The Bi-Panic Room is a bi-monthly (naturally) film podcast, exploring the films and television series that trigger bisexual panic - aka “bi-panic”, when watching.
Each week we discuss one ‘hall of famer’ film that is dripping with BPE - bi-panic energy - and one wild-card film that must fight for its place as a cinematic bicon.
Join your hosts, Tessa, Harry, Grace & Charlotte as they skip, trip and tumble down memory lane, exploring the cinematic masterpieces of their youth and debating which films deserve their place in the hallowed halls of the Bi-Panic Room.
Welcome to The Bi-Panic Room, a bi-monthly podcast exploring the films that trigger bisexual panic, a.k.a “bi-panic”.
Each episode is split into three parts:
The Bicon: where we discuss one film positively dripping with bi-panic energy that we all agree has earned its place in the bi-panic room.
Bi-panic energy of the week (BPE of the Week): this section is not confined to film and your hosts will bring anything and everything to the table.
The wildcard: one of your four hosts brings a surprise film to the table and presents their case for the others, who then vote on whether it should be allowed into the room or not…
All are welcome, so join your hosts Grace, Tessa, Charlotte and Harry - and share your own bi-panic films and BPEs through instagram (@bipanicroom) or email (hello@bipanicroom.com)
Season one is streaming now.
2 Jan 2025
#13 - Coyote Ugly (2000) + Grace's Wildcard Pick
You can’t fight the moonlight - or the bi-panic energy dripping from this episode’s pick - as we usher in the new year with Lil and the gals at Coyote Ugly.
Maria Bello owns the titular bar in this biconic naughties film that stars Piper Perabo as the girl moving to the big city to chase her songwriting dreams.
Tyra Banks, Bridget Moynahan, Melanie Lynskey and Adam Garcia round out a supporting cast that will leave you dying from the heat - but don’t dare ask for agua, HELL NO H2O!
Bi-panic energies (BPEs) of the week include Wicked, Wicked, and Wicked.
Grace brings “Alice in Wonderland on Acid” to the table with her wildcard pick…will it be the first of 2025 to make it’s way in to the bi-panic room?
Listen now to find out... Happy New Year!
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Our intro music is Drop It by Coma-Media.
Want to share your BPE of the week? Submit your own suggestions? Email us at hello@bipanicroom.com or tag us on instagram @bipanicroom.
12 Dec 2024
#12 - The Family Stone (2005) + Charlotte's Wildcard Pick
Hosts discuss the 2005 Christmas classic 'The Family Stone' and Charlotte's bi-panic wildcard pick, exploring themes of metastatic cancer, familial bullying, and partner swapping.
28 Nov 2024
#11 - The World Is Not Enough (1999) + Grace's Wildcard Pick
Hosts discuss Pierce Brosnan's 1999 James Bond film The World Is Not Enough, examining its feminist themes and action-packed sequences while sharing their personal Bi-panic Energies of the week.
14 Nov 2024
#10 - Entrapment (1999) + Harry's Wildcard Pick
Ah the millennium. The perfect backdrop for this week’s biconic heist movie and, coincidentally, the age gap between its two stars, Sean Connery and HRH Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Yes, Jon Amiel’s 1999 film Entrapment features that scene, spawning an entire generation of bisexuals with an unrealistic expectation of:
Their own flexibility
The manners of older men
Their natural ability to play both sides of the field
Your hosts debate mismatched outfits, justice for geriatric asexuals and just what we thought would happen when Y2K hit.
Bi-panic energies (BPEs) of the week include Saorsie’s Sofa Stun, hot halloween homages and majestic music(als).
Harry is back in the hot seat with his bi-panic wild card, which left us asking the question: did Mad World ruin Christmas in your home country?
Time to patch into the mainframe, steal some seconds from the atomic clock and kick-back with your latest dose of cinematic bi-panic.
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Our intro music is Drop It by Coma-Media.
Want to share your BPE of the week? Email us at hello@bipanicroom.com or tag us on instagram @bipanicroom.
31 Oct 2024
#9 - Scream (1996) + Tessa's Wildcard Pick
What's your favourite bi-panic movie?
You just know a film is biconic when it spawns several franchises and an entire porn sub-category.
Wes Craven’s 1996 meta-horror-spoof Scream is the perfect way to celebrate our second Halloween special - on Halloween no less! - and reminisce about the days when a hot teenage boy with shark eyes could sex shame his recently bereaved girlfriend and tube TVs were a valid murder weapon.
The gang thirsts after the (imagined) chemistry between Neve Campbell and Courtney Cox and wonders what the Irish version of Ghostface would have sounded like.
This week’s bi-panic energies (BPEs) veer alarmingly straight, but luckily Harry pulls it back with a glorious misunderstanding.
