Your hosts hit a turning point with The Secret Circle! This week, Sandile and Fadzai cover:

Episode 9, "Balcoin": As Jake continues to gather intel on the Circle, Isaac fears it's time to remove him from the group before an attachment to Cassie forms. Meanwhile, Charles' spell addles Jane's brain.

Episode 10, "Darkness": As Dawn chafes at having Charles in charge, and Faye turns to voodoo to regain individual power, Diana's visiting grandmother takes a keen and potentially lethal interest in Cassie.

Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of dementia, kidnapping, live burial, racism, and religious bigotry.

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Your hosts delve deeper into The Secret Circle! This week, Fadzai and Sandile cover:

Episode 7, "Masked": With Jane's permission while she's away, Cassie throws a Halloween party, unaware of encroaching witch hunters targeting her circle for elimination.

Episode 8, "Beneath": Looking for Old Henry and Jane, the kids wind up overnighting at Henry's cabin, trapped by a storm, raging hormones, and uneasy questions. Faye experiences unwelcome visions.

Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of drowning, ephebophilia, and religious bigotry.

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Your hosts return to The Secret Circle! This week, Fadzai and Sandile cover:

Episode 5, "Slither": It's a fight to the finish when the demon Abaddon possesses one of the witch kids to free more of its kind into the world.

Episode 6, "Wake": In the wake of Nick's death, leading up to his wake, Cassie wakes to the fact he'd a brother named Jake - a tall, handsome dude with a troublesome past, whom many but she pray his presence won't last.

Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of child murder, demonic possession, drowning, and grief and loss.

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Your hosts continue with The Secret Circle! This week, Sandile and Fadzai cover:

Episode 3, "Loner": Just as the kids find themselves individually powerless, along comes a lone man, knowledgeable, upset and aiming to end their witchcraft by killing one of them, and he doesn't care who.

Episode 4, "Heather": Finding her late mother's best friend magically locked in a catatonic state, Cassie enlists help from another witch to break it, only to find there was a good reason for it.

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Your hosts kick off their rewatch of The Secret Circle! This week, Sandile and Fadzai cover:

Episode 1, "Pilot": The death of Cassie's mom (no accident) forces teenage Cass to move in with her grandmother, where young witches await her to complete their coven and unlock their full power.

Episode 2, "Bound": There's peer and other pressure aplenty to get Cassie to bind the Circle, all except from Faye who doesn't favor the idea of her reckless whims being controlled. Grandpa Henry pays a call to investigate a complaint of misused magic.

Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of arson, murder, and racism.

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It's the first MID SEASON, where Sandile and Fadzai do an episodic rewatch of a cancelled one-season show in the genre of supernatural drama series! Take a detour to Chance Harbour as they revisit "The Secret Circle", a CW hopeful from the creators of "The Vampire Diaries" that didn't quite stick the landing.

Join your hosts for this brief introduction before jumping into the first official episode!

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Podcast: It Was an Animal Attack

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In this S1 special of It Was an Animal Attack, Sandile and Fadzai present the Vampriety Hour! An hour (or two) of fun, games, laughter, and unserious musings themed around The Vampire Diaries and the end of the podcast's first season.

00:00:00 - Intro

00:01:16 - Segment #1: The Progressively Harder Vampire Diaries Quiz

00:24:43 - Segment #2: Game of Quotes

00:38:30 - Segment #3: Vampire Diaries Trivia Bunker Quiz

00:46:45 - Segment #4: The Vampire Diaries Cast as D&D Characters

01:18:40 - Segment #5: Tier Ranking Almost Every Important TVD Character

01:58:00 - Outro

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In this S1 special of It Was an Animal Attack, Fadzai and Sandile put two generational giants of the genre in the ring - The Vampire Diaries and Buffy the Vampire Slayer! Character archetypes, genre tropes, story inspiration and influences (and sometimes, direct rip-offs), along with the usual episode nonsense.

Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of gratuitous violence, homophobia, murder, racism, religious fanaticism, sexual assault, and slavery.

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