19 episodes
Parasocial Activity Celina Siegel, Tess Hotz
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4.5 • 30 Ratings
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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.
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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 -
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
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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
Customer Reviews
Fabulous
It’s a must listen, absolutely changed my life.
I can’t thank these hosts enough for helping me through my tough times💛
A MUST listen
Love love love this podcast! Quippy with great conversation and topics that span all interests!
Unique premise and great conversation!
Tune in for some excellent banter and genuinely funny, inquisitive commentary on a diverse range of topics. Tess and Celina really cast a wide net of the media/cultural landscape so it’s always fun to see what they might pull out of their hats next on each installment. Love the passion they convey for their subjects while always keeping a critical eye!