Why Gen Z is already burning out (and how to cope)
Gen Z is just getting started with adult life. So what does it say if the youngest adults are feeling burnt out already – and will the kids be alright? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
4 Aug 202212min
Stars' Second Chapters - Why They Give Us Hope
So often we’re led to believe that, after a certain age, people are just stuck with their lot in life, however bad the job or relationship is. But the celebrity-starting-over trend is here to give us hope! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2 Aug 202211min
How Fight Club Predicted Today
Fight Club has long been a cult classic, and today Tyler’s complaints about the spiritual costs of turning ourselves into consumers instead of people feel more prophetic than ever – so do any of his solutions make any sense, too? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
30 Jul 202213min
How the Manipulative Victim Trope Shaped the Depp-Heard Trial
Stories about women being deceptive or manipulative have been embedded in our culture for millennia, dating all the way back to Adam and Eve. Here’s our take on how narratives around the Depp-Heard trial draw on the tropes of the perfect victim and the devious manipulative woman, and how both of these fictional ideas fuel dangerous societal misogyny. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
28 Jul 202212min
The It Girl - What Makes Her "It" In Every Era
The “It” girl represents something indefinable — a quality, charisma, or spark that makes her stand out and captures something of her time. So what truly makes a generation’s It Girl? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
26 Jul 202211min
House of The Dragon - A Targaryen Deep Dive and What We Know So Far
Three years after the end of Game of Thrones, we’re heading back to Westeros. But what can we expect from HBO’s upcoming House of the Dragon? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
26 Jul 202212min
The Cougar Trope - Why this joke is outdated
The Cougar used to be a punchline, but has the joke of an older woman preying on younger men stopped being funny? And was it ever? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
21 Jul 202216min
Donnie Darko - What's the Meaning of Life?
For all its confusion and ambiguity and humanoid rabbits, what major takeaways did Donnie Darko leave us with? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
19 Jul 202216min
