Post Season 6 Discussion
Malevolent
Harlan Guthrie
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
With the end of Season 6 and the impending start of Series 2 around the corner, join Harlan once again as we talk about everything Season 6 of Malevolent had to offer. Once again Author Ren Brooke sits down with the creator of Malevolent Harlan Guthrie to talk ALL about Season 6!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, your friendly neighborhood Wren here. |
| 0:05.8 | This post-season 6 interview contains spoilers for all of season 6, and Part 1 of Threshold. |
| 0:14.1 | Not a ton of spoilers, but if you want a totally spoiler-free experience, listen to Threshold |
| 0:20.5 | part 1 first, then come back to |
| 0:23.1 | join Harlan and myself as we dig into all the themes and secrets of malevolent. Enjoy. |
| 0:31.8 | Okay, so the warm-up question just to like get us thinking about malevolent is and something that I wanted to tell you personally and that I started writing, but then I was like, this is not going to make the cut. |
| 0:43.7 | Is that malevolent wasn't written in a vacuum. You started airing it during July 2020 during lockdown. |
| 0:55.5 | Canada had two federal elections in 2021 and 2025. |
| 1:01.5 | You wrote and released part 19 and part 20 during the Canada Convoy protest in 2022. |
| 1:10.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.3 | Season 5's The Purpose was released during February 2025 when like life for Americans was |
| 1:19.2 | melting down. |
| 1:21.6 | Right. |
| 1:22.6 | And you probably don't remember this, but I was having a really, really hard time in February |
| 1:30.8 | 2025. And I was, I was extremely like, I was like, am I going to have to quit my job? Is my |
| 1:41.9 | CEO going to bend the need of Trump? And, you know, |
| 1:45.1 | we were in, you were seeing me express some of that. And you very kindly released 255 early and said, |
| 1:55.7 | Wren, you have to go listen to this right now. And it was still the only time I've cried listening to |
| 2:04.5 | malevolent. And I still get choked up thinking about how kind that was. And also the message of |
| 2:14.6 | that chapter. And so thank you, first of all, for your big heart. |
| 2:21.4 | It means a lot to a lot of people, especially me. |
| 2:25.5 | And second, like, how have you felt the world's events influencing your writing? |
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