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The season is over, and we have a LOT of thoughts. We go over our favorite and least favorite parts of this season of television, and give out some awards — such as the illustrious "Glenn Close in West Wing" award for the best minor role, and the "Boreal in Memorial" award for, well, we're really not sure. Plus, we catch up on our mailbag!  NEXT WEEK: We start The Amber Spyglass! Don't forget to check out our Extraneous merch and more over at Mischief Merch! Remember to send us your thoughts via email or a voice message with your theories: extraneouspod@gmail.com! We have a Patreon! Join our ever-growing community by going to Patreon.com/makingmischief today! Also follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and join our Facebook group for even more HDM discussion goodness! Extraneous is a part of the Mischief Media network.  Produced by Melissa Anelli // hosts Melissa Anelli and William Redden. Audio clips (c) BBC

This finale is full of dead things: Jopari, a few witches, many Magisterium (Magisteri?), and, lest we forget, our beloved aeronaut. But we are also waving goodbye to the deftness -- and dare we say subtlety -- that characterized much of this season, as we found this finale a bit inert. Come along with us as we break it all down and try to buck ourselves up, as we finish season two of the His Dark Materials television show. Don't forget to check out our Extraneous merch and more over at Mischief Merch! Remember to send us your thoughts via email or a voice message with your theories: extraneouspod@gmail.com! We have a Patreon! Join our ever-growing community by going to Patreon.com/makingmischief today! Also follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and join our Facebook group for even more HDM discussion goodness! Extraneous is a part of the Mischief Media network.  Produced by Melissa Anelli // hosts Melissa Anelli and William Redden. Audio clips (c) BBC

On this episode of Extraneous: His Dark Materials, we spy some angels from afar, follow Mary through Cittagazze, and share some moments with our favorite junior high power couple, one of whom may be bleeding to death. Plus, a very special Boreal memorial! So long, old friend! This week's sponsor is Shaker and Spoon, the easiest way ever to become a mixologist in your very own home! Don't forget to check out our Extraneous merch and more over at Mischief Merch! Remember to send us your thoughts via email or a voice message with your theories: extraneouspod@gmail.com! We have a Patreon! Join our ever-growing community by going to Patreon.com/makingmischief today! Also follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and join our Facebook group for even more HDM discussion goodness! Extraneous is a part of the Mischief Media network.  Produced by Jaanelle Yee // hosts Melissa Anelli and William Redden. Audio clips (c) BBC

It's Mrs. Coulter's first day in our world, and she's already passed her driving test and everything. Will and Lyra make eyes at each other, Mary considers a quest, and the angels have figured out surround sound. Come with us as we break down every awesome moment of His Dark Materials, Episode 5! This week's sponsor is Tavour, the app for finding and getting delivered the most awesome craft beers; remember to use code EXTRANEOUS to get $10 off your order of $25 or more! Don't forget to check out our Extraneous merch and more over at Mischief Merch! Remember to send us your thoughts via email or a voice message with your theories: extraneouspod@gmail.com! We have a Patreon! Join our ever-growing community by going to Patreon.com/makingmischief today! Also follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and join our Facebook group for even more HDM discussion goodness! Extraneous is a part of the Mischief Media network.  Produced by Jaanelle Yee // hosts Melissa Anelli and William Redden. Audio clips (c) BBC

In episode three, we contemplate the hazards of trusting anyone with a spider daemon, eavesdrop on a remarkable conversation between Lee and Mrs. Coulter, and watch Mary Malone do Mary Malone things (it’s...science?). Also Lyra and Will face off against Boreal the Curatorial, and two of our favorite non-humans have some sweet hangs! This week's sponsor is Tavour, the app for finding and getting delivered the most awesome craft beers; remember to use code EXTRANEOUS to get $10 off your order of $25 or more! Remember to send us your thoughts via email or a voice message with your theories: extraneouspod@gmail.com! We have a Patreon! Join our ever-growing community by going to Patreon.com/makingmischief today! You can also find our Extraneous merch and more over at Mischief Merch Also follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and join our Facebook group for even more HDM discussion goodness! Extraneous is a part of the Mischief Media network.  Produced by Jaanelle Yee // hosts Melissa Anelli and William Redden. Audio clips (c) BBC

