The Fangirl Diaries
Best friends and self-diagnosed Fangirls, Maddie and Alicia revisit their pop culture obsessions from their high school tweens to their “professional” thirties. Join these Millennial nerds as they explore the books, films and fandoms that shaped them.
Episodes
43 episodes
Game of Thrones (part 1)
Winter is coming! And as Autumn draws in, we've dug out our top fantasy box sets and settled back down with Jon Snow and Robb Stark. Top of the List? Long-time favourite and definite obsession - Game of Thrones. We re-live our twenties, looking...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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1:07:08
The Life of a Showgirl
Our album reaction! We obviously had to listen to The Life of A Showgirl as soon as it dropped but we have....mixed feelings...As long-term Swifties, we count down our favourite (and least favourite!) tracks, remember albums past and can't help...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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54:09
The Summer I Turned Pretty (S3)
*SPOILERS* "I love you! I will always love you! I think you know that..." And we LOVE this show! We're recording on Season Finale day as we have to face saying goodbye to Belly, Conrad and Jeremiah. We react to Belly's final choice, recap the s...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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1:27:03
The Summer I Turned Pretty (S2)
“I was in love … like out of my mind in love. What was I supposed to do?” Season 2 takes a TURN people! Susannah is dead (we were shook!), Laurel has been sidelined, who knows what's happened to Cleveland, Conrad is spiralling and Jeremiah is o...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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57:04
Coffee Break: Why We Love Musicals
Oh boy. Where do we even start? The answer is with Maddie's meticulously crafted spreadsheet (not joking), categorising all her favourite musicals, their overall "score" and we look back on a genre that gave us so many obsessions. On the list a...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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57:24
The Summer I Turned Pretty (S1)
“I don’t want you to need me. I want you to want me.” Woooooooo and here we go!! It's all happening to Belly on Cousins Beach! Maddie is a new The Summer I Turned Pretty inductee and Alicia is on (another) re-watch. For those of you in the tren...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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1:07:14
Moulin Rouge
It's taken us roughly twenty years, but we HAVE to discuss Moulin Rouge - because we can can CAN! We disagree, for the first time, about The Thermometer Level, rate our top 3 songs and discuss the film that spawned 1000 prom night themes. Also,...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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48:47
Downton Abbey
It's time for a TV classic this week! With Alicia a long-term fan and Maddie embarking on her first foray into life with The Crawleys, it must be Downton Abbey! We chat through our favourite plot lines, the unforgettable characters, the tragic ...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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1:14:10
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (S6 & 7)
It's the end of our Buffy Mini-series! And the most controversial seasons yet - 6 and 7. These mark the shift, both to a different network and to a very different (darker) tone for the show. We discuss The Trio, Dark Willow and the many tragedi...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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1:42:30
Disney's Hercules
Bless my soul, Herc is on a ROLL... and we love it!! Looking back to 1997, we revisit what makes this Disney film one of our all time heroes. What's the best part? Meg's dress? Hades' flaming hair? Or the soundtrack to which we still know every...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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32:30
Coffee Break: LotR New Zealand locations
Join Alicia and Maddie as they take you on a tour of New Zealand to visit all the places that Peter Jackson and crew scouted to film the epic 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy.
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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26:42
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (S5)
"Glorificus! Your terrifically smooth one, Your creamy coolness, Your Most glamorous yet tasteful one, Oh..." If Clare Kramer is here as Buffy's best ever Big Bad then it must be Season 5! A team favourite: The Scoobies Willow, Xander, Tara and...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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1:10:14
The Traitors
"Players: the time for talk is over!" Or in the case of this podcast - just beginning!! We've had the Season 3 Finale and we're here to dissect it all. From the tragedy of Alexander to the mystery of Claudia Winkleman's fringe...welcome to THE ...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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56:40
Wicked Part 1 (the movie)
We've only waited TWENTY SOMETHING YEARS for this!! Finally the Wicked movie has been released so we took a long-awaited jaunt to see it together after Maddie booked ahead...that's what makes her so nice. Join us as we discuss the all-star perf...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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39:57
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (S4)
"Giles has a TV! He's shallow - like us!" Season 4 is ready for a deep-dive and the Scooby Gang have started at UC Sunnydale! Riley is on the scene, Spike's back and Giles is...well, still fired. We chat about The Initiative, Hush, and the intr...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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54:56
The Notebook
"If you're a bird then I'm a bird too!" Iconic or non-sensical? Either way, we recap some of the most famous quotes, kisses and costumes from 2004's The Notebook. Not a Nicholas Sparks fan? Where WERE you in the 00's? His romance novels and fil...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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49:14
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (S3)
Buffy and the Scooby Gang get ready to graduate in Season 3 of the 1999 hit show. We re-cap the season and run through our favourite fights, the best couples, the most shocking moments (Faith and Xander, anyone!?) and try to contain our excitem...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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1:25:13
A Court of Thorns and Roses
"There you are. I've been looking for you." It's....ACOTAR! And we're coming at this from a slightly different angle this week. One the one hand, we have Alicia, the mega-fan, future wife of Rhysand and Sarah J Maas devotee. On the other, we ha...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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1:09:12
Titanic
You jump, I jump, remember? And remember we do! Today's podcast topic is James Cameron's 1997 'Titanic'. THE masochistic sleepover movie for all of us in the late 90s. Coming up to 30 years since its release, we recap The Hand Prin...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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1:11:37
Taylor Swift
Special guest episode! You wouldn't have thought it but we have an even BIGGER Swiftie in our midst - Maddie's husband, Ben! Together we deconstruct the Eras tour, revisit when we first fell in love with Taylor and, of course, round up our favo...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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1:22:36
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (S1 & 2)
In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons...she is the SLAYER! Was there ever a cooler show?! Not if you were a kid in the 90s and a teen in the 00s. Buffy is too iconic for us to possibly ...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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1:31:40
Coffee Break: Vampires
In anticipation of our upcoming Buffy, True Blood and Vampire Diaries episodes, we thought our favourite mythical creatures deserved a bit of a prologue....! We explore the origins of Vampire lore and what it was about the late 2000s that saw V...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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37:33
Coffee Break: Wicked Trailer first reaction!
Maddie and Alicia react to the full length trailer for the Wicked movie... Will it be Popular or Not that Girl?
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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15:29