154 episodes

Lez Geek Out! is a geek culture podcast that celebrates popular culture with an eye for the woman-loving-woman audience. It focuses mainly on work with lesbian/bi/women-loving-women themes/characters, but sometimes strays into territory where the subtext is strong, and the female characters are stronger.

The covers all forms of media are explored, be they books, movies, TV shows, graphic novels, web-comics, or anything else that fits the bill.

Lez Geek Out!cast Andi Marquette and Lise MacTague

    • Society & Culture
    • 5.0 • 11 Ratings

Lez Geek Out! is a geek culture podcast that celebrates popular culture with an eye for the woman-loving-woman audience. It focuses mainly on work with lesbian/bi/women-loving-women themes/characters, but sometimes strays into territory where the subtext is strong, and the female characters are stronger.

The covers all forms of media are explored, be they books, movies, TV shows, graphic novels, web-comics, or anything else that fits the bill.

    Episode 146: Spear by Nicola Griffith

    Episode 146: Spear by Nicola Griffith

    Andi and Lise discuss and deeply appreciate multiple award-winning spec fic writer Nicola Griffith’s novel Spear (current Nebula finalist!)—a queer Arthurian story that will bring you right into the era from a perspective you didn’t know you absolutely needed. If, like them, you grew up on Arthurian/Camelot stories, Spear is like coming home to the people you wanted and needed to see in those tales. 
    Nicola Griffith’s website HERE. 
    Info about Spear HERE. 
    List of this year’s Nebula finalists HERE. 
    Shout-outs: Lise started watching the Netflix series Lockwood and Co., about teen ghosthunters/ghost battlers in a Britain overrun by spirits that can kill with a touch. Adapted from the first two books in the Lockwood and Co. series by Jonathan Stroud. Andi shouts-out the ol’ skool show Forensic Files which she’s watching on Hulu. The episodes are about 22 minutes long without commercials, and she’s ended up learning a lot and making it a family affair. 
    We’re still hanging in there on Twitter: @LGOPodcast, @andimarquette, @LiseMacTague. 
    You can also find Andi and Lise on Instagram, posting fun photos, same handles: @andimarquette, @LiseMacTague 
    LGO is available on tons of platforms; please like and subscribe. It helps! Thanks! 

    • 52 min
    Episode 145: The Last of Us: One and Done/Fun

    Episode 145: The Last of Us: One and Done/Fun

    Andi and Lise jumped into the current zeitgeist and watched the first episode of the first season of The Last of Us on HBO Max, the TV series adapted from the video game of the same name (by Naughty Dog and Sony Interactive Entertainment, released in 2013). The storyline involves a post-apocalyptic U.S. in which survivors live in totalitarian walled cities while a fungus-ravaged world (Cordyceps, in case you wondered which fungus) outside the walls infects humans, who prey on the non-infected. Joel (Pedro Pascal), a survivor who engages in black market smuggling in Boston, is tasked with taking teenager Ellie (Bella Ramsey) across the U.S. Gripping, intense, brutal. But the story-telling is amazing. So…one and done? One and fun? Or One and One More? Find out! 
    The Last of Us trailer HERE. 
    Find it on HBO Max. Official website HERE. 
    Shout-outs: Lise is trying to avoid Twitter, which is an even worse hellscape now, so she put an app to play Sudoku on her phone, which provides a nice respite during the day and doesn’t generate anxiety. Andi is finding fluffy niceness in the cozy mystery series on BritBox, Shakespeare and Hathaway, which follows a couple of mis-matched private investigators in Stratford-upon-Avon. More info HERE; watch on Acorn (DVD), BritBox, and Amazon Prime (S1). 
    Even on the Twitter hellscape, find us @LGOpodcast, @andimarquette, and @LiseMactague. Also find Andi and Lise on Instagram and Facebook, same handles. 
    Please like and subscribe so we can expand our content! Thanks! 

