They Thought I Was You
Hosts Becca Roth and Lani Harms revisit their childhood obsessions with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, analyzing their work, examining their impact on pop culture, and talking with the people who worked with them. It's the deep dive you've always wanted and the recognition the Olsen Twins always deserved.
They Thought I Was You
Getting There: THE BOOK
You asked, we answered. Well, some of you never asked, but others of you have insisted for months that the Mary-Kate and Ashley books are a very important part of the Mary-Kate and Ashley Universe and have been begging us to talk about them. So today, we read our first Dualstar book, Mary-Kate and Ashley Sweet 16: Getting There.
After reading this book, we realize this was a very chaotic book to read first. But since we just finished reviewing Getting There (the movie) for our podcast, we wanted to dive into this right away while the movie was still fresh. And a listener tipped us off that this book isn't just a retelling of the movie, but a meta, behind-the-scenes look at the "making" of Getting There.
And that's... kinda right. This book (the fourth of the "Sweet 16" series) is an alternate universe Mary-Kate and Ashley who were randomly scouted to be in a movie and filmed the exact same Getting There movie that we watched, but with a completely different alternate-reality cast & production team.
This book is wacky! And we unpack it as best we can, from the singing Elvis lovegrams, to the terrible manipulative friends, and even a confirmation that Ashley meeting Charly in the diner was, IN FACT, a gay romance scene!
We hope you enjoy (and can keep the timeline straight) as we dive into our first of what we're pretty sure will be many book review episodes.
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