Welcome to season 13 and about 600 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, “prest ...
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In this episode of Geek Girl Soup, we're taking flight with "The Crow"! Join Susan, Kelly, and Cort as we swoop into a deep discussion about the original 1994 cult classic and the much-anticipated 2024 reboot. 🕊️ What’s the same, what’s changed? We’re comparing Eric Draven’s gothic resurrection in the ’90s to the new-age supernatural twists of the …
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Buckle up, fellow geeks! In this episode of Geek Girl Soup, we dive headfirst into the chilling world of *Alien Romulus*. Get ready for a journey through space as we dissect everything from the eerie silence of outer space to the pulse-pounding action of this latest installment in the Alien franchise. We talk about the classic tech, unforgettable c…
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13.47: Dragons as an Olympic Sport!
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In this lively episode of Geek Girl Soup, Susan, Kelly, and Cort tackle a smorgasbord of pop culture topics, from the fantastical world of *House of the Dragon* to the unexpected entertainment at the Olympics. We speculate on what would happen if dragons were an Olympic sport (hint: fire hazards galore!) and lament the absence of real dragons in th…
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13.46: Forkin' Fantastic: The Good Place Season 3 Deep Dive
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Welcome back to another episode of Geek Girl Soup! This week, your favorite pop-culture trio, Susan, Kelly, and Cort (and original Geek Girl, Amelia!), dive into the forkin' brilliant third season of “The Good Place Cort’s Trip Recap: Cort shares highlights from her trip to the Steamy Lit Con in Anaheim, CA, showcasing multicultural voices in liter…
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Welcome to another festive and fun-filled episode of Geek Girl Soup! It's Christmas in July, and we're here to spread some cheer with discussions on holiday movies, hot summer blockbusters, and some unexpected news tidbits. [00:00:00] Introduction and Christmas in July Opening chatter about the joy of Christmas in July, Santa's busy schedule, and e…
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Welcome to Geek Girl Soup! Today, we are all about the Paris Olympics. Allez, le Bleu! And also, “USA, USA!” [00:01:00] Olympic Sports: Kelly, Susan, and Cort discuss the excitement around the new and returning sports in the 2024 Paris Olympics. Get hyped for breakdancing, skateboarding, and surfing in Tahiti! [00:05:00] In Memoriam: We pay tribute…
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Episode Summary: Dive into the depths of Shark Week with the Geek Girl Soup crew! In this fin-tastic episode, Susan, Kelly, and Cort swim through a sea of shark-themed documentaries and movies, sharing their thoughts and cheeky commentary on the good, the bad, and the downright dippy. Highlights: Shark Week Kickoff: The hosts kick off with a noisy …
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Join Susan, Kelly, and Cort as we celebrate Kelly's birthday and dive into the latest entertainment news, including the passing of producer John Landau and the box office success of “Inside Out 2.” We discuss our thoughts on the upcoming remake of “The Crow” and share our excitement for “Axel F.” This week's main theme explores "Men of God" in cine…
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[00:00:00] Intro: Susan and Amelia, the OG Geek Girls, reunite for a fun duo episode! [00:02:30] Entertainment News: The hosts discuss the recent presidential debate and the premiere of "A Quiet Place: Day One." [00:10:00] What We're Watching: - Amelia raves about Season 3 of "The Bear" on Hulu - Susan recommends the "Outstanding: Comedy Revolution…
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13.40: 10th Anniversary of “The Leftovers” Pilot
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Join the Geek Girls as we revisit the pilot episode of HBO's critically acclaimed series "The Leftovers" on its 10th anniversary. Susan, Kelly, and Cort dive deep into the haunting first installment that introduced viewers to the mysterious world of Mapleton, where 2% of the global population suddenly vanished without a trace. Highlights: - Reflect…
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For this episode in our Hidden Gems series, Susan found a fabulous series on Max called “Sort Of.” We happily anticipate the return of “House of the Dragon,” also on Max/HBO. We share what we watched so the you don’t have to, give some recommendations, and discuss what’s coming out this next week. We don’t really spoil anything for any of the movie…
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You’re watching House of the Dragon, right? Let’s compare your first take to ours! The Geek Girls are chatting about our immediate reactions to season 2 episode 1 of HOTD, baby! Check it! - Original music by Garrett Thompson Follow us on Instagram @GeekGirlSoup Continue the conversation on Facebook Listen to Cort's podcast with Brad at PureFandom.c…
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This week, the Soup ladies are dishing on the latest Bad Boys movie, “Ride or Die”! Join us as we break down all the explosive action, bromance, and some surprising antics. Topics: Bad Boys Box Office Success [00:03:00] Will Smith Surprises Theater Audience [00:04:00] MoviePass Documentary Review [00:16:00] Deadpool 3 Trailer Reaction [00:08:00] Co…
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13.36: It Takes a Cult... and a Little Perjury
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It's hurricane season, y'all, but we're riding out the storms with a piping hot bowl of Geek Girl Soup! This week, we dive deep into the Netflix docuseries "Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult," as well as the twisty true crime saga of Robert Durst in HBO's "The Jinx" season 2. Susan arranged to see the Reality Gays (podcast), Mattie and Pood…
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WARNING: This episode spoils "The Sixth Sense," and it contains a bit more cussing than usual! Giving notice about "The Sixth Sense" because we have encountered people who still haven't seen the film or been spoiled about it. If you have not seen this film, please don't listen to this episode until after you've watched. The films that we spoil just…
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13.34: The Case of the Misplaced Coffee Cup: Game of Thrones s7 & 8
