Spin-off! We talk Sinners (2025), and discuss vampire & the desire for community, Africa, the diaspora, spirituality, music as cultural storytelling, and forbidding the white boy from catching a vibe. Also: Black religious trauma, race in South Africa, and a lament for The Vampire Diaries' Bonnie Bennett.

Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of anti-indigenous sentiment, colonialism and colonial violence, white supremacy, mass murder, racism, religious trauma, and slavery.

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(00:00:05) - Introduction

(00:02:00) - Sinners 2025: preamble and viewing experience

(00:07:55) - Smoke and Stack

(00:10:30) - Annie, who is everything

(00:11:30) - Bonnie Bennett (TVD) + African-American magic

(00:14:48) - Back to Annie

(00:17:42) - Abrahamic religion vs African & African-American spirituality

(00:22:54) - Mary + passing + racial dynamics

(00:30:25) - Preacher boy Sammy + the lure of the easy promise

(00:33:13) - Experiences of black religious trauma

(00:34:56) - Back to Sammy

(00:35:56) - Pearline our queen

(00:37:45) - Bo, Grace, and Lisa

(00:40:36) - Choctaw vampire hunters outselling

(00:42:01) - Remmick predating, but still exploiting, race

(00:48:22) - Irish marginalisation, whiteness, and assimilation

(00:50:33) - Indentured servitude vs slavery in the US and SA

(00:52:56) - Remmick culture-shifting to suit his needs

(00:54:56) - Vampire and the desire for community

(00:55:56) - Music as a cultural tool of storytelling

(00:58:05) - Music (or religion, or vampirism) as consolation or escape

(01:01:22) - The nature of the vampire hive mind

(01:02:22) - Stack and Mary's mid-credit scene

(01:04:00) - Spiraling tangent about vampire varieties

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