In episode two, we meet Mary Malone (Simone Kirby), and nothing else matters, because she is the best and we want to hang out with her wearing kicks, drinking beer, and eating stale biscuits all the time. Don't you? Also: Boreal is a creeporeal, McPhail fails WAY up, and the show makes perhaps the greatest foreshadow in the HISTORY OF ALL TELEVISION (okay, we just like it, and we're emotional) with a trip to the Botanic Gardens. This week's sponsor is The Listener so remember to use the code STAYEXTRA20 at checkout for TWO free months of amazing podcast recs! Remember to send us your thoughts via email or a voice message with your theories: extraneouspod@gmail.com! We have a Patreon! Join our ever-growing community by going to Patreon.com/makingmischief today! You can also find our Extraneous merch and more over at Mischief Merch Also follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and join our Facebook group for even more HDM discussion goodness! Extraneous is a part of the Mischief Media network.  Produced by Jaanelle Yee // hosts Melissa Anelli and William Redden. Audio clips (c) BBC

Are you ready to dive really deep into this big, beautiful, budget-ey, biworldy second season? It's His Dark Materials, SEASON TWO! Will and Melissa do some redux on the first episode of the BBC/HBOMax series and we are very very very optimistic about what's to come. Also, we see Cittagazze, we spy some specters, the Lady of Bear Island has returned, and we attend a Florence and the Machine concert (aka a witchmoot).  This week's sponsor is Shaker and Spoon, so check them out for your (responsible, socially distanced) bar-tending needs! Remember to send us your thoughts via email or a voice message with your theories: extraneouspod@gmail.com! We have a Patreon! Join our ever-growing community by going to Patreon.com/makingmischief today! You can also find our Extraneous merch and more over at Mischief Merch Also follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and join our Facebook group for even more HDM discussion goodness! Extraneous is a part of the Mischief Media network.  Produced by Melissa Anelli // hosts Melissa Anelli and William Redden. Audio clips (c) BBC

It's time for moreal of the tales of boreal the exploreal, in this, our final episode covering The Subtle Knife book, JUST IN TIME for the BBC show to return! Woo! In this episode it's Taps for Lee and Hester, our pal Boreal, Lena Feldt, and all those redshirts from the Magisterium. We delve into Will and Lyra's deepening relationship, and discuss what happens when Hot Shaman and Destiny Boy finally meet. This week on Extraneous! This week's sponsor is TheListener.co so check them out and use the code STAYEXTRA20 at checkout! Remember to send us your thoughts via email or a voice message with your theories: extraneouspod@gmail.com! We have a Patreon! Join our ever-growing community by going to Patreon.com/makingmischief today! You can also find our Extraneous merch and more over at Mischief Merch Also follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and join our Facebook group for even more HDM discussion goodness! Extraneous is a part of the Mischief Media network.  Produced by Melissa Anelli // hosts Melissa Anelli and William Redden. Audio clips by Penguin Random House.

We are closing in on the end of our Subtle Knife deep dive and boy do we have some takes! Grandpa Cliffy, Ruta Skadi's sexual exploits, the very nature of all of humanity and consciousness, Augistinian conundrums, and cliffghast poop. All right here in this episode! For your browsing ease: Summary: 00:03:46 Characters: 00:10:00 Dust Bears: 00:41:01 Dust Bunnies: 00:59:25 Alethiometer: 01:06:35 Extra Award: 01:10:52 Mixtape: 01:12:48 Remember to send us your thoughts via email or a voice message with your theories: extraneouspod@gmail.com! We have a Patreon! Join our ever-growing community by going to Patreon.com/makingmischief today! You can also find our Extraneous merch and more over at Mischief Merch Also follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and join our Facebook group for even more HDM discussion goodness! Extraneous is a part of the Mischief Media network.  Produced by Melissa Anelli // hosts Melissa Anelli and William Redden 

Melissa and Will are back with a brand new episode and a slightly new format and JUST in time because John Parry has finally made his appearance! --- We have a Patreon! Join our ever-growing community by going to Patreon.com/makingmischief today! You can also find our Extraneous merch and more over at Mischief Merch. --- Send us an email or a voice message with your theories: extraneouspod@gmail.com. Also follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and join our Facebook group for even more HDM discussion goodness! Extraneous is a part of the Mischief Media network.  Produced by Jaanelle Yee // hosts Melissa Anelli and William Redden // Audiobook clips (c) Penguin Random House

Quick record and release here, as Melissa and Will break down the new trailer for THE SUBTLE KNIFE, SEASON 2, that was released at Comic Con! Is that Will without his fingers? What is Lord Boreal doing fighting with Will? A new look for the tower? Witchmoot?! RUTA MF'ing SKADI! We're SO EXCITED! Extraneous is a part of the Mischief Media network. We have a Patreon! Join our ever-growing community by going to Patreon.com/makingmischief today! You can also find our Extraneous merch and more over at Mischief Merch. 

