On this first special episode of Son of a Binge Goes to the Movies, we breakdown Wicked, starring Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Jeff Goldblum Michelley Yeoh, and more. Wicked is directed by Jon M. Chu, who also directed Crazy Rich Asians. Host Reshma Gopaldas is joined by guests Jazz Tangcay (Senior Artisans Editor, Variety), Aramide Tinubu (TV Critic, Variety), and Stevie Wong (Asian AV Club), to discuss all the highs and lows of Wicked: Part 1. They also give their predictions on Wicked's Oscar chances.

Jazz Tangcay: Instagram: jazzt21
Aramide Tinubu: Instagram: @awordwitharamide
Stevie Wong: Instagram: @wongie1

Son of a Binge production credits:
Hosted by: Reshma Gopaldas (TW: @reshingbull, IG @reshmago)
Producer & Editor: Emily Collins (IG @emilem124)
Artwork by: Laura Valencia (IG @iamlauravalencia)
Music by: Kevin Calaba (IG @airlandsmusic)

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Ella Purnell, star of the new series SweetPea, joins host Reshma Gopaldas to talk murder and mayhem. Ella plays Rhiannon Lewis who hits a breaking point and becomes a low key serial killer after suffering a major loss.

Ella chats all about the comparisons to Dexter, and reveals which of her characters from Yellowjackets to Fallout would be taken out by Rhiannon.

Season 1 of SweetPea is airing on Starz.

Son of a Binge production credits:
Hosted by: Reshma Gopaldas (TW: @reshingbull, IG @reshmago)
Producer & Editor: Emily Collins (IG @emilem124)
Artwork by: Laura Valencia (IG @iamlauravalencia)
Music by: Kevin Calaba (IG @airlandsmusic)

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Rachel Leishman (Assistant Editor, The Mary Sue) and Giovana Gelhoren join host Reshma Gopaldas to review Netflix's Nobody Wants This starring Adam Brody and Kristen Bell. The new rom com series follows a podcaster (Bell) who falls for a Rabbi, and turns each of their lives around.

Adam Brody starred as Seth Cohen on The OC and Kristen Bell got her early start as Veronica Mars.

Nobody Wants This is streaming on Netflix and just got renewed for a second season.

Son of a Binge production credits:
Hosted by: Reshma Gopaldas (TW: @reshingbull, IG @reshmago)
Producer & Editor: Emily Collins (IG @emilem124)
Artwork by: Laura Valencia (IG @iamlauravalencia)
Music by: Kevin Calaba (IG @airlandsmusic)

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Guest co-host Giovana Gelhoren joins host Reshma Gopaldas to breakdown Season 4 of Emily in Paris, which finds Emily and Gabriel finally getting together. But Camille's false pregnancy, a new love interest for Emily, and Gabriel's long-haired depression upends the couple's newfound happiness. All four seasons of Emily in Paris are streaming on Netflix. The show stars Lily Collins as Emily, Lucas Bravo as Gabriel, Ashley Park as Mindy Chen, Lucien Laviscount as Alfie, Camille Razat as Camille and Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu as Sylvie.

Son of a Binge production credits:
Hosted by: Reshma Gopaldas (TW: @reshingbull, IG @reshmago)
Producer & Editor: Emily Collins (IG @emilem124)
Artwork by: Laura Valencia (IG @iamlauravalencia)
Music by: Kevin Calaba (IG @airlandsmusic)

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Mickey Sumner joins host Reshma Gopaldas for an episode to celebrate 4 years and the series finale of Snowpiercer, based on Parasite director Bong Joon Ho's 2013 film, starring Chris Evans, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Ed Harris, Kang-ho Song, and Octavia Spencer. Sumner plays Bess Till, alongside co-stars Jennifer Connolly who plays Melanie Cavill, Daveed Diggs (Hamilton, Blindspotting), Alison Wright (The Americans), Lena Hall, Sean Bean (Game of Thrones), Rowan Blanchard, Sam Otto, Susan Park, Clark Gregg, and more.

