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Episode 3: Women Don't Have to Be Pretty, Especially When They Are Green

Updated: Oct 27, 2022


This week we talk about the iconic fictional women who shaped us when we were growing up, and those we look up to now.



Shows:

Irma Vep – HBO Original drama series from the world of movies

Santa Clarita Diet — Netflix comedy series featuring an undead Drew Barrymore trying to maintain her domestic Californian lifestyle

Stranger Things – a Netflix horror/thriller show set in the 80s

The X Files — a sci-fi TV show that started in the 90s

Buffy the Vampire Slayer – a supernatural TV show from the late 90s and early 2000s

Charmed – TV show from the late 90s and early 2000s about three sisters who are witches fighting demons

The Vampire Diaries — a CW supernatural TV series that ended in 2017

Doctor Who — an ongoing BBC show featuring travel through time and space

Killing Eve – a queer drama/thriller BBC series focused on assassins and MI5

Quantico — a crime drama focused around FBI training

Castle — a crime comedy-drama show that finished airing in 2016

The Librarians — a series following the story of Flynn Carsen movies about group of Librarians and their adventures

Once Upon a Time — an ABC fantasy TV series based off well-known fairytales

WandaVision — a Marvel show focusing on Scarlet Witch and Vision

Heartstopper – a new queer teen show on Netflix based on the books of the same name

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A Discovery of Witches — a fantasy series based on the All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness

Legion — a show based on Marvel Comic book hero Legion

The 100 — a CW sci-fi drama series based on the books of the same name by Kass Morgan

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier — a Marvel series surrounding the superheroes of the same name

She Hulk — a Marvel show about Hulk's cousin Jennifer Walters coming out this year on Disney plus



Movies:

How to Train Your Dragon 2 – second movie in the How to Train Your Dragon animated trilogy by Dreamworks about vikings and dragons

Jojo Rabbit — a satirical World War II movie directed and created by Taika Waititi, based on the book Caging Skies by Christine Leunens

Scream — a slasher horror directed by Wes Craven

Scooby Doo — a live action remake of the popular children's series following Mystery Inc. and their not-so-paranormal encounters

The Swan Princess – an animated fairy tale based on the story of The Swan Lake

Peter Pan — the animated Disney adaptation of J.M. Barrie’s children's books

Princess Mononoke — an animated adventure fantasy movie from Studio Ghibli about forest gods

Little Women — a period drama adapted from the classic book of the same name by Louisa May Alcott

Lara Croft — an action/adventure adapted from the Tomb Raider video games, featuring Angelina Jolie

Robin Hood — a BBC adaptation based on the hero of Nottingham Forest

The Mummy — an action/adventure starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz battling with an undead spirit in Egypt

The Lost City — a 2022 adventure romance starring Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum

Indiana Jones — an action/adventure franchise starring Harrison Ford

The Librarian — adventure movies about Librarian Flynn Carsen whose task it is to find and protect lost magical artifacts

Pirates of the Caribbean — a Disney saga following Johnny Depp’s role as Captain Jack Sparrow

Beauty and the Beast — a Disney animation based on the 1740 fairytale, La Belle et la Bete by Gabrielle Barbot de Villeneuve

Doctor Strange of Multiverse of Madness — a Marvel movie following the story of Doctor Strange and Scarlet Witch after the opening of Multiverses

Spider-Man: No Way Home — a third Marvel/Sony movie about Tom Holland's Spider-Man

Captain Marvel — a Marvel movie set in the 90s introducing the character of Captain Marvel



Books:

Always You by Samantha Young — adult contemporary romantic suspense

Much Ado About You by Samantha Young — adult contemporary romance

The Fine Print by Lauren Asher — adult contemporary romance

The Witchery by S. Isabelle — YA fantasy

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscard Wild — classic fiction

Count Your Lucky Stars by Alexandrie Bellefleur — sapphic adult contemporary romcom

Billie Piper: The Biography — Rachel’s gay awakening

Little Women by Lousia May — classic fiction

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas — new adult fantasy


Other:

Lara Croft game — action/adventure



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