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TV Literate
by TV Literate
Trashy TV doesn't have to be a guilty pleasure!
Episodes
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Welcome to Plathville: Bummer City
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...
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Welcome to Plathville: Uh-Oh, Kim and Barry
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!
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Bringing Up Bates: A Wedding Worth the Wait?
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!
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Bringing Up Bates: The Sinner’s Piano
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!
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Bringing Up Bates: Flipped Four Wheelers
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.
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Bringing Up Bates: #FreeChad
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!
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Episode 85: Catch Up and Josh Duggar Sentencing
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!
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Bringing Up Bates: Back to the Batesics
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...
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Bringing Up Bates: Weddings, Proposals, & Ampersands
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!
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Bringing Up Bates: Utah is for Lovers
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...
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Bringing Up Bates: Gil Bates’ Church is Falling Down
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'…
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Bringing Up Bates: The Bates are (Probably) Witches
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!
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Bringing Up Bates: Honeymoons, Hellions and Horry County
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…
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Bringing Up Bates: Barney, Bumper Cars and a Bride
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...
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Bringing Up Bates: Brochacho Lake Party
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!
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Bringing Up Bates: Babies, Boats and Boys
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...
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The Trial and Conviction 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...
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Welcome to Plathville: Large Talks and Tampa Bound
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...
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Bringing Up Bates: Cursed By Gil Bates
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…
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Bringing up Bates: You‘ve Goat To Be Kidding Me
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 🖤
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Bringing Up Bates: Eat Feed Pray
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...
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Welcome to Plathville: Mamma Mia, Here We Go Again
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!
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Episode 69: King Daddy
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)!
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LuLaRich: Predatory Leggings and Marrying Your Stepbrother
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…
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Welcome to Plathville: Tough Emotions, Tough Decisions
This week, Megan and Gillian are catching up on Welcome to Plathville for Season Three. It’s more of a bummer than previous Plath family shows, but it’s really showing the truth of abusive parenting and the fallout of leaving a familial cult, and it’s important to talk about that! Come hang out...
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Bringing up Bates: Cracker Barrel, Basketball Goals and Boundaries
Hello everyone! This week Megan and Gillian finish up season 5 of Bringing Up Bates. We get to see Lawson perform (badly), a basketball court get finished (finally) and Alyssa has her baby (secretly). Come hang out with us!
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Bringing Up Bates: Firelighters, Fiascos and Florida
This week Megan and Gillian cover more of the Bates season 5! This chunk of episodes started out with some truly cringe courtship and ended up with a reminder that small kids need to be taught fire safety. And don't think we forgot to dish about the ARK encounter, complete with the screams of the...
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Bringing Up Bates: Horseland Farm Ranch
Hello everyone! This week Megan and Gillian get back into the Bates family. We are perturbed by purity rings, entertained by the forbidden thing called "dance", and ready for a surprise visit from Miss Dingus. Come hang out with us!
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Love is Blind: Trash Men, Single Ladies and Voldemort
This week, Megan and Gillian watched the Love is Blind reunion show, After the Altar. We get very verklempt about how terrible Damian is, how immature Amber and Matt are, and how much of a bummer Giannina's plot line is. Come hang out with us!
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Bringing Up Bates: Bald As A Cucumber
Megan and Gillian are finishing up Bringing Up Bates Season 4 this week, after a week of sewer issues messing up recording! Two babies are born, buddies are mudding, and Warden does death defying stunts that make us concerned for his safety. Come hang out with us!
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Bringing Up Bates: Clutter Causes Depression?
This week Megan and Gillian watch the Bates Family clean their house, have a couple baby birthday parties, and announce pregnancies. Bringing Up Bates season 4 is jam packed with very mundane things becoming very complicated (because everything is complicated in a family of 21). Like us and want…
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Episode 60: Bates Boys, Boats, Babies, and other B Words
This week Megan and Gillian get into season 4 of Bringing Up Bates. The episode titles from the first 6 episodes are some of the worst we've heard yet, and there is a whole lot of cringe in this season so far in general. Come hang out with us! We also just started a new page where you guys can…
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Bringing Up Bates: Extreme Grandma Mode
This week Megan and Gillian finally finish up Season 3 of Bringing up Bates! We did not mean to abandon y’all last week, Gillian had leg surgery along with like 1000 other things going wrong, so we ended up with like 15 minutes of an episode and decided to re-record! This week we take on…
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Bringing Up Bates: Birthdays, Boats and Brothers
Megan and Gillian continue their journey with Bringing Up Bates Season 3 this week. We feel bad about bike riding bullying, Brandon and Michael's decor being thoroughly insulted, and the boys preparing for the Insurrection. Come hang out with us!
