Bottoms
Bottoms has brought us back from hiatus! Myte and FriedPapita discuss their long break, the ongoing strike, and of course their new favorite movie, Bottoms. Edibiri and Sennott have our hearts now and forever.
Check out Myte's new podcast: PodeRosas Radio FC
Barbie Is Queer | Dallas Wings | How I Met Your Father Cancelled | League of Their Own Cancelled | One Day At A Time | Warrior Nun Potential Movies | The Ultimatum: Queer Love | Hoochie Daddies | UnReal | Special Ops: Lioness | Person of Interest | Class of ‘09 | Pageboy | Beyond The Blinds | Shiva Baby | The Bear | Bottoms | TMNT Mutant Mayham | Theater Camp | Shiva Baby Episode of CYC | Heathers | Wet Hot American Summer | Bring It On | But I’m a Cheerleader | Willow | Red, White & Royal Blue | Cindy Crawford | David Fincher | Ayo Edebiri & Rachel Sennot Drinks | AMC Theatres We Made Movies Better
Ted Lasso’s Las Pelotaris
We’re back with sports! Ted Lasso finally gave us enough reasons to cover it and we’re very grateful for the *gays*. Meanwhile, Vix + fed the gals for the entire first season of Las Pelotaris. Sports Gays is the new brand, get used to it.
Las PodeRosas | Dead Ringers | Gap The Series | New Jeans | BlackPink | Taylor Swift | Snacks Podcast | Polite Society | Joy Ride | Bend It Like Beckham | Crossroads | Bottoms | Strange Way of Life | Ted Lasso | Las Pelotaris | Ted Lasso Premier League Commercial | Jack and Diane |
149: La Flor Mas Bella, Contra Las Cuerdas
This is our humble attempt at getting back on schedule! We cover two excellent, Mexican shows on Netflix that impressed us beyond what we'd expected. Myte discusses the incredible La Flor Mas Bella and FriedPapita covers Contra Las Cuerdas. Both women-led, beautifully complicated series on Netflix.
EEAAO Sag Awards | Lisa Ann Walter Sag Date | Gap The Series | She Makes My Heart Flutter | Ingobernable | Angel City Poderosas | Las Bravas | La Flor Mas Bella | Contra Las Cuerdas |
148: Heartbreak Highschool
We're back with a double dose of High School drama, starting with Netflix's Heartbreak High and all it set out to tackle in season 1. Myte follows up with Tegan and Sara's High School, now streaming on Freevee for free-sies, and how it goes in a completely different direction from all other teenage TV shows out there right now.
How I Met Your Father | Harlem | Mad Men | Gap The Series | The Last of Us | Truth Be Told | Physical 100 | Meditations In An Emergency |
147: Our Top Films & TV Shows of 2022
We’re back for the new gay year with all of our favorite films and television shows of 2022. Some were surprising even to us, and others were glaringly obvious. Let us know your thoughts on our social media channels! @cycpodcast
146: Do Revenge, Warrior Nun
On this lovely comeback, we're covering a rare second season of a good Netflix show, Warrior Nun, and Do Revenge (2022). Don't mind us, we're just trying to do Netflix's job and support Kristina Tonteri Young's personal press campaign.
Black Panther Wakanda Forever | She Makes My Heart Flutter Youtube Series | Stupid Wife Series | Gap The Series | Love Never Lies | Angel City FC | Kit Conner Forced To Come Out | Warrior Nun | Do Revenge |
145: Game Boys on Fire Island
Special guest host Raci of Shit You Don't Care About podcast joins FriedPapita to discuss the cringe-cute Netflix series, Game Boys! FriedPapita gives her thoughts on Fire Island (2022).
Gordita Chronicles | Shit You Don’t Care About Podcast | Que Pica Candy | Beyonce Renaissance | Beyond The Blinds Rihanna | Rap SH!T | Batgirl Movie Cancelled | Ezra Miller | Birds of Prey | Gameboys | Fire Island | Omar Apollo |
144: A League of Their Own Bravas
On our triumphant return, we cover SPORTS! FriedPapita brings to light Las Bravas FC (2022) on HBO Max, an excellent and hella Mexican show about women's soccer and their bummy coach. Myte talks about the newest, queerest baseball show A League of Their Own (2022), no not the movie. See, we can be sports gays. Kind of.
