In this bonus episode of Out To Get You, we launch our series on the dread of deep space, fears of future past, and more, with a Class 7 probe of Star Trek’s The Gorn.

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This episode contains discussion of speciesism, space opera, and having beloved stories co-opted by right-wing corporate fascists.

Drop in for a casual chat on intergalactic blood libel, the diminishing returns of big budget sci-fi, and filing the serial numbers off H.R. Giger’s xenomorphs.

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We’ll be joined by Jadzia Alexrod, author of the DC Book of Pride, the upcoming Galaxy: As The World Falls Down, and more, for pod persona paranoia in 1978‘s Invasion of the Body Snatchers!

After that, author, comics crit luminary, and co-creator of The Forgotten Five, Sara Century (Best Issue Ever,) swoops in to pick apart Hitchcock’s 1963‘s avian apocalypse, The Birds!

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In Episode 11 of Out To Get You, we are joined by software developer, Justin Park, to punch in for 2019's sublime and darkly comic award-winning powerhouse, Parasite.

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This episode contains discussion of extreme poverty, social abuse, gaslighting, grooming, poisoning, and other topics that may be sensitive for listeners.

In this episode, recorded April 13th 2025, we discuss the dangerous allure of the unattainable through the lens of social mobility, the poverty trap, and class conflict in Bong Joon-Ho's modern classic starring Song Kang-ho, Choi Woo-shik, Jang Hye-jin and Park So-dam!

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In Episode 10 of Out To Get You, we are joined by Eisner Award-Winning Women Write About Comics' small press editor and writer, Kat Overland, to debug the soul of Alex Garland's 2014 psychological thriller, Ex Machina.

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This episode contains discussion of racism, medical/technological torture, slavery, colonialism, misogyny, dicks who have way too much money, and other topics that may be sensitive for listeners.

In this episode, we discuss the terrifying onus of consciousness through the lens of technocratic overreach, the lie of the great man, and the horror of who pays the price for progress, in this slow burn sci-fi nightmare starring Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson, and Oscar Isaac.

You can follow Kat on Bluesky, and check out more about her work, as well as Ex Machina: A (White) Feminist Parable for Our Time by J. A. Micheline, and much more, at Women Write About Comics (@WWAComics on Bluesky.)

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