This week, we’re back with special guest and resident twink, Adelynn Anderson to talk about her second favorite franchise where Finn Wolfhard plays a closeted gay kid in the 80’s, IT Chapters 1 and 2. This episode was recorded in the middle of the election and gets off to a very chaotic start as we discuss the many academic papers about Orpheus (or Gorpheus, if you will) being gay, Adelynn sings through the summaries of the IT movies, and Gaia diagnoses It: Chapter 2 with 'Sequel Syndrome' in our new segment called “What Disease Does This Movie Have?”. We talk about the way horror movies have changed since the release of the IT movies, our problems with the Reddie storyline, hopes for queer representation in the future and so much more this week on ‘Bitch, Why?’.

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be the cowboy is a richie tozier album?!? A Playlist by Adelynn

IT CHAPTER TWO: What Went Wrong?

Stranger Things, IT and the Upside Down of Nostalgia

This week, we’re back with guest and resident twink, Adelynn Anderson to talk about seasons 2 and 3 of Stranger Things! We finally address the long awaited, highly anticipated “Stranger Things Problem”! Gaia starts the episode talking about repressing memories from their senior year of high school, there’s more lamenting over queer-bait, and Neeta and Gaia literally fall in love with Adelynn as she rants about the character assassination of Will Byers during “Bitch Time”. There is a fight about whether or not Dacre Montgomery (Billy) is hot and Neeta gets a little too candid about their sex life. We talk about how horror movies and TV shows that center on kids dealing with monsters that adults can’t or refuse to see reflects the current moment and Harris has probably his spiciest take yet this week on ‘Bitch, Why?’.

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James Corden Photoshop Thread

Heroes of the Fourth Turning

Rock and Riot

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Stranger Things Has Some Bad Politics In It

Stranger Things, IT and the Upside Down of Nostalgia

Why Stranger Things Should Have Ended After Season One

This week, we have special guest and resident twink, Adelynn Anderson! We start on a tangent about hot animated characters, Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Adelynn’s saga with how she got into Stranger Things. We talk about the pitfalls of television writing and the throuple we wish was canon between Nancy, Steve and Jonathan. Barb is a lesbian, Will Buyers is gay and therefore, we have come to the conclusion that the Demogorgon is homophobic. We keep having to refrain from mentioning our gripes with Seasons 2 and 3 (which we are covering in the next episode!) but get into the impact of this show on Netflix shows that came after and the way people have treated the child actors of Stranger Things, this week on ‘Bitch, Why?’.

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Stranger Things: How to Introduce a Character

This week, we talked about Ari Aster’s ~filmography~ Hereditary and Midsommar! We talk about why Ari Aster loves to make movies with white women sobbing. We say the phrase “white man” SO many times that we literally have Cameron bleep it out. We talk about everything that makes these films so amazing: the cinematography, the transitions, the accuracy of the trauma, the CRYING! Somehow we end up defending the Hårga Cult in Midsommar??? Despite that, we still get into real intellectual hours in this episode discussing how different cultures handle grief, the concept of ~catharsis~, mirror neurons, and so much more, this week on ‘Bitch, Why?’.

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Pink Light by MUNA

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Hereditary: How Your Family Ruined You

How HORROR Movies Changed – Wisecrack

How Midsommar Brainwashes You

Midsommar: How Ari Aster Unsettles You

MIDSOMMAR: Is It Deep or Dumb?

Midsommar (2019) – The Value of Ritual?

This week, we talk about horror movies with Harris of our Harris’s Hot Takes segment! Neeta and Harris talk about what got them into horror, why they keep going back and the horror movie tropes they like and dislike! Harris unpacks some ~family trauma~ and he and Neeta talk about their hopes for horror theory (and honestly all) academia and how it can shift to include marginalized people. Get ready for visceral Blockbuster flashbacks, very sad musings about aliens and a LOT of horror movie recommendations just in time for Halloween, this week on ‘Bitch, Why?’.

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R.L. Stan’s Haunting Hour ‘Really You’ Episode

Wild Party Toni Colette (Lowdown-Down)

CAAC’s First Youtube Video!

Horror Theory Recommendations:

(Many of these were taken from the rec lists from the Dead Meat Podcast)

Another Indian Burial Ground, Please...by Terri Jean

Blood, Bodies and Binaries: Trans Women in Horror – Jenni Holtz

Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes

Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film

Monster Theory: Reading Culture

Phallic Panic: Film, Horror and the Primal Uncanny

Post-9/11 Horror in American Cinema

This week, we had our listeners decide what piece of art we should cover and y’all chose Bong Joon-ho’s Academy-Award winning, genre-bending, MASTERPIECE Parasite. We kick this episode off with a wild tangent on organic farming, restoring golf courses and ultimately decide we will be starting a theatre farm ON a golf course! This gives us the perfect segue into the film because there is so much to unpack about class consciousness and collectivist versus individualist mindsets in Eastern films. We dismantle ideals of the ‘Hero’s Journey’ and 3-Act Structure, capitalism as a universal struggle, and somehow are able to loop the discussion back to the concept of organic farming and ethically sourced clothes and food! Wow! There is a whole world of amazing movies out there waiting for you if you just READ SUBTITLES! Hear all about it this week on ‘Bitch, Why?’.