Tessa’s wildcard pick sticks with the spooky theme and makes it obvious that no one knows how to pronounce "Wayans" properly. Take it, Brendan!
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Our intro music is Drop It by Coma-Media.
Want to share your BPE of the week? Email us at hello@bipanicroom.com or tag us on instagram @bipanicroom.
17 Oct 2024
#8 - Jennifer's Body (2009) + Charlotte's Wildcard Pick
It’s bi boo time! In our first of two halloween specials, the gang goes full lesbi-gay for Diablo Cody’s 2009 sleeper hit, Jennifer’s Body (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1131734/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1_tt_6_nm_1_in_0_q_jennifer%27s%2520bod).
It may have been a decade ahead of its time but the indie emo songs and guyliner make it a true classic of the late noughties. In case you weren’t sure whether the hosts of this podcast were actually teenagers during this time, this episode offers definitive proof with mentions of Veronica Mars, The OC and Fall Out Boy. 10/10 movie.
Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried deserved awards for it, if you disagree, come fight us.
This week’s BPEs (bi-panic energies) embrace a whole spectrum of messiness and Bi visibility.
Finally, the pressure is on for our only host to have all her wildcards voted into the bi-panic room (so far...), Charlotte, who fights for her life with her latest wild card pick - and it becomes clear who in the gang was a teenage Tumblr nerd and who wasn’t.
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Our intro music is Drop It by Coma-Media (https://pixabay.com/users/comastudio-26079283/).
Want to share your BPE of the week? Email us at hello@bipanicroom.com (mailto:hello@bipanicroom.com) or tag us on instagram @bipanicroom. (instagram.com/bipanicroom)
3 Oct 2024
#7 - Jurassic Park (1993) + Tessa's Wildcard Pick
Dinosaur eats man. Woman inherits the earth. And everything about this movie makes you bi.
This week: Steven Spielberg’s 1993 classic, Jurassic Park (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_jurassic), which, to half the gang, is a movie about a rich old man going to extraordinary lengths to stop his grandchildren from inheriting his fortune.
Time to take off your sunglasses (a la Laura Dern), tighten your Sam Neil neckerchiefs and get ready for an adventure of a lifetime.
Also: Jeff Goldblum’s hand acting, bi cigarettes, and Grace reciting the entirety of the IMDB trivia.
This episode's bi-panic energy (BPEs) range from the Swiftian (Taylor, that is, obviously) romance of pole vaulting to the epitome of lesbianism: synced periods.
Tessa lives up to her name of the bi with the wildest of wild card pitches, as she makes a case for her childhood comfort film.
Who knows, maybe it’ll succeed. After all, life finds a way.
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Our intro music is Drop It by Coma-Media (https://pixabay.com/users/comastudio-26079283/).
Want to share your BPE of the week? Email us at hello@bipanicroom.com (mailto:hello@bipanicroom.com) or tag us on instagram @bipanicroom. (instagram.com/bipanicroom)
19 Sept 2024
#6 - 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) + Grace's Wildcard Pick
Get ready, guys, that must be Nigel with the Brie!
In this episode, the gang covers the 1999 cinematic masterpiece 10 Things I Hate About You (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0147800/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_10%2520things%2520I%2520hate), starring Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Larisa Oleynik in a loose adaptation of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew.
In true biconic fashion, there are two divided camps on who to fancy. White shirt or black shirt? They’re just so different.
This film has it all: Allison Janney's guidance counsellor's writing smut, insufferable requests for agua, and the 90's classic - brushing a strand of hair behind the ear right before you kiss.
This week’s bi-panic energy (BPE) feature the horrors of UK weather, the Olympics and Charlotte delivering an impromptu German lesson you won’t find on Duolingo. Grace brings it home with another white middle-class wild card pick.
What will it be? Well it makes for a Shakespearean double whammy. We’re highbrow like that. Gotta lifetime o' knowledge.
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Our intro music is Drop It by Coma-Media (https://pixabay.com/users/comastudio-26079283/).
Want to share your BPE of the week? Email us at hello@bipanicroom.com (mailto:hello@bipanicroom.com) or tag us on instagram @bipanicroom. (instagram.com/bipanicroom)
Brace yourself LGBTQ+ film fans, and gird your loins for the first deeply problematic addition to the Bi-Panic Room.
For three of your hosts, Cruel Intentions (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139134/) taught us a fundamental truth about life: blondes are pious angels and brunettes are sexually promiscuous sociopaths who blaspheme by storing recreational narcotics in their crucifix necklaces. Or something like that.
