Parasocial Activity

Celina Siegel, Tess Hotz
  • 4.5 (30)
  • TV & FILM
  • UPDATED BIWEEKLY

Do you like friendship? Do you like media? You’ll love Tess and Celina’s cutting-edge deep dives on the following topics: movies, TV, musicals, TV musicals, movie musicals, books, book adaptations, music, celebrities, TV celebrities, movie celebrities, and Fran Drescher. Every other Thursday! @parasocialactivitypod on Instagram and TikTok.

  1. 05/27/2022

    Bad Tropes

    A definitive list of the 7 worst bad tropes in media, and the 3 best bad tropes in media.  Spoilers for: Inside Out, My Girl, Hereditary, Strangers Things s3, Gilmore Girls, The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han, One Day by David Nicholls, Mockingjay, Romeo and Juliet, Sex Education s3, The 100, The Guest List, The Sanatorium, The Woman in Cabin 10, One by One, The Woman in the Window (2021), Life as We Know It (2010), Love Hard (2021) Hosted by Celina Siegel & Tess Hotz Edited by Tess Hotz Theme song by Sam Walters Cover art by Celina Siegel

    1h 21m

  2. 05/07/2022

    Murder Mystery Book Club

    We revisit the hallowed ground of the Clue mansion to discuss Celina's favorite kind of mystery novel: the closed circle of suspects murder mystery. Many many spoilers ahead—listen at your own risk, or better yet come back after you've read everything on the spoiler list (except for Nine Perfect Strangers. That book was bad). Spoilers: And Then There Were None (book & 2015 miniseries), The Guest List, The Hunting Party, One by One, Nine Perfect Strangers  CW: Sexual assault, racial slurs Hosted by Celina Siegel & Tess Hotz Edited by Celina Siegel & Tess Hotz Theme song by Sam Walters Cover art by Celina Siegel

    1h 23m

  3. 04/21/2022

    Bill Wurtz (w/Sam Walters)

    Do you like to wear pants? Do you love to fly planes? Bill Wurtz asks the important questions about pants and planes, and we ask the important questions about Bill Wurtz.  Celina's roommate (and composer of the theme song, and namer of this show) makes his long-awaited debut to tell us more than we ever knew we needed to know about his hero, the internet's sincerest musical memer.  Hosted by Celina Siegel & Tess Hotz Edited by Celina Siegel Theme song by Sam Walters Cover art by Celina Siegel

    1h 35m

  4. 02/24/2022

    Icarus

    We talk about the many allusions to the myth of Icarus in pop culture, and why everyone is referencing him for the wrong reasons.  Spoilers for: Terminator 2 Hosted by Celina Siegel & Tess Hotz Edited by Tess Hotz Theme song by Sam Walters Cover art by Celina Siegel

    1h 9m

  5. 02/10/2022

    Clue

    Come for the trivia. Stay for the DEAD-ON character impressions (get it??).  Spoilers for: Clue, Knives Out Hosted by Celina Siegel & Tess Hotz Edited by Celina Siegel Theme song by Sam Walters Cover art by Celina Siegel

    1h 32m

  6. 01/27/2022

    NFTs

    What is art? What is money? What’s the point of “owning” art? Tess forces Celina to learn about NFTs and Celina loves every second of it! Spoilers for: Doctor Who (Series 7) Hosted by Celina Siegel & Tess Hotz Edited by Tess Hotz Theme song by Sam Walters Cover art by Celina Siegel

    1h 7m

  7. 01/13/2022

    Keanu Reeves (w/Emma Nash)

    Parasocial Activity welcomes its first-ever guest, Keanu Reeves scholar Emma Nash! Gather round as she waxes poetic on the timelessness of My Own Private Idaho, the romanticism of Speed, and the unstable selfhood Keanu consistently portrays so well. Stay til the end for some bonus takes on Supernatural.  Spoilers for: My Own Private Idaho, Point Break, John Wick, The Fast and the Furious, The Matrix, Something's Gotta Give, River's Edge, Permanent Record CW: sexual assault, suicide, murder, porn Hosted by Celina Siegel & Tess Hotz Edited by Celina Siegel & Tess Hotz Theme song by Sam Walters Cover art by Celina Siegel

    1h 42m

  8. 12/30/2021

    Stephen Sondheim's Evening Primrose

    Do you like musicals? Do you like people who pretend to be mannequins? Then you'll probably like Evening Primrose, Stephen Sondheim's 1966 made-for-TV musical that basically plays like a Twilight Zone episode with singing. Join us as we honor the master by discussing his weirdest project of all. Spoilers for: Evening Primrose, Psycho, The Sound of Music Hosted by Celina Siegel & Tess Hotz Edited by Celina Siegel Theme song by Sam Walters Cover art by Celina Siegel

    1h 28m
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Do you like friendship? Do you like media? You’ll love Tess and Celina’s cutting-edge deep dives on the following topics: movies, TV, musicals, TV musicals, movie musicals, books, book adaptations, music, celebrities, TV celebrities, movie celebrities, and Fran Drescher. Every other Thursday! @parasocialactivitypod on Instagram and TikTok.

Information

  • Creator
    Celina Siegel, Tess Hotz
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2022
  • Episodes
    19
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2022 Parasocial Activity
  • Show Website
    Parasocial Activity