Actually Obsessed

Amanda and Sarah are BACK and delighted to hear from YOU! They tackle listener questions regarding their jobs, their feelings about open floor plans, the perfect 90s Twilight cast, the new Harry Potter series, and so much more!   We've got socials! Follow the pod on Instagram at @actuallyobsessedpod Follow Sarah on TikTok at @sarahelizabeth_talks Follow Sarah on Instagram at @sarahelizabeth_talks...

Amanda and Sarah are BACK and ready to never, ever, ever talk about And Just Like That again.....after this episode! They wrestle with the absolutely disastrous, disgraceful series finale while discussing the following topics: whether this is really the last that we'll see of Carrie Bradshaw and her universe, why MPK and company decided that it was totally fine not to have Carrie, Charlotte, and M...

Amanda and Sarah are BACK and are terribly sorry that And Just Like That is STILL not over and they must talk about episodes 10 and 11 of its third season. Topics include: whether Carrie is cloth mother or wire mother, Duncan's troubling relationship with The Woman, Steve's absolutely unhinged reaction to Brady's impregnation of a fellow gen z-er, all of the Burberry in these episodes, and so much...

Amanda and Sarah are BACK and genuinely delighted to talk about Taylor Jenkins Reid's novel, "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo." Topics discussed include: the reliability of Evelyn's narration of her story, her truly harebrained plan to quiet lesbian rumors, how underdeveloped Monique's character is, whether they're a Celia or an Evelyn, the most delightful foursome that ever existed, and so much...

Amanda and Sarah are BACK and they're actually in the same room together to discuss episode eight and nine of And Just Like That's third season! Topics discussed include: the breakup we've all been waiting for, how disgusting it is to leave raw meat out over night, whether "alcohol-ish" is a real thing, the iconic use of Taylor Swift in this episode, and so much more!   We've got socials! Follow t...

Sarah and Amanda are BACK and after weeks of lying to your faces they are finally talking about something that is not "And Just Like That"--namely, 2012's "Breaking Dawn: Part 2"! Topics discussed include: a history of Chuckesmee, Bella's terrible newborn vampire dress, why the Cullens are able to stay in Forks at all (unclear?!??!), the atrocities done to the Amazonian vampires, the absolutely ep...

Amanda and Sarah are BACK and incredibly sorry about lying to you when they said they'd give you a break from the terror that is And Just Like That this week--Carrie slipped into such a state of psychosis during this episode that they needed to speak on it immediately! Topics discussed include: Carrie's psychosis (obviously), Seema and Adam's scorching hot chemistry, the host of hijinks that plagu...

Amanda and Sarah are BACK and have terrible news regarding this week's episode of And Just like That--Aidan is back and he's literally worse than ever. Topics discussed as the ladies bemoan this turn of events include: whether or not Wyatt ever made it to wilderness camp, the absolute jump scare of Aidan's slicked back hair, how this episode made the ladies so sick that they actually were ecstatic...

Amanda and Sarah are BACK and are very hesitantly asking if episode five of this season's "And Just Like That" may have just crash landed into the oceans of Planet Back?!? Topics discussed include: the absolute Carrie Bradshaw-ness of walking around on wood floors in heels all day long, how hot and perfect Duncan Reeves is, how great writing actual storylines for each character is, an unfortunate...

Amanda and Sarah are BACK and have prepared all week emotionally so that they could have this conversation about episode 4 of "And Just Like That." Topics discussed include: the terrifying reality of Wyatt's existence, Carrie's extremely out of character behavior, what an absolute monster Aidan is, how incredible Miranda's British girlfriend is, and much more!     We've got socials! Follow the pod...

Amanda and Sarah are BACK and unfortunately discussing episodes two and three of this season's "And Just Like That." Topics discussed include: how irrelevant LTW is becoming, the amount of drugs that must be flowing through Michael Patrick King's writer's room, Carrie's total personality transplant, Aidan's repugnance, and so much more!     We've got socials! Follow the pod on Instagram at @actual...

Amanda and Sarah are BACK and ready to talk about whether momtok can survive the latest season of "The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives!" Topics discussed include: Taylor's terrible family, the Halloween party from hell, their desperate need to save Jen Affleck, the sordid details of the swinging scandal, and so much more!   We've got socials! Follow the pod on Instagram at @actuallyobsessedpod Follow...

