Tongue punch me in the fart box, let's kick off RN Summer on Stop Everything! by going back to school.
It's a hat trick of high school nostalgia starting with Vidya Rajan and Stephen Nicolazzo on their stage adaptation of Melina Marchetta's classic novel, Looking for Alibrandi.
Then hear from Ayesha Madon, James Majoos and Chloe Hayden, three young stars of Netflix's hit reboot of 90s drama Heartbreak High.
Finally, theatre makers Diana Nguyen and Petra Kalive reflect on high school drama and trauma in their main stage adaptation of Alice Pung's award-winning novel, Laurinda.

Highlight: High School Drama!

Pop culture is everywhere. But it's also a lot. If you need help making sense of like, everything in your feed, Beverley Wang is here to help. Every episode, Beverley and a special guest sort through the latest hot takes and Internet discourse to help you understand how pop culture reflects your world.

Want to know which new releases to watch or skip, which long reads to share with your group chat and which podcasts to follow? Stop Everything's got you.

New Podcast ep every Thursday.

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Activist, performer and Drag Race royalty Kween Kong is back in the Stop Everything! guest critic chair to talk about the trailer to Celine Dion's new documentary, controversy on the Cannes red carpet and getting political at Drag Con.

Show notes:

I am: Celine Dion trailer
Kelly Rowland on Cannes red carpet incident
Kween Kong's TikTok account

Celine Dion + Kween Kong = DIVAS!

British broadcaster Piers Morgan has become a main character in the aftermath of the Internet sleuthing around Netflix's Baby Reindeer. What the heck is going on?

Guest critic and ABC entertainment reporter Jared Richards is in to help us figure it out.

And we're also talking about TikTok content – from the cringe to the heartwarming.

Show notes:
Piers Morgan interview with Fiona Harvey
Baby Reindeer: Truth or Fiction, BBC's The Media Show
Rose and Anzai Country Life

Baby Reindeer + Piers Morgan = mess

Dearest Gentle Listeners, the third season of Netflix's Bridgerton is upon us and it's heaving with bosoms, babes and romantic intrigue.

Series leads Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) and Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) are glowed up and loved up, but *spoiler alert* major twists are on the horizon.

Stop Everything! romance correspondent Rudi Bremer is in to guide you through it all.

Prepare to be horny for Bridgerton season 3

Deborah Frances-White host of the hit podcast The Guilty Feminist unpacks unattainable perfection, ageing and spills the tea on the Netflix series Baby Reindeer.

Plus Barbara Streisand's Ozempic post and the algorithms that are serving up outrage.

Falling short with the Guilty Feminist

Vietnamese-Australian actor Hoa Xuande is breaking into Hollywood's big league as the star of HBO's The Sympathizer, a limited series based on Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer-prize winning novel.

Hoa is Stop Everything's special guest, and he's taking us behind the scenes of this A24-produced series, telling us about how he landed this huge role, and what it was like to act opposite heavyweights like Robert Downey Jr. and Sandra Oh.

Highlight: High School Drama!

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