This Fool | Prey | Reservation Dogs | House of The Dragon | NWSL | Paper Girls | The Only | Bodies Bodies Bodies | Lena Wilson Controversy | Las Bravas | League of Their Own Movie | League of Their Own Show |
143: Rebelde’s First Kill
For our triumphant return, we cover two Netflix series' that are honestly for the gay youths. Rebelde (2022) brought us childhood nostalgia and First Kill made us wish we were young again. Do the right thing, Netflix, give us renewals!
Miss Marvel | Roe V Wade Overturned | Marcel The Shell With Shoes On | Lightyear | Primavera | Willow Comes out | Rebelde 2004 | Rebelde 2022 | First Kill |
142: Crush Is My Heartstopper
April brought us comfort in the form of Crush on Hulu and Heartstopper on Netflix. We're keeping it sweet but not short in this episode, as we talk about everything that went right in this very queer, suspended in reality content.
Las Bravas | Our Flag Means Death | Cara Delevingne | Hacks Season 2 | First Kill | Sex Lives of College Girls | Ncuti Gatwa | Isaac Heartstopper Booktube Video
141:Everything Everywhere All At Once
We bow down to the Daniels duo for their latest and greatest creation, Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022). Bring on the mommy issues and the box of tissues.
Crush | Cinco De Mayo | Leaked Supreme Court Justice Abortion Ban | America Chavez | They Call Us Bruce Podcast: Michelle Yeoh | Turn Down For What MV | Heartstopper | Kristian Action Network | Dem Socialists Twitter | Kristian Twitter | Frontera Fund
140: Eternally Badhaai Do
We're back to discuss two rare gems discovered on Netflix, Badhaai Do (2022) and Eternally Confused and Eager for Love. We love to see Indian content thriving and even more when it's so darn relatable. Also enjoy our weather report and catch up with our chisme.
Twenty Five- Twenty One | Crush Hulu | Everything Everywhere All At Once | Bridgerton | Astrid and Lily Save The World | Ariana DeBose | Ali
139: The Fallout of College Girls
On our second episode of the year, we cover a couple of gems that came out recently on HBO Max. Starting with the half hour comedy doing everything right, The Sex Lives of College Girls (2021) and ending with the beautifully tragic The Fallout (2021)
Euphoria | Super Bowl Homelessness Crisis | Marvelous Mrs. Maisel S4 | Promised Land | Abbott Elementary| Somebody Somewhere | Spencer | Hawkeye | Maddy Ziegler | Sex Lives of College Girls| Mindy Kaling |
138: Encanto de Acapulo
Our first episode of the year is two of our favorite pieces of Latinx representation from last year, Encanto (2021) and Acapulco on Apple TV. Just a heads up, we don't talk about Bruno
Encanto | Ted Lasso | Rebelde | Euphoria | How to be A Latin Lover | Stephanie Beatriz | Radio Menea | Yellowjackets | Emily Dickinson | How I Met Your Mother | Rhenzy Feliz | Marvel’s Runaways | Diane Guerrero | The Emperor’s New Groove | Que Pica Candy |
137: Harlem Bruised
A comeback of all our favorites! Halle Berry is back in full swing with FriedPapita's pick Bruised (2021) and we get to see Meagan Good in Amazon Prime's Harlem, as well as other surprise guest stars.
136: Sort Of Passing
We're breaking our hiatus to cover Passing (2021) on Netflix, based on the book of the same name and its polar opposite, Sort Of on HBO Max. It's all about repressing your feelings, folks!
