Swish and Flick: A Harry Potter Podcast

First of all, thank you so much for this podcast. I actually started listening to this podcast only a month or so ago when I realized that my love for true crime was making my anxiety, much worse, even though I didn’t want to admit it. I needed something that was positive and happy and cheerful, and something that made my heart smile. Coming across this podcast was just what I needed. You all are funny and witty and kind and inclusive and deep and beautiful, inside and out. Listening to you all is my favorite part of my day besides my family time. I started reading Harry Potter when I was around 8 in 2003 or 2004. My aunt got me the books that were out at that time, 1-4. I was fairly young, but this was my introduction to reading bigger books. My aunt continued to buy me each book as they released and I still have first editions of each in hardcover and they are in great shape. Anyway! I’ve been a fan of HP since the first time I opened the first book. Being a lifelong fan and not having read the books in probably over a decade means I get to rediscover so many things that make this series and the spinoffs so enjoyable and interesting and just wonderful. Speaking of wonderful, I want to thank everybody who is on the podcast and who works on it behind the scenes. As someone who researched and looked into podcasting, holy man it’s a lot of work and time and energy. So thank you all for that. I feel like I’ve gotten to know each podcaster, and I genuinely feel like I’m hanging out with my best friends as I listen. I laugh and I giggle and I feel like I understand each of you so well because I listen so frequently. I love the dynamic between everyone and I genuinely miss those who have to leave permanently or even just take a little time off. I even do a pretty killer Florence impression, if I do say so myself LOL. I’ve literally picked up on your speech patterns! You guys have brought light and spirit back to me. I’m so grateful. Thank you for near 500 episodes - I’m in the 80s right now and I never want it to end. You all are amazing people and you make the world better. Especially mine.

I love this podcast and have listened since 2019/2020. Lately though, it feels like there has been a deliberate slow down of actual podcast content in an attempt to not finish Deathly Hallows. Since June 1 there have been 12 episodes released at the time of this review(August 19). Those 12 episodes break down as follows; 6 “bonus” episodes, 2 more non-labeled “bonus” episodes about Epic Universe, an old Felix Files, an episode talking about Wizardly Weekend of Kent, and TWO actual chapter episodes. As someone who checks my podcast feed every Sunday waiting for the newest episode to drop it’s been really disheartening having been let down repeatedly. A “bonus” episode shouldn’t take the place of a true episode in my opinion. A bonus episode should be released on a non-regular release day in addition to a regular episode. At some point, I’ll stop checking for new episodes because there simply aren’t any. I just want to get back to the regularly scheduled episodes and keep dissecting the text like they used to.

I started my first ever read of the Harry Potter books 3 or 4 years ago and after becoming thoroughly obsessed I found your podcast! It was so nice to relive the series with my new friends because that what it feels likes listening to y’all!! I used to love crime podcasts, but once I got pregnant and had my baby I couldn’t listen to them anymore and your podcast is now my go to. Thanks for keeping the magic alive and for being a comfort when I needed it! ❤️ I recommend this podcast to all my fellow potter heads!

First of all, I’m writing this review at 5am and I’m a little tired so sorry if this seems like it’s written weird or something. I love this podcast!! Tiffany, Megan, Katie, and Sarah’s (ik she technically left but still) insights are so thoughtful, yet still totally funny! There are SO MANY episodes, so if you were to start now, you would be set for a long time. I was sitting listening to an episode and they (the hosts) were saying something about the bingo sheets, and I just thought ‘any podcast with enough inside jokes to have bingo sheets full of them is a podcast worth listening to’ which is why I decided to write this review! I love how much I feel like I’m friends with the hosts, and their family. I’m probably one of your younger listeners (I’m not comfortable with saying my exact age, but I’m younger than 16) and I don’t really use social media. Even so, without even really having a clear picture of the swish cast in my head, I feel like I know their whole family so well! This podcast is definitely an essential podcast, up there with Mike Schubert’s “Potterless”, and Sequoia Simone & Kim’s “Fanatical Fics”, and any Harry Potter lover should definitely listen to this podcast! PS: As a fellow Slytherin, I side with Megan on the Mrs Noris Debacle

I’m a long time listener have enjoyed the it for the most part, but for the last year or so, the pod has gone downhill. They desperately need an outside editor or producer who’s willing to cut out the unrelated tangents and to help them stay on track. The hosts don’t seem to really care about the books and everything is made into a joke. Book 7 could have some really interesting topics but because they get hung up on doing accents or they’ll make jokes and start laughing hysterically; a lot of potential material isn’t talked about. the episode at Malfoy manner is intense and it seems like they can’t handle talking about serious situations so they deflect. Discord is really a good tool/resource to connect, but so often they refer to what’s going on in the discord chat that a regular audience member can’t understand because there’s no context. That kind of thing really should be cut out and it would really help with having such long episodes. Anymore because of all of the side conversations and goofing off, they only talk about 20 minutes worth of the book and the chapters are being split. If they would focus and cut out a lot of the unnecessary conversations and leave that for the Patreon only, the podcast would be much more enjoyable to listen to for the average listener and could be a little bit longer since they’ll be talking about source material. I’ll listen to the end of the book but I’m also dreading how unserious they’ll take the last few chapters. For as many kids that listen to them, I’m surprised they promote ads for cannabis. Very disappointing.

Enjoyed the deep dives into the lore for sure, but the differences in volume between the hosts, the constant laughter, and the talking over one another was hard to listen to for me! I can totally understand some may enjoy just feeling like they are the in room with the hosts chatting, but I prefer a bit more structure.