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Farming While Black

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Academy Established Representation & Inclusion Standards

How Parasite (And Every Bong Joon-ho Film) Critiques Class

In a Post-‘Parasite’ World, What Happens Next?

Parasite: how Oscar triumph has exposed South Korea’s social divide

The Ending Of 'Parasite' Explained | Pop Culture Decoded

Why Parasite is a Masterpiece

This week, we cover the High School Musical trilogy! Neeta and Gaia get into their High School Musical related trauma and the gay awakenings that transpired from the ‘iconique’ “I Don’t Dance” sequence from High School Musical 2. We get into who the real villain of the series is and the way High School Musical 2, specifically, deals with class in a really smart way! We get into Sharpay Apologist Hours until we realize that rooting for Sharpay is kind of theater elitist? We sing Kenny Ortega’s praises for most of this episode, but honestly he deserves it! We have so much fun talking about these Kickass D-Coms and how they shaped our views on theater this week on 'Bitch, Why?’!

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Serotonin IV Drip Playlist

Charlotte Salomon. Life? or Theatre?

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Are They Gay? - Chad and Ryan from High School Musical

Film Theory: The Real Villain of HSM

This 'High School Musical' Theory Says Sharpay Was a Victim

Why Chad And Ryan Switched Clothes In High School Musical 2

Following our episode on Mulan (2020) we felt that now was the perfect time to release the first episode we ever recorded that just so happens to be on another Disney Remake, Lion King (2019). This episode is different from the norm, but that’s on growth and figuring out a structure! You’ll hear the origins of Gaia’s Three Prongs of Representation and so many other concepts that pop up in later episodes (we name drop JOANNE and Gaia’s issues with the concept of ‘celebrity’). You’ll finally get to hear our long awaited conversation around African-ness and African American-ness. Get a glimpse of our ‘baby handwriting’ of episodes! Neeta outs themselves as a huge disney fan (and it is v cringe) and Gaia cannot pronounce the word ‘gazelle' this week on 'Bitch, Why?’!

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Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

Rachel Cargle’s ‘The Great Unlearn’

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Beyoncé's 'Gift': An Incomplete 'Lion King' Soundtrack

Intertextuality - Nerdwriter1

Scar | Disney Wiki

'The Lion King: The Gift' Is Beyonce's Love Letter to Blackness

This week, we cover Mulan (2020) following its release on Disney Plus. We get into all the controversy surrounding the film and our critical feelings about it! Take a shot every time Neeta mentions diaspora! Take a shot every time Gaia makes a "Reflection" reference! No one knows why we started doing British accents randomly but by the end of the episode, our brains were so fried that it just kind of came out. We yell about the concept of Disney Remakes as a whole, unpack our gender crises, realize we may have to release the infamous Lion King episode and so much more this week on 'Bitch, Why? (Look out for our 'Bitch, Why?' Bingo card coming soon!)

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Cultural Authenticity.

Mulan after 14 years

Mulan is the Worst Actress in China, According to China

Mulan: The Warrior

The Ballad of Mulan

The History Behind the Legend of Mulan (400 AD Onward)

What is Chi? A Scientific Explanation

Interviewees:

Alyssa Silver

Jason Wang

Jocelyn Landes

This week, we cover Black Panther in light of Chadwick Boseman’s sudden passing. We honor him and talk about the impact of his performances, specifically his performance as Black Panther and what it means to see a Black superhero save the world. Despite the heartbreak, we get up to some lighthearted shenanigans as we sidebar into why Adam Driver is so sexy and the fact that FinnPoe deserved better. We discuss the ways Black Panther had the most nuance and depth we have ever seen in a Marvel movie and maybe that has something to do with the stellar creative team which was *cough* Not-All-White *cough*. We gush over how Black manhood and womanhood are portrayed in this movie and give little tributes to Chadwick and the impact he and this film had. Y’all are really going to have to stop Neeta and Gaia from faking their deaths, moving to Maine and eloping this week on 'Bitch, Why?

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Jesmyn Ward on Her Husband's Death and Grief During COVID-19

John Boyega Interview

Resources:

Abstract: The Art of Design

Chadwick Boseman Tribute Speech for Denzel Washington

Costume Designer Ruth E. Carter on Marvel's “Black Panther.”

Chadwick Boseman Created a Fresh Model of Black Manhood

Ludwig Göransson Scored America's Conversation On Race

What The Heck Is Afrofuturism?