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