Parasocial
Friends and obsessives Eve and Ksenia examine the parasocial relationships that define our weeks, months, and lives. Each episode is a lighthearted yet profound look into the prominent(ish) figures who have been living in our heads rent free and what they can teach us about culture, relationships, and our own selves.
Music by Ewan Fraser
Cover art by Anna Covell
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- Update frequency
- every 36 days
- Average duration
- 61 minutes
- Episodes
- 11
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Everything We Know About Dolly Alderton
pAraSoCial TRaItORs !!!!!!!!!!!!
2024: A year a pop parasocialism
We are really late sorry. The sound is also bad. See this as an incredible overview of an exciting year of people developing parasocial and paranormal relationships. We dive into the occult as well a…
Molly Mae and the Love Island Babes
The nation was left reeling by the shock (or not) break up of Molly Mae Hague and Tommy Fury parents of the unfortunately named Bambi Fury. Eve does not get the Molly Mae hype. She seems boring? But …
A dichotomy: Charli XCX and Taylor Swift part 2 (party girl remix)
The sound is fixed you will all be relieved to know.
365 party girls Eve and Ksenia continue their breathtaking analysis, pitting women