50 episodes

Pop culture is everywhere. But it's also a lot. If you need help making sense of like, everything in your feed, Beverley Wang is here to help. Every episode, Beverley and a special guest sort through the latest hot takes and Internet discourse to help you understand how pop culture reflects your world.

Want to know which new releases to watch or skip, which long reads to share with your group chat and which podcasts to follow? Stop Everything's got you.

New Podcast ep every Thursday.

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    • Society & Culture

Pop culture is everywhere. But it's also a lot. If you need help making sense of like, everything in your feed, Beverley Wang is here to help. Every episode, Beverley and a special guest sort through the latest hot takes and Internet discourse to help you understand how pop culture reflects your world.

Want to know which new releases to watch or skip, which long reads to share with your group chat and which podcasts to follow? Stop Everything's got you.

New Podcast ep every Thursday.

    Baby Reindeer + Piers Morgan = mess

    Baby Reindeer + Piers Morgan = mess

    British broadcaster Piers Morgan has become a main character in the aftermath of the Internet sleuthing around Netflix's Baby Reindeer. What the heck is going on?

    Guest critic and ABC entertainment reporter Jared Richards is in to help us figure it out.

    And we're also talking about TikTok content – from the cringe to the heartwarming.

    • 34 min
    Prepare to be horny for Bridgerton season 3

    Prepare to be horny for Bridgerton season 3

    Dearest Gentle Listeners, the third season of Netflix's Bridgerton is upon us and it's heaving with bosoms, babes and romantic intrigue.

    Series leads Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) and Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) are glowed up and loved up, but *spoiler alert* major twists are on the horizon.

    Stop Everything! romance correspondent Rudi Bremer is in to guide you through it all.

    • 34 min
    Falling short with the Guilty Feminist

    Falling short with the Guilty Feminist

    Deborah Frances-White host of the hit podcast The Guilty Feminist unpacks unattainable perfection, ageing and spills the tea on the Netflix series Baby Reindeer.

    Plus Barbara Streisand's Ozempic post and the algorithms that are serving up outrage.

    • 30 min
    HBO's The Sympathizer has an Aussie star!

    HBO's The Sympathizer has an Aussie star!

    Vietnamese-Australian actor Hoa Xuande is breaking into Hollywood's big league as the star of HBO's The Sympathizer, a limited series based on Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer-prize winning novel.

    Hoa is Stop Everything's special guest, and he's taking us behind the scenes of this A24-produced series, telling us about how he landed this huge role, and what it was like to act opposite heavyweights like Robert Downey Jr. and Sandra Oh.

    • 27 min
    How sci fi and superheroes help us dream of better futures

    How sci fi and superheroes help us dream of better futures

    How do Star Trek: The Next Generation and all the other Star Trek spin off series give us hope for the future? Guest Critic Steven Oliver shares how pop culture passions for sci fi and superheroes have helped sustain him through tough times.

    BW also shares a glimpse into her nerdy teenage past; and stick around to the end of the episode for Steven's surprise spoken word performance.

    • 30 min
    Have you got White Fever?

    Have you got White Fever?

    New ABC comedy series White Fever follows Jane Thomas, a woman trying to cure her fetish for hairy white men while simultaneously processing the emotional and psychological impact of being a Korean transracial adoptee.

    Ra Chapman, White Fever's creator and star, is this episode's guest critic and she's in to talk about everything from growing up Asian in a white family to … sex dolls.

    • 34 min

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