Fake Geek Girls - A Critical Look at Pop Culture

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A podcast looking a nerdy pop culture from both a fan and critical perspective, encouraging the things we love to do better.... more

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October 28, 2025 WWBUT 111 – Deep Dive Into Nicholas Hoult’s Face

What have we been up to? A lot! Join us as we discuss whether Nicholas Hoult’s face has any trace of the uncanny, why it pays to be perpetually behind, and the eternal wisdom of the Real Housewives. Also: a bit about this year’s PAX West, including our experience with the game Ten Candles.
What Missy’s Been Up To:
Watching
The Queen’s Gambit
Mickey 17
The Smashing Machine
Reading
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
The Swallowed Man by Edward Carey
Playing
Ten Candles
What Merri’s Been Up To:
Watching
Superman
Alien: Earth
Elio
Lilo and Stitch
How to Train Your Dragon
Playing
Ten Candles
A Link You Might Find Interesting:
When Everyone’s a Critic, No One’s a Fan by Gigi / loverarchives
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1h 53min
October 07, 2025 Episode 209 – Anora
Our 2024 Oscar nominee double-feature (we’re only talking about two because we are chasing our bliss) continues with Anora, Sean Baker’s ode to class and sex work and the American dream. Where do we stand on that ending? Do we feel it’s respectful? Let’s find out.
Some Sources You Might Find Interesting:
Sean Baker on the politics in his films: “We’re telling stories that can be discussed by both sides” – LFF Screen Talk by Josh Slater-Williams
Anora Is a Raucous Good Time With a Gut-Punch of an Ending by Richard Lawson
Why Anora is the Disney Princess We Need by Broey Deschanel
Romance Labor: on Sean Baker’s Anora by Marla Cruz
Sean Baker’s Coldest Film by Taylor J. Williams
Does ‘Anora’ Get the World of Sex Work Right? One Stripper’s Analysis by Lily Burana
Heaux Joy by Risdon Roberts
Anora and the changing depiction of sex work in Hollywood by Jackson Weaver
Anora & The Myth of the Male Gaze by Jordan Theresa
ANORA: What Pretty Woman Was Afraid to Be by antiheroines
The Naked Humanity of Sean Baker by Richard Lawson
This Is Why Anora Won Best Picture (and others didn’t) by NT Was Here
Reassessing the Butt Shot: Feminism Versus Spectacle in The Substance and Anora by Caetlin Benson-Allott
The 24-Hour Working Girl by Ayanna Dozier
Prostitute homicides: a descriptive study by C Gabrielle Salfati, Alison R James, Lynn Ferguson
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1h 51min
September 23, 2025 WWBUT 110 – Ted Taco
After a brief unexpected hiatus, we’re back with a pre-hiatus what we’ve been up to! We’re talking about demon hunting, forgiveness, and more.
What Missy’s Been Up To:
Watching
Cabaret
KPop Demon Hunters
The Others
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Reading
Cringeworthy by Melissa Dahl
Prisons Make Us Safer and 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration by Victoria Law
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Gilead by Marilynn Robinson
What Merri’s Been Up To:
Watching
KPop Demon Hunters
Fit for TV: The Reality of the Biggest Loser
Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action
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1h 7min
August 26, 2025Episode 208 – The Substance
What does it cost to be beautiful? Let’s find out in our discussion of The Substance, Coralie Fargeat’s 2024 body horror film about beauty, Hollywood, and aging. We’re discussing mixed messages, Demi Moore’s performance, and why, despite everything, this film failed to stick the landing for us.
Some Sources You Might Find Interesting:
Horrality by Phillip Brophy
Feminist Body Horror explained: female puberty horror, pregnancy body horror, hagsplotation by Femme Fatale’s Heels
The Substance may be grotesque, but it is not body horror by Billie Walker
I Don’t Know How To Feel About The Substance (2024) by Jordan Theresa
‘The Substance’ Review: An Indecent Disclosure by Alissa Wilkinson
Why Does The Substance Look Like That? by Thomas Flight
Hag Horror: Why Are We So Afraid of Old Women? by Broey Deschanel
The Substance: Have You Ever Dreamt of a Better Version of Yourself? by Imogen Swift
Analyzing Evil: The Substance by The Vile Eye
The ‘feminist body horror’ resurgence is here – but where does transness fit in? by Emily Cameron
The Substance Discourse Is Getting Unbearable by Kayla Says
Are We Getting The Substance All Wrong? by Allison Willmore
Reassessing the Butt Shot: Feminism Versus Spectacle in The Substance and Anora by Caetlin Benson-Allott
Cis-Phoria: The Substance (2024), dir. Coralie Fargeat by Kay Alexander
THE MONSTROUS FEMININE RE-IMAGINED: THE SUBSTANCE by Henrieta Krupa
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2h 9min
August 05, 2025 WWBUT 109 – Stuffed-Up Vader
Welcome to another WWBUT! This time around, we’re discussing things the internet should stop talking about, memories of the indie sleaze era, and more.
What Missy’s Been Up To:
Watching
Materialists
Watchmen (the show)
Gudiya – Bluebeard’s Bride
Queer for Fear
Zodiac
Reading
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
What Merri’s Been Up To:
Watching
The Cult of American Apparel
Mary Poppins
The Real Housewives of Atlanta
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1h 11min
July 15, 2025Episode 207 – Renfield
Join us as we take a look at 2023’s Renfield, a big-budget fanfic (no, no, hear us out) continuation of the 1931 Dracula adaptation! This time, we’re discussing the purpose of remixing older media, masculinity, pop psychology, and copaganda, as well as how hot Nicholas Hoult looks as the saddest, wettest little man on Earth.
Some Sources You Might Find Interesting:
Renfield: The Vampire’s Undying Assistant by M. Keith Booker & Isra Daraiseh
The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023) and Renfield (2023) by Carol Senf
Renfield Sucks a Funny Premise Dry by Alison Willmore
‘Renfield’ Review: Nicolas Cage Dons the Count’s Cape by Amy Nicholson
Masochism in Bram Stoker’s Dracula: re-reading R.M. Renfield by Antonio Senna
All in the Family: A Retrospective Diagnosis of R.M. Renfield in Bram Stoker’s Dracula by Elizabeth Winter
Codependecy from Psychology Today
Love Bombing from Psychology Today
Dangerous Defenses (on DARVO) by Terri Apter, Ph.D.
Cinema Therapy meets Robert Kirkman // Narcissism in RENFIELD
Copaganda by Alec Karakatsanis
Five Stories That Would Be Better Without Cops by Oren Ashkenazi
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1h 36min
June 24, 2025 WWBUT 108 – Meat Guys
Another month, another batch of HOT NEW TOPICS from your favorite Fake Geek Girls. This month, we’re chatting about the difference between love stories and romance, what on earth a liver king is, and new-found fears.
Edit: We changed the name of this episode because the Liver King got arrested for “terroristic threats” less than 24 hours after we posted it, which is probably not something we want to accidentally suggest we are bestowing flower crowns for. Even if the title WAS funny.
What Missy’s Been Up To:
Watching
Whiplash
Call Me By Your Name
Final Destination: Bloodlines
Reading
All About Love by bell hooks
Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
What Merri’s Been Up To:
Watching
Monkey
Untold: The Liver King
Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Influencing
Final Destination: Bloodlines

