Lonely Girls Podcast

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 fel...

This year we accidentally made a very good choice of what to cover for our holiday episode. It began with wanting to discuss A Muppets Christmas Carol which then evolved into wanting to discuss the other adaptations and retellings of the Christmas classic which then led to a Dickensian feat. It’s going to include Madelaine Turner’s EXCELLENT research on Charles Dicken’s life and Rebecca’s subpar k...

It's been a while since we've done one of these but this week we're bringing you a Topical Episode on Comparison. We approach it from some different angles and were honestly a little surprised how many ways you can discuss it. Madelaine Turner discussing the comparison she gets with Wes Anderson and Rebecca discusses what it's like working in a bridal shop and surrounded being surrounded by mirror...

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 w...

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 a...

*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. Th...

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 p...

Christmas Surprise. Back in November 2022 Madelaine and Rebecca were together to watch Bivi play Clara in The Nutcracker and they continued to watch the Twilight series. We truly love talking about these movies so much because they are EXCELLENT pieces of cinema. In this episode we discuss where the hell we've been, rolling down hills, the morality of becoming werewolves, and Howard Shore's score...

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...

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...

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 refus...

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 bes...

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 N...

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 PER...

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 al...

Welcome, welcome to our first annual episode of The Hunger Games. This past week we both watched our favorite Australians Reaction to Mockingjay ( Mike's Mic ) and we were like, "Wait naur bestie why are we not doing HangGaymes?" We love nostalgia and to reexamine the past pieces of the media of our childhood and the chokehold this messed up bloody, bloody tale definitely was an obsession of our g...

*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 attendanc...

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...

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 boo...

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 work...

Did the newest adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion leave us in agony or hope? The release of the 2022 Persuasion has set the Lonely Girls of the world abuzz and so we stayed up past our bedtime to watch the movie and then immediately record an episode. This isn't your regular Janeite rant. Rebecca was very adamant that it wouldn't turn in to that. So instead we talk about the other adaptations,...

Happy Sixth Episode to us! This topic is very important to lonely girls because we famously are very bad at them. That’s right. We’re talking about the anniversary that comes every year to possibly show us that no one loves us. Maddie and Rebecca have spent their last individual birthdays together and this week they’re covering this infamous topic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i...

Hello Darlings. This week we’re talking about Truman Capote and the novella/classic film Breakfast at Tiffany’s. It’s the movie everyone is pretty sure they’ve seen and the poster everyone had on their wall. In the episode we discuss Capote’s life, who was the real Holly, the differences between the film and story, and some of the bts in the creation of the film. We also hear about Madeleine's jou...

Don’t read to much into this… but this week we’re talking about the 2009 ensemble rom-com(edy?) He’s Just Not That Into You. In this episode we discuss the death toll of the rom-com, how it stands up in 2022, and who are the loneliest girls in this ensemble film. Rebecca and Madelaine may even improvise an entire musical! Who knows?? Pour a Gin(nifer) Tonic and join us critiquing the almost critiq...

It’s time to party because this week we’re talking about all around good time Barbara Milicent Roberts. How DARE you think we would talk about anything else. The female-gaze-pink-tulle haze of Barbie movies began when Madelaine and Rebecca were the perfect age. At every sleepover, car ride, or babysitting gig there was sure to be a VHS with Barbie being a princess, fairy or fairy princess and we t...