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Geek Girl Soup

Welcome to season 14 and nearly 700 episodes! The Geek Girls (and occasional guy!) chat about movies, TV, awards shows, the Soupies (our very own awards), and DEI in the entertainment industry. We love Apple TV+, The Leftovers, Invasion, and The Fall of the House of Usher. One of us won’t watch biopics. One of us watches horror flicks for comfort. And one of us gets teased for not liking comedy. We’re all into sci-fi, the apocalypse, documentaries, time travel, all-things-Keanu Reeves, “prestige

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01:22:56

13.08: Invasion and Foundation Season 2 Finales

Geek Girl Soup ·

2023/12/02

AppleTV+ does it again with two fabulous season finales! This week we’re talking about “Invasion” and “Foundation.”Sadly, neither show has yet been renewed for season 3. We read that “Invasion” has been planned as a 4-season show and “Foundation” as an undetermined multi-season show. They just can’t end on these season 2 cliffhangers!Come on, Apple! Renew them already! We’ve submitted feedback through:https://www.apple.com/feedback/apple-tv-app/You can help out by watching the shows and submitting

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43:02

13.07: The Great Thanksgiving Episode!

Geek Girl Soup ·

2023/11/22

Happy Thanksgiving! Instead of fighting with your M*GA family members, reminding your aunt the safe temperature at which the turkey is done, or turning down your sister-in-law’s ambrosia salad, maybe you can chat about some quality Thanksgiving movies and shows! And we’ve got you covered.Let’s make this quick so you can get back to the green beans, gravy, and dressing.A few highlights of what we discuss:The new “Thanksgiving” horror film by Eli RothCatfish in Black Bean SauceGarfield’s ThanksgivingA

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13.06: Battle of the Asteroids

Geek Girl Soup ·

2023/11/18

Remember the summer of 1998? Wolf-Biederman vs a rock the size of Texas? That’s right. We were blessed with not one but two asteroid disaster movies: “Deep Impact” and “Armageddon”!If you’re into more “serious” apocalyptic fare, then you probably prefer “Deep Impact.” If you’re into summer tentpole blockbuster explosion-based apocalyptic flicks, then it’s “Armageddon” for you. Both have star-studded casts with Morgan Freeman, Téa Leoni, Robert Duvall, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, and Maximillian

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13.05: The One with the Gardens, the Hunter, the...

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2023/11/10

It’s Susan’s birthday week (happy birthday, Susan!). She chose “Grey Gardens,” an episode of Documentary Now! (s1 e1 “Sandy Passage”), and “The Night of the Hunter.”“Grey Gardens” is a documentary from 1975 about eccentric (to say the least!) mother and daughter (the Beales) reclusive cousins of Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis. They live in a ramshackle mansion with a dozen cats, raccoons, and opossums.“Sandy Passage” is a mockumentary short based on “Grey Gardens” featuring Bill Hader and Fred Armisen

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01:10:28

13.04 Fall of the House of Usher

Geek Girl Soup ·

2023/11/02

It’s Cort’s birthday this week (happy birthday, Cort!). So, she chose Mike Flanagan’s “Fall of the House of Usher” (Netflix) for our homework. Yay!!Cort is a huge Edgar Allen Poe fan, so she nerded out big time on this limited series. Listen in to catch a few Easter eggs, find out who we thought “deserved” what they got, who didn’t, whom we “proud of,” and whom we can’t wait to get their comeuppance in the real world!We also chat about River Phoenix since October 31st was his 30th deathiversary.And

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13.03: Breaking Bad Finale 10th Anniversary

Geek Girl Soup ·

2023/10/27

Can you believe it’s been 10 years since “Breaking Bad” (Netflix) ended? September 29, 2013, to be precise. And it was 15 years ago this year that the pilot aired: January 20, 2008. So, going on 16 years, actually.For this anniversary episode, we watched “Pilot” and “Felina.” Susan watched all of part 2 of season 5. And Cort watched a series recap on YouTube.Highlights:The “mama” fire station scene (“Ozymandias”)The Skyler kitchen scene (“Felina”)The Gretchen and Elliott scene (“Felina”)The big Jane

