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Episodes
Episode 113: REWIND: The Truth About Jane
Hey y'all! Sarah & Alicia are taking a break this month to enjoy the PNW summer. Please enjoy this REWIND episode of Episode 20: The Truth About Jane from 2018! Ever wonder what Fortune Feimster & Alicia have in common? This film was the first lesbian-centered film they saw, and, needless to say, they were shooketh by its existence. Thanks, Lifetime!
Episode 112: Sally
Hi everyone! This month Alicia and Sarah watched the really amazing 2025 documentary, Sally, about Sally Ride, the first woman to go to space with NASA. She was awesome and complicated and smart and athletic and closed off and she put up with a lot of ridiculous shit. She rules and you should watch this!
Further reading:
Sally Wikipedia page
Sundance interview with director Cristina Costantini by Lucy Spicer
Episode 111: Am I OK?
Happy pride month y'all! This month, Alicia and Sarah are talking about one of Tig's movies that she and a bunch of people are involved in, iykyk. It is called Am I OK? and it stars Dakota Johnson as an anxious lesbian coming out in her 30's. It is also about friendship and personal growth! This is a mixed bag but ultimately, we *are* ok.
Further reading:
Am I OK? Wikipedia page
Autostraddle review b...
Episode 110: In The Summers
Summer is just around the corner, so Alicia and Sarah are talking about the 2024 movie In The Summers which is a very great movie about summers and also family and stuff! Enjoy!
Further Reading: In The Summers Wikipedia page
Episode 109: Signature Move
Hello, we hope you're hanging in there! This week Alicia and Sarah are talking about Fawzia Mirza's really great 2017 film Signature Move, which has lesbians (obvi), mother-daughter relationships, and lucha libre wrestling! It's a very fun time!
Further Reading:
Signature Move Wikipedia page
Episode 108: Puccini for Beginners
Hello! How is everyone hanging in there? Well today Alicia and Sarah talk about the second installment of their Maria Meggenti double feature, the 2006 film Puccini for Beginners. It's very 2006! So if you want to go back in time to when single white lesbians with one failed book under their belt had enough money to live alone in Manhattan and attend the opera, and when lots of things were awf...
Episode 107: The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love
Hello gays and theys! Today Alicia and Sarah are digging into a true 90s classic, The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love, starring pre-L Word Laurel Holloman as a lanky kinda dirtbag-y lesbo in all the classic 90s teen lesbian garb named Randy. Randy is a high school student who lives in a house with three lesbians (one of whom is her aunt), with all...
Episode 106: Sue Bird: In the Clutch
Hi sports gays, and all the other queers! This month Sarah got to talk about sportsball, specifically women's basketball, and boy did they like doing that! This 2024 documentary about WNBA and Seattle Storm legend Sue Bird has it all - drama, triumph, heartbreak, humanity! Alicia confirms that if you are not a basketball girlie this is still a great movie. Hope you enjoy :)
Further reading:
Episode 105: Looking For Her
Happy holigays! We hope you are surviving ok! If you would like a no-stakes cozy holiday romcom, might we suggest 2022's Looking For Her? A cute little predictable Hallmark-y movie that is streaming free on Tubi, it might be just right for holidays 2024. Listen as we break it down and talk about it! Stay safe and warm out there <3
Further reading:
Looking for Her official website
Episode 104: Interview with WHAT A FEELING filmmaker Kat Rohrer for SQFF!
Join Sarah and Alicia as they talk with filmmaker Kat Rohrer as they discuss Kat's film, which was chosen as a feature for the Seattle Queer Film Festival-- WHAT A FEELING!
WHAT A FEELING follows two middle-aged women, Marie Theres (Caroline Peters) and Fa (Proschat Madani), who meet in a lesbian bar one fated evening after Marie Theres' husband breaks up...
Episode 103: Gal Pals Watch - Interview with HEARTSTOPPER's Alice Oseman & Patrick Walters
Happy Halloween listeners! Here is an extra-special minisode TREAT (no tricks here) for you! We had the absolute pleasure of chatting with author, writer, and executive producer Alice Oseman, and her co-executive producer Patrick Walters, about their Netflix adapation of Oseman's HEARTSTOPPER graphic novel series! We talk about LGBTQIA2S...
Episode 102: Wynonna Earp: Vengeance
Hello and welcome to spooky season on Gal Pals Watch! Sarah is a real wimp with scary movies but luckily for them their favorite show Wynonna Earp, which kind of counts as spooky, just released a new movie/special on Tubi. Join Alicia and Sarah as they visit and revisit, respectively, the creepy, cozy, strange, wonderful world of Purgatory :)
Further reading:
AV Club review by Lisa Weidenfel...
Episode 101: Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution
Greetings, gays and theys! Today Alicia and Sarah talk about the very wonderful Netflix documentary about a Netflix special, Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution! This movie covers the making of the 2022 standup comedy special Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration, but it also goes deep into the queer comedy archives and interviews tons of comics and culture writers about the evolution and ups...
Episode 100!!!!
Alicia and special guest Erin (Alicia's better half) discuss a piece of wlw media near and dear to our hearts, Black Mirror's San Junipero! Tune in to listen to a discussion about this fantastic love story, our views on the afterlife, and how good at flirting Erin is.
Episode 99: It's Only Life After All
Hiya gays! Happy Pride! Today Alicia and Sarah talk about the very great 2023 documentary film It's Only Life After All, about none other than musical icons The Indigo Girls. This doc is so full of interesting things! It's the first 2+ hour movie Sarah has enjoyed in years. Enjoy!
Further reading:
It's Only Life After All Wikipedia page
NYT Review by Elisabeth Vincen...
Episode 98: The Carmilla Movie
Hi vampire gays! Today Alicia and Sarah are talking about the 2017 film The Carmilla Movie -- yes, the very one based off of the 2014-16 web series that is very much of its time! It's very queer, and kind of confusing, but who isn't, ya know? Enjoy!
Further Reading:
The Carmilla Movie Wikipedia page
Episode 97: Love Lies Bleeding
Hi guess what! Today Alicia and Sarah are talking about Love Lies Bleeding! Sarah is very excited about it! There is a lot to say! Love you bye!
Further Reading:
Love Lies Bleeding Wikipedia
Autostraddle Article
NYT Article
Episode 96: Blue Jean
Hi queeros! This month Alicia and Sarah are discussing the 2022 British film Blue Jean, which is, in fact, quite blue. Join us as we talk closeted anxiety, how unhinged it is to legislate against queer and trans people, extra bad stereotypes, and also how aesthetic this movie is.
Further Reading:
Blue Jean Wikipedia page
Chicago Reader Review
Los Angeles Times Review
Autostraddle Review
Episode 95: Breaking the Ice
Hello lovely listeners! This month we are back with another International Film: 2022's Austrian sports romance/family drama Breaking the Ice. This one is hard to find and the subtitles leave a little to be desired, but it is a banger, and not just literally! Tune in to listen to Alicia and Sarah talk about how they liked watching hockey in this, and about toxic team dynamics, and also about Ma...
Episode 94: Love, Classified and interview with writer, Lynn Sternberger!
Hello lovelies! This month Alicia and Sarah had the supreme honor of talking to Lynn Sternberger, a very fun and cool Hollywood Writer who wrote today's film! Love, Classified is a lezzy Hallmark movie that is definitely the best thing Hallmark has ever made (biased opinion). We talk to Lynn about the process of writing the movie, what inspired it, ...
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