This Ends at Prom

"We are not fictional! We're just discreet!" One of the all-time great millennial sleepover movies turns 20 this year, so The Wives Colangelo are getting ready for the Last Splash with AQUAMARINE. An adorable coming-of-age classic that had a generation wishing they could wear starfish as earrings, let's talk about why falling in love in less than a week is a bad aspiration for any young girl, and...

"You can. On girl!" With a new Supergirl movie in theaters, The Wives Colangelo are going back to her big-screen debut in SUPERGIRL (1984), starring Helen Slater and Faye Dunaway. Joining the show this week is comics expert and arguably the smartest voice on all things Supergirl, the incomparable Jenna Anderson! Don't let anyone convince you this movie is without merit, and get ready to believe a...

"You know I don't believe in hierarchy in female relationships." What happens when you toss THE CRAFT, MEAN GIRLS, HEATHERS, JAWBREAKER, JENNIFER'S BODY, and ... FINAL DESTINATION in a blender? Well, you get FORBIDDEN FRUITS! This week, The Wives Colangelo are talking about one of their favorite new movies in recent memory and dissecting what determines "a cult classic in the making" in the age of...

"This isn't the Midnight Realm, Maddy. It's just the suburbs." After two years of begging, The Wives Colangelo (mostly Harmony) are finally discussing I SAW THE TV GLOW. While the movie is responsible for countless individuals recognizing the truth about themselves (yay!), the culture that surrounds the film has felt very isolating for trans people who came out long before we even had the word "eg...

"I don't want to shock you or anything, but I really want to hold your hand right now." As chosen by the This Ends at Prom Patreon supporters, this week The Wives Colangelo are having a charming time talking about THE INCREDIBLY TRUE ADVENTURE OF TWO GIRLS IN LOVE. Things are going to get really sappy around here, so prepare yourselves for some cuteness overload and a crash-course in the sapphic b...

"She broke the cardinal rule: Don't f*ck with people that handle your food." It's Harmony's birthday, so The Wives Colangelo are breaking the rules and talking about a coming-of-age film that wasn't marketed toward teen girls, but certainly resonated with anyone, regardless of gender, who came of age while working in the service industry. It's time to discuss the value of chain restaurants, the fo...

"I didn't want to be just another orphan, Mr. Warbucks. I wanted to believe I was special." MAY-usical Month 2026 is coming to an end with a movie chosen by our Patreon supporters, ANNIE (1982). This week, The Wives Colangelo are dissecting everyone's favorite red-headed orphan, dissecting the weirdest politics ever to be found in a movie this catchy, and trying to figure out if Miss Hannigan and...

"There are five basic types in every successful boy band." It's BJ Colangelo's birthday episode, and this year she's celebrating by losing her mind about her favorite not-real, real boy band, MTV's 2GE+HER. The Wives Colangelo are breaking down boy band archetypes, talking about what makes satire work, mourning Michael Cuccione, and learning their calculus (it says U + ME = US). -------- Become a...

"I want a band. I want amplifiers. I want, I want, I want." It's Jackie Mullins' world, and we're merely the audience waiting for her to rock it. Before Gillian Armstrong gave us LITTLE WOMEN in the 1990s, she gave us a blue-collar music film about a teenage girl with big dreams to be a star. One of the most Harmony-coded movies ever made, The Wives Colangelo are ready to bring the prom party into...

"Once a Wildcat, always a Wildcat!" We're all in this together this MAY-usical month, and we're saying farewell to our friends at East High with HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3: SENIOR YEAR. The rare instance of a made-for-TV movie getting a theatrical sequel, The Wives Colangelo are here to talk about the benefits of a bigger budget, why Troy Bolton will forever remain in our hearts, and why Kenny Ortega i...

"Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers." If Nicholas Sparks has no haters, BJ Colangelo is dead. This week, The Wives Colangelo are diving into Miley Cyrus' first major post-Hannah Montana role in the romantic drama, The Last Song. Discussions include Liam Hemsworth's strange hair color, the plague of #NotLikeMostGirl styling, and the criminal offense of only letting Miley sing...

"People aren't always what they appear to be. Don't forget that." Denise Richards. Neve Campbell. Matt Dillon. Kevin Bacon. Daphne Rubin-Vega. Theresa Russell. and... Bill Murray in a neck brace. Somehow, by some cruel trick of the universe, Harmony Colangelo had not seen WILD THINGS until now. This week, it all changes. Join The Wives Colangelo and take a walk on the wild side with the steamiest...

