The Fangirl Diaries

"Giles has a TV! He's shallow - like us!" Season 4 is ready for a deep-dive and the Scooby Gang have started at UC Sunnydale! Riley is on the scene, Spike's back and Giles is...well, still fired. We chat about The Initiative, Hush, and the introduction of Tara as our Buffy obsession continues...

10-04

54:56

"If you're a bird then I'm a bird too!" Iconic or non-sensical? Either way, we recap some of the most famous quotes, kisses and costumes from 2004's The Notebook. Not a Nicholas Sparks fan? Where WERE you in the 00's? His romance novels and films were the stuff of every millennial's sleepovers...especially ours! Join us on a trip back to Charleston, South Carolina, with Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling as the film celebrates it's 20 year anniversary. God, we're old...

09-12

49:14

Buffy and the Scooby Gang get ready to graduate in Season 3 of the 1999 hit show. We re-cap the season and run through our favourite fights, the best couples, the most shocking moments (Faith and Xander, anyone!?) and try to contain our excitement that Spike is BACK (yes, yes, and Angel...)

08-21

01:25:13

"There you are. I've been looking for you." It's....ACOTAR! And we're coming at this from a slightly different angle this week. One the one hand, we have Alicia, the mega-fan, future wife of Rhysand and Sarah J Maas devotee. On the other, we have Maddie who has...let's just say...mixed opinions about all things Prythian. We talk Tamlin, Amarantha, TV adaptations and try to ensure Maddie gets on the bandwagon for Mist and Fury!

08-06

01:09:12

You jump, I jump, remember? And remember we do! Today's podcast topic is James Cameron's 1997 'Titanic'. THE masochistic sleepover movie for all of us in the late 90s. Coming up to 30 years since its release, we recap The Hand Print, iconic red-heads, and debate how there was ENOUGH ROOM ON THAT DOOR FOR TWO!!

07-09

01:11:37

Special guest episode! You wouldn't have thought it but we have an even BIGGER Swiftie in our midst - Maddie's husband, Ben! Together we deconstruct the Eras tour, revisit when we first fell in love with Taylor and, of course, round up our favourite outfits...

06-24

01:22:36

In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons...she is the SLAYER! Was there ever a cooler show?! Not if you were a kid in the 90s and a teen in the 00s. Buffy is too iconic for us to possibly cover all seven seasons in 1 episode so this is the first of our Buffy specials...covering S1/S2 which gave us The Master, Ms Calendar, Cordi, and DRU!!!! *Spoilers throughout*

06-11

01:31:40

In anticipation of our upcoming Buffy, True Blood and Vampire Diaries episodes, we thought our favourite mythical creatures deserved a bit of a prologue....! We explore the origins of Vampire lore and what it was about the late 2000s that saw Vamp Lit/Films/TV explode in teen culture. Of course, we need to spend some time admiring Edward Cullen, Damon Salvatore, Angel, Spike and more....

06-05

37:33

Maddie and Alicia react to the full length trailer for the Wicked movie... Will it be Popular or Not that Girl?

05-27

15:29

"You GO Glen Coco!!" Excuse us but who hasn't seen this movie? Anyone?! Mean Girls (2004) is THE satirical teen comedy and it hasn't been bettered in 20 (yes that's 20!) years.... We just have alot of feeeelings about The Plastics, Gretchen Wieners, Kevin G and The North Shore Winter Talent Show in everyone's second-favourite Lindsay Lohan vehicle. "She's doesn't even go here...."

05-23

59:22

Dauntless, the Fringe, the "pure"...it's everyone's favourite Theo James vehicle: Veronica Roth's 'Divergent'. Join us for a chat about its place in the YA canon, our agreed reverence for Shailene Woodley's performance and the perpetual mystery of why Kate Winslet agreed to do these movies. Ultimately, our opinions may start to diverge but hey...that's the point, right?!

05-14

57:13

We're back! And here to kick off Season Two with a deep-dive in to the Denis Villeneuve films from the Dune franchise. If you've not seem them (what are you doing?!?) Please note there are spoilers as we discuss Timothée Chalamet in a cloak, Jason Momoa on fine fighting form and Florence Pugh slaying in every outfit they put her in....

04-23

01:24:05

It's our Season Finale! And what better way to mark the end of the first season of The Fangirl Diaries than by talking for 90 minutes about the most EPIC move of all time - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Join us, Merry, Pippin, Aragorn, Gandalf, Frodo, Sam and the whole gang in the epic conclusion to Peter Jackson's trilogy. Is this the greatest movie of all time? If you judge by how often Maddie cries, then yes. Yes it is.

03-07

01:27:49

Cadets, welcome (back) to Basgiath. Yes, it's our Iron Flame episode! We loved it, BUT we may have some notes... In today's episode we chat through a whole new host of characters and locations, runes, gryphons, and the fact we want to knock Xaden and Violet's heads together!

02-24

01:09:36

Captain Oats, Chrismukkah, the Pool House ... welcome to the OC b*itch! This 2003 - 2007 show takes us back to poker-straight hair, The Killers, and Harbor High School. Before Gossip Girl, this was our mid-2000s teen drama of choice. Anyone else?