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44:24

13.02: National Alaska Day

Geek Girl Soup ·

2023/10/19

Happy National Alaska Day—on October 18th! We celebrated Alaska by watching a few movies and a tv show that take place in Alaska. Sadly, we learned later, they weren’t actually filmed in The Last Frontier.For a trek into the wild, we skipped that one and rewatched “The Grey” (max) instead. We decided that we would definitely want Liam Neeson with us if we were ever in a plane crash. Actually, we’d want Liam Neeson with us in any emergency situation. The film takes not just a few liberties with wolf

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01:04:20

13.01: It’s a Miracle (Texas)! The 6th Annual “The...

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2023/10/11

“Welcome to Miracle National Park, the most populated bordered area unaffected by the Sudden Departure. We hope you leave heartened by this living reminder of the world as it was and what it can be again.”Don’t forget to keep your wristbands on at all times. Stay out of the swimming hole. And don’t bother the locals!Guess what. Susan and Kelly took a lil’ ol’ road trip over to Jarden and did, in fact, bother the locals!Oh, my lord, we found the actual Durst/Garvey and Murphey houses, the fire

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01:09:34

12.56: Hollywood Legacy Families

Geek Girl Soup ·

2023/10/05

After all the kerfuffle last year about the negative connotation of “nepo babies” in the entertainment industry, we thought we’d put a positive spin on Hollywood legacy families.We don’t choose our parents, right? Sometimes, kids end up being as good as—or even better than—their parents. Not always, of course!And that’s what we’re discussing in this episode. We take a totally subjective look at some Hollywood legacies. We discuss who made it bigger than their parents, who’s just as good/big as their

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12.55: Peter Gabriel Now and Then

Geek Girl Soup ·

2023/09/27

We watched the documentary film “Classic Albums: Peter Gabriel - So,” but mostly we’re talking about our favorite PG music and concert moments. And, of course, we just had to watch “Say Anything.” Wouldn’t you?Kelly saw Peter’s I/o Tour live in Pittsburgh this past weekend. So, we talk about that and how it holds up to his past concerts.Susan and Kelly are old enough to have fallen in love with Peter’s music during his 1 - 4 phase, also known as Car, Scratch, Melt, and Security. We mostly listened

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12.54: Yentl 40th Anniversary

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2023/09/23

In 1985, Gen X had “Just One of the Guys.” Remember that gem? (We did love it!) Maybe we’ll watch it on its 40th anniversary. But this week we went back to 1983 and watched “Yentl,” same Shakespearean premise of a woman pretending to be a man to succeed in a man’s world.Yentl is an Ashkenazi Jewish girl living in Eastern Europe in 1907 in a community where women are not permitted to study the Talmud. But her forward-thinking father does indeed teach her the sacred texts. When her father dies, Yentl

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12.53: Hablamos!

Geek Girl Soup ·

2023/09/14

The Geek Girls are celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month! We watched part of the telenovela “Tierra de Reyes,” several of the “Habla” series on max, and a host of fabulous women on YouTube.Of course, we get sidetracked right from the start. So, feel free to jump straight to 21 minutes to get to the topic! Otherwise, listen in as we chat about “Who Is Erin Carter?”, “Creamery,” “Dear Child,” “From,” and The Walking Dead Universe. (Will it never end???)Some fabulous Latinas to check out:Fighting Words

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12.52: Hollywood Strike Talk with Erik C. Andersen

Geek Girl Soup ·

2023/09/07

Our Hollywood insider, Erik C. Andersen, is back to give us the scoop on the writers and actors strikes that have movies and tv shows at a standstill.Erik is an Emmy Award-winning editor who has joined writers and actors on the picket line to show his support for fair wages and judicious/limited use of AI in film and tv.This episode is the full interview Susan and Kelly did with Erik, an excerpt of which you heard in episode 12.51.In this episode, Erik shares:A clip from the picket lineAn example of

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01:04:49

12.51: Celluloid Solidarity: Exploring Labor Issues...

