Material Girls

Hey Halloween kids! We’re back recapping the penultimate episode of The Vampire Lestat. (The greeting will make sense when you listen).How are we? Not well! Hannah, Gaby, and Zoe dig into a particularly chaotic episode featuring big rom-com energy (kinda), a very disturbing seance, and an ending scene that made our heads spin. Normal stuff with the television show we watch for fun!We’ll be back next week to discuss the FINALE of The Vampire Lestat.Music Credits:“Shopping Mall”: by Jay Arner and Jessica Delisle ©2020Used by permission. All rights reserved. As recorded by Auto Syndicate on the album “Bongo Dance”.

Welcome back to the Vampire PodCAST, this time with 100% more Marcelle!Zoe is away this week, so Marcelle joins Hannah and Gaby to discuss the antepenultimate episode of The Vampire Lestat, "New York." They unpack the new album Lestat is recording, our first impressions of Akasha, the most normal vampire in America (Louis de Pointe du Lac), and dig into whatever is going on with Armand and Daniel.They also pour one out for Patrick from Schitt's Creek. It's literally fine, he's on his way to meet David Rose as we speak.We'll be back next week to discuss the penultimate episode, "Montreal."Music Credits:“Shopping Mall”: by Jay Arner and Jessica Delisle ©2020Used by permission. All rights reserved. As recorded by Auto Syndicate on the album “Bongo Dance”.

Welcome back to The Vampire PodCAST! We're taking a trip along the Devil's Road (also known as Albany, NY) to discuss Armand's apology tour; Lestat in pigtails; and Louis' "secret third thing" relationship with Claudia's lookalike, Regina. The torment nexus is spinning, folks!We'll be back next week to talk all about episode 5 of The Vampire Lestat, New York.Music Credits:“Shopping Mall”: by Jay Arner and Jessica Delisle ©2020Used by permission. All rights reserved. As recorded by Auto Syndicate on the album “Bongo Dance”.

Note: this episode contains spoilers for the movie Obsession!This week, we’re bringing you an episode you’re gonna be absolutely OBSESSED with (wink wink). In this episode, Marcelle and Hannah dig deep into the extremely zeitgeisty horror film Obsession (2026, dir. Curry Barker). Marcelle walks us through the movie’s explosive popularity, its complicated ideas of consent, and the complexity of the horror genre’s treatment of gender and setting. By examining the movie through the lens of “incel horror,” they examine the film’s treatment of masculinity and the anxieties surrounding contemporary romantic relationships.Related listening:Spare x Tender MasculinityGet Out x Horrifying WhitenessBook 6, Ep. 3 | Rape CultureWorks Cited:Barasch, Alex. “The Twenty-Six-Year-Old Behind ‘Obsession,’ a Terrifying Tale of a Crush Gone Awry.” The New Yorker. May 11, 2026. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/the-twenty-six-year-old-behind-obsession-a-terrifying-tale-of-a-crush-gone-awry. Accessed June 25 2026.Cieslik, Emma. “‘Obsession’ and the Rise of Incel Horror: When Men’s Entitlement Becomes the Monster.” Ms. Magazine. June 4, 2026. https://msmagazine.com/2026/06/04/obsession-incel-horror/. Accessed June 25 2026.Clover, Carol J. “Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film.” Representations, no. 20 (Autumn 1987): 187–228. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2928507.Eqbal, Amelia. “Are Movie Audiences Smart Enough to Appreciate Obsession’s Incel Horror Message?.” CBC. June 5, 2026. https://www.cbc.ca/arts/commotion/are-movie-audiences-smart-enough-to-appreciate-obsessions-incel-horror-message-9.7224800. Accessed June 25 2026Hamedy, Saba, and Greg Rosenstein. “How an Indie Horror Film Became a Box-Office ‘Obsession.’” NBC News. May 25, 2026. https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/obsession-curry-barker-box-office-hit-focus-features-rcna346824. Accessed June 25 2026.Tudor, Andrew. “Why Horror? The Peculiar Pleasures of a Popular Genre.” Horror, The Film Reader, edited by Mark Jancovich, Routledge, 2001, pp. 47–55.***To learn more about Material Girls, head to our Instagram at instagram.com/ohwitchplease! Or check out our website ohwitchplease.ca. We'll be back next week with a Material Concerns episode!Material Girls is a show that makes sense of the zeitgeist through materialist critique* and critical theory! Each episode looks at a unique object of study (something popular now or from back in the day) and over the course of three distinct segments, Hannah and Marcelle apply their academic expertise to the topic at hand.*Materialist Critique is, at its simplest possible level, a form of cultural critique – that is, scholarly engagement with a cultural text of some kind – that is interested in modes of production, moments of reception, and the historical and ideological contexts for both.Music Credits:“Shopping Mall”: by Jay Arner and Jessica Delisle ©2020Used by permission. All rights reserved. As recorded by Auto Syndicate on the album “Bongo Dance”.