Sumner shares her audition scene with Daveed Diggs that happened almost 7 years ago, when they began filming Snowpiercer. She also talks about her first season where she had just given birth to her son, and the challenges that came with being a breastfeeding mom on set.

She also dives into the love scenes on Snowpiercer and how she and many of her co-stars were thankful an intimacy coordinator was brought on. And finally, she talks about her ideal finale ending for Snowpiercer and Bess Till.

The series finale is September 22, and all four seasons of Snowpiercer are on AMC+.

Son of a Binge production credits:
Hosted by: Reshma Gopaldas (TW: @reshingbull, IG @reshmago)
Producer & Editor: Emily Collins (IG @emilem124)
Artwork by: Laura Valencia (IG @iamlauravalencia)
Music by: Kevin Calaba (IG @airlandsmusic)

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Special guest co-host and comedian Vick Krishna joins host Reshma Gopaldas to break down the first half of season 3 of The Bear on Hulu. Starring Jeremy Allen White, Ayo Edebiri, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Oliver Platt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Olivia Colman, and more.

Vick and Reshma rate how this season of The Bear stacks up against the award winning seasons 1 and 2. From cameos like Olivia Colman, Joel McHale, and Jamie Lee Curtis, Carmy and Claire's broken relationship, to Sydney and Carmy's relationship and if they should go there, or stay far, far away from making them romantically involved.

Vick Krishna is a comedian and actor based in both NYC and Washington, DC, and can be found on IG at @hotvickkrishna.

Son of a Binge production credits:
Hosted by: Reshma Gopaldas (TW: @reshingbull, IG @reshmago)
Producer & Editor: Emily Collins (IG @emilem124)
Artwork by: Laura Valencia (IG @iamlauravalencia)
Music by: Kevin Calaba (IG @airlandsmusic)

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Actress Jess Hong joins Son of a Binge host Reshma Gopaldas and guest co-host Robert Licuria (Gold Derby) to break down her hit Netflix show 3 Body Problem co-starring Rosalind Chao, John Bradley (Game of Thrones), Alex Sharp, Eiza González, Marlo Kelly, Benedict Wong, Liam Cunningham, Jovan Adepo, Saamer Usmani and more.

Jess stars as Jin Cheng, a theoretical physicist,  in 3 Body Problem, which is about a group of young  scientists at Oxford University, who uncover an existential crisis that is about to threaten humanity. She chats all about the shows she grew up watching, including Friends, and how Lucy Liu was the actress she looked up to the most. Jess opens up about the interview process behind 3 Body Problem, how creators David Benioff, D.B. Weiss and Alexander Woo tried to surprise her with her casting news over zoom but their surprise took a turn. She chats about what she's learning from Rosalind Chao, chemistry testing with Alex Sharp, and working with Marlo Kelly and the rest of the cast.  Plus, she reveals her dream casting for future seasons of 3 Body Problem. She also dissects the relationship between Will and Jin.

Hong tell us she has read all the book 3 Body Problem books by Liu Cixin and makes a confession about what she thinks about the last season of Game of Thrones.

3 Body Problem is streaming now on Netflix and is executive produced and created by the Game of Thrones team of David Benioff, D.B. Weiss and Alexander Woo. 

Son of a Binge production credits:
Hosted by: Reshma Gopaldas (TW: @reshingbull, IG @reshmago)
Producer & Editor: Emily Collins (IG @emilem124)
Artwork by: Laura Valencia (IG @iamlauravalencia)
Music by: Kevin Calaba (IG @airlandsmusic)