    • 51 min
    Rerun Episode 124: A Conversation with Karin Kallmaker

    Rerun Episode 124: A Conversation with Karin Kallmaker

    Lise is laid up this week and can’t get the latest episode edited and uploaded. While she recovers, please enjoy this conversation with Karin Kallmaker.

    • 1 hr 3 min
    Episode 144: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home: Does it Hold up?

    Episode 144: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home: Does it Hold up?

    Andi and Lise watched the 1986 film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (the whale movie!) to determine if it holds up after all these years. Here, the Star Trek crew has to save Earth from destruction by an alien probe. To do that, they need…whales. Trust us on this! It’s a great plot device! Unfortunately, whales have been extinct for centuries. So the crew devises a way to go back in time to late 20th-century Earth to find whales to save the Earth of the future. Does it hold up? Listen and find out! 
    Also note the tribute to the crew of the space shuttle Challenger at the beginning of the film. Challenger exploded January 28, 1986, killing all seven crew members. Star Trek IV premiered in theaters November 26, 1986. More on the tribute at THIS LINK. 
    Star Trek IV original trailer HERE. 
    Shout-outs: Lise actually  has a HALP shout-out—she’s working on a project and would like recommendations for cozy mystery series, especially those that include animals. If you have some, hit LGO up on Twitter or Lise (see below for links). Andi shouts out the PS4 game Horizon Zero Dawn, which she’s currently playing on “story” mode because she’s decided she’s actually a hoarder gamer and would much rather explore the world and collect resources. 
    Twitter links: @LGOpodcast, @LiseMacTague, @andimarquette 
    And please like and subscribe! Thank you! 

    • 50 min
    Episode 143: Wednesday, Season 1

    Episode 143: Wednesday, Season 1

    Andi and Lise rave about season 1 of the Netflix series Wednesday, which follows Wednesday Addams (a fabulous Jenna Ortega) of the iconic Addams family as she’s expelled from yet another high school and ends up at Nevermore Academy, a school for paranormal misfits where her parents first met. While there, Wednesday navigates tensions with the nearby townspeople, teen angst, her relationship with her mom, and a mystery in which something is killing people and it might have ties to the town’s distant past. Excellent script, tight pacing, and wonderful secondary and tertiary characters. This is full of thrills, chills, teen angst and comedy, and a mystery that will keep you guessing. 
    Wednesday trailer HERE 
    Shouts-outs: Lise just finished Season 2 of the animated series The Legend of Vox Machina (link HERE) on Prime, which is beautiful to look at but is also well-done and well-written and well worth people’s time. Andi is watching Poker Face (link HERE) on  Peacock starring Natasha Lyonne in a quirky, raunchy mash up of epic road trips, odd jobs, and cat-and-mouse as Nicole’s character Charlie is on the run from a Vegas casino owner in this mystery-of-the-week series. 
    We’re still on Twitter: @LGOpodcast, @andimarquette @LiseMactague 
    And you can find Andi and Lise on Instagram and at Facebook, same handles. 
    Please like and subscribe! Thanks! 

    • 54 min
    Episode 142: A Pale Light in the Black, by K.B. Wagers

    Episode 142: A Pale Light in the Black, by K.B. Wagers

    Andi and Lise loved K.B. Wagers’ A Pale Light in the Black, the first installment of Wagers’ NeoG series. A fast-paced, diverse character-driven space opera meets sports story meets mystery with some of their fave elements: strong diverse characters with issues we can all relate to; space opera adventure; found family; sporting competition; creepy mystery. 
    Find out more and get buy links at Wager’s website HERE. 
    Shout-outs: Lise is getting ready to get her arm sleeve completed by a specific tattoo artist. It’s been five years, and she’s psyched about it. Andi has been playing the game Silk Rose Murders on Nintendo Switch, a fun murder/puzzle game set in an ancient Chinese dynasty. 
    You can still find us on Twitter: @LGOpodcast; @LiseMacTague; @andimarquette 
    Also find Andi and Lise on Facebook and Twitter (andimarquette, LiseMacTague). 
    LGO is available on numerous platforms; please like and subscribe! THANKS!

    • 51 min

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