Mel & Jill Geek Out

Mel & Jill Digress 5 - TTPD, Chinese GP, VPR & More

The besties are back with all the updates for our latest obsessions. Mel & Jill breakdown The Tortured Poets Department by Taylor Swift. We discuss our current favorites, theorize on single selections, and discuss their favorite songs so far. Jill and Mel discuss the Chinese GP and the interesting race & fantasy results. Jill may have broken her fantasy curse. Mel gives us an update on her rewatch of VPR plus a little current news and reality TV scandals. The besties wrap up with discussions on the new Wolverine/Deadpool trailer that dropped today and Mel gives Jill a mini lesson in the X-Men/Marvel universe. 
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Vanderpump Rules, Season 11, Episode 12: Spoiled Plans and Baby Daddies

The besties start off the episode excited for the new Taylor Swift album release! Needless to say, the besties have the album pre-saved on Spotify. 
 
This episode of VPR honestly felt like yet another filler episode. The truth comes out about the Tom/Ariana house situation (spoiler alert - Ariana was right). Lala picks her sperm donor, and Sandoval asks Schwartz to be his roommate, which he promptly declines. The Katie/Lala fight might have found a resolution, and James tells Tom off in a great way but then decides to be a bigger person. James and Ali have a vulnerable moment on camera, and in general, it was a fairly unexciting episode. Hopefully, next week is better. 
 
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Vanderpump Rules, Season 11, Episode 11: The New #1 Guy in the Group

Jill is back from the dead! (aka, she was sick last week). The besties kick off the episode with being excited about the new Taylor Swift album, and Mel is finally getting some much needed context for the past seasons of VPR thanks to her rewatch. (Is a full rewatch in our future??)
 
Let’s be honest, not a ton happens in this episode. The besties are still #TeamAriana and no amount of bad editing will change our minds. However, we jump back into the super fun beach day. The love triangle between Tori, Katie, and Schwartz is finally revealed. Jo & Lala meet up at a hot dog stand where she gives her side of the story on her & Schwartz “relationship.” Singles night leads to the downfall of said relationship. 
 
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Mel & Jill Digress 4 - It All Comes Back to Food

The episode starts off with the very important question of how fast do clouds move. That somehow transforms into if Jill has an accent or not. Which then devolves into Mel telling Jill all about the weird way Texans pronounce and spell things. 
 
Somehow the besties then move onto cheese and the regional differences in mexican food. That more understandably moves to weird eating habits. They devolve into tourism and Disney and how much they dislike their respective tourist nonsense.This unfortunately moves to Disney vomit stories and we’re sorry in advance for the yuckiness.
 
They finally get to what was originally going to be their warm-up topic about how Miriam Margolyes (who played Professor Sprout in Harry Potter) had a very hot take about adults liking Harry Potter. 
 
But we complete the circle with the besties talking about food again by the end.
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Iron Flame, Pt 10: Somebody We Used to Know

The Besties begin the episode discussing the 2024 solar eclipse and how SJM broke Jill’s reading pace. Mel gives us an update on her TBR jar and may just make an exception to her usual rule. 
 
We begin with chapter 40, and Mel goes into Felix, who he is, where he may have come from, and his opinions on Carr’s teaching abilities. The besties talk through Violet’s absolute lack of knowledge of her own signet and how that differs from the Violet, they knew in Fourth Wing. Violet then makes another dumb decision to do exactly the opposite of what Xaden told her to. 
 
In chapter 41 Jill and Mel talk about how Violet really just ran into this situation completely blind with zero preparation on her part. Xaden beat them there, and the two of them have a whole new reason to argue (about nothing). Violet goes to show off her signet, but is met with a not-so-pleasant surprise. Don’t mind the solid 10 minute tangent about 90’s baseball movies.
 
In Chapter 42 a little bit of a fight ensues, but they do finally get the deal they need for the luminary. But Brennan maybe makes a huge mistake. 
 
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Drive to Survive, Season 6, Part 3: Childhood Rivals and the End of an Era

The Besties start off with a little update about F1, and the return of Guenther (at least at the Miami Grand Prix). They both are rooting for Yuki at the Japan Grand Prix. We quickly dive into episodes 5 and 6.
 
Episode 5 looks at the tension Alpine, mainly between Estie Bestie and Pierre Gasly. They have some bad blood from literally childhood, and the two just straight up don’t get along. Otmar, the Team Principal, really isn’t helping matters either with stupid PR stunts. Things get so bad that the two wreck each other at the third race of the season. There’s pressure from the team CEO about the antics, and frankly, Otmar doesn’t seem to do anything to try and smooth things over between the two drivers. Ultimately, Gasly kinda gets screwed at Monoco. 
 
Episode 6 focuses on Mercedes. After coming off a very challenging season in 2022, Hamilton is starting to show his frustration with the team. When he brings up an issue with the car, he’s pretty much ignored. Toto Wolff and Susie give us a lesson on sportsmanship, while Hamilton continues to get a pretty crummy edit from Netflix. Rumors fly that Hamilton is going to leave Mercedes, but ultimately does resign for 2 more years. We all know how that went. 
 
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Vanderpump Rules, Season 11, Episode 10: She’s Not There Yet

The Besties kick off the episode covering some of the recent news about the cast of VPR and The Valley (looking at you Jax). 
 
Needless to say, this was a major filler episode. Essentially, Ariana and Sandoval fought, and everyone else stood back and watched, awkwardly. Oh, and poor Ann got fired. Or did she? At least Katie and Ariana are there with a good job to help a girl out. 
 
Shout out to Lisa and James's mom for being as into all the tea as the rest of us are. 
 
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Iron Flame, Pt 9: We Saw it Coming

Mel & Jill kick the episode off with the latest Empyrean Series news and Mel gives some teaser theories that the besties will have to dive into once we’ve covered all of Iron Flame. 
 
The besties begin Part 2 of Iron Flame and discuss how sibling dynamics, rash teen choices, and early adulthood sex drives can really make for some awkward situations. Andarna finally makes an appearance along with Teine, Mira, and a few other dragons & riders. War college resumes for the cadets, some of whom have a lot of catching up to do. Sibling antics run amok when Mira breaks Brennan’s nose. We see an attempt to raise the wards that ultimately failed, something the Besties think was pretty dang obvious.  
 
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