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Bringing Up Bates: Sardines, Mothballs and Learning How to Kiss
This week Megan and Gillian get deep into the thick of Michaela's wedding and honeymoon. We get thoroughly grossed out about how sex repressed these people are, lose our minds about some really bad dresses, and get mad at Gil and Kelly for treating their daughters like chattel. Come hang out with...
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Bringing Up Bates: Parties, Parents, and More Poor Planning!
Hello everyone! We're back this week with Bringing up Bates Season 2, Episode 8 to 14. There's so much packed into these few episodes, including cute babies, Lawson waterboarding himself accidentally, and a trip to Dollywood planned by the seat of their pants. Come hang out with us!
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Bringing Up Bates: Poor Planning for Puritanical Parties
This week, Megan and Gillian dive into the second season of Bringing Up Bates! We cover the first 7 episodes, which somehow includes two baby showers, one birth, one engagement and house hunting??? Come hang out with us!
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The Circle Finale: Reality TV makes us cry!
Hello everyone! This week Megan and Gillian finish up The Circle on Netflix. Obviously, if you don't know who won, there will be spoilers, so finish that binge watch then come hang out with us! We laugh, we cry, we are amazed that this game has gotten better since Season 1 by leaps and bounds.
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The Circle: Catfishes Fish for Catfish
Hello everyone! This week Megan and Gillian get back to The Circle Season 2, which includes highlights such as: Why does Mitchell just say "Cheese...I love that"? How has Chloe never used a dustpan before? Who is gonna figure out who all of the catfishes are?? Come hang out!
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Special Episode: Josh Duggar is a POS
TW: Josh Duggar, Child Abuse, CSA, etc. Please skip this episode if any of the Josh Duggar news around the internet is triggering for you. We discuss the charges and Josh's previous wrongdoings at length, and we do not want to cause anyone any mental duress. We will be back next week with our...
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The Circle: Team Terilisha or Team Savannah?
This week, Megan and Gillian watched the first four episodes of The Circle season 2 on Netflix. We return to our original love of trashy reality tv contestants in lieu of fundamentalists this week. Are you Team Savannah or Team Terilisha?
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Bringing Up Bates: Awkward and Pure
Megan and Gillian finish up season 1 of Bringing Up Bates, and we finally get to see all the gross conservative, fundamentalist bull that they peddle. Weird purity dates with mom and dad, babies being born, and bad vibes all around. Come hang out with us!
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Bringing Up Bates Begins
Our first episode of Bringing Up Bates binge watching! Megan and Gillian are pleasantly surprised by this family - still believe hateful shit, but they at least seem to like and know each other. Parents be parenting, even if they do call it "child training". Come hang out with us!
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One Last Duggar Stretch: That Weird Special???
Megan and Gillian are starting on Bringing Up Bates next week, by popular demand, but this week, we work out our feelings about fundamentalist religion and COVID discussing the weird Counting On Easter special. Join us in this time warp where we watch a 2 day old baby born February 19th…
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Duggar-Thon 2021: The End of the Marathon
Megan and Gillian reach the end of the Counting On road with the last half of Season 11. But, a new season starts next week! While we wait for a few episodes to build up, what’s the next trashy series we should cover? Bringing up Bates, Jersey Shore, Sister Wives? Let us know at...
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Duggar-thon 2021:The Baby Season of Baby Life
Megan and Gillian are still talking babies this week for Counting On Season 11. We have quick labors and 40 hour labors, all while the Duggars are making us labor to understand their weird decisions. Come hang out with us!
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Duggar-thon 2021: Baby Tsunami
This week, we finish up Season 10 of Counting On. There are way too many pregnancies to keep track, with 4 babies due in November in the family, it's gonna be the baby-pocalypse. We get through a birth, a death, a photoshoot and a marriage retreat where the Duggar couples make some nests for the...
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Duggar-thon 2021: Babies, Babies Everywhere, and Not A Drop to Drink
This week we continue Counting On season ten, and dunking on the Duggars. We chat about the hate for Felicity, the unpreparedness of the Duggars (as usual), and we figure out which of the Duggars would make it in Los Angeles. Come hang out with us!
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Duggar-thon 2021:John David is a Pilot??
Hello everyone! We are back this week finishing up Season 9 of Counting On. We talk pregnancy, planes, preparedness and planning (or lack thereof). John David gets married, the Abbie gown is created and we all get really, really uncomfortable for their first kiss. Come hang out with us!
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Duggar-thon 2021: Nobody Puts Baby In The Closet
This week, Megan and Gillian return to Tontitown for season 9 of Counting On. This week we get into planes, planes, planes and planes. Wait, I mean we talk about John David and Abbie, Jinger Spicy, and the Worst American Bake Off. Come hang out with us!
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