Buckle in, because it’s a busy one this week! Catch up with what we’re enjoying at the moment, and then listen to us dive into the issues surrounding TV and movie adaptations of recent true crime and celebrity stories, focusing on the way real-life trauma is used, glamorised, and exploited to generate profit by big-name productions such as with Pam and Tommy, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, and Blonde.
Content Warnings
Strong language, and discussions of murder, rape, and death.
Books
The Atlas Paradox by Olivie Blake
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
The Body by Stephen King
Carrie by Stephen King
Queen of Nothing by Holly Black
TV
Sex Lives of College Girls (HBO)
Velma (HBO)
Stranger Things (Netflix)
Shadow and Bone (Netflix)
New Girl (Fox)
Minx (HBO/Paramount)
The Last of Us (HBO)
Pam & Tommy (Hulu)
Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (Netflix)
Blackbird (Apple TV)
Five Days at Memorial (Apple TV)
American Horror Story (FX)
The Ted Bundy Tapes (Netflix)
Chuck (NBC)
Unsolved Mysteries (Netflix)
Peaky Blinders (BBC)
Love and Death (HBO)
Movies
Stand By Me (1986)
Carrie (2013)
The Lost City (2022)
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
Blonde (2022)
Amsterdam (2022)
Shazam! (2019)
Tangled (2010)
Games
Call of Duty
The Last of Us
Fortnite
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