Wrapping up another year of the Observation Deck pod, Saskia, Rosa, and special guest Nelson share their collective musings on 2025, including their take on Wicked: For Good and other cultural touchstones of the year. Wishing all our listeners a happy holidays! See you in 2026 :)

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12 year olds buying luxury anti-aging serums, 30$ lip treatments as far as the eye can see, and the most overstimulating shopping experience known to man: Sephora has us in a grasp. Saskia and Rosa discuss Sephora tweens and reflect on their own shopping habits at the makeup giant--with a few detours, of course.

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Sister of the pod Anya joins the girlies to talk about the TV series Charmed with plenty of digressions along the way. Discussing sisterhood, Christian morality, and #MeToo, our Charmed Ones traverse the long shadow left in the wake of this girl power witch drama.

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A week full of psychosexual high tea and film festival musings animate Saskia and Rosa’s discussion of North American mall culture. From olfactory memories of the food court to the death of the anchor store, the girlies offer their takes on mall experiences past and present.

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Rosa and Saskia are back from Fall break to talk about their favourite reads of 2025. After catching us up on all of their goings on since last recording, the girlies dive into what they've been reading this year--taking us through the good, the bad, and the ugly of their own reading habits.

For Raspy <3

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Film scholar and friend of the pod Sam Thompson joins the girlies to chat about Letterboxd. Using their own Letterboxd entries from the Amazon Prime original The Map that Leads to You (2025), they discuss Euro summer, the commitments of the romcom genre, and fit it all into the context of (and radical possibilities of) the Letterboxd platform.

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Turn your volume up over the sound of the 17 year cicada brood and dive into Saskia and Rosa’s analysis of this post-feminist critique of late capitalism. Are the girlies lost in the reactionary sauce or exploring a legitimate criticism of corporate America?

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Here’s to the side braid seen all around the world. Rosa and Saskia welcome Jessica Ward to the pod to talk all your favourite YA dystopias past and present.

Jess’ letterboxd watchlist here: https://boxd.it/LMJd0

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