62: You're the Worst

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06/11/18 • 67 min

Jimmy Shive-Overly, the subject of today's featured property, would definitely have a heckle or two (or seven) for us for even attempting to sham his elevated lifestyle and prodigious literary talent. However, like his oppositionally-defiant counterpart, Gretchen, we're willing to risk it. Sham Fiction can go anywhere! The delightful cruelty of FXX's You're the Worst is simply too great to pass up. But do Andrew and Eric have the literary talent to capture Jimmy and Gretchen's hyper-articulate misanthropy and self-destructive impulses? Will we finally learn the exact measurement of "The Width of a Peach"? Listen now to find out! Links: Watch You're the Worst on Hulu: https://www.hulu.com/youre-the-worst Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/shamfiction Sham Fiction episode archive: http://www.twojackets.com/shamfictionepisodes Tags: tv, television, fxx, you're the worst, chris geere, aya cash, stephen falk, jimmy shive-overly, gretchen, comedy, drama, dark, black, drinking, alcohol, los angeles, sham, sham fiction, shamfiction, writing, writers, literature, podcast, game show, game

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61: The Shape of Water

The darkly beautiful fantasy worlds of director Guillermo del Toro have captured movie-goers' imaginations for over twenty years. Now, with The Shape of Water, his work has captured the film industry's top honor, the Academy Award for Best Picture, and del Toro himself received the award for Best Director! Holla at ya boi! About damn time, says Andrew. It's also about damn time we hold a duel of the shams with del Toro's work, which itself is an honor of some sort. But do Eric and Marcus have what it takes to make us both swoon with longing and squirm in horror? Listen now to find out!

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63: Mr. Mercedes

It's another Stephen King edition of Sham Fiction, and this time, we're taking on our favorite atuhor's recent gumshoe detective novel, Mr. Mercedes! We hope you're wearing your adult-sized diapers for this one, folks, because Andrew and Marcus are writing some bowel-looseningly disturbing stories! Do tales of serial killers bother you? Do yarns that delve deep into the minds of psychopaths make you feel...uneasy? Do you get a sick...pleasure from these feelings? Great! Then this episode is right up your soon-to-be-evacuated alley! Links: Buy Mr. Mercedes on Amazon: http://a.co/9JqhSP8 Find out more about the TV show on Audience: http://start.att.net/exclusive/audience/mr-mercedes Support Sham Fiction: https://ko-fi.com/shamfiction Sham Fiction episode archive: http://www.twojackets.com/shamfictionepisodes Tags: stephen king, mr mercedes, bill hodges, trilogy, horror, noir, detective, gumshoe, crime, serial killer, suicide, murder, death, scary, dark, psychotic, novel, book, shamfiction, fan fiction, fanfiction, tv, mystery