"I am a freak from Norwich, England! And I have dreamt of this since I was 13 years old! And it's not just mine. It belongs to my family!" We're taking you all on the road to WrestleMania, whether you like it or not! The story of Saraya "Paige" Knight is one of wrestling's most fascinating, and the biopic about her rise through WWE is historic for a reason. Let's talk about being a woman wrestling...

"You mean she would rather imagine herself relating to an absent person than build relationships with those around her?" If you were a quirky film girlie in the 2000s, chances are, you resonated very deeply with a young French woman named Amélie. This week, The Wives Colangelo are joined by the brilliant Liz Gotauco to discuss the aestheticization of twentysomethings' coming of age, fixating on fi...

"I feel like our lives changed because they had to." As chosen by our Patreon supporters, The Wives Colangelo are kicking off April with a story of summer, sisterhood, and magical pants. Let's talk about four different stories about coming-of-age, the blessing of well-rounded characters, and maybe cry a little bit about the stories that hit a little close to home. Together and apart! -------- Beco...

"That's funny, I've never heard of George Glass at our sküle." Didn't The Wives Colangelo JUST cover The Brady Bunch Movie? And they're already doing A Very Brady Sequel? YEAH, SO WHAT? WANNA FIGHT ABOUT IT?! After catching Brady Fever, This Ends at Prom is jumping from the Jan Brady movie to the one about Greg and Marcia wanting to kiss each other. It's wild, it's raucous, and American Hysteria h...

"We all do things we're not proud of to survive." Sequel Month is getting the prequel treatment as The Wives Colangelo return to Panem for THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES. This week's episode might be a bit of a heavier one, considering, well, everything, but to fight fascism, you have to know how it operates. Fortunately, the dystopian prequel does a pretty bang-up job at s...

"I have always valued my lifelessness." We love a sequel that goes completely bugnuts off the rails compared to its original, and RETURN TO OZ has enough kindertrauma to do the trick. Somehow, Harmony missed this classic twisted fantasy that altered the brain chemistry of multiple generations, but sequel month is taking The Wives Colangelo back down what WAS the yellow brick road with a sassy chic...

"I don't need friends. I need fans." Sequel month 2026 is kicking off with a title chosen by the Patreon supporters, SCREAM 4. This week, The Wives Colangelo are heading back to Woodsboro to dissect the second generation of Ghostface victims and speculate why so many people despise this entry (despite it being Harmony's favorite). It's gonna be a scream, baby! -------- Become a Patron! https://www...

"We have a company to save. / I'm right on top of that, Rose." Did you know that they recently remade DON'T TELL MOM THE BABYSITTER'S DEAD? Did you know that it is shockingly wonderful? This week, The Wives Colangelo are tackling a remake of one of BJ's all-time-favorite movies, and a movie that Harmony has only ever seen once (don't worry, they're gonna remedy that). The BET+ Original Film is one...

"I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen." Cameron Crowe's directorial debut is a film solidified in pop culture history thanks to the singular image of John Cusack holding a boom box above his head, but SAY ANYTHING... has a lot more than a Peter Gabriel song to say. This week, The Wives Colangelo are joined by the incomparable Alex Steed to talk about one of the greatest teenage romance flick...

"There's a lot of ways to get to know a person. Eating her dead boyfriend's brains is one of the more unorthodox methods, but..." HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY, PROM PARTY! Love is in the air, and The Wives Colangelo are celebrating by talking about a Romeo & Juliet story where Romeo is a zombie and Juliet is... John Malkovich's military brat daughter. Let's dive into the post-Twilight boom of monster...

"The more I've learned about your world outside my walls, the more I've realized how dangerous and unpredictable it is." Long before AI was being shoehorned into every aspect of our existence, the Disney Channel was warning a generation about the dangers of technological dependency with the iconic SMART HOUSE. Arguably the "best" DCOM ever made, it's time to have an existential crisis about how ma...

"Try laughing, then whatever scares you will go away." Few films capture the magic of girlhood quite like MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO, one of the few films that actually prioritizes the perspective of children rather than an "all-ages" affair. This week, The Wives Colangelo are recontextualizing their feelings about Hayao Miyazaki's classic fantasy tale, and celebrating his objective masterpiece exploring...

"Well, what were you thinking? Publicize the music! Not your crotch!" The Runaways completely changed what was possible for women in rock music, and the stories of Cherie Currie and Joan Jett are the stuff of legend. This week, The Wives Colangelo are taking the 2010 biopic about the band starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning, and discussing the exploitation of teenage girls by the music ind...