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Ultra Pop Culture

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by Bridget Coulter

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Two culture buffs muse on their favourite pop cultural obsessions. Bringing you hot takes and nerdy theories about film, TV, music, fashion, celebrity culture and more.<hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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June 8, 2026

#8 The Lena Dunham Episode: From Girls to Famesick

Is Lena Dunham the voice of our generation? That's our question for today, as we trace her extraordinary career from her origins as the precocious young writer and director of indie film Tiny Furniture to her award-winning, era-defining HBO show Girls, which brought her instant stardom that quickly turned to notoriety, controversy and a retreat from fame for several years due to chronic illness and addiction issues, as detailed in her explosive new memoir Famesick. In the episode, we talk about the memoir and Dunham's relationships with stars like songwriter Jack Antonoff and her co-star Adam Driver. We also look back at her work, including her previous memoir Not That Kind of Girl and her recent transatlantic romcom Too Much, which starred Megan Stalter and Will Sharpe. Most of all, though, we talk about Girls (2012-2017), the Millennial coming-of-age comedy of manners which brought us iconic characters like Hannah Horvath (played by Dunham), Marnie Michaels (Allison Williams) and Adam Sackler (Adam Driver). We talk about what made the show so relatable for millennials - the grimy, crumbling apartments, soul-sucking jobs, unpaid internships, pretentious hipsters and dead-end relationships. We also discuss what we think made Girls so triggering for a subset of media commentators. Was it the autofiction element, which blurred the boundaries between the show's creator and the self-involved main character Hannah Horvath? Or was the satire, which focused on privileged and pretentious young people, simply too biting for the 2010s, a time when clickbait rage content was just beginning to dominate the discourse. The episode also includes some discussion of Phoebe Maltz Bovy's new book on heterosexual women in pop culture, The Last Straight Woman - in particular, the 'frumpy-but-horny' female stereotype and how this pertains to Dunham's work (and also, surprisingly, The Vicar of Dibley!).<hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

May 19, 2026

#7 Why is the UK so bad at Eurovision?

Last Saturday was the grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2026. All around the world, Eurovision fans tuned in to enjoy glitzy party pop, fiery ballads and theatrical staging. This year we enjoyed an Italian disco wedding (Sal Da Vinci), a Greek man dressed as a cat (Akylas), a somewhat underwhelming silver man from Lithuania (Lion Ceccah) and some very patriotic Moldovans (Satoshi). As is customary, the UK marked the occasion by coming last, receiving just one point for our entry Look Mum No Computer with 'Eins Zwei Drei'. In today's episode we discuss why we think the UK does so badly at Eurovision, addressing some of the established theories (political voting, Britain's perceived unpopularity in Europe, etc.). Most importantly, though, we talk about the music. Why does the UK always seem to hit the wrong notes - both literally and figuratively? Does our famous 'stiff upper lip' make it more difficult for us to channel the over-the-top, camp aesthetic of Eurovision? And should we take the competition more seriously? The episode also includes our definitive 2026 Eurovision debrief. We talk about our favourite entries, low points and our verdict on the winner: 'Bangaranga' by Dara for Bulgaria.<hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

May 7, 2026

#6 Stranger Things - Season 3 (Review)

Today we're talking about Stranger Things Season 3, released in 2019. We discuss the show's pivot from paranoid retro conspiracy thriller to colourful all-American blockbuster, packed with zombie newspaper men, possessed rats and comic Russians. Join us as we talk (amongst many other things) about Steve's sailor suit, shameless product placement and Dacre Montgomery's magnetic performance as the sociopathic - yet strangely captivating - bad boy Billy.<hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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What is Ultra Pop Culture?: Two culture buffs muse on their favourite pop cultural obsessions. Bringing you hot takes and nerdy theories about film, TV, music, fashion, celebrity culture and more.<hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.
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