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So Westworld was a mixed bag, but I think we made the most of it. The Explained videos brought some clarity and meaning to a bewildering season, and the Rant videos give a more… critical perspective if you dig that. Westworld was our first big step beyond Game of Thrones, and it was a bloody difficult show to handle, without a book series and established fandom to draw from. But ultimately we made some quality videos that helped people understand and enjoy a cool story – that’s the point of ASX. Now that we’ve done Westworld, Annihilation and Stranger Things, I reckon we can cover just about anything, in addition to GOT/ASOIAF (: 

We’re now taking a break – ASX will return in ~mid-August. The Patreon is paused so no one will be charged at the end of July. There’ll be no new ASX vids in this time, but possibly some side-projects... 

On the 6th of August, we’ll open two votes for Patrons. One vote to choose a GOT/ASOIAF topic – e.g. Doom of Valyria, Euron, Dorne analysis. And one vote to choose a non-GOT series – e.g. Dune, Watchmen, The Expanse. Whatever wins, we’ll do videos on those topics. We’re not committing to doing multiple videos on the winning non-GOT series – but we’ll make at least one, and see how it goes.

Between now and GOT S8, our goal is to cover a bunch of different series, as well as GOT. That way we can survive the end of Thrones, and whatever comes next (:

Thank you so much for your support these last months! These videos truly couldn’t exist without you.

Cheers

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PS: Normally votes are open to $3+ Patrons only, but these will be open to all Patrons, because picking a new series is pretty special

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Stephanie M

BOOK CLUB Fuck yes Ugh enjoy your time off and rest. Don’t go getting sick again. Westworld was a lot. Thanks for everything you do.

Rikke Holmberg

Enjoy your break! We’ll be looking out for the side projects :)

Brandon Neil Howells

Shifty, my droog, have a vacation and _relax_ for a month or two, if you can. "Hang on to yourself" as the old Bowie song goes.

GoKate206

Enjoy your break, its well deserved! Can't wait for the vote on side projects. Who knows, maybe we will get a release date of WoW?

Ghostwriter314

Please do Fringe. It's the only show I've seen that has as much thought put into the in-universe Easter eggs as either Westworld or GOT

N7Zebracakes

The Expanse should be first, but there's definitely some quality picks in here with Fringe, Leftovers, and Counterpart

Kathy Beekman

It would be cool to do Nightflyers once it starts

Kelly Theobald

I’m so happy you’re taking a break! Good job with all the Westworld stuff. The rant was amazing. Enjoy and see ya next month!

Jeffrey Boerst

Hey, ASX! Does this mean, speaking of WW in past tense, that you're not considering picking WW back up for Series 3? Oh, and to put what I messaged you in a public thread, now that I see here others mentioning different shows to consider, please consider the yet-to-be-released "Lost"-y show in the US, "Manifest". ;) Cheers!

Chilr357

The Matrix is one of my all time favorites, an explainer video there would be awesome from the Animatrix thru the end of the series. A TV show that would be great is BLACK MIRROR!!!!

The Mad Jay Woman

I'm not a Westwood fan but I really enjoyed the WW videos - another job well done. Now the tough choices - Dune, Watchmen and The Expanse could all be incredibly fun as analyzed through the ASX lens!

Paul Barry

Nice to have you back - even if it’s on holidays. I got mightily sick of WW, so stopped watching it half way through episode 8. Might finish it at some stage, but it just annoyed me too much to watch anymore. I realised I was only watching so I could watch your videos! Anyway, enjoy the break and look forward to what comes next. An analysis of what we know about the Age of Heroes might be fun at some stage.

GemmaG

Enjoy your time off ❤

Kenny Arnold

The rant vids were excellent & hilarious

Tyler Wise

Videos on Berserk and Bioshock would interesting to see

Angelina Salazar-Frank

The Handmaid's Tale, please! It was a book first, so that'll help too. (^_^)