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1h 17min
June 03, 2025 Episode 206 – Miss Congeniality
She’s beauty and she’s grace, but is she… FEMINIST? (Please imagine Missy’s most sarcastic voice saying that.) That’s right, we’re talking about 2000’s Miss Congeniality, the pinnacle of 2000’s girl power. What does this film have to say about femininity? About neoliberalism? About… feminism? Let’s find out.
Some Sources You Might Find Interesting:
Who’s Afraid of Gender? (A Guide to Judith Butler) by Philosophy Tube
Why We Can’t Fix the Makeover Movie by VerilyBitchie
Neoliberal Femininity in Miss Congeniality (2000) by Yael D. Sherman
Abjection, postfeminism and the makeover in Miss Congeniality (2000) by Clementine Vann-Alexander
Miss Congeniality’s Mixed Messages | Good & Bad Takeaways by The Take
Enchanted (2007) by Postfeminism: Gender, Irony, and the New Romantic Comedy by Yvonne Tasker
Hardboiled & High Heeled: The Woman Detective in Popular Culture by Linda Mizejewski
Miss Congeniality 2: How to use a sequel to fix mistakes in the first installment by thefilmyfairy
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1h 42min
May 20, 2025 WWBUT 107 – A Vanilla Milkshake
It’s time to indulge nostalgia by revisiting old favorites and explore newness in our latest What We’ve Been Up To!
What Missy’s Been Up To:
Watching
Ghost World
Final Destination 1 – 5
Reading
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed
A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
What Merri’s Been Up To:
Watching
Conclave
The Lion King
A Goofy Movie
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
Reading
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
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1h 10min
May 06, 2025 Episode 205 – But I’m a Cheerleader
Join us as we discuss satire, gender, sexuality, representation, and more as we take a look at But I’m a Cheerleader! Does this early 2000s cult classic comedy hold up? What’s it really making fun of? Does its representation ring true? Let’s find out!
Some Sources You Might Find Interesting:
Heterosexual Questionnaire by Martin Rochlin, Ph.D
A thundering round of boos for ‘But I’m a Cheerleader’ by Paul Tatara
But I’m a Cheerleader by Emanuel Levy
Review of “But I’m a Cheerleader” by Sarah Warn
20 years ago, But I’m A Cheerleader reclaimed camp for queer women by Caroline Siede
The Quare Agenda of “RuPaul’s Drag U” by Lisa Weems
But I’m A Cheerleader by Roger Ebert
But I’m a Cheerleader: Awkward and Flippant, Accurate and Ground-breaking by Tom Sharples
Lesbians in Film – But I’m a Cheerleader (Video Essay) by Rex Svensson
Camp genre conventions in “But I’m a Cheerleader” (1999) and “House” (1977) by zoey larson
Who’s Afraid of Gender? (A Guide to Judith Butler) by Philosophy Tube
Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
The Major’s Body final.FINAL Stand Together Complex by Claire Napier
Notes on Camp by Susan Sontag
visual analysis of but i’m a cheerleader by sol
exploring camp aesthetics with ‘but i’m a cheerleader’ by chai tii
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1h 49min

FAQs about Fake Geek Girls - A Critical Look at Pop Culture:

How many episodes does Fake Geek Girls - A Critical Look at Pop Culture have?

The podcast currently has 553 episodes available.