Head of The Class | Spencer | It Takes Two | Patagonia | Euphoria | Succession | Arrested Development | Vanity Fair Rebecca Hall Scene | Still Watching Passing | Functional Serie | The Morning Show | Dickinson | Acapulco | Encanto | Marina, Me Encanta Tik Tok | Slate Passing Article | Sort Of | The Bachelorette Australia
135: Inclusive Halloween Special
This episode is all about this year's Halloween season in film & television! After a lengthy discussion about what we've been watching in horror and our histories with the genre, we talk about Night Teeth (2021) on Netflix, which somehow worked? And the I Know What You Did Last Summer (2021) remake series on Amazon Prime. Spoiler alert, it didn't work.
DUNE | Dallas Block Party Halloween | Orville Peck | Squid Game | Arthur | Childs Play | Chucky Snippet | UPN | Don Mancini | Halloween Kills | Halloween H2O | Scream 2022 | There’s Someone Inside Your House | Twilight | Blade | Interview with A Vampire | Bram Stoker’s Dracula | Night Teeth | Debby Ryan Meme | I Know What You Did Last Summer | I Know What You Did Last Summer is stupid | Que Pica Candy | Work in Progress | Paranormal Activity: Marked Ones | Things We Lost in The Fire | Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of The Universe | My Name | The Price of Salt
134: Childhood Hacks
We're joined by special guest Pat Arreguin of De Colores Radio, who helps us take it back to our childhoods and dissect the media we consumed in search of...crushes. We also discuss recent representation of Indigenous communities, our For You pages, Halloween and Hacks on HBO. Plus, much more.
Josie and The Pussycats | Jenny69 | De Colores Radio | hellotefi | Squid Game | HoYeon | Battle Royale | Yu Yu Hakusho | Jujutso Kaisen | Demon Slayer | Tokyo Sinks 2020 | Scenes From a Marriage | Malignant | Up and Vanished Podcast | Payne Lindsey | Reservation Dogs | Deer Lady Reservation Dogs | Burden of Truth | Rutherford Falls | Mel B and Scary Spice | Spice World | Spice Girls | Destiny’s Child | Rebelde | Rebelde Remake Trailer | John Tucker Must Die | Cruel Intentions | Buffy The Vampire Slayer | Clueless | Emma 2020 | Aerosmith Crazy | Bring It On 2000 | Xena: Warrior Princess | Elvira: Mistress Of the Dark | Elvira’s Movie Macabre | All Cheerleaders Must Die | Passing Trailer | Nella Larsen Passing Spotify | Hacks | Desiree Akhavan | Aurora Guerrero | Gentefied | Sex Education | On My Block | Ariana Brown | Tajinmami | Pat Arreguin
133: Looking for Alexandra Swarens
We interviewed actor, writer and director Alexandra Swarens! You may know her from LA Web series, City of Trees (2019) and Spring (2021), but we know her as the homie. Join us to talk about all of her work and inspirations and astrological signs?
The Magic School Bus | Ms. Honey Matilda | The Children’s Hour | East of Eden | Edgar Allan Poe | Giant | Saint Maud | Childs Play 2 | The Mask of Zorro | City of Trees | Catwoman | Indiana Jones | La Web Series | Perks of Being a Wallflower | The Raven | Mosquita y Mari | Brokeback Mountain | High Art | GIA | Olivia Buckle | Everything is Copy |
132: We Are Lady Parts, Shiva Baby
We're back with two hilarious and anxiety filled pieces about amazing women. Starting with Shiva Baby (2020) on HBO Max, a stressful representation of a Shiva and complicated relationships, and ending with We Are Lady Parts (2021), a Peacock original about punk rock Muslim women in a band that took over our hearts and souls.
Las Trampas del Deseo | We Are Lady Parts | Mutual Aid Response Network | The L Word Generation Q | Modern Love: Am I…? Maybe This Quiz Will Tell me | Brand New Cherry Flavor | Shameless | Nevertheless | Shiva Baby | Booksmart | Shiva Baby Director Emma Seligman HBO Deal | Betty Cancelled | Nida Manzoor | System of Down Serj Tankian Politics | Channel 4 | Que Pica Candy |