This week, the Geek Girls discuss two series finales and one season finale. It’s the end of HBO’s “Succession” and “Barry” and the season-2 end of Showtime’s “Yellowjackets.”
This week, the Geek Girls discuss the wonderful documentary “Love to You, Donna Summer,” co-directed by Donna Summer’s daughter Brooklyn Sudano and Roger Ross Williams (first Black man to win an Oscar for Best Director—short film “Music by Prudence”).
Apple TV+ is quickly becoming our favorite streaming service… especially as original favorite HBO Max transitions into Max. (Sigh.) Today Cort and Kelly are chatting about the excellent new series “Silo,” based on the books by Hugh Howey.
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12.32: Michael J. Fox Still (Always) Has Our Heart
In this episode, we chat about the wonderful new documentary “Still” about Michael J. Fox. The documentary goes back to his childhood, moves forward through his acting career, and goes deep into his life with Parkinson’s Disease.
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12.31: The Killer Nurse, the Good Nurse, and the...
Movie and TV moms: the good, the bad, and the truly despicable. We grew up wishing that certain TV moms were our mom. We’ve watched movies wondering, “Oh, my lord, what is she doing?!” Today we’re discussing moms of distinction in TV and film: those we love and those we love to hate.
“The world is rotten, and those who are making it rot deserve to die.” So states Light Yagami in episode 1 of the Japanese anime “Death Note” after getting acquainted with the notebook of the same name.
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12.28: Tainted Meat: David Choe Ruins “Beef” PLUS the...
We had to scrap the episode we had previously recorded on the Netflix series “BEEF” after we learned about the David Choe scandal. So, we’re replacing it with a discussion of the Choe incident(s) and a blow-by-blow of the “Final-Destination”-esque deaths in “Cocaine Bear.”
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12.27: “Introducing Brian Broome” with Filmmaker...
Y’all know how much we love documentaries. Today we’re discussing the hilarious, profound, and deeply moving “Introducing Brian Broome” with producer and director Chris Ivey.
Introducing the newest show in the Geek Girl Soup network: Reality Geeks. With the new show, we present a new cohost, Catherine. Like Susan and Amelia, she feels no guilt watching some of the “trashy” reality shows like 90 Day Fiancé, Below Deck, Real Housewives, and more.
Just because the Oscars didn’t recognize any women directors this year doesn’t mean there weren’t awesome films made by women in 2022. This week, Kelly and Cort discuss two of our favorite films of 2022 that were directed by women: “The Woman King” and “Women Talking.”
Crisis team firmly on call, this year’s Oscars were pretty tame. Well, except for Cocaine Bear! The Geek Girls and Erik were virtually there to bring you all the goodies!
Geek Girl Soup is your source for the latest news on the Spirit Awards and the Oscars! Join hosts Susan, Kelly, and Cort as we recap the Spirit Awards and make predictions for next week’s Academy Awards.
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12.19 The TV Shows That Made Us and a Few Hot Picks
This week, when we’re not chatting about Cort’s soap opera and whomever Sprina is kissing now, we’re loving on two films that we watched for the Film Independent Spirit Awards: “The Inspection” and “Bruiser.”
This year, like some magical, multidimensional kismet, the Soupie Awards took place on Superb Owl Day. Naturally, we turned the occasion into the 2023 Soupy Bowl—an awards show with musical halftime extravaganza!
Kelly was at Podfest a few weeks ago and met William Hung, who was famously on “American Idol” in January 2004. William chats with Kelly about his experience there, post-AI fame, Asian representation in film, and the rise of ChatGPT.