Geek Girl Soup ·

2023/09/04

We’re celebrating Labor Day at Geek Girl Soup with a few movies and a TV show that explore various working conditions.We start with the HBO limited series “Telemarketers,” which looks at the horrors both of how telemarketing companies treat their workers, and also how these companies deal with consumers and the “nonprofits” they allegedly raise money for. This is a scrappy little series that had almost no budget. It has original footage from inside one of the earliest scummy telemarketing

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01:25:13

12.50: We’re Going Back to the Future!

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2023/08/31

“Wait a minute, Doc. Are you telling me you build a Time Machine… out of a DeLorean?” Can you believe that we are 8 years past the future in “Back to the Future Part II”?! That’s right. Marty and Doc went to October 21, 2015. Heavy, right?Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale got FaceTime and flat-screen TVs right. But we still don’t have flying cars or hoverboards. Or do we?This week, we welcome back Geek Girl Amelia as we discuss her Favorite Films of All Time: “Back to the Future.” We watched a couple of

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12.49: 50 Years of Hip-Hop: Ladies First

Geek Girl Soup ·

2023/08/24

Happy Hip-Hop-iversary! Geek Girl Soup is celebrating women in hip-hop with “Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop” (Netflix).This fabulous docuseries delves deep into the history of the impact women have made in hip-hop. We look back at power of Roxane Shanté, MC Lyte, and Queen Latifah. We examine the backlash at Sister Souljah. We discuss the new wave of ladies with Nicki Minaj, Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion, and Chika. So many more awesome ladies in the doc, too!Do check it out!Next week:

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12.48: Geek Girls Trip

Geek Girl Soup ·

2023/08/18

For the first time ever, the ladies of Geek Girl Soup broadcasted an episode live! Yes, this episode is raw, unedited, and off-the-cuff as we discuss “Bridesmaids,” “Girls Trip,” and “Joy Ride.”If you’re listening on your favorite podcast app, you can watch the video on our website. We actually have faces behind the voices!We were broadcasting live because we were all physically together for our own girls trip in Houston. Now, we may do this again another time because we don’t have to be physically

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12.47: Fly the (Not-So) Friendly Skies with Idris!

Geek Girl Soup ·

2023/08/11

When you hear the sound of the bell, what does that signify to you? Seat belts can be removed? It’s dinnertime? Or Tio Hector urgently needs to tell you something.In this episode of Geek Girl Soup, we’re covering seat belts and Tio Hector, that is Idris Elba in “Hijack” and the passing of beloved Mark Margolis. (You can figure out dinner on your own!)There have been too many deaths in the entertainment industry recently (we’ll talk about William Friedkin next week). We discuss Sinead O’Connor, Paul

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12.46: Child Actors All Grown UP

Geek Girl Soup ·

2023/08/05

Did you know that some of your favorite actors started out in commercials, appeared in TV shows, or jumped right into film when they were mere tots? Of course you did! Today we’re talking about just a few who came to mind—not nearly an exhaustive list!Some highlights:Reese Witherspoon in “The Man in the Moon,” directed by Robert Mulligan of “To Kill a Mockingbird” fameEthan Hawke in “Explorers,” also starring River PhoenixMalcolm Jamal Warner in a certain ShowFrankie Muniz in “Malcolm in the Middle”

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12.45: Christmas in July 2023

Geek Girl Soup ·

2023/07/28

For this Christmas in July, we went a very non-traditional route with our movie choice and watched “The Apology” on Hulu. Thankfully, we also watched “A Storm for Christmas” and “Die Hard,” two actual Christmas shows. We definitely needed something more jovial after “The Apology”!“The Apology” takes place on Christmas Eve and Christmas morning. But this is no Christmas movie. Yes, a gift or two are given. A meal is prepared. Decorations are hung. But no one is festive or celebrating.And, in the dark

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