Character Analysis

Today, I want to talk about not just your garden variety toxic friend, but your persuasive, charismatic liar that can demolish your life and sense of reality brick by brick. In this episode, I’m breaking down the dangerous type of liar. The kind who can look you dead in the face, stay perfectly calm, and convince an entire room that what you know happened… didn’t. Photo credit: Lionsgate The idea...

Reminder: Subscriptions have been turned back on for this Substack. If you were previously a paid subscriber and do not wish to be charged going further, please update your subscription settings. In this episode of Character Analysis , I’m issuing a formal apology to my younger self — specifically for ever siding with Carrie in that iconic fight. You know the one. The argument between Sex and the...

Hey there! It’s been a minute. Christan has launched her solo podcast (with occasional appearances by Sarah) called Character Analysis. Here’s the latest CA episode. If you like it, ⁠ come on over and subscribe. ⁠ Narcissist. Psychopath. Sadist. These labels explode every time a case like Bryan Kohberger’s hits the headlines — but do any of them actually mean something in a courtroom? In this epis...

This week on Character Analysis , the band is back together—Sarah joins me to break down Ryan Murphy’s All’s Fair , a show that feels like Sex and the City ’s chaotic cousin. We get into the camp, the casting, the questionable “lawyering,” the Kim Kardashian of it all, and why this series hits such a nerve. If you missed hearing us yell about TV together, this is your episode. MIND MATTERS I’ve be...

In this special cross-posted bonus episode, I’m unpacking one of the most overused — and misunderstood — labels in modern culture: narcissist. I talk about the difference between having narcissistic traits and full-blown Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD), and why some narcissists come across as magnetic while others leave nothing but destruction behind. I’ll also dig into why so many of us f...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit characteranalysispod.substack.com In this solo bonus episode of Worth The Weight , I’m sharing a story I stumbled back into while giving my apartment a facelift — a Christmas card from a man I once convinced myself was “the one.” What started as friendship, movie nights, and mixed signals turned into months of denial, humiliation, and f...

This week on Worth the Weight, Sarah and I had what I’ll generously call our “first fight” — sparked by women announcing their engagements…to their AI boyfriends. (Yes, rings included. Yes, they bought them themselves. No, I can’t make this up.) What started as me defending lonely women from TikTok mockery quickly spiraled into a bigger conversation about empathy, trauma responses, AI psychosis, a...

This week on Worth the Weight , Sarah and I officially close the book on And Just Like That —and just like that, it’s (supposedly) the series finale. Was it rushed? Absolutely. Did I like it anyway? Shockingly, yes. From Carrie’s “party of one” moment (complete with a tomato doll date, because sure) to Miranda’s pre-rejection spiral to Seema realizing maybe marriage was never her dream but a progr...

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Psst...if you have a minute, could you follow us on YouTube and rate us five stars on Spotify ? Love you! Mean it. This week, Sarah and I sink our teeth into what might be the meatiest And Just Like That episode yet—one that hits every theme we love to unpack. We talk traditional gender roles, the messy intersection of masculinity and femininity, and the complicated emotions family and friends nav...

We could use some new dating questions for the pod. 😏 Submit your dating questions here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . I’m digging into the difference between being valued for your vibe versus your value —and why so many of us are exhausted by being treated like a mood instead of a whole person. I discuss dating apps, performative chemistry, boundaries, and the subtle ways women are trained to shrink their su...

This week’s episode of Worth The Weight is a wild ride. First, Sarah and I break down the latest episode of And Just Like That , where Carrie mistakes attention for intellectual validation, Miranda confuses judgment for curiosity, and Seema somehow turns a plant into a red flag. (Girl, it’s chlorophyll not trauma .) But that’s just the warm-up. Then we dig into a listener letter about a guy who se...

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This week on Worth the Weight , Sarah and I cut through a whole lot of emotional debris, courtesy of And Just Like That ’s surprisingly layered episode. We talk about Carrie’s never-ending search for closure (and why it always leads her down the wrong path), Aiden’s passive-aggressive spiral, and the moment he sealed his own fate with five little words: “You smell like smoke. Get away.” We break d...

In this week’s episode, we kick off another installment of Fuck That Guy Palooza —because apparently cheating CEOs at Coldplay concerts just won’t stop giving. Yes, we’re talking about the Astronomer CEO who thought snuggling up to HR mid-marriage was a stealth move… until he got smacked by the karmic arm of the Jumbotron. Sir, you’re not even the brightest star in your own scandal. But that’s not...

This week on Worth The Wait , Sarah and I kick off another round of Fuck That Guy Palooza —and this one’s a doozy. We start with a listener letter about a woman who put together a thoughtful care package for a guy she’d been seeing for two months… only to get a text back that basically said, “Cool stuff, but calm down, Fatal Attraction.” We break down whether that kind of response is emotionally u...

If you were still on the fence about Carrie Bradshaw being the actual worst, this episode knocked you off and dragged you. Between flinching at Miranda’s kiss, sabotaging Miranda’s party plans, and pulling a full “What are you doing in my kitchen?” meltdown because Miranda made an observation , our girl Carrie is out here giving main character syndrome a bad name. We talk Patti LuPone (yes, she wa...

Aidan breaks a 200-year-old window trying to be romantic, and somehow, that sets the tone for everything that follows: emotional cracks, bad communication, and a man spiraling while a woman tries to hold it all together. Again. This week, we unpack the guilt women carry for wanting more than caretaking roles, the emotional labor they’re expected to perform without recognition, and how female frien...

This week on Worth the Weight , we're recapping the latest episode of And Just Like That… , but fair warning — we veer into the real star of the show: Carrie’s shoes. We kick things off with a nod to one of the most iconic Sex and the City episodes, A Woman’s Right to Shoes , and the chaos that followed one woman daring to wear $500 stilettos to a kid-friendly party. (Justice for the stilettos, ho...

This week, Sarah and I are digging into one of the most relatable—and frustrating—dating experiences: when you’re not sure if someone’s being avoidant… or just not that into you. We start with what might be And Just Like That ’s best episode yet (no, seriously), which we fully unpack in a bonus episode here on Patreon. If you’re not subscribed, go now—this one hits hard, especially if you come fro...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit characteranalysispod.substack.com This week, I made a bold declaration: Season 3, Episode 4 of And Just Like That might be one of the best of the entire series—not Sex and the City , but definitely AJLT . In this recap, Sarah and I break down all the reasons why—from the long overdue focus on the core three characters to the emotional w...

In this episode, Sarah and I unpack everything—starting with why we changed the name of the podcast. Worth The Weight isn’t just about pounds lost (though we talk about that, too)—it’s about the emotional, psychological, and societal weight women carry every damn day. We talk about what led to the rebrand, why I almost broke up with ChatGPT (spoiler: Mira and I had our first fight), and how Sarah...

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Usually, I would never bring this here, but there are some lines you don’t cross. This woman has been relentlessly harassing my friend, publicly accusing her of lying about her childhood abuse. Let me be very clear: the abuse my friend endured was documented. Her parents were arrested. They went to jail. The system believed her because the evidence was irrefutable. Please report these pages Salty...

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