Really Important Fictional Things

For our last episode of 2021, we dive deep into Feel Good but somehow barely scratch the surface. It’s a joyous emotional rollercoaster that we never want to get off. But before we get there, Avery gives an update on The Power of the Dog and School of Chocolate (she was impressed) and Rosey talks about Single All the Way (she was not impressed).

Some topics covered:

• The Power of the Dog
• School of Chocolate
• Please Like Me
• Comedians of the World — Mae Martin’s episode
• Amazing Esquire article about Feel Good (this is not something we mentioned but had to share)
• The Mentalist (Rosey called it Medium but that was wrong…)
• The Uncanny Valley

Where to stream:

• The Power of the Dog — Netflix
• School of Chocolate — Netflix
• Please Like Me — Hulu
• The Beatles: Get Back — Disney+
• Hawkeye — Disney+

As always, please hit us up with questions, suggestions, just to say hi, or god forbid any concerns (jkkk if you’re concerned we’re concerned, def let us know). You can email us at [email protected].

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Welcome back to another episode! First, Rosey discusses her thoughts on the silly Netflix movie A Castle for Christmas, then Avery talks about the very intellectual, nonfictional book Four Lost Cities. But the real focus is Hulu’s Dave! It’s fun, it’s rowdy, and it’s making us think about cultural appropriation, mental health, and weird dick stuff.

Some topics covered:

• Brooke Shields on Armchair Expert
• Dave (season 3 deets)
• Zoey’s Extraordinary Christmas
• Four Lost Cities
• Six Feet Under
• Tick Tick, Boom
• They

Where to stream:

• A Castle for Christmas — Netflix
• Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist — Hulu/Roku
• Dave — Hulu

As always, please hit us up with questions, suggestions, just to say hi, or god forbid any concerns (jkkk if you’re concerned we’re concerned, def let us know). You can email us at [email protected].

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It’s a long one, folks, but we’re on fire. Rosey can’t get enough of The Sex Lives of College Girls and Avery has some thoughts on the second season of The Great. Then we wind our way to deep diving into the aughts classic I Love You, Man. Along the way we somehow find ourselves talking about six-packs, dog poop, and the sexiest men alive.

Some topics covered:

• Jared and Jensen “feud”
• The Sex Lives of College Girls
• The Great
• Amanda Bynes
• RIFT Tweet about millennial icons coming back
• Harry Potter Fanfiction Slate article
• Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
• I Love You, Man
• Thomas Lennon (He’s in 17 Again… not 13 Going on 30)
• Supreme Court Declares Same-Sex Marriage Legal In All 50 States
• Sexiest Men Alive
• Bent

FACT CHECK: We say Benji Madden is bisexual but turns out that’s not true. Sorry about that!

Where to stream:

• The Sex Lives of College Girls — HBO Max
• The Great — Hulu
• I Love You, Man — Amazon ($)

As always, please hit us up with questions, suggestions, just to say hi, or god forbid any concerns (jkkk if you’re concerned we’re concerned, def let us know). You can email us at [email protected].

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Happy short holiday week! This episode we’re talking Thanksgiving TV specials. Whether you celebrate or not, there’s an interesting (we think) discussion about Indigenous voices on TV that definitely checks the “really important” box*. Not gonna lie, we get a little riled. We also give an update on KStew content we watched after last week’s discussion, and review the Top 10 streams for this week.

*If you want to learn more about Indigenous Peoples’ fight for their land (more than two white girls with minimal knowledge can share) check this out: https://iltf.org/land-issues/history/

Some topics covered:

• Buffering Podcast
• Louie CK’s bear joke
• Nipmuck Nation
• The Dawes Act
• An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
• Charlie Day/Green Man has BDE
• A fancy eye patch
• Fabrice Fabrice (problematic Seal jokes aside)
• Orphan Black the Podcast
• Hemsworth Brothers

Thanksgiving Specials We Watched:

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer “Pangs”
• The West Wing “Two Indians in the Lobby”
• It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia “ The Gang Squashed Their Beefs”
• The Wonder Years “The Ties That Bind”
• Boy Meets World “Turkey Day”
• Orange is the New Black “Fucksgiving”
• Friends “The One With Chandler In A Box”
• Friends “The One With The Rumor”
• New Girl “Thanksgiving IV” aka Bangsgiving
• Master of None “Thanksgiving”

Things we trailed:

