Hello everyone! We are back with more Plathville this week and it’s kind of heavy! We chat about Kim’s responsibility towards her children and Barry’s weird smirk (again), and we get our hackles up about Max, but Micah living his best life with his ho phase is keeping us from being too sad. Come hang out with us!

This week, Megan and Gillian talk about the first chunk of Welcome to Plathville, Season 4. We get into Kim's dance crisis, Barry's weird reactions, and declare ourself officially an anti-Max podcast. Come hang out with us!

We finally get to see the long awaited wedding! It’s only been wedding planning episodes for half the season, and it’s as unplanned as ever. Bridesmaid dress issues, unwritten love songs, and performance anxiety are all on the menu. Come hang out with us!

This week Megan and Gillian are in the home stretch of season 8 of Bringing Up Bates. We talk about wedding planning, sexy lacquered pianos, and how we have never before heard that the Bates family doesn't do dancing at weddings. 😉 Come hang out with us!

This week, Gillian and Megan are back with the Bates. This chunk of episodes is chock full of happenings: puppies, babies, weddings that haven’t been planned yet somehow are happening in 90 days, and more! Come hang out with us and we promise we won’t make you listen to Lawson’s music. 

We're back with the Bates family this week! There are weddings, babies, and thrift store shopping, as per usual, and Chad gets volunteered to make elaborate wedding stages, headboards, and about 70 other projects. Come hang out with us!

Hello everyone! We are back, with a bit of a short episode so we can get caught up on all the trashy tv news and discussion. We'll be back next week with Bringing Up Bates and a more regular episode. Come hang out with us!

This week, we get further into Season 8 of Bringing Up Bates, and we get back to the easy breezy types of episodes: baby showers, wedding prep, and bad greige dresses. We get a brand new inappropriate Lawson song, a closed interstate due to an accident, and Tori actually liking a party someone threw for her. Come hang out with us!

This week we start Season 8 of Bringing Up Bates, where there are more weddings, more proposals, more babies and more super awkward moments. We get into wedding planning, dress shopping woes and wins, and lighthouses. Come hang out with us!

This week we wrap up Season 7 of Bringing Up Bates. We get Kelton's proposal, Erin and Carlin's harebrained projects, and lots of little newborn babies. We get real deep into IBLP teachings and the terrible Bates influence this week, as well. Come hang out with us!     CW: We do briefly talk about child abuse with regards to Whitney's upbringing, no graphic details, just overview discussion [minutes: 49:00 - 56:00]

Hello everyone! This week Megan and Gillian are just about wrapping up season 7 of Bringing Up Bates. We still don't know why they've been cancelled, but we do know that they keep trying to curse us. We chat about Erin's labor, the Bates church tear-down, and which of the Bates' daughters' husbands are okay people. Come hang out with us!

This week we have more technical difficulties due to the Bates curse, but we continue on through Season 7 of Bringing Up Bates. We talk about babies (as always), courting (as per usual) and everyone's moving to Nashville. Come hang out with us!

Hello everyone! This week we are *still* in Bringing Up Bates Season 7! But we discuss the cancellation of the show this episode, as well as talk about Tori's honeymoon, the family trip to Myrtle Beach (which is in Horry County, hehe), and Lawson and Nathan being jerks, as per usual. Come hang out with us!

Hello everyone! We're back! We apologize for the accidental hiatus, but unfortunately Megan got COVID on New Years' Eve and we've just been focusing on making sure she is well. We have a fun episode for y'all, we cover the lead up to Tori and Bobby's wedding and then the event itself, and it's chock full of bad decisions and Bates shenanigans. We recorded this literally *as* Erin was giving birth to her next baby and right before the cancellation of Bringing Up Bates was announced. We hope...

Megan and Gillian are still deep in season 7 of Bringing Up Bates and this week we get into a weird bro-only lake Jesus retreat, wedding dress shopping with the meanest sisters, and Tori finally got her Ring (and maybe a husband, too). Come hang out with us!

This week, Megan and Gillian get back into Bringing Up Bates, working through Season 7 which is an incredibly long season because everyone's getting married, pregnant, courted, broken up with, who knows! Josie turns 18, Bobby becomes a happy camper, and we still can't tell Bobby, Evan and Kelton apart. Come hang out with us! Content warnings: discussion of infertility, mention of Josh Duggar

Warning: This week we are discussing the Josh Duggar trial in detail. While we do our best to avoid any description of CSAM, there are some details that have to be mentioned to give the full story. So, please, if this trial has any chance of being triggering for you, we will see you our next episode.  In this episode, we discuss the trial chronologically and add in the interesting facts and points that we heard while watching the trial in real time. We hope this is a thorough, and damning,...

Megan and Gillian tie up loose ends this week and finish the final 3 episodes of this season of Welcome to Plathville. The older Plath children are about to break free, Olivia goes to talk to Kim and Barry, and Ethan seems to have gotten through his sneaky rage cycle to actually figure out what *he* wants to do. Come hang out with us!

After a full week of construction and chainsaws at both Megan and Gillian's houses, we're finally back with the final episode of season 6 of Bringing Up Bates. We try to tell Bobby and Evan apart, hope the Bates don't move to West Virginia and generally cringe at the Big Talks the boys have to have in order to date Gil's teenage daughters. Come hang out with us!

This week Megan and Gillian continue onwards through season 6 of Bringing Up Bates. We get some good Chad and Erin content, some cringe Lawson acting and a lot of weird Bates behaviors. Come hang out with us! Www.ko-fi.com/tvliterate 🖤

This week, Megan and Gillian get back into the lighthearted, anxiety-ridden world of the Bates. We watch them clean out ~the shed~, go to cooking classes and awkwardly pry into Tori and Bobby’s courtship. Somehow, all of the Bates get out of these episodes without any broken bones, which is honestly impressive. Come hang out with us!

This week Megan and Gillian continue talking about Welcome to Plathville season 3. Last week's episodes were *full* bummers, but this week we find a glimmer of hope and rekindle our outrage at Kim's behavior towards her children. Come hang out with us!

This week, Megan and Gillian get back into Welcome to Plathville, and it still sucks! Everyone in this show deserves to be happy except Kim and Barry, and we get into the nitty gritty, depressing details of woe that season 3 has served us. Come hang out with us (and maybe cry a little too)!

This week Megan and Gillian watched the 4 part docuseries LuLaRich. We discuss the serious parts of the predatory nature of MLMs, pyramid schemes and direct sales, while also taking the time to laugh at the Stidhams seemingly perjuring themselves on camera. Come hang out with us! Ko-Fi link (since Gillian seemingly cannot say it right!): www.ko-fi.com/tvliterate