Episodes
Chelsea and Nina review the second movie in the Teen Beach canon and discuss tropical high school culture and what this film could have done better. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Published 06/02/21
Surf’s Up! This week Chelsea and Nina kick off summer with the beloved DCOM classic, Teen Beach Movie and discuss feminism and why teen/YA media is so dark now. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Published 06/02/21
This week Chelsea and Nina reviewed the DCOM classic, Stepsister from Planet Weird, and discuss why these parents moved on so soon and aliens. TW: we discuss disordered eating in this episode. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Published 05/26/21
This week, Chelsea and Nina discuss the Keke Palmer and Corbin Bleu starring DCOM, Jump In! And talk about the black girl lineage of Double Dutch and the films portrayal of Brooklyn. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Published 05/19/21
This week Chelsea and Nina discuss The Descendants 3 and how they should have used different musical influences and expanded the characters interior lives. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Published 05/12/21
This week Chelsea and Nina discuss The Descendants 2, and talk about black women as villains and why Ben and Mal are getting married so young. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Published 05/12/21
This week Chelsea and Nina discuss the Kimberly J. Brown starring DCOM, Quints, and talk about first generation college students and parenting. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Published 05/05/21
This week Chelsea and Nina discuss the AJ Trauth and LaLaine starring DCOM, You Wish! We discuss Vanessa Carlton’s “A Thousand Miles” and the magical negro trope. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Published 04/28/21
This week Chelsea and Nina discuss the DCOM classic, Tru Confessions and talk about the lack of representation of differently able people and how we need to be doing more in the media. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Published 04/21/21
This week Chelsea and Nina discuss the DCOM based on the popular animated series, Phineas and Ferb, and talk about kids as inventors and conformity. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Published 04/14/21
To finish off the Zenon suite, Chelsea and Nina discuss, Zenon: Z3 and critique how Zenon never really fails but how is open to checking her exceptional child privilege. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Published 04/07/21
Continuing with the Zenon Suite with, Chelsea and Nina discuss Zenon: The Zequel, Disney’s first ever DCOM sequel, and wonder why no one listens to Zenon by this point. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Published 04/07/21
Ceetus-Lepeedus! This week Chelsea and Nina reviewed the full Zenon suite starting with the original, Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century. They discussed how the slang and vernacular are macro well done and how ahead of its time the focus on sustainability was. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Published 04/07/21
This week Chelsea and Nina discuss the Hilary Duff and Christy Carlson Romano classic, Cadet Kelly! We get into children need structure and the military’s impact on the US. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Published 03/31/21
This week, Chelsea and Nina discuss the classic DCOM spin on Twelfth Night and how father daughter movies tend to solely be about sports. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Published 03/24/21
Happy St. Patrick’s Day to celebrate Nina and Chelsea discuss the Ryan Merriman classic DCOM, The Luck of the Irish and how immigrants and identity have been perceived in the past versus now. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Published 03/17/21
This week, Chelsea and Nina discussed the classic basketball DCOM, Double Teamed and discuss women in sports, the WNBA and how women can compete for things that aren’t the attention of men. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Published 03/10/21
The final installment in The Cheetah Girls suite, Chelsea and Nina discuss The Cheetah Girls 3 and how our Cheetah’s have basically become Global Getdown and how this story taking place in India feels like cinematic voyeurism and just a backdrop with no real connection to the girls. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Published 03/03/21
Continuing with The Cheetah Girls suite, Chelsea and Nina discuss, The Cheetah Girls 2 and the erasure of the blackness from the first one and also ask why are they in Barcelona?
Published 03/03/21
The Cheetah Girls suite is here! To kick it off, Chelsea and Nina have assembled a black girl panel with their friends, Lisa and Jasmine to discuss the impact of The Cheetah Girls on culture and their lives, they also get into the colorism that is present in the film and Hollywood at large and how musicians get swindled by record labels through contracts to this day. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Published 03/03/21
This week Chelsea and Nina review the Emmy award winning DCOM, The Color of Friendship and discuss apartheid, interracial friendships with a side of politics. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Published 02/24/21
This week, Chelsea and Nina discuss the Tyler James Williams, Trevor Jackson and Coco Jones starring DCOM, Let It Shine. They reminisce about 2012 fashions and whether rap is only accepted when it’s content is deemed suitable. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Published 02/17/21
This week Chelsea and Nina celebrate the Disney classic animated show, The Proud Family by reviewing its series finale, The Proud Family Movie. They discuss how we need more black animated shows and voiceover actors and just how well it was written and related to real life it still is. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Published 02/10/21
Happy Black History Month! To kick it off, Chelsea and Nina review the classic superhero DCOM, Up, Up and Away directed by and starring Robert Townsend and featuring Sherman Hemsley. They discuss the impact of seeing black superhero’s for the first time and the joy in having a black movie where being black is a part of it but not the main plot. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Published 02/03/21
When you woke up this morning did you say today I’m going to talk or did you say today I’m going to skate? This week, Chelsea and Nina review the Erik Von Detten starring classic DCOM, Brink! It made us reminisce on the 90’s trends and wonder do the kids even in-line skate anymore? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Published 01/27/21