Episodes

  • 2025 OSCAR PREDICTIONS!
    Feb 28 2025

    Once again the Oscars are upon us! The 97th Annual Academy Awards will be held this Sunday, March 2 - and it has been a very twisty awards season! Without very much confidence, we are back to make our official predictions for the winners of the big show. Listen along and let us know what you agree or disagree with! Thanks for listening!

    *some of the categories (ie all the shorts and documentaries) we are very much blindly guessing ;) skip ahead 10 minutes if you want to hear our educated predictions!

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    45 mins
  • THE 2024 WATCHY AWARDS
    Jan 1 2025

    We're back to wrap up the year with our Second Annual Watchy Awards! We've watched and watched and watched this year, and now it's time for our final verdicts. Listen along as we count down 5 categories and our winners from each. Thank you for listening all year long, there's more to come in 2025. Happy New Year!

    Episode Notes

    00:00 Introducing the Watchy Awards

    03:30 Best TV Show

    10:40 Best Theater Experience

    17:50 Best First Time Watch

    28:30 Best Performance

    38:00 Top 5 Films of the year

    1:12:00 Honorable Mentions (top 10)

    1:21:20 Worst Movies of the Year

    1:25:10 Pop Culture Honorable Mentions

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    1 hr and 31 mins
  • TWISTERS SISTERS!!! Summer Catch-up Extravaganza!!
    Aug 7 2024

    After a long summer's nap, we're back to yap! Welcome back to Watching Up with a much needed catch-up episode where we're discussing our summer travels, all the things we've been watching, as well as some hot pop culture takes! Thanks for listening, we're glad you're here!

    Episode Notes:

    0:00 - Our trip to LA and accepting our Academy Awards

    8:40 - Our LA Vanderpump tour & Rachel's first Vanderpump Rules watch

    15:15 - Presumed Innocent (Apple TV+, spoiler free)

    20:30 - Big Brother S26 (CBS & Paramount +)

    22:30 - Love Island USA (Peacock)

    24:30 - The Bachelorette (ABC)

    37:40 - Twisters (2024)

    52:50 - Longlegs (2024)

    1:01:30 - MaXXXine (2024)

    1:03:55 - Fly Me to the Moon (2024)

    1:07:00 - Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

    1:09:45 - Michelle & Rachel's MCU Corner (RDJ and Marvel News)

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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • 'CHALLENGERS' IS HERE!!
    May 2 2024

    We're back and we're THIRSTY! This week, we've dedicated an entire episode to Luca Guadagnino's sexy, sweaty, thigh-centric new film, CHALLENGERS! Gird your loins because we're breaking down all of our favorite parts of the movie and why we think it's worth the hype! We also pick the first film year we'll be covering in our revamped Watching Up segment. Thanks for listening!

    NOTE: THIS EPISODE CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE FILM CHALLENGERS (2024)!

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    35 mins
  • Dune: Part Two and COWBOY CARTER!
    Apr 12 2024

    The art gods have smiled upon us in 2024 and we have SO MUCH to catch up on. In this long awaited episode, we break down two of the biggest releases of the year so far, Denis Villenueve's Dune: Part Two and Beyonce's act ii COWBOY CARTER! We also chat about a bunch of other movies we've been watching. Interested in fire alarms during film screenings? How about Kristen Stewart's evolution? Dev Patel kicking ass? We've got something for everyone. We're glad to be back! Thanks for listening.

    Episode Notes:

    6:00 Dune: Part Two

    16:00 Wonka

    18:40 COWBOY CARTER

    33:20 Love Lies Bleeding

    35:40 Immaculate

    39:20 Monkey Man

    42:40 Steve! (Martin) A Documentary in 2 Pieces

    46:20 What's next with Watching Up

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    50 mins
  • OUR 2024 OSCAR PREDICTIONS!!
    Feb 29 2024

    The Oscars are have been slowly inching closer and closer and now they're LESS THAN A FORTNIGHT away! In this ep, we're breaking down our thoughts on recent awards ceremonies, the SAG Awards and Indie Spirit Awards! Then, the time has finally come for us to lock in our final predictions for all 23 Oscar categories! Listen along to see who we're picking to take home the gold!! Enjoy!

    Episode Notes:

    7:28 SAG Awards Recap

    14:17 Indie Spirits Recap

    18:50 Oscar Predictions

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    51 mins
  • ONE YEAR OF WATCHING UP !!!
    Feb 9 2024

    Listen along as we celebrate our first year of podding with an episode full of BS. In this free-flowing episode we discuss our lives, The best GRAMMYS telecast in awhile (including if we think the tide has turned on the era of TSwift), The Traitors S2 (Phaedra Parks supremacy), True Detective Night Country (can't tell if it is good or not), and The Bachelor (plus a guest appearance from the pod husband, Neek). Thanks for listening...for a whole year! Love ya! xoxoxo

    Episode Notes:

    6:45 The GRAMMYS

    34:15 The Traitors S2

    43:30 True Detective Night Country

    47:50 The Bachelor, Joey

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    57 mins
  • 2024 Oscar Nominations!!!
    Jan 26 2024

    NEVERTHELESS TOM CRUISE PERSISTS!!!! Well, the nominees have been announced and as always everyone is being super normal about it. Here are the opinions you've been waiting to hear as we discuss all the snubs, victories, and lingering question marks! Grab your headphones Barbie girls. Thanks for listening!!

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    50 mins