• Red Notice
• The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star

Where to stream:

• The Runaways — Netflix
• Panic Room — Hulu/Amazon Prime
• Buffy — Hulu
• Black Panther — Disney+
• Rez Dogs — Hulu
• The West Wing — HBO
• The Mick — Hulu
• The Wonder Years — Hulu
• M*A*S*H — Hulu
• New Girl — Netflix
• Boy Meets World — Disney+
• Orange is the New Black — Netflix
• The Office — Peacock
• Friends — HBO/Hulu
• Master of None — Hulu
• Human Giant — Torrent?
• The Great — Hulue
• Orphan Black — Amazon Prime
• The Sex Lives of College Girls — HBO

As always, please hit us up with questions, suggestions, just to say hi, or god forbid any concerns (jkkk if you’re concerned we’re concerned, def let us know). You can email us at [email protected].

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Here we go again! We talk Princess Diana because they’re making another movie about her — this time featuring Kristen Stewart. We get into it and then follow Rosey on her journey through the most recent Entertainment Weekly issue. There are so many movies coming soon, folks! And we comment on a lot of them.

Some topics covered:

• Entertainment Weekly (get your own subscription)
• Charlie’s Angels
• All the Princess Diana movies
• The Princess Diana episode of the You’re Wrong About podcast
• Dan Levy’s lines in Happiest Season
• Wes Anderson Movies
• King Richard
• Tick Tick Boom
• The Harder They Fall
• Lovecraft Country
• The Shrink Next Door (it’s a show not a movie)

EW’s “Stellar Stewart” List (Kristen Stewart’s Movies):

• Panic Room
• Into the Wild
• Adventureland
• The Runaways
• Clouds of Sils Maria
• Still Alice
• Happiest Season

Where to stream:

• The Crown — Netflix

As always, please hit us up with questions, suggestions, just to say hi, or god forbid any concerns (jkkk if you’re concerned we’re concerned, def let us know). You can email us at [email protected].

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Welcome back! Join us for a fun and rambling episode where we share some personal anecdotes, dive into all the shows we’d watch after school in the 00’s, and share our own TV and movie recommendations (instead of  looking at the internet’s suggestions).

Some topics covered:

• Love Life (Season 1 / Season 2)
• The Good Place
• Joan of Arcadia
• 8 Simple Rules
• Nathan Fillion scenes in Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place
• Sebastian Stan interviews
• Brie Larson’s YouTube Channel
• My Date with the President’s Daughter
• iCarly Reboot
• Paris Hilton Documentary
• You’re Wrong About podcast — Jessica Simpson episode
• Christy Carlson Romano on YouTube
• Peanut Butter Falcon trailer
• Hot Ones (Shia LeBeouf / Elijah Wood / Kristen Stewart)

The complete list of what we watched after school:

• Boy Meets World
• Step by Step
• Growing Pains (and where they are now — we were wrong about most of it)
• Fairly Odd Parents
• Jimmy Neutron
• Braceface
• The Proud Family
• Kim Possible
• Courage of the Cowardly Dog
• Dexter’s Lab
• Johnny Bravo
• Hey Arnold
• Recess
• Little Monsters
• Friends
• Beverly Hills 90210
• Dawson’s Creek
• Reba
• So Little Time
• iCarly
• Drake & Josh
• Smart Guy
• 7th Heaven
• The Simple Life
• Even Stevens
• What I Like About You
• As Told by Ginger
• So What
• Goosebumps
• Wishbone
• My Wife and Kids
• Everwood

Rosey and Avery’s Top 6 for November 1:

1. Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy (HBO Max)
   Avery has watched it 11 times
2. Timeless (Hulu)
   Rosey needs a friend to talk to about this show (also it was not on Fox…)
3. The Princess Bride (Disney+)
   Avery loses time when this is on
4. The Bold Type (Hulu)
   Rosey is obsessed — believable and positive female friendships for the win
5. Mare of Eastown (HBO Max)
   Avery’s said it before and she’s saying it again
6. Don’t Trust the B***** in Apartment 23 (Hulu)
   It’s off the wall, folks
7. Together Together (Hulu)
   Rosey and Avery just felt good

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This week we dive deep into Netflix’s limited series Maid. It’s truly a deeeep one, but important, and *trigger warning* the conversation details domestic violence and abuse, alcoholism and mental health. We’ll also recap what we watched from last week’s Top 10, and take a look at this week’s popular streams (featuring some non-Netflix content!)

