Lonely Girls Podcast
Madelaine Turner and Rebecca Botter host the podcast dedicated to examining, archiving, and applauding the loneliest girls in media & pop-culture history. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
Dear Listeners,
This is Rebecca writing the episode notes and I feel completely inept at writing Dune filled puns. That is what Maddie Daddie is for. Instead I'm just going to thank you from the depths of our souls for listening to our episode about Dune. Maddie has loved this movie from the beginning of our friendship and it has brought her so much comfort through the past few years. I always felt like Dune was Star Wars for A24 b...
Y'all. This almost killed us. We possibly ACOTAR-ed too hard and tried to consume too much smut in too short of a timespan which made us lose our minds. We may have read the term 'mate' used too many times in one week. Or there was just way too much war and not enough smut. All that matters is that this week we learned more about ourselves and we're dragging you down to the bottom of the library with us. We will be covering the thi...
Are you ready for The Most Beautiful Episode You've Ever Heard? By The Cauldron, we hope so.
This week The Lonely Girls are flying head-first into a world of sexy faeries, seductive smirks, cursed castles, and more lore than either of them were truly prepared for. Recapping the first two novels of Sarah J. Maas's fantasy series, A Court Of Thorns And Roses (known colloquially as ACOTAR), Rebecca and Madelaine get into the nitty...
*cue the Billy Joel song*
*turn off Billy Joel song*
This week we're talking about the 2003 cult classic film, Uptown Girls. This movie was marketed as a rom-com giggly sleepover romp and then ended up being a very delicate and beautiful film about healing our inner child. It is (arguably) one of the best Brittany Murphy performances and maybe THE best performance from a child actor ever. Ever. The movie was initially panned because...
You asked for it (no one asked for it) and we delivered. This week we are talking about Louis Sachar's film and Newberry Medal winning book, Holes. It is a coming of age story about a boy sent away to a juvenile correction camp where he unearths (hell yeah) secrets and breaks family curses. It truly presents as a beautiful children's novel but one foot deeper is an elegant investigation into the prison system and generational traum...
Being iconically nostalgic is what brings us together today. This current season has been a love letter to Madelaine's mom and this film has particular significance for both of them. In this episode we talk about being lonely girls at concerts (Rebecca discusses going to the Taylor Swift Eras Tour and Madelaine tells the story of her 24 hour whirlwind in NYC). To prep for this episode Rebecca did so much research that she may have ...
The Lonely Girls been talking about doing a Miyazaki episode since the inception of the podcast. Madelaine already knew too much about the filmmaker and Rebecca (being Rebecca) never thought that they would have enough time to properly research and give y'all an episode worthy of the topic. But then we became Season 2 Rebecca and Madelaine and thus transformed into much more ambitious ladies.
This episode we are discussing the Japan...
We're back babyyyyyyyy! Did you see that coming? Absolutely no you did not. Because we didn't tell anyone.
We're kicking off Season 2 by returning to our our childhood book shelves and pulling out the first three books by Lucy Maud Montgomery. This week we're going to (trigger warning) Canada and more specifically to Prince Edward Island. Anne has been one of the most suggested topics and we refused to do it until we wanted to. ...
We missed y'all! We know that December can be a weird time and we ourselves have been reaching for comfort media for help and thought you may be as well. A Christmas Surprise if you will (a phrase Rebecca coined during the 2022 December TN trip) and chose Love, Actually not just because we love it but also because it's absolutely covered in lonely girls. This 2003 holiday rom-com is one of the best loved and most Popular Media Thin...
Hey there lovers,
So this episode we've got a little bit of everything. We've got Fall. We've got a rom-com. And we have some important news. This is our Season One finale. We've absolutely been thrilled with how it's gone and are so excited to return soon with more episodes. But it's a big job. So we wanted to come in strong with what is arguably the greatest rom-com of all time. Rob Reiner and Norah Ephron's masterpiece. When Harr...
Reader, we read it.
This week we're taking on one of the most adapted, beloved, and read by AP English highs school students works ever. We're talking about Jane Eyre. You know her and you may love her. We decided to take on this sulky teen initially to use her as the pinnacle example of a new term we're going to call The Shy Girl. We thought Charlotte Brontë's most famous heroine would be the PERFECT example of The Shy Girl and be...
Hello listeners,
This week we're slipping on our favorite pair of Manolos and sitting down to dish out the hottest gossip with our favorite lonely gals over a cosmos. That's right, We're joining Carrie, Samantha, Miranda, and Charlotte for Season One of Sex and the City. This show has been adored by different generations of women since its initial release and we actually haven't ever watched it all the way through. Madelaine got to ...
*clinks champagne flute*
We just want to thank you all for joining us today. Today we are talking about the celebration we all know and love. And love to know. And love to love. Weddings are one of the universal celebrations that are fascinating in both their similarities and differences and we are going to discuss all of it. Both Madelaine Turner and Rebecca Botter have recently been in attendance so we thought it would be the perf...
Hey there Keekeekins,
Welcome to an episode that we have truly been teasing for a while. This week we're discussing The Lost Boy, As this podcast series continues we will steadily be adding to our vocabulary and this is officially the second entry. And what could be more perfect than the 2001 rom-com sleeper that truly no one remembers besides us? But trust us on this one. In America's Sweethearts we truly have a stacked cast (Juli...
Dearest Listeners, we are (sadly) bringing our Jane Austen coverage to a close this week but we PROMISE we are making the most of it. This week Madelaine recounts an almost lg moment at the Hollywood Bowl, Rebecca outs a Mr. Elton from a certain app, and we go through the Jane Austen cannon and rank each of her heroines from least to most lonely. We then accidentally are able to go through the books and quite speedily are able to s...
Dearest Listeners, we are BACK bitches and we promise that it was worth the wait. This week we are looking at one of the most important Lonely Girl influences of all time, Jane Austen. Because Austen is so important to us we are taking our time with her for the next two weeks. This week we will be discussing her personal life and next week we will be looking more specifically at her different works. During this episode we will be d...
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