominique”, the song playing on a loop in Briarcliff’s common room. Lana is pregnant after being raped by Thredson and the baby grows up to be Bloodyface 2.0. Evil Eunice, Arden and a reformed Leigh team up to turn the Monsignor against Jude. Arden is suddenly onboard with the whole alien thing and needs Kit to go Flatliners to draw them out. Leigh turns out to be not reformed and...

We cover Asylum Episodes 7 & 8. We are introduced to Shakath, the angel of death who says “hey girl, you ready to die or what?” to literally everyone. Grace finally takes her up on her offer. Kit pulls a Ted Bundy and jumps out of a window. Lana escapes from Thredson but is done in by toxic masculinity. CHRISTMAS EPISODE! A murderous Santa is thrown into this season because why not. Arden gives Eunice the old earring test to prove whether or not she’s a demon, She fails. But he loves her...

We talk about AHS Asylum Episodes 5 & 6. Jude hires a death camp survivor PI to prove Arden is a Nazi. It turns out Anne Frank is just some crazy housewife suffering PPD. (OR IS SHE??) She gets lobotomized for having emotions. Thredson bust Lana out of Briarcliff but she finds his taste in home decor...disconcerting.  Demon Eunice takes a little girl with a penchant for stabbing under her wing. The Monsignor finally sees what Arden has been working on in his lab and is horrified. Arden...

We talk about AHS Asylum Episodes 3 &4. Cat enlightens Aurora with cool connections between Asylum and other AHS seasons. Aurora goes on a tangent with the film The Sign of the Cross: how it relates to the show, enforcement of the production code, and how lions dealt with not being allowed into the actor’s union. She also shares her scare you to sleep philosophy (which we should all try! Because fear is better than anxiety). We close with some general TV talk including the idiotic idea...

We talk about AHS Asylum Episodes 1 & 2.  This season has everything. Catholicism. Aliens. Serial killers. Maroon 5. Nazis?  Also, Aurora discusses her experience trespassing at an abandoned TB hospital and her love her of Hallmark murder mysteries. Cat makes a disturbing revelation about how sweet baby Yoda ate a frog woman's baby right in front of her. IN RYAN MURPHY WE TRUST: presented by Downward Facing Death A podcast that explores the insane, brilliant, and often frustrating...

We talk about HOLLYWOOD Episode 7, the series finale and Aurora's love/hate relationship with pie. Then we get into some heavy stuff by talking through our feelings on how the show depicts sex workers vs. its portrayal of Rock and Henry's abusive relationship. We also dive into the autobiography of the real-life Ernie, Scotty Bowers, which heavily influenced the show.  This. autobiography. has. everything. Dirt on the Catholic church? Check. Scandalous Hollywood gossip? Check. Inside info on...

HOLLYWOOD: Episodes 5 & 6 Camille gets the leading role and 'Peg' becomes 'Meg'.  Raymond decides money is free and puts the film production in debt. To pay back Ace Amberg, it's all hands on deck at the gas station brothel. Henry becomes a producer on 'Meg', much to the chagrin of everyone.  Avis and Ace have one last night together before Ace makes his final exit. With him out of the way, random lawyers storm the studio and incinerate every copy of the film. History Corner: Tallulah...

HOLLYWOOD: Episodes 3 & 4 The gang gets crunk at George Cukor’s house. Jack and Rock vy for the same part in Peg. Queen Vivien Leigh makes a cameo and we hear the unfortunate phrase “feeding the kitty”. Yikes. Ace Amberg gets his racism on and fires Archie. Eleanor Roosevelt swoops in the save the day. History Corner: The Dance of the Seven Veils and You, The Hollywood sign was built to be a racist billboard, and Peg Entwistle  IN RYAN MURPHY WE TRUST: presented by Downward Facing...

HOLLYWOOD: Episodes 1 & 2 In post WWII Los Angeles, a group of young hopefuls try to make it in showbiz. There’s Jack, the pretty boy soldier; Archie, screenwriter by day, hustler by night; Camille, whose beauty and talent is squandered as she gets cast to play maids; Claire, the mean girl with a heart of gold; and Rock, the naive farm boy looking for love and connection. There’s also Raymond. History Corner: Why Oscars? And just what was the studio system? IN RYAN MURPHY WE TRUST:...

We find out that Ratched isn't a real nurse (shocker) and she unexpectedly teams up with Bucket to get Hanover ousted from the hospital. He flees with a patient with multiple personality disorder and one of her personalities stabs him. His loss (of life) is Ratched's gain and she relocates to Mexico with Gwen, but not before making one last attempt to settle the score with Edmund. Before he can "buy the farm", Edmund escapes for real this time. He's coming for Ratched. But she might come to...