Niche & Potatoes

The girls talk about the fluctuating public endorsement of Valentine’s Day, everything that happened at Super Bowl LVIII, the girlies going country, Alex’s trauma around Lady Gaga and Beyoncé’s “Telephone,” Taylor Swift as a psy-op, and a bunch of other related and unrelated stuff!

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The girls discuss everything they foretell for the Year of Our Lord 2024, plus give a peek into the upcoming Niche Reacts Oscars Best Picture rundown, and their recap of a few recent, pressing pop culture issues.

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The gals talk about the oeuvre of Mike Flanagan, from Hush to The Haunting of Hill House to The Fall of the House of Usher, and almost everything in between. We discuss our hits and misses, our favorite moments, and all the times Mike Flanagan has gotten to collect our tears. We also get into our favorite TV of the year.

Hush and Gerald’s Game on the Evolution of Horror:

Mike Flanagan on TikTok proving all he wants to do is make us cry

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Happy Halloween! Today, we discuss the work of Shirley Jackson, including the much-adapted The Haunting of Hill House, the Gothic mystery We Have Always Lived in the Castle, and the iconic short story, “The Lottery.”

We also talk some of our favorite woman-directed horror movies, this year’s Halloween costumes, and what we’re most afraid of.

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Summer break is over, we are back, and we are live and in person! The gals give their lukewarm, lived in takes on all the major cultural touchstones of 2023, aka The Year of the Eras Tour, including Eyebrowgate and Oceangate, the Gwyneth Paltrow ski trial, Taylor's Swift's dalliance with 1975 frontman Matty Healy, and everything else we forgot happened this year!

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Today, we talk about the masculine socialization to “fix,” the universal conundrum of vulnerability, and our favorite recent works in film, music, and literature that bridge the gap in talking about men’s experiences with mental health.

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Listen to Noah Kahan’s Stick Season (We’ll All Be Here Forever) on Apple Music or Spotify

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If you would buy a t-shirt with Alex’s new motto, “I Guess That’s Why Comedy Is Funny,” let us know here:

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In which we run long, but also: finally find out answers to many of our season theories, pitch finale predictions, and go deep on the phenomenon known as tulpa.

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The nature of trauma, a timeline rehash, and all of Alex’s worst nightmares, covered in this week’s episode discussing Yellowjackets Season 2 Episode 7, “Burial".”

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