Taylor Swift’s Encore, Amelia Dimoldenberg and the female rivalry trap
jeudi 1 octobre 2026 • Durée 55:52
Miquita Oliver went on Fearne Cotton’s Happy Place pod this week, marking the end of a decades-long feud fuelled by the toxic tabloid culture of the early noughties. We debrief on their heart-warming reconciliation and how female rivalry is so often rooted in insecurity. Also on the show: Amelia Dimoldenberg hosted SNL, Taylor Swift has upset fans and critics alike with her latest release Encore (despite cleaning up at the VMAs on Sunday) and Vogue is engulfed in yet another controversy after the company behind Mounjaro sponsored its latest event. Plus: Colin From Accounts season three, Anne Hathaway’s dinosaur movie and a couple of great recs for weekend watching. Enjoy huns!
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Ed Sheeran, Lena Dunham and the ethics of surrogacy
jeudi 24 septembre 2026 • Durée 57:44
From Lena Dunham announcing the birth of her baby girl via surrogate in a fashion piece for Vogue, to Ed Sheeran’s PR disaster over Palestine and free speech, this week both celebs have found themselves at the centre of debates they’d tried to side-step. Is commercial surrogacy inherently “anti-feminist”? And can stars really be apolitical in this day and age? Also on the show: we review Sharon Horgan’s brilliant new series YOUTH, all about ageing anxiety and dating in your 50s.
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Sharon Horgan: My sexual shelf life and dating over 50, The Times
Lena Dunham Is a Mother! The Sweet, Singular Story of How She Prepared, Vogue
Whose Babies Are These? A Chinese man hired a Florida surrogate, then didn’t pick up his kids, sparking a custody battle that could upend the industry, The Cut
When Political Reality Collides With Ed Sheeran, New York Times
Ed Sheeran wants to stay out of politics. By quitting his tour, his support acts have exposed the hollowness of neutrality, Guardian
‘With Gaza, I Couldn’t Not Speak Out’: Ms. Rachel on Controversy, Fame, and the Future, Rolling Stone
THERAPY: ChatGPT, false memories and weaponised ‘therapy speak’
jeudi 17 septembre 2026 • Durée 56:33
This week we’re revisiting our ep on the dark side of the therapy boom, from unqualified therapists planting false memories in vulnerable people and an obsession with labels to ‘therapy boasting’ on Hinge and the weaponisation of ‘therapy speak’. Plus, what makes a good therapist, and can AI offer an accessible alternative to what has become a luxury? We’ll be back with our usual pop culture debrief next Thursday!
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Alix Earle, her Alex Cooper feud and the business of influence
jeudi 10 septembre 2026 • Durée 52:42
Mega-influencer Alix Earle’s new reality show has dropped on Netflix and so we’re unpacking it all, from all the details of her feud with Alex Cooper to the family’s bizarre dynamics. Could Earle Meets World be Gen Z’s answer to The Kardashians? Also this week: series two of The Gentlemen starring Maya Jama, as well as the brilliant film spin-off of French comedy Call My Agent! featuring an excellent cameo from George Clooney.
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Ali G, the Met Gala backlash and cleavage’s big comeback
jeudi 3 septembre 2026 • Durée 52:48
Ali G is back after more than 20 years, sparking a backlash over the character’s racist stereotypes with cinemas saying they’ll boycott the new film. And speaking of controversial comebacks, the planned John Galliano exhibition at the Met has been pulled, so this week we’re discussing cancel culture, second chances and when some things are better left in the past. Also on the show: the sky-rocketing of push-up bra sales, breastfeeding in public, Bonnie Blue’s baby announcement and Olivia Wilde’s new film, plus the Lindsay Clancy trial.
