BOO! Sorry for the scare, but we really need to talk about 2025's best-- and worst-- horror movies. Which scary flicks did we love? Which ones did we wish were never made? And which ones are we looking forward to, because the year is not yet over? Click play and find out, and then drop us a comment and let us know what your favorites are!

You can listen to your host talk in depth about:

React to the Good Boy trailer on It's A Fandom Thing Pod

Heart Eyes on My Streaming Bubble

The Long Walk on Ok Real Quick

Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare on It's A Fandom Thing Pod

Sinners on It's A Fandom Thing Pod

Sinners on My Streaming Bubble (link to be added when that episode is released)

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Let's get nosy this week! On this episode we'll be digging into some stories from Reddit. That's right: the entire episode is a giant Chisme Chorner. The posts for the stories can be found here, here and here.

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You ever watch a movie and think, "Fantastic! Best movie I've seen in a long time! Never show it to me again"? Well, if you have a few minutes, we'd love to talk to you about The Long Walk, the movie adaptation of the novel by Stephen King. We get into the performances by Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson, the movie's parallels to The Hunger Games and to our current world, and why it's important that the movie ended the way it did.

This episode was edited by Jacqueline Basse

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If you were lucky enough to grow up in the 80s and 90s and you lived in the US, you got to enjoy the golden era of the PSA (Public Service Announcement, not Prostate-Specific Antigen. Yes, this is important information). Join your host on this week's episode of Ok Real Quick for a trip down memory lane, and let us know YOUR favorite PSAs!

The article mentioned in the episode can be found here.

This week's Special Segment is Well, Will You Look At That, in which we very briefly touch on The Bear's beautiful cinematography.

This week's episode was edited by Jacqueline J Basse.

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Sometimes you build your FYP brick by brick. Sometimes you get a little help from your friends. This week we talk about the Hamilton trend on TikTok started by @actuallyhamilt0n, Zoe Coyle. You can watch her original tiktok here. To watch the commercial about milk, Hamilton, and Burr, click here.

This week's Special Segment is On My To Be Read Pile, and we discuss the Suzanne Collins book Sunrise On The Reaping.

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Wanna know what the Barbie and the newest Superman movies have in common? It's more than you'd think, and we talk about it on this week's episode.

Listen to the It's A Fandom Thing Pod episode featuring yours truly, in which we discuss the sociopolitical intent and impact of James Gunn's Superman (2025) here.

Read the article from The Mary Sue mentioned here.

This week's Special Segment is On My To Be Read Pile, about the Suzanne Collins book The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes.

Bed Wed or Behead, the podcast that may or may not be dead, idk, ask Meg.

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Sometimes your favorite show will break your heart, and not in a good way. The X-Files' 11th season began with an episode that left me disgusted. So much so that I have never revisited what had been my favorite show for over 20 years. Immediately after the episode aired in 2018 I wrote a blog post detailing what had turned me off the show. Does the blog post hold up? Will revisiting it lead me to feel more comfortable dipping my toe back into the X-Phile life? Join me on this week's episode to find the answers. The truth is out there but also here. As in...in this episode.

TW/CW: Mentions of rape, lack of consent, forced impregnation.

Special Segment: Coming Soon. The 2022 book The Trees by Percival Everett is being adapted into a series and I'm very excited about the casting news!

Link to Deadline article

The Entertainment Weekly article mentioned in the reading of the blog post has been taken down (iiiinteresting) but is referenced here.

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Yeah, whatever, Zack and Kelly. MY heart ships Lisa and Zack --and I'm not alone! This week we talk about the mysteriously disappearing relation between Zack Morris and Lisa Turtle on Saved By The Bell, how racism came between them and viewers, and why Screech is as much trash as Zack.

Link to Clarissa C's video "It Sucks Being The Token Black Girl"

Link to Funny Or Die's video The Time Zack Morris Stabbed Screech In The Back To Hook Up With Lisa

Link to Diversity in Education article.

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