Lyra, Pan, Will, and the Tabby Cat pull a heist worthy of Ocean's 11. So of course Mrs. Coulter shows up!  Characters (05:30:00) Dust Bears (20:15:00) Dust Bunnies (25:02:00) Alethiometer readings (28:24:00) Extra Awards (31:13:00) Mixtape (32:01:00); remember you can listen to the playlist here! This episode is sponsored by Tab for a Cause!  Send us an email or a voice message with your theories: extraneouspod@gmail.com. Also follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and join our Facebook group for even more HDM discussion goodness! Extraneous is a part of the Mischief Media network. We have a Patreon! Join our ever-growing community by going to Patreon.com/makingmischief today! You can also find our Extraneous merch and more over at Mischief Merch.  Produced by Jaanelle Yee // hosts Melissa Anelli and William Redden // Audiobook clips (c) Penguin Random House

More than halfway through Subtle Knife...we meet...THE SUBTLE KNIFE! Join us as we traverse this immensely important piece of the story: Characters (06:11:70) Dust Bears (27:15:22) Dust Bunnies (47:56:83) Alethiometer readings (51:02:81) Extra Awards (53:10:94) Mixtape (54:43:70); remember you can listen to the playlist here! This episode is sponsored by Shaker and Spoon. Send us an email or a voice message with your theories: extraneouspod@gmail.com. Also follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and join our Facebook group for even more HDM discussion goodness! Extraneous is a part of the Mischief Media network. We have a Patreon! Join our ever-growing community by going to Patreon.com/makingmischief today! You can also find our Extraneous merch and more over at Mischief Merch. That's also where you can find the gift cards we talked about up top—head to mischiefmerch.com/giftcard today and pick up a Mischief gift card to gain a 20-30% bonus value on top of what you spend to any Mischief original event! Produced by Melissa Anelli // hosts Melissa Anelli and William Redden // Audiobook clips (c) Penguin Random House

Lord Boreal is a Douche, Part 75: It's Chapter 7! Come with us as we journey through the character development in this chapter, followed by our dust bears (33:34:77) and dust bunnies (40:34:77), alethiometer readings (43:20:42), Extra Award (45:55:99), and Mixtape songs (47:30:50)  — the whole playlist of which you can listen to here! This episode is sponsored by Shaker and Spoon. Send us an email or a voice message with your theories: extraneouspod@gmail.com. Also follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and join our Facebook group for even more HDM discussion goodness! Extraneous is a part of the Mischief Media network. We have a Patreon! Join our ever-growing community by going to Patreon.com/makingmischief today! You can also find our Extraneous merch and more over at Mischief Merch. That's also where you can find the gift cards we talked about up top—head to mischiefmerch.com/giftcard today and pick up a Mischief gift card to gain a 20-30% bonus value on top of what you spend to any Mischief original event! Produced by Melissa Anelli // hosts Melissa Anelli and William Redden // Audiobook clips (c) Penguin Random House

Welcome to chapter 6! We're starting this week with a quick summary and diving into plot and themes (00:03:45). For our dust bears and dust bunnies, there's a ton of differences in the worlds to go through as well—remember the Alamo? We have our alethiometer readings (00:42:13), and pick our Extra award recipients (00:45:11), and some great new songs for our Subtle Knife mixtape (00:47:39).  This episode is sponsored by Tab for a Cause.  Send us an email or a voice message with your theories: extraneouspod@gmail.com. Also follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and join our Facebook group for even more HDM discussion goodness! Extraneous is a part of the Mischief Media network. We have a Patreon! Join our ever-growing community by going to Patreon.com/makingmischief today! You can also find our Extraneous merch and more over at Mischief Merch. That's also where you can find the gift cards we talked about up top—head to mischiefmerch.com/giftcard today and pick up a Mischief gift card to gain a 20-30% bonus value on top of what you spend to any Mischief original event! Produced by Jaanelle Yee // hosts Melissa Anelli and William Redden // Audiobook clips (c) Penguin Random House

