HDM 1.1: Scholastic Sanctuary!
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Grab your daemons and put on your snow boots, because Greta Johnsen and Tricia Bobeda of Nerdette and Peter Sagal of NPR’s Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me! are back together again to recap another HBO fantasy show: His Dark Materials. This week the team discusses the series premiere, which aired Monday, so beware, there are some episode 1 spoilers (but we avoid book spoilers the best we can!).
If you’re not familiar with His Dark Materials, the show is based off the critically-acclaimed novels written by Philip Pullman, who takes readers to a fictional world similar to ours, except everyone has a so-called daemon, an animal companion that is part conscience, part therapist, part soul.
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| 0:00.0 | From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdat Recaps, his Dark Materials with Peter Sagel. |
| 0:08.7 | I'm Greta Johnson. |
| 0:10.0 | And I'm Trisha Bobita. |
| 0:11.2 | And we are joined by Peter Sagle. |
| 0:13.5 | Hello, ladies, to quote another HBO series that we'll never speak of. |
| 0:18.3 | What is that from? |
| 0:19.2 | It was a completely failed HBO series |
| 0:21.9 | that was created by Stephen Merchant, |
| 0:25.1 | who, of course, collaborated with Ricky Jervais |
| 0:27.8 | and creating the office. |
| 0:29.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:29.2 | And it was one of those series in which there was a huge genre of these |
| 0:32.9 | in which some man thinks that his failure with women |
| 0:36.2 | will be of great interest to the larger world. |
| 0:39.3 | Oh, you know what? I am familiar with this general premise. Should we jingle it right now just for the sake of like a long tangent about an HBO show? |
| 0:46.3 | We are now in the first two minutes of the first episode. Keep your powder drop. |
| 0:51.3 | Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, whatever. Peter, nobody cares. |
| 0:56.5 | You see, you're just, I'm telling you, you're going to spoil your dinner if you have dessert first. |
| 1:03.1 | We'll see. |
| 1:03.5 | I feel like you've said that before, too. |
| 1:04.9 | Anyway, so today we're recapping season one, episode one of His Dark Materials. |
| 1:10.2 | It was called Lyra's Jordan. Before we |
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