The Bechdel Cast

This is my comfort show, and the theme song gives me dopamine! Love them, very funny & thoughtful… and definitely has positivity evolved over the HUNDREDS of episodes

Fine. I do enjoy some episodes but they can be very smug despite veering in white feminism tendencies. I also wish they did more research on some of the movies.

This show rules & is all I listen to atm- extremely funny & insightful hosts and guests!!!! I just wanted to air one grievance: I feel that transness & a diversity of gender experience is a huge blind spot for this show. They’re really mindful of bringing on guests who can speak from lived perspective/experience pertaining to race and sexuality, but trans guests (who might talk about gender in a more expansive way than “women & femmes” vibes) are wildly underrepresented. The hosts (one of whom is non-binary so this tracks) very thoughtfully expanded the language of the Bechdel test to include marginalized genders instead of just cis women, so I’m hoping there will be future eps that walk the walk!

Been listening for years & love the show overall. My one wish for improvement: there are def a number of episodes where they clearly hadn’t researched the movie very well but still went overboard trying to find a social justice issue to harp on. I don’t mind those discussions, but it’s hard to give any sense of credibility when you don’t know the movie well enough to discuss v important & nuanced themes. Love when they bring a guest on who knows both well (like the barbershop w queen latifah episode)