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In this fourth and final installment of the May of Thrones series, we dive deep into the penultimate and final seasons of "Game of Thrones" and the first season of "House of the Dragon." We also discuss that infamous coffee cup in season 8! Season 7 Highlights: Stark Reunions: The emotional reunions of Jon and Arya, and Arya's interactions with San…
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13.33: Revisiting Game of Thrones Seasons 5-6: Iconic Moments and Character Arcs
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This week in “May of Thrones,” we’re discussing seasons 5 and 6 of “Game Of Thrones.” At one point, one of us notes that everything went downhill after season 4. Oh, no, because two of us love these seasons. What’s your take? Season 5 Highlights: - Arya's training with the Faceless Men in Braavos - Cersei's creation of and downfall orchestrated by …
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13.32: Three Weddings and Countless Funerals: Game of Thrones s3 and 4
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We are back for the second May of Thrones episode covering seasons 3 and 4 of “Game of Thrones.” Highlights: - Avoiding Theon's torture - Loving all of Arya's storylines - The three weddings: The Red Wedding, Sansa's wedding to Tyrion, and The Purple Wedding - What Oberyn Martell should have done differently - Meeting Tormund and anticipating the f…
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During the month of May, we are celebrating the 5th anniversary of the end of HBO’s “Game Of Thrones.” This week, we cover seasons 1 and 2. Over the next three weeks, we’ll do seasons 3 and 4 next week, 5 and 6 the following week, and, finally, your least favorite seasons, 7 and 8. We’re sharing some key moments each week, such as (for seasons 1 an…
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The Geek Girl Soup crew dives into the mind-bending 2023 Japanese film “River,” the latest from director Junta Yamaguchi who also made the trippy time travel movie Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes. In River, the guests and staff at a historic Kyoto hotel find themselves trapped in a recurring two-minute time loop. Susan, Kelly and Cort analyze the c…
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13.29: Forking Shirtballs! The Good Place S1
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We are so excited to have Geek Girl Amelia back with us for this episode on season 1 of “The Good Place”! We’re doing a rewatch of this beautiful four-season show. It’s just 50 episodes, if you’ve never watched and want to now! “The Good Place” ran from 2016 to 2020. It features Kristen Bell, Jameela Jamil, Ted Danson, Manny Jacinto, William Jackso…
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13.28: 3 Wild & Crazy Girls Get to Know STEVE! (martin)
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The Smothers Brothers, Johnny Carson, Saturday Night Live, “The Jerk,” “All of Me,” “Only Murders in the Building.” Steve Martin has had a wild and crazy career. This week, te Geek Girls watched the stellar “STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces” on Apple TV+. We laughed and laughed while learning things about Steve Martin we never knew before.…
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13.27: Hidden Gems: On the Origin of Perfect Days in a Concrete Utopia
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This week is our second installment of our “hidden gems” theme, in which we bring you movies or shows that need to be seen by more people. In this episode, we discuss Ava Duvernay’s “Origin” and Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Days” with spoilers. Then we discuss Tae-hwa Eom’s “Concrete Utopia” without spoilers since Susan and Cort hadn’t seen it yet. Listen…
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13.26: Vampire Jesus & Peeps: It’s Midnight Mass for Easter
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Join the Geek Girls as we dive deep into Mike Flanagan's haunting limited series Midnight Mass for an Easter re-watch! Susan, Cort, and special guest Amelia (who describes herself as a "recovering Catholic") analyze the religious horror themes, stellar performances, and gorgeous cinematography of this modern gothic tale. We discuss the chilling yet…
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To celebrate all the courtroom drama facing a certain orange-tinged man this year, Geek Girl Soup decided to go to court—in film and TV, of course. Even though his trials are delayed, we don’t have to wait. Between the three of us, we watched quite the variety of material. Here’s a preview: The Verdict A Few Good Men The Accused (spoilers) Jagged E…
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We made it! The last awards show of the season, the biggie, the Show: The 96th Oscar® Awards! We’ve got the inside scoop on why everyone seemed to be wearing a broach, how one best picture nominee may be total plagiarism, and who told a certain host not to share what on air. We also discuss our moments of delight, moments of confusion, and certainl…
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This week, the Geek Girls go to space with Adam Sandler and Carey Mulligan in Netflix’s “Spaceman”! We share spoilers throughout—though we don’t go through the film chronologically. So, if you haven’t seen the movie, you likely won’t know what we’re referring to! To pique your interest: A Czech cosmonaut/astronaut, alone in space for a year, tries …
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Welcome to a re-cap of the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards! We here are Geek Girl Soup are members of Film Independent, so we get screeners and vote every year. Always so much fun! Happening more and more each year, we are seeing some Spirit Award nominees also nominated for an Oscar (and other awards). This year we’ve got overlap with “America…
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Y’all have been waiting for it. We finally present you the most prestigious awards of them all, our very own Soupie Awards! We return with Kelly’s Binge-Watching Award, Susan’s Best Documentary Award, and Cort’s “That Really Stuck with Me” Award. And we’ve got the old standards favorite show and favorite film. But these are no Oscars. Oh, no. Come …
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In some episode last year, we discussed the need for movie-goers to watch “hidden gems,” those small-but-lovely movies that you find on YouTube or deep in a random streamer or maybe for rent only. When you finally come across one of these beauties, you’re like, “Wow, this is amazing!” We’re doing a little series of hidden gems over the course of 20…
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13.19: We Are the World… But Where in the World Are We?
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This week we are discussing two wildly different films: “The Greatest Night in Pop” (Netflix) and “Aniara” (max). “The Greatest Night in Pop” is a documentary that just premiered at Sundance, immediately got distribution, and landed on Netflix. It is a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the USA for Africa charity song “We Are the World.” This …
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13.18: Episode 600: Appreciating Independent Films
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It’s that time of the year again. With the Film Independent Spirit Awards quickly approaching Susan, Cort , and Erik have some recommendations for you to check out. Which actor tops your list for “Best Lead Performance”? Will American Fiction take top honors for “Best Feature” or will another 2023 film take the prize? Erik encourages everyone to ch…
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13.17: A Man, a Tiger, and the Biscuits of Love and Joy
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A man has a code. And his code is foiled by, I don’t know, is it love and joy or Bisquik? Or is it the combination of all three? Does it have to be Bisquik? What if you use another brand of biscuits? (Bite your tongue!) All three of us Geek Girls agree that season 5 of “Fargo” is up there as a favorite. If you haven’t watched it, please do note tha…
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The 2024 film and TV awards season is impressive already. We’ve already crowned one EGOT winner. One awards show tied itself for the number of actors of color to win an acting award in one year. One TV show set a record for the number of losses it scored over all its years on the air. One Black woman has become only the second Black actress to win …
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13.15: The Secret Realm of Godzilla and Monarch
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This was an exhilarating first season of “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” on AppleTV. This show locates us somewhere among all the recent Godzilla/Kong movies. No need to (re)watch everything right now. But we’re planning on doing so before season 2! We’ve got Godzilla and other titans, Lee Shaw played by two Russell men (Kurt and son Wyatt!), the won…
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It’s really difficult to be surprised when you’re watching a biopic or historical drama. People tend to feel free to share “spoilers” since the thinking goes, “You can’t spoil something that already happened in real life.” True, but…. We’ve discovered that not quite everyone realized that “Society of the Snow” is based on a true story. And even few…
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Happy New Year! It’s not a typical New Year here at Geek Girl Soup. We’re ushering out 2023 with an apocalyptic film, Well, maybe that’s right on the nose for us! Today we’re chatting about Netflix’s “Leave the World Behind.” This film was executive produced by Barack and Michelle Obama and directed by Sam Esmail (“Mr Robot”). It stars Julia Robert…
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Habari Gani? Ujima! That’s today’s Kwanzaa principle: collective work and responsibility. This week we’re talking about Kwanzaa: its origin, history, the seven principles, and how it’s celebrated today. Cort also shares how she put together a mini-Kwanzaa celebration at work as part of a combined holiday party. Next week: We’re celebrating the end …
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Can you believe it’s the 20th anniversary of “Elf” and the 35th anniversary of “Die Hard”?? This week, we’re talking about those Christmas movies (the official homework), plus not just a few others. You know, viewer’s choice! We all know and 100% agree that “Die Hard” is a Christmas movie. Duh. But we learned this year that it is also a Hanukkah mo…
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God jul! Buon Natalie! Whether you’re going home for Christmas or you hate Christmas, we’ve got you covered. Or Netflix certainly does. In our first official Christmas episode of the season, we’re talking “Hjem til Jul” (“Home for Christmas”) and “Odio il Natale” (“I Hate Christmas”). It’s an annual event that we rewatch “Hjem til Jul,” this fabulo…
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Geek Girl Susan was in Los Angeles last week and finally got two of the Geek Guys together. So, this week, we present you with a Very Special carcast from LA! Susan and Chris visited the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and the La Brea Tar Pits. They joined Erik to help out with the 2024 Rose Parade float. Then they recorded this little episode fo…
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13.08: Invasion and Foundation Season 2 Finales
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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, App…
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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…
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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, t…
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13.05: The One with the Gardens, the Hunter, the Swimmer, and the Friends
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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…
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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…
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13.03: Breaking Bad Finale 10th Anniversary
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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…
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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 …
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13.01: It’s a Miracle (Texas)! The 6th Annual “The Leftovers” Rewatch
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“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 to…
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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 t…
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