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Actress and poet Caitlin O'Ryan (Outlander), and comedian and actor, Vick Krishna (Fallout) joined host Reshma Gopaldas to talk about Netflix's recent hit, Baby Reindeer, starring and created by Richard Gadd. Gadd plays "Donny" and Jessica Gunning co-stars as "Martha." Baby Reindeer is based on Gadd's true life story, of the time in his life when he was a comedian/bartender, and Gunning plays the woman who develops an unhealthy obsession with him and stalks him. She sends him over 41k emails, 360 hours worth of voicemails, letters, facebook messages, and more.  The show follows the complicated dynamic between Donny and Martha, and has been hailed as a "beautifully disturbing" series. Real-life Martha, Fiona Harvey, has come forward and appeared on Piers Morgan to dispute the story. Baby Reindeer also stars Nava Mau, Nina Sosanya, Shalome Brune-Franklin, Tom Goodman-Hill, Alexandria Riley, Mark Lewis Jones, and Amanda Root.

Vick and Caitlin break down their thoughts about Baby Reindeer and Richard Gadd's work, and they talk about the earliest shows they loved to binge, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, to Friends, Happy Valley, Simpsons, House, The Office, and more.

Listen for their entire review of Baby Reindeer and thoughts on Donny, Martha, and real-life's Martha's stories and statements.

Vick Krishna is a comedian based in the NYC, Washington, DC, area and can be found on IG at @hotvickkrishna. Caitlin O'Ryan can be found on IG at @caitlinoryan.

*Content warning: Parts of the episode from 21:55 - 27:14 address the difficult and abusive relationship Donny suffers.

Son of a Binge production credits:
Hosted by: Reshma Gopaldas (TW: @reshingbull, IG @reshmago)
Producer & Editor: Emily Collins (IG @emilem124)
Artwork by: Laura Valencia (IG @iamlauravalencia)

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Jake Johnson (Minx, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse) joins  for an episode of Son of a Binge to chat all about New Girl, his new podcast, "We're Here to Help," with Garrett Reynolds, his friendship with co-stars Zooey Deschanel, Max Greenfield, Lamorne Morris, and Hannah Simone, and what it was like working with Tom Cruise. Jake opens up about what Max taught him about acting on television, why he and Gareth decided to start their advice podcast, and the story behind his doppleganger, fake Jake.

Jake confesses that he and Zooey quickly realized how beloved Nick & Jess were on New Girl, and how they often talked about why it was so important to grow that relationship with care. He reveals which popular TV couples from The Office and Cheers they took inspiration from as they developed their onscreen super couple over 7 seasons. Jake also talks about what he learned from Tom Cruise, while filming The Mummy, when they were working out together one day.

Jake Johnson's podcast "We're Here to Help," is available on all podcast platforms. He also co-stars with Ophelia Lovibond on Minx on Starz.

Son of a Binge production credits:
Hosted by: Reshma Gopaldas (TW: @reshingbull, IG @reshmago)
Producer & Editor: Emily Collins (IG @emilem124)
Artwork by: Laura Valencia (IG @iamlauravalencia)

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Jason Isaacs (Harry Potter, Sex Education) joins Son of a Binge to chat all about his stint playing Archie Leach, known to most as Cary Grant, on Britbox's Archie. Based on the book, "Archie",  by Grant's ex-wife Dyan Cannon, and BAFTA-winner Jeff Pope, Archie tells the story of a young boy who turned himself into one of Hollywood's biggest stars. Isaacs breaks down the man behind the myth, from the death of Archie's mother, to his relationship with his father, his wives and the light of his life, his daughter. He also reveals why he wrote a line in the film to address Cary Grant's romantic relationships.

Isaacs chats about whether he would be open to continuing the Harry Potter story as Lucius Malfoy, with a limited-series based around the Malfoys. Plus, he tells us about the shows he's binged recently including The Great with Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult, and  Sex Education with Gillian Anderson.  

Archie is executive produced by Jennifer Grant, Cary Grant’s daughter, and Dyan Cannon and is airing now on Britbox.

Son of a Binge production credits:
Hosted by: Reshma Gopaldas (TW: @reshingbull, IG @reshmago)
Producer & Editor: Emily Collins (IG @emilem124)
Artwork by: Laura Valencia (IG @iamlauravalencia)

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