ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Why We Couldn't Stop Thinking About Off Campus: Garrett Graham and Women's Pleasure
We finished Off Campus, watched it again, and still weren't done talking about it.
In our first-ever episode, we're getting into why a college hockey romance has women from their twenties to their sixties in a chokehold.
We talk about the difference between toxic chemistry and actual chemistry (One Tree Hill, Twilight and Tell Me Lies have a lot to answer for), the sexiest moment of the whole series, which is probably not the one you're thinking of, and why it matters so much that Garrett notices things.
We also get into why emotional safety is hot, and how we all managed to spend two decades being sold the dangerous one who ghosts us instead. We chat about Jules, and what happens when a show trusts its audience instead of always explaining itself.
We explore the trope of the third-act breakup, which is usually so lazy, but this one felt earned. And of course Kierkegaard, because a nineteenth-century Danish philosopher turns out to be the key to understanding a breakup in a hockey stadium car park.
Then there's every millennial reference the showrunner buried in there, from Dirty Dancing to Sixteen Candles to that Friends bathtub scene, plus the indie musicians whose careers this show has quietly changed.
Next week we're talking about film Voicemails to Isabelle. Watch it first, because there will be spoilers.
LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE
- Andrea's Elle Kennedy reading order
- Logan giving the part to the Season 3 lead
- Quote from Star.xo about Kirkeguard
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The credits might have rolled, but the conversation is just getting started.
Podcast edited by Oleksandr Hed: hedz.ny@gmail.com
