The Straights Aren't Alright
In which a bunch of queers watch straight rom-coms and seek to ask the question: "Are the straights... alright?"
Podcasting since 2024 • 17 episodes
The Straights Aren't Alright
Latest Episodes
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past: And How They Deserve Better Than You
In another accidental instance of Christmas in spring, join River, Ellie, Sam, and Jas as they discuss the 2009 movie Ghosts of Girlfriends Past and try not to completely tear their hair out at the writing on the wall of worse thi...
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Someone Like You: Pop Feminism Gone Wrong
Join Jas, Gillian, and River as they talk about the 2001 movie Someone Like You, a movie that tries to explain how men are like cows in such a way that we wonder if the writer really just wanted to write a telenovela. ...
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Episode 16
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Wild Mountain Thyme: The Other Bee Movie
Join River, Gillian, and Ellie talk about the 2020 movie Wild Mountain Thyme a movie that proports to be about land disputes and a guy thinking he's a bee but ends up being about Ireland's landscape and stereotypes and a case study in ...
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Episode 15
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Eloise at Christmastime: A Salute to All Plot Lines But Mostly The Love Story
Join Ellie, Sam, Gillian, and River as they talk about the made for TV movie Eloise at Christmastime. But mostly: its seven plots, love letter to childhood chaos, and one very young and very hot waiter played by a Broadway Legend....
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Episode 14
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Shakespeare In Love, Reader Insert Fanfic for Film Snobs
Join River, Sam, and Gillian as they discuss Shakespeare in Love (and not its boatload of Oscars), a movie loudly about Shakespeare and quietly about getting senpai to notice you and historical inaccuracies that a fourth grader could get right....
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Episode 13
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