Valley Girl

This week we wrapped up the latest season of ABC's The Bachelorette, and it was utter CHAOS. Melissa Zeman & Tina Bergmann return to discuss this season's ups, downs and dumpster fire moments. We also play a game of Rose or No Rose. Take a listen and follow us on Instagram @ValleyGirlPodcast!

This week we're reminiscing about all the movies that impacted our childhood, shaped our lives, and taught us important life lessons. Take a listen and let us know what movies you would add to your list!

We are so excited to finally talk about Apple TV's Severance! This episode has a LOT of spoilers so we recommend watching the show first! And if you don't already have Apple TV, consider this our unpaid ad telling you to BUY IT NOW! This show is unlike anything else and definitely worth a weekend binge.

This week we're keeping it real as talk about all the latest and greatest (mostly cult) documentaries that have consumed our lives!

These documentaries have everything - music, 2000's fashion, skateboarding, religion, and even more. Take a listen!

Music

• J Lo's Halftime
• Count Me In
• Spring Awakening: Those You’ve Known
• Woodstock 99

2000s Fashion & Jeffrey Epstein

• White Hot the Rise & Fall of Abercrombie
• Victoria’s Secret Angels & Demons

Skateboarding

• Minding the Gap
• Tony Hawk Until the Wheels Fall Off
• F1 Drive to Survive

Religion & Cults

• Keep Sweet, Pray and Obey
• The Vow
• The Deep End
• Mormon No More
• The Way Down

Misc

• The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist
• Three Identical Strangers
• Not So Pretty
• WeWork
• The Girl in the Picture

This week we're talking a look at one of our favorite Hollywood tropes: the movie makeover montage! You know it well... our hero is defeated. They're new in town, they've been broken up with, they've been fired, they're in a rut, they're lost. But with a little help from their friends... BAM! ZERO TO HERO (just like that)!

There are few things we love more than a glow-up of our favorite movie characters. In this episode, we break down the best makeover montages of all time and give our own ANTM-style Makeover Awards for the all-time greats, including:

• She’s all that
• Legally Blonde
• She’s the Man
• Miss Congeniality
• The Devil Wears Prada
• Clueless
• Mrs. Doubtfire
• First Wives Club
• Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead
• Pitch Perfect
• Bridget Jones
• Mean Girls
• 10 things I Hate About You
• Mulan
• Hercules
• Moana
• Cruella
• The Princess Diaries
• Dirty Dancing
  
• Remember the Titans
  
• Bend It Like Beckham
  
• Blue Crush
  
• Karate Kid
  
• Warrior
• Creed
• Rocky
  
• Knights Tale
  

Take a listen and follow @Valleygirlpodcast on Instagram to vote for your favorites! Byeeeeeee

Valley Girl is approaching our 2 year (!) anniversary and we're feeling a little nostalgic. Trent Stapley once again hosts a new game, The Game of Love. Play along as we try to guess where quotes originated from: E. L. James, the author of Fifty Shades of Grey, or is it an imagined Valley Girl original romance novel? Take a listen and find out!

We've been talking about movies together for a long time, but are we "Motion-Picture Perfect" for each other? Let’s find out… Trent Stapley (our favorite guest and OG listener) takes over the podcast to challenge us to a game of his own creation, the Movie Compatibility Test! 

We also briefly discuss the latest celebrity drama, including Kim Kardashian & Pete Davidson, Rita Ora, Armie Hammer, etc., and provide a brief update on our newest favorite show, Apple TV's Severance. Seriously, go watch it!

But first, grab a pen and notebook and let the games begin!

Welcome back for round 2 of our summer rewind episodes where we tell you our favorite binges from Netflix, Hulu & Disney+! We also play our favorite game- Hot or Not: TV Show Edition.

Here are the shows we discuss:

Netflix

• Peaky Blinders (Cillian Murphy)
• Formula 1: Drive to Survive (Lewis Hamilton & Daniel Ricciardo)
• Russian Doll (Natasha Lyonne)
• After Life
• Outlander

Hulu

• The Bear
• Alone
• Conversations with Friends (Jemima Kirke & Joe Alwyn)
• Candy (Jessica Biel & Justin Timberlake
• Under the Banner of Heaven (Andrew Garfield)
• Atlanta (Donald Glover & LaKeith Stanfield)
• Killing Eve

Disney+

• Moon Knight
• Obi-Wan Kenobi

Reality TV

• The Bachelorette
• FBoy Island
• Love Island
• Real Housewives
• RuPaul

We've spent the summer staying inside watching TV and we're here to tell you our favorite binges from HBO and Apple TV! We also discuss why the Emmy nominations suck (justice for Sarah Goldberg and Sadie Sink!) and play our favorite game of Hot or Not: TV Show Edition.

Here are the shows we discuss:

Apple TV

• Ted Lasso
• Pachinko
• Succession
• After Party
• Physical
• The Essex Serpent
• Severance
• Little America
• Mythic Quest

HBO

• Our Flag Means Death
• Barry
• Hacks
• The Staircase
• Irma Vep
• Nathan For You
• Flight Attendant
• The Righteous Gemstones
• Starstruck

Weird Valley Niche

• The Kimberly Story

Our first minisode! In this spoiler-free and shortest-ever episode, we catch up on all the movies that have gotten us through the summer so far, for better or for worse, including Elvis, Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Northman, Deep Water, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Cyrano and Tony Hawk.

Take a listen and let us know what you think by visiting us on Instagram @ValleyGirlPodcast!