Piercing Pop Culture
We deep-dive, face-plant and usually fangirl over the media your algorithm likes to ignore.
Episodes
It’s Thursday again. You know what that means! Our next installment in The Virginian Vault. This week, we’re turning our attention to “A Farewell to Honesty” (s3e27).
This is an episode that’s really bringing the working-actor goodness we love so well in Piercing Pop Culture. While Douglas Henderson is really taking up space in Kim’s brain with some fascinating (and “new to her”) work, we’d be shirking our responsibilities if we di...
I’m sitting down for a bit of a shorter, informal piece this week. Today, we’re taking a peek into the Curator’s Notes for a look into what’s coming down the path here at Piercing Pop Culture. My ideas, my experiment,s and some of the pieces currently percolating in my brain.
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Friends, I disrespected William Smith for a long, long time. I didn’t know enough. I didn’t understand him. I certainly didn’t give him enough credit.
I’ve been watching the final season of Hawaii Five-O this week, and I wanted to sit down to talk more about William Smith. He’s an actor who I spent most of 2025 catching up with, and there’s a complexity to him I knew nothing about. We know the bruising star persona, but there’s mor...
Kids I've been deep-diving into The Virginian for the better part of a year, so there are plenty of episodes I've watched before beginning to regularly talk about them this month. I'll be stepping into the archive every so often to talk about some episodes I wrote about before starting the podcast. These were initially published on Piercing Cinema dot com, but some of the episodes are too good to miss.
This week, we're talking abo...
In a new installment of After the Late Show, I’m sitting down after a week of Russ Meyer first-time watches. On the film docket this week? Supervixens, Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens, Motopsycho!, and Up!. I talk about some of my thoughts after viewing, as well as my varied viewing history with Russ Meyer, as I work towards completing his filmography… at some point in the future.
Dolly Read is a Queen, and I will hear nothi...
Ann-Margret is one of those actresses who's always been with me. I remember watching her movies for as long as I can remember. We're not even discussing the rendition of Bye Bye Birdie I tried desperately to stage in elementary school... never mind not really knowing how to read music.
As I've grown, watched more, and come ever closer to finishing her filmography (though I'm not there yet!) I've realized some things. Ann-Margret's...
Kim returns to The Virginian Vault to find that Trampas (Doug McClure) hasn’t disappeared! He’s back… for this week at least. Meanwhile, Kim also has no choice but to talk about a crazily varied cast, from a baby Robert Pine to grizzled TV writer True Boardman.
Stay turned! There’s lots more of The Virginian Vault coming soon.
We will not tolerate any James Drury disrespect in this house.
Expectations can be a pain in the butt. Kim sits down to talk about Ready or Not 2: Here I Come. The first film was a favorite when it was released in 2019. Would this surprise sequel be able to tap into the same sense of the wacky?
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This week, I return to The Virginian Vault for a crazily “Kim Coded” episode. Martin Milner and William Smith in one of the strangest star persona experiments I’ve seen in a long time. And it’s probably not a surprise to admit, I was invested.
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What's your "Gateway Film"? Kim sits down this week to talk about the reason she fell in love with movies. Singin' in the Rain. Here at Piercing Pop Culture, we don't gatekeep films. We watch, we experiment, and we find what we love.
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In a new installment of Shag Carpet Cinema, Kim sits down to watch Yvette Mimieux in all her glory reach new levels of wacky. Kids, it seems I've never given Mimieux the credit she deserves. There may be a deep dive coming soon.
Another minisode coming at you this week. Kim is back down her Clu Gulager rabbit hole and sat down to watch Piranha 3DD. This... was... an experience.
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Kim has been watching her way through The Virginian for the last year or so, and it seems like a good time to talk about the goodness of James Drury. Hopefully, this continues to be a recurring series as she continues to work her way through the massive series.
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Sometimes a movie comes along that you have no choice but to talk about... now. Starring Loni Anderson and Arnold Schwarzenegger, this TV movie was a complex ball of wackiness.
The Jayne Mansfield Story is currently available to watch on YouTube.
I'm a baaaaaad little critic. Roger Corman and his work propelled Kim into some new and interesting areas when she watched his filmography in 2021. I want to enjoy a movie. I want to laugh with these works and honestly, I love the feeling that making a movie is obtainable even if you don't have 200 million dollars.
What movies give you joy?
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Kim is trying something new today! Shag Carpet Cinema is doing something... wacky. We're talking about TV movies. ABC, CBS, NBC... it doesn't matter.
Today, Kim sits down in this minisode to talk about the 1972 TV movie The Screaming Woman (available to stream on YouTube). Stay tuned for more.
On our newest installment of Late Night Contemporary Corner, Kim sits down to talk about Glen Powell and the upcoming remake of The Running Man.
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Kim’s been spending 2025 watching the long-running western series The Virginian and talking about it on my website and on TikTok. This is the first Piercing Pop Culture pop culture minisode where I hope to talk bout the episodes as I watch!
This week? We’re talking Fabian as a poetry reading cowboy. However, when people start dying around him, it seems like there might be more going on than meets the eye.
Kim will hear no Cat Women of the Moon slander.
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This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nostalgiaqueen.substack.comKim’s sitting down today to talk about a corner of the Tarzan universe that doesn’t get enough love. This is the time when Mike Henry stepped into the famous loincloth. She might have learned about Henry through Skyjacked, but his tenure as the “King of the Jungle” is proving fascinating.
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