Content warning: this episode contains discussions of sexual assault throughout.We're back with a brand new episode of The Vampire Podcast, recapping episode 3 of The Vampire Lestat: Toronto!In this episode, Hannah, Zoe, and Gaby dig into three main storylines: Lestat and his first love, Nicky; Lestat's turning; and Louis' quest to find the leader of the Fang Gang (ugh). Hannah and Zoe also give Gaby a Canadian city pronunciation lesson, which is very important.We’ll be back next week to talk all about episode 4, The Devil's Road.Music Credits:“Shopping Mall”: by Jay Arner and Jessica Delisle ©2020Used by permission. All rights reserved. As recorded by Auto Syndicate on the album “Bongo Dance”.

Welcome back to our final Material Concerns before SUMMER BREAK! Coach is back and she brought Zoe and Gaby with her! Join us for a conversation that includes a lot of interruptions, a very long check-in and a hot tip for removable wallpaper you might like.Support Material GirlsTo learn more about the show, head to our Instagram at instagram.com/ohwitchplease! Or check out our website ohwitchplease.ca (you can also find transcripts here!). You can gift a Patreon subscription at this link: https://www.patreon.com/ohwitchplease/gift!Music Credits:“Shopping Mall”: by Jay Arner and Jessica Delisle ©2020Used by permission. All rights reserved. As recorded by Auto Syndicate on the album “Bongo Dance”.

Welcome back to The Vampire PodCAST! This week we’re going on an Oedipal journey, so buckle up. Hannah, Zoe, and Gaby dig into episode 2 of the Vampire Lestat and discuss the "complicated" relationship between Lestat and his mother, Louis and Lestat’s reunion, and Louis and Daniel’s first time meeting face-to-face after Daniel published his book. They also talk a lot about wigs and Baudelaire.We’ll be back next week to talk all about episode 3.Music Credits:“Shopping Mall”: by Jay Arner and Jessica Delisle ©2020Used by permission. All rights reserved. As recorded by Auto Syndicate on the album “Bongo Dance”.

We can show you the world…of the pervasive colonialism in nostalgic Disney movies! In this episode, Marcelle and Hannah talk all about the Disney classic Aladdin. With the help of Abdul JanMohamed’s manichean allegory—an aspect of Orientalist literature—Marcelle leads us through a conversation that digs into the history of the “Disney vault,” the American values implicit in the movie, the relationship between exploitation and representation, and much, much more!Whether you remember renting the movie on VHS from your local video store or you first watched Aladdin on streaming, this episode is for you.Related listening:Pirates of the Caribbean x American ExceptionalismBarbie x Petro-CapitalismSweet Potato Fries x Food ImperialismWitch, Please: Book 1, Ep. 2 | OrientalismWorks Cited:“Aladdin (1992 Disney Film).” Wikipedia. 2 June 2026. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin_(1992_Disney_film)#. Accessed 3 June 2026. Cunningham, Andrew. “The Ultimate Collectors Guide To Disney VHS Tapes.” Our Departure Board. March 20, 2025. https://www.ourdepartureboard.com/blog/disney-vhs-ultimate-guide. Accessed 3 June 2026.“Disney Vault.” Wikipedia. 23 April 2026. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Vault. Accessed 3 June 2026.JanMohamed, Abdul R. “The Economy of Manichean Allegory: The Function of Racial Difference in Colonialist Literature.” Critical Inquiry 12, no. 1 (1985): 59–87. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1343462.Said, Edward. Orientalism. Vintage, 1979.“VHS.” Wikipedia. 2 June 2026. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHS. Accessed 3 June 2026.***To learn more about Material Girls, head to our Instagram at instagram.com/ohwitchplease! Or check out our website ohwitchplease.ca. We'll be back next week with a Material Concerns episode!Material Girls is a show that makes sense of the zeitgeist through materialist critique* and critical theory! Each episode looks at a unique object of study (something popular now or from back in the day) and over the course of three distinct segments, Hannah and Marcelle apply their academic expertise to the topic at hand.*Materialist Critique is, at its simplest possible level, a form of cultural critique – that is, scholarly engagement with a cultural text of some kind – that is interested in modes of production, moments of reception, and the historical and ideological contexts for both.Music Credits:“Shopping Mall”: by Jay Arner and Jessica Delisle ©2020Used by permission. All rights reserved. As recorded by Auto Syndicate on the album “Bongo Dance”.

The first episode of The Vampire Lestat premiered last week, so the first REAL episode of The Vampire PodCAST is out and ready to rock!Hannah, Gaby, and Zoe dig their fangs into the season premiere of The Vampire Lestat, "Detroit." They cover everything from their favorite line reads, their least favorite lyrics, the logistics of elevator orgies, and much more! We'll be back next week to talk all about Episode 2!Music Credits:“Shopping Mall”: by Jay Arner and Jessica Delisle ©2020Used by permission. All rights reserved. As recorded by Auto Syndicate on the album “Bongo Dance”.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.