Today, we are holding space for the 2024 film starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, Wicked. Chris Derosa (Fixing Famous People) is back on the podcast to talk about what it felt like to sit through Wicked once….twice….possibly three times and be riveted at the return of talent and magic in theaters. We will honor the feelings we had to make room for when Defying Gravity was sung. The press tour and the reactions to the film will be analyzed We will also bring into question why it gets so hard for us to celebrate a film that is being championed by two women who are unafraid to show their true emotions about female friendship and the power behind their latest project.. Mostly, this will be a celebration of this massive film that got us through the end of 2024.

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To All the Men I've Tolerated Before is on holiday break until 2025. Please, enjoy our Still Comfy? review of the 2021 holiday romantic comedy, The Hating Game. The Hating Game stars Lucy Hale and Austen Stowell and is about two co-workers who find themselves putting aside their professional competitiveness because they are unable to deny their attraction to one another. 

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To All the Men I’ve Tolerated Before is on a holiday break until 2025! This week, we are re-releasing our Still Comfy? review of Love, Actually for some holiday cheer. Still Comfy? is where Julia Washington and I review our favorite comfort movies to figure out if they still make us happy. Spoiler alert, Love, Actually doesn't bring me comfort at all.

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As a special holiday break treat, I am releasing this Patreon-exclusive episode to the public! You may remember we did a free episode with Annie about Reality TV and how much it matters to us. But did you know we had to record that episode twice? This is our first take, where it was a little more fun conversation between friends and less a deep dive on how misogyny affects reality tv. 

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We are on our holiday break and will not be releasing new episodes until 2025! Please enjoy this re-release of our Still Comfy? Practical Magic review with Julia Washington. Practical Magic is one of my favorite comfort movies and I hope it adds a little warmth and magic to your holiday season!

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Julia Washington (Prose and Glow) is back to talk to Natalie about entering her Rom Com Era. Julia has been creating content about dating herself and doing activities that you would find in a standard Rom Com to try and find her ideal relationship. Her and Natalie will discuss how the dating landscape has changed as women’s expectations for relationships and dating have evolved as they do things like de-centering men and honing in on their own independence and power. What will it take for men to catch up to being able to appreciate women who are confident in themselves and their standards? You’ll have to watch Julia’s romantic comedy lifestyle to figure it out!

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Natalie is joined by her friend Shanaz to get her thoughts straight on the Netflix docu-series, America’s Sweethearts Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders. After a casual watch of the show, Natalie was convinced that DCC and the series was a great work of women supporting other women and her ideal type of feminism. It took a lot of people, including Shanaz, to get her to watch it again and see the sinister misogyny lurking behind the pretty facade. Shanaz and Natalie will talk about a lack of body diversity, low pay, women being in competition with one another, women being a commodity for men, and other ways misogyny presents itself within DCC.

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Rose from Fiction Fixation is back with Natalie today to discuss Tell Me Lies. Tell Me Lies is Hulu television series following a group of college friends through their torrid relationships. Natalie and Rose will discuss how Lucy and Stephen’s tumultuous relationship can be viewed through the lens of depression and how mental health plays a role in how you weave your way through dating and sexuality. They will also discuss the other women in the show and how it reflects upon common things they see portrayed in reality when it comes to female sexuality and the power dynamics held within sexual relationships. Other themes will be narcissism, the spectrum of depression and how it presents, apathy, and queerness.

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Happy Spooky Season, Team Tolerator! As a special Halloween treat, I am releasing our full review of Diablo Cody's Lisa Frankenstein. This review with Darcie was a Patreon exclusive as part of our Team Tolerator Check-In series but I wanted to celebrate one of my favorite horror movies with you. Lisa is a misunderstood teenager who, together with a reanimated Victorian corpse, embarks on a murderous journey together to find love, happiness, and a few missing body parts. Lisa has become one of my favorite heroines of horror and I hope you love her as much as I do!

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We have a very special guest who was kind enough to help Natalie determine her definition for “the female gaze” once and for all. Morgan is the host of the podcast, Female Gaze: The Film Club, where she and her guests discuss films directed by female filmmakers. Natalie and Morgan will discuss the nuances and differences they see when female filmmakers are the ones capturing women’s experiences. Directors of note will be Greta Gerwig, Sophia Coppola, Natalie Morales, Chloe Zhao, and more! Are you able to sit in a movie theater and determine if a movie is directed by a woman just by the tone and choices made?

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