THE 2024 WATCHY AWARDS

Well, this is awkward.....WE'RE BACK!! After a bit of a hiatus, we've returned to catch up and give you all of our burning thoughts on some of the pop culture from 2025! We're also discussing the Oscar nominations and giving out our 2025 Watchy Awards! We're so glad to be back watching up with y'all! Episode Notes 00:00 Life updates/catch up 06:57 Our thoughts on the 2025 movie year 09:07 Oscar nomination reactions 39:20 Our 2025 Watchy Awards (this coversation contains spoilers!)

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! 

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

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) 

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)!

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  

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

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 

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!!

Happy Awards Season to all who celebrate! This week we're recapping the 2024 Golden Globe Awards ceremony! From red carpet looks to audience PDA to monologue bombs, we're dissecting it all! And of course, we go over all of the big winners and losers of the evening, and what we think it all might mean for the rest of Awards Season. Were we happy with the outcomes? Listen to find out!