"So this is what it feels like to be Jamie Lynn Spears."

There are two types of people in this world: People who love Lifetime Original Movies and people named Harmony Colangelo. This Ends at Prom is finally embarking on the wild world of LMN originals and starting with THE PREGNANCY PACT, a ripped-from-the-headlines drama with massive creative liberties taken. What actually happened to these girls? Why are so many people obsessed with stories about teen girls behaving "badly," and where is the line between entertainment and exploitation?

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Article Referenced

Inside the Gloucester Pregnancy Pact: https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/news/a2055/teenage-pregnancy-pact-gloucester/

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"Put on your Sunday best, kids. We're going to Sears!"

The Brady Bunch is one of those fascinating TV relics that helped shape American culture for decades, so in the 1990s, they lovingly spoofed it with THE BRADY BUNCH MOVIE and gave us one of the great cult-hits of the decade. To sweeten the deal, the film is also centered on the middle teen girl of the group, the incomparable Jan Brady. Join The Wives Colangelo on a trip down memory lane on a sunshine day!

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"Don't dream it. Be it."

50 years ago, a midnight movie was unleashed on the American masses that changed the lives of outsider teenagers forever. The Wives Colangelo would not be the people we are today without THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, and neither would Chelsey Weber-Smith of the American Hysteria podcast. For the final episode of the Halloween season 2025, let's all do the time warp, give ourselves over to absolute pleasure, and tackle arguably the greatest movie ever made about liberating yourself from the standards of the status quo.

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"That's the whole point. I'm going to marry the Prince."

THE UGLY STEPSISTER is Emilie Blichfeldt's first feature, and it is unfathomable that a first-time feature filmmaker was given the space (and budget) to make such a biting, daring, and monstrous creative swing. The reason Cinderella is a fairy tale is that to be a woman so pure and beautiful that a rich prince takes you away from your terrible existence is a fantasy. The painful truth is that for the majority of us, we will never be Cinderella and have far more in common with "the ugly stepsister."

This movie is extreme, so proceed with caution!!

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"The girls will wake up ... when they are hungry."

Is Hausu secretly the most honest coming-of-age teen girl horror movie ever made? This week, The Wives Colangelo are diving into the wild, weird, and wonderful world of Nobuhiko Obayashi's 1977 masterpiece, HOUSE. Hell truly is a teenage girl, and this week the show is discussing seven young women who were eaten before adulthood had the chance to destroy them.

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Articles Referenced

House - The Housemaidens: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1634-house-the-housemaidens

Heart of Weirdness - The Story Behind HAUSU: https://www.austinfilm.org/2018/10/heart-of-weirdness-the-story-behind-hausu/

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"We're made to be monsters, so let's be monsters. Let's be gods."

BIT is the intersectional, trans-inclusive, vampire girl gang movie of your dreams, and The Wives Colangelo are here to talk about it for the most wonderful month of the year. How do you exist in a world that makes you out to be a monster just for existing, and what do you do when you're given the kind of power that cis straight white men have been abusing for years? Well, it's time we all found out! This week features an especially political discussion, so strap in and get ready to kick some ass, take some names, and bite some necks!

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"Please, Lord, make me the biggest star the world has ever known so that I may get far, far away from this place. Amen."

The Wives Colangelo are kicking off the Halloween season by discussing a young woman who will not accept a life she does not deserve, the titular PEARL. Discussions include the liberating excitement of seeing an adult film for the first time, the weird ways repression can manifest (like that scarecrow), how hard it is to accept when strict parents have a point, and the soul-crushing reality of your best not being enough. It's okay, Pearl, you'll always be a star to us!

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BJ's Interviews for Pearl:

Ti West: https://www.slashfilm.com/1009440/ti-west-talks-pearl-mia-goths-mesmerizing-performance-and-the-horror-of-ambition-exclusive-interview/

West, Mia Goth, & David Corenswet: https://www.slashfilm.com/1009401/mia-goth-david-corenswet-and-ti-west-want-you-to-care-about-the-tragic-motivations-of-pearl-exclusive-interview/

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"Fate! There is such a thing as fate, but it only takes you so far. Then it's up to you to make it happen."

Everyone loves that one last house party after high school before everything changes, especially when it has a banger soundtrack, introduces the next generation of Hollywood superstardom, and gives us all a reason to believe in fate. This week, the Wives Colangelo are finally tackling CAN'T HARDLY WAIT, and are joined by the incomparable Niko Stratis to do it! Did you know a Kenny in high school? Can you believe that Carlisle Cullen plays such a jerky jock in this? Are Preson and Amanda actually meant to be? LET'S OPEN UP THIS LIVING ROOM PIT AND FIND OUT!

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"If it's a man's world, God wouldn't have made me."

This week, The Wives Colangelo are championing the young women who were ever called a "bad influence" and celebrating the rural queer kids fighting for a chance to exist in a world that tries to literally straighten them out by talking about DIRTY GIRL. This criminally underrated and underseen road trip comedy is the exact kind of subversive comedy This Ends at Prom loves to highlight, and hopefully, you'll be able to sit in a little necessary discomfort to grow with these wild and wonderful characters, too. It's not every day that a person loses their virginity at the drive-in movies or learns that their dad is Tim McGraw!

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"Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you are born to stand out?"

This week, The Wives Colangelo are hopping the pond and showing up to merry ol' England to find their long-lost rich dads and talk about the Amanda Bynes classic, WHAT A GIRL WANTS. Discussions include dissecting why so many movies post-9/11 were overseas adventures, the glory of Colin Firth in leather pants, and why the statement "straight kids don't have to come out" is untrue when we're talking about the prison of wealth.

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