Amanda and Sarah are BACK and feel obligated to address the crisis that was the first episode of And Just Like That's third season. Topics discussed include: why Michael Patrick King is terrorizing fans of Sex and the City, what's happened to Charlotte and Harry's brains, Rosie O'Donnell's nun being the coolest character in the episode, the devastating, violating, life-ruining phone call between A...

Amanda and Sarah are BACK and discussing the final Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"! Topics discussed include: why everybody gets to have something redeeming about them except the nasty women, why the Hallows are in it, how this is really Ron's book with his lil ball of light, as ever what a gigantic flop J.K. Rowling is as a person, and so much more!   We've got socials!...

Amanda and Sarah are BACK and ready to talk about Catching Fire: the book! Topics discussed include: how fierce Joanna is, why everyone loves Finick and hates Gale, how confusing the ending of this book is, the way in which the US and its inhabitants seem more and more like the Capital everyday, and so much more!   We've got socials! Follow the pod on Instagram at @actuallyobsessedpod Follow Sarah...

Amanda and Sarah are BACK and ready to profess their love for 2005's "Match Point!" Topics discussed include: how absolutely terrible of a person Woody Allen is and how sorry the ladies are for still loving this movie, the scorching hotness of Scarlett Johansson, the supremacy of tennis movies, what it means to be lucky, and so much more!     We've got socials! Follow the pod on Instagram at @actu...

Amanda and Sarah are BACK and scared to talk about Stephenie Meyer's 2010 novella, "The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner." Topics discussed include: Stephenie's unhinged admissions in the introduction, what love is chemically, the anatomy of Jasper's battle scars, Edward being referred to exclusively as "the red-head," and so much more!   We've got socials! Follow the pod on Instagram at @actually...

Amanda and Sarah are BACK and delighted to discuss Netflix's batshit crazy documentary "Abducted in Plain Sight" which covers the true story of a girl who was kidnapped by the same man twice. Topics covered include: how these parents ever agreed to be in this documentary, the absolute audacity of this child's mother, how easily the ladies would have believed that they  were aliens at twelve years...

Amanda and Sarah are BACK to discuss one of the best movies ever made, 2008's "The Dark Knight." Never before has a film been more loved by two people who are so confused by everything about it! Topics include: the eighteen wheeler flipping over (IT FLIPS ALL THE WAY OVER), the inappropriate hotness of The Joker sitting in his jail cell, the political message (question mark?) of this movie that ac...

Amanda and Sarah are BACK and ready to discuss Suzanne Collins's book "The Hunger Games"! Topics discussed include: how incredible this book is, how Suzanne Collins is who J.K. Rowling thinks she is, why people in Panem just don't immediately revolt instead of participating in the Hunger Games for 75 years, and so much more!   Sarah's book is OUT! Buy "Why We Love (and Hate) Twilight" here or at t...

Amanda and Sarah are BACK and delighted to discuss all things "Why We Love (and Hate) Twilight" for the book's release week! The ladies discuss Sarah's fraught content creator origin story, how her views about Twilight have changed since 2008, watching relationships crumble due to Edward Cullen, and their shared, storied dating history at Trident Cafe in Boston.   Sarah's book is OUT! Buy "Why We...

Amanda and Sarah are BACK and ecstatic to be discussing the first season of "Gossip Girl." Topics discussed include: how much Penn Badgley shines as Dan, how Nate exists in a completely different, unintentionally hilarious show, Blair's ultimate relatability, the superiority of Rufus and Lily, and so much more!   Sarah's got a book coming out April 8th! Pre-order "Why We Love (and Hate) Twilight" ...

Amanda and Sarah are BACK and discussing the Hulu's docuseries "Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke." Topics discussed include: how gigantic the internet is with all of these famous people the ladies have never heard of, why everybody in Ruby's life was obsessed with her, how Kevin Franke may be the biggest flop on the entire planet, how Annie-coded the Franke household was, how much thes...

Sarah and Amanda are BACK and they're ready to break down the first season of the iconic Real Housewives of Atlanta! Topics discussed include: why RHOA might be the number one housewives franchise, the absolute flop that is DeShawn, Kim's vocal talent, her producer's dubious Wikipedia page, the superiority of Nene and Sheree, and so much more!   Sarah's got a book coming out April 8th! Pre-order "...

Amanda and Sarah are BACK to talk about the "Mean Girls" of the Catholic Church, Best Picture nominee "Conclave." Topics discussed include: how hot every single person in this movie is, what confession actually means, what popes are supposed to do, why there are so many turtles in this movie, who won the Emmy in 2022 instead of Adam Scott for "Severance," and so much more!   Sarah's got a book com...