Dearest Gentle Listeners,

As the season comes to an end, so does our extended review of Colin Bridgerton's and Penelope Featherington's friends-to-lovers romance.

While we do carry official membership cards for the Nicola Coughlan Perfect Breast Fan Club, we are not sure the complete Polin love story matches the entirety of Nicola's energy. Did the workers at Netflix do enough to make us forget about the worst release schedule ever designed? How loud did we scream at the volume of queerness?

Regardless of the whispers spreading across the ton (Twitter), never forget, that this truly is the home of the #1 investigative Bridgerton podcast...and we will not stop until every character who could be queer, is.

Yours Truly,
Everyone and Their Sister

Hello one and all, welcome to another episode of Everyone and Their Sister. We're your humble hosts Brennan, Lee and Mulligan. With us, as always, are our lovely intrepid heroes. Say hi, Intrepid Heroes!

In case you can't tell, we are huge fans of Dropout TV here at EATS today, with our fellow Intrepid Hero, Ardo, we investigate the successes and failures of streaming platforms past (and present) in part two of our two-part journalistic series: The Good and Bad of the YouTube to Streaming Platform Pipeline AKA Everyone and Their Sister Has a Streaming Platform.

Want more from Ardo? Listen to her podcast Put a Blurb On It ⁠here⁠.

Streamers Discussed in this episode:

Dropout TV: https://www.dropout.tv/

Sidemen: https://www.youtube.com/@sidemen

Nebula: https://nebula.tv/

Rooster Teeth: https://roosterteeth.com/

Get out your credit card details because another free YouTube channel just launched their own Netflix. This week the sisters, and special guest Ardo, do a deeper dive than ever before into what's going on at Watcher, Try Guys/2nd Try, Dropout, Nebula, Sidemen, and more. With Netflix, Amazon and Disney all in a race to ruin streaming content the most, is there room for all your favourite free channels to be asking for your attention AND your money? Or is the closure of early streamer Roosterteeth a sign of things to come?

Listen and let's us know your thoughts on this episode of Everyone and Their Sister. And make sure to come back for Part 2. Sponsored by us.

Want more from Ardo? Listen to her podcast Put a Blurb On It here.

Fellow Sisters of the Ton, find the illustrious members of EATS returned to their desks, ready to discuss and review the first course of the third season of Bridgerton, the budding romance between Colin Bridgerton and Penelope Featherington, and the many, many, many other scandals sparking this season.

What, we wonder, can be expected of their response? Will we be surprised with a glowing endorsement of the season, a diamond selected from the offerings, or will we find another scathing indictment of corporate industries once again?

There exists only one way to tell dear listeners.... By listening.

This author, for one, cannot wait.

Does a romance novel need to end in a Happily Ever After ™ ? We discuss this hotly debated topic in the romance community, and how we have seen this genre convention played out in our own reading life. We are asking the hard hitting questions:

Books mentioned in this episode:

Another week, another drama in the book world. This episode we discuss the controversy of author Taylor Barten/Freydis Moon/Jupiter Wyse and their appropriation of Latinx identity to get ahead in publishing. We cover the unravelling of their fake identity and the masterclass Elle Porter has shown in receipt documentation. 

Sources:

In a rare remix, this week we once again dive into special edition based book cover drama. As long as there's no end to publishing cash grabs, we'll still have content! Join us in defence of cover artists as we discuss all the ways companies failed designers, authors, their employees, third-party licensing agreements and more. It's an anti-capitalist break down of the state of books as fast fashion, and we've got loads to say about it. Mainly, don't buy covers you don't like!

There are some things we need to get off our chests! This week we are discussing the deranged films: They/Them, Beautiful Disaster and Saltburn. Steph breaks down the cover controversy of the SteamyLit edition of Bride by Ali Hazelwood and we discuss the epidemic of illustrated covers in romance.

Why did we have to go and make things so complicated? This episode we discuss the big issues that are currently causing us inner turmoil, and they are as follows:

When and why should you stop listening to a podcast? What constitutes a good remake? What does artistic freedom really mean? Do white men with podcasts deserve rights? These are the questions we are asking and as always, not answering.

You can read the article about the Sounds Like a Cult podcast lawsuit here.

Check out Most Adrently by Gabe Cole Novaoa here.

We are back from the brink and discussing our favourite finds of 2023. Steph once again reaches a new level of nerd with her pick, Blue Eye Samuari. Nat is obsessed with They Cloned Tyrone and perhaps the only person who has seen it? And Cristina is begging for an affiliate link with her love and adoration of Dimension 20.