This week, we're finishing up our chapter 4 analysis and moving on to chapter 5 of The Subtle Knife (00:04:17). We're following Will and Lyra's journeys and their approaches to the world, and we're loving how these characters are coming to life. Also, in our themes discussion we note the way people treat animals in their respective worlds helps draw out the differences. We also have a canon conundrums moment (00:41:37), go over our alethiometer readings (00:44:04), and pick our Extra award recipients (00:47:24). Finally, you're going to love the new songs Will added to our Subtle Knife mixtape (00:49:24). Send us an email or a voice message with your theories: extraneouspod@gmail.com. Also follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and join our Facebook group for even more HDM discussion goodness! This episode is sponsored by Shaker and Spoon. Extraneous is a part of the Mischief Media network. We have a Patreon! Join our ever-growing community by going to Patreon.com/makingmischief today! You can also find our Extraneous merch and more over at Mischief Merch. That's also where you can find the gift cards we talked about up top--head to mischiefmerch.com/giftcard today and pick up a Mischief gift card to gain a 20-30% bonus value on top of what you spend to any Mischief original event! Produced by Jaanelle Yee // hosts Melissa Anelli and William Redden // Audiobook clips (c) Penguin Random House

FIRST: We hope you're all safe! Also! Our Patreon is live and ready to go! We also have merch available for your nerdy merch needs. We always say it's a short and simple chapter, and then we start digging in and so much more appears to us! These books are just so good. We start with a discussion of the major plot developments and themes (00:04:26), alethiometer readings (01:00:57), the Extra award (01:03:58), and add to the Subtle Knife mixtape (01:05:32).  Send us an email or a voice message with your theories: extraneouspod@gmail.com. Also follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and join our Facebook group for even more HDM discussion goodness! Produced by Jaanelle Yee // hosts Melissa Anelli and William Redden // Audiobook clips (c) Penguin Random House

This week: Melissa and WIll finish chapter 2 and delve into all of chapter 3 of The Subtle Knife! (Have you not read these books? Read these books! Because we do spoilers.) After our main discussion, we bring you alethiometer readings (00:52:03), the Extra award (00:55:30), and a couple of songs for the new Subtle Knife mixtape (00:57:24), which is different than the Golden Compass one, so make sure you check it out!  Have we mentioned we have merch available?  Send us an email or a voice message with your theories: extraneouspod@gmail.com. Also follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and join our Facebook group for even more HDM discussion goodness! Produced by Jaanelle Yee // hosts Melissa Anelli and William Redden // Audiobook clips (c) Penguin Random House

Since The Subtle Knife continues with a truly insane amount of plot, Melissa and Will have decided to take their time and split chapter 2 into 2 episodes. We'll be doing quicker plot discussions and then getting into themes. We also have alethiometer readings, the Extra award, and a brand new mixtape for your listening pleasure. Dive into this amazing book with us!  Have some merch! Send us an email or a voice message with your theories: extraneouspod@gmail.com. Also follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and join our Facebook group for even more HDM discussion goodness! Remember to rate/review/etc! Also make sure to check out the His Dark Materials Mixtape and The Subtle Knife Mixtape! Produced by Jaanelle Yee // hosts Melissa Anelli and William Redden // Audiobook clips (c) Penguin Random House

We're jumping into The Subtle Knife this week, and we couldn't be happier. The first chapter is jam-packed so we go through the strange new world we're thrown into piece by piece (00:02:39). A LOT happens. Then, we get into the Extra Award (00:43:06) and our alethiometer readings (00:45:42). We can't wait to see where Lyra and Will go from here! Have some merch! Send us an email or a voice message with your theories: extraneouspod@gmail.com. Also follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and join our Facebook group for even more HDM discussion goodness! Remember to rate/review/etc! Also make sure to check out the His Dark Materials Mixtape! Catch up before we start the new one next week. Produced by Jaanelle Yee // hosts Melissa Anelli and William Redden