If you are looking for resources or to learn about domestic violence, here are a few options:

• National Domestic Violence Hotline 800.799.SAFE (7233)
• The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
• Women Against Abuse

Some topics covered:

• Great Society
• Anna Kendrick
• Knive’s Out
• Taika Waititi’s soft eyes
• Liane Moriarity’s Three Wishes
• You can make a movie on your phone now

Current popular stuff we preview:

• Hypnosis
• The 4400
• What We Do in the Shadows

Where to stream:

• Maid — Netflix
• Night Teeth — Netflix
• 9 Perfect Strangers — Hulu
• Insecure — HBO Max
• Love Life — HBO Max
• The Resident — Hulu or Fox Now
• Super Store — Peacock
• Looking — Hulu
• Only Murders in the Building — Hulu
• Dopesick — Hulu

As always, please hit us up with questions, suggestions, just to say hi, or god forbid any concerns (jkkk if you’re concerned we’re concerned, def let us know). You can email us at [email protected].

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Avery and Rosey share how they feel about last week's Top 10 on Netflix, talk about some amusing celeb encounters they had while in LA, and then dive into what mental health looks like in Ted Lasso.

Some topics covered:

• Pirates of the Caribbean
• Binge Mode Harry Potter
• Fun stories about Rosey and Avery encountering celebs in LA.
• Jason Sudeikis and Olivia Wilde’s relationship
• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk

October 25 Netflix Top 10 trailers that we cared to watch:

• Locke & Key
• Maya and the Three
• Night Teeth

Where to stream:

• Reservoir Dogs — Hulu
• The Guilty — Netflix
• Maid — Netflix
• Ted Lasso — Apple+
• Mythic Quest — Apple+
• The Morning Show — Apple+
• Marcella — Netflix
• Insecure — HBO

As always, please hit us up with questions, suggestions, just to say hi, or god forbid any concerns (jkkk if you’re concerned we’re concerned, def let us know). You can email us at [email protected].

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We can't say "spoiler alert" enough. Avery dives deep into Squid Game after Rosey recaps No One Gets Out Alive. There's some personal updates from us and another look at Netflix's Top 10. 

Some topics covered:

• Josef Stalin — “The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.”
• If Jack would have fit on the board in Titanic. Hear from science.
• The Barney characters

October 8 Netflix Top 10 trailers that we cared to watch:

• Maid
• There’s Someone Inside Your House
• The Guilty

Where to stream:

• Feel Good— Netflix
• Scream (the movie) — Amazon (you have to pay for it)
• Scream (the show) — Netflix
• Nightcrawler — Amazon (you have to pay for it)
• Never Have I Ever — Netflix
• A Million Little Things — Hulu
• The Chestnut Man — Netflix

I also need to recommend better teen romcoms after shitting on “The Duff”. Some options are: “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before”, “Love, Simon”, “Easy A”, “John Tucker Must Die”, “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”

As always, please hit us up with questions, suggestions, just to say hi, or god forbid any concerns (jkkk if you’re concerned we’re concerned, def let us know). You can email us at [email protected].

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Welcome to Episode ONE of Really Important Fictional Things THE PODCAST!

On our first audio adventure we introduce ourselves and our friendship, explore the evolution of friendships portrayed in teen dramas over the years, and review the Netflix Top 10 for the first week of October.

Some topics covered:

• Supernatural’s Bad Day at Black Rock (S3 E3 on Netflix)
• Youtube videos of Jensen Ackles making out
• Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour
• Drama Queens podcast
• Girl’s Gotta Eat podcast

October 1 Netflix Top 10 trailers that we cared to watch:

• Squid Game
• Britney Versus Spears
• Midnight Mass
• No One Get Out Alive
• Cocomelon (this has 771,612,835 views uhh…)
• The Circle

Where to stream:

• The OC — HBO Max
• Teen Wolf — Hulu
• Vampire Diaries — Netflix
• Sex Education — Netflix
• Boy Meets World — Disney+
• High School Musical - the Musical: the Series — Disney+
• One Tree Hill — Hulu
• Supernatural — Netflix

As always, please hit us up with questions, suggestions, just to say hi, or god forbid any concerns (jkkk if you’re concerned we’re concerned, def let us know). You can email us at [email protected].

Episodes drop every other Wednesday. See you in two weeks!

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