Your hosts question their own decision to bring this controversial cult classic into the bi-panic room, while unanimously agreeing that Sarah Michelle Gellar delivers unhinged dialogue like a closeted queen and that Hollywood should ban men from writing sexual material about teenagers.
This week’s bi-panic energy features several women in suits - because duh - and Charlotte’s wildcard pick is a real throwback to your 2000s Disney education.
You always checked your nail polish was dry after, right?
Buckle up bicons and get ready for another serving of bipanic.
Our intro music is Drop It by Coma-Media (https://pixabay.com/users/comastudio-26079283/).
Want to share your BPE of the week? Email us at hello@bipanicroom.com (mailto:hello@bipanicroom.com) or tag us on instagram @bipanicroom. (instagram.com/bipanicroom)
22 Aug 2024
#4 - Speed (1994) + Harry's Wildcard Pick
Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock left a lasting impression on a whole generation of teens with buzzcuts and frilly socks. Of course we were always going to discuss the classic 90s film Speed (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111257/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_7_nm_1_in_0_q_speed) in great detai...as well as Keanu’s arms, Sandy’s legs, and Jeff Daniels’s soft boy energy.
Charlotte teaches the rest of the gang about the river of ham and Harry’s wildcard pick prompts an impassioned discussion about the male members of a famous Hollywood lineage. As you do. Go, wildcats!
Our intro music is Drop It by Coma-Media (https://pixabay.com/users/comastudio-26079283/).
Want to share your BPE of the week? Email us at hello@bipanicroom.com (mailto:hello@bipanicroom.com) or tag us on instagram @bipanicroom. (instagram.com/bipanicroom)
22 Aug 2024
#3 - The Mummy (1999) + Tessa's Wildcard Pick
This is the bisexual mothership: the film that turned the majority of the gang bi. Stephen Sommers’s 1999 masterpiece: The Mummy (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120616/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_the%2520mummy).
Rachel Weisz, Brendan Fraser, Arnold Vosloo, Patricia Velasquez & Oded Fehr - need we say more?
Sure, we will. Gold body paint, flesh eating scarabs, 90s pencil eyebrows, this one’s got it all. Attempts at objectivity about this movie are futile, so get ready for way too detailed discussions of plot points, dialogue and everything concerning Evie Carnahan.
BPE (Bi-Panic Energy) of the week picks are music heavy with Chappell Roan, Hayley Williams, Charlie XCX & Lorde cited by our crew - with a half naked footballer thrown in for good measure.
To round us off, Tessa establishes her role as the person with the most unhinged wild card choices. Will her pick make it in? Trust us, you’re not ready.
Our intro music is Drop It by Coma-Media (https://pixabay.com/users/comastudio-26079283/).
Want to share your BPE of the week? Email us at hello@bipanicroom.com (mailto:hello@bipanicroom.com) or tag us on instagram @bipanicroom. (instagram.com/bipanicroom)
22 Aug 2024
#2 - The Parent Trap (1998) + Grace's Wildcard Pick
The late naughties version of The Parent Trap (1998) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120783/) throws up all kinds of questions for the gang: Does Lindsay Lohan contractually mandate to always play more than one person? Is Dennis Quaid’s chest hair responsible for an entire’s generation daddy fetish? Has anyone ever been more unhinged and gorgeous than Natasha Richardson in this movie? And is Meredith really a villain or a secret feminist hero?
This week’s BPE picks feature the legendary Gemma Collins (the GC) and divorced women smoking.
Finally, Grace pitches her wild card contender with a passion the others have never seen before. Get ready for lots of talk about hair and cardigans.
Our intro music is Drop It by Coma-Media (https://pixabay.com/users/comastudio-26079283/).
Want to share your BPE of the week? Email us at hello@bipanicroom.com (mailto:hello@bipanicroom.com) or tag us on instagram @bipanicroom. (instagram.com/bipanicroom)
In our inaugural episode we talk about the film that started it all: David Fincher’s timeless masterpiece Panic Room (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258000/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_panic%2520room).
Tessa grudgingly acknowledges Jared Leto’s bisexual vibe, Harry argues for bisexuals against electricity, Charlotte sees the whole thing as a metaphor for the queer experience and Grace christens Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker with an affectionate nickname that rhymes with schmaddy.
We talk about what gave us big Bi-Panic Energy (BPE) this week and Charlotte pitches what is possibly the straightest movie ever made as a wild card contender.
Welcome, bicons. Please join us in the Bi-Panic Room.
Our intro music is Drop It by Coma-Media (https://pixabay.com/users/comastudio-26079283/).
Want to share your BPE of the week? Email us at hello@bipanicroom.com (mailto:hello@bipanicroom.com) or tag us on instagram @bipanicroom. (instagram.com/bipanicroom)
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