Episode 16 - Bella Has Three Fathers (Eclipse, Chapters 10-11)
Did we record this in 2022 and release it in 2024? Yes! Are we recording a new episode tomorrow? Also yes! Sid and Cyrus continue their jour...
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American Vampire
American Vampire is a podcast about the Twilight Saga, created by Sid Branca and Briana Finegan. We are interested in thinking critically about the Twilight series with a focus on trauma nar...
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16 episodes
Episode 15 - Aging Several Decades (Checking In After Our Hiatus)
Multiple years, catastrophes, genders, and Twilight re-contextualizations later, Briana and Sid return to American Vampire! This episode is...
Episode 14 - Calvinist Love Bombing (Eclipse, Chapters 8-9)
We are finally releasing an episode we recorded in * 2019 *, the part two of a long episode on Chapters 7-9 of Eclipse. (Content note: discu...
Episode 13 - Grindhouse: Vampire Bride (Eclipse, Chapter 7)
American Vampire presents Grindhouse: Vampire Bride, aka ROSALIE'S REVENGE. We legit spent so much time talking specifically about the conve...
Episode 12 - Dumpster™ Brand Trash Fire (Eclipse, Chapters 4-6)
We're finally back (sorry!!!) with chapters 4-6 of Eclipse, which can really only be described as a Dumpster™ fire. Topics include justice f...
Episode 11 - Stay Gold, Jacob Black (Eclipse, Preface - Chapter 3)
Briana and Sid begin the third Twilight book, Eclipse, discussing the preface through the end of Chapter 3. Wuthering Heights haunts this te...
Episode 10 - Heathcliff Heathcliff, Grave Robbing Entrepreneur (Wuthering Heights)
A special holiday season piece of ghost-adjacent content! As Wuthering Heights is referenced repeatedly in Eclipse, Sid and Briana read and...
Episode 9 - Vampire Suff(e)rage (New Moon, Chapters 23 - Epilogue)
We are finally back! After some international and ontological adventures, Briana and Sid return to American Vampire to discuss the final cha...
Episode 8 - How to Get Blood Out of White Leather (New Moon, Chapters 19-22)
After a brief hiatus, American Vampire has returned from its hellish slumber to cover Chapters 19 to 22 of New Moon. Topics include how you...
Episode 7 - Third Eye Blind Jumper dot mp3 (New Moon, Chapters 13-18)
In this episode Briana and Sid discuss the (gibbous?) third quarter of New Moon, from Chapter 13 through the end of Chapter 18. Topics inclu...
Episode 6 - Some White Bullsh*t (New Moon, Chapters 7-12)
In this episode Briana and Sid discuss the Jacob-oriented second quarter of New Moon, from Chapter 7 through the end of Chapter 12. Topics i...
Episode 5 - When Vampires Ghost (New Moon, Chapters 1-6)
It's 2018 friends! New year, new me, New Moon. Sid finally stopped laying prone on the forest floor long enough to edit this episode in time...
Episode 4 - Team Alice (Twilight, Chapter 17-Epilogue)
In this episode Briana and Sid discuss the plot-packed final third of "Twilight", Chapter 17 through to the end. Topics include how Alice is...
Episode 3 - Bella Swan Talks to Cacti ("Twilight" Chapters 9-16)
In this episode Briana and Sid discuss the middle third of "Twilight", Chapters 9 through 16. Topics include musings on what Bella's life in...
Episode 2 - Wholesome Teens ("Twilight" Chapters 1-8)
Buckle in, friends. It's time to bite into this sucker. Briana and Sid discuss Chapters 1 through 8 of the eponymous first book of the Twili...
Episode 1 - The Golden Hour (Before Twilight)
Before Briana Finegan (Noted Twilight expert) guides Sid Branca (Noted Goth) through the rollercoaster of emotion that is reading the Twilig...