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FRIENDSHIP BREAKUPS: ghosting, group dynamics and comparison culture (our ep)
Outcome, AppleTV
Toy Story 5, SkyTV
Furious, Disney Plus
I Want Your Sex, in cinemas
Eyes Down Here: Push-up bras are back with a vengeance, The Cut
Not My G, More Brit (ish) Than Ever Substack, Afua Hirsch
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Is Making a Very Bad Mistake, New York Times
North West, Meghan Markle’s return and the man-child epidemic
jeudi 27 août 2026 • Durée 01:02:56
Why do so many adult men seem stuck in arrested development? We review the buzzy new novel from the “male Sally Rooney” Jem Calder, whose rom-com I Just Want You to Be Happy charts a dysfunctional age-gap relationship between a 35-year-old man-child and 23-year-old woman. Also on the show: our thoughts on the backlash to North West’s “age inappropriate” Dazed cover, Meghan Markle’s new career move, Kendall Jenner and Jacob Elordi’s hard launch and a possible sequel to How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.
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I Want You to Be Happy is the excruciating millennial novel everyone will be reading this summer, The Independent
Alice and Steve, Disney Plus
The Ariana Grande discourse, ACOTAR and Nicole Kidman’s Vogue backlash
jeudi 20 août 2026 • Durée 55:23
Ariana Grande’s tour has been getting rave reviews, but the increasingly feverish discussion around her weight has us asking whether it’s more harmful to comment or stay silent, and what this and the tragic case of Jason Arday tell us about how journalists can lose sight of the real people behind headlines. Also this week: romantasy fans rejoice as Sarah J Maas reveals the covers, titles and blurbs for ACOTAR 6 and 7, Nicole Kidman faces backlash for looking “unrecognisable” on the cover of Vogue and the passing of actor Hayden Panettiere.
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The A Court of Thorns and Roses series, Sarah J Maas
The Last House, Netflix
The Invite
Camp Miasma
Nara Smith, the tradwife discourse and this year’s buzziest crime thriller
jeudi 13 août 2026 • Durée 01:02:38
Nara Smith came on Call Her Daddy to rebuke her status as “poster girl” for the tradwife movement, but do we buy her rebrand? We discuss whether her content glamourising hyper-feminine domesticity causes real-world harm or whether she’s being held to unfair standards. Plus, rave reviews of masterpiece non-fiction thriller London Falling, the epic third season of House of the Dragon, and Epstein-coded serial killer drama Furious.
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“Furious” Is a Crime Drama for a Post-Epstein World, New Yorker
Cape Fear, AppleTV
FRIENDSHIP BREAKUPS: ghosting, group dynamics and comparison culture
jeudi 6 août 2026 • Durée 01:05:05
This week we’re revisiting one of our most popular episodes on a topic that still feels like a taboo despite its clear universality, with the help of lots of deeply honest and moving DMs from the huns. A friendship ‘breakup’ is an experience more than 80% of women have been through and it can be even more gut-wrenching than ending a romantic relationship. Yet in our society that prioritises romantic over platonic love, there’s no social script for dealing with it. We cover everything from ghostings and estrangement to boundaries and therapy-speak, as well as how politics, exes and different life stages can lead to rifts and resentment. If you’ve been through something similar, then hopefully this ep will help you feel less alone!
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Will Our Friendship Survive Your Baby, New York Magazine
Our plastic surgery nightmare, Love Island and marital misery in The Invite
jeudi 30 juillet 2026 • Durée 01:01:50
This week we’re diving into Jia Tolentino’s viral essay on the new age of cosmetic enhancement, from how algorithms are changing our faces to whether Botox really helps women get ahead at work – and why our own feelings on tweakments have recently radically changed. Also on the show: Olivia Wilde’s brilliant new film The Invite, where she and Seth Rogen play a miserable middle-class married couple, Apple’s sci-fi dystopia Silo, dispatches from the newborn trenches, and the latest doc exploring the ethics of reality TV, The Love Island Curse. Enjoy huns!
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On whether having a baby ruins your life or not, Sam Parker, Substack
Silo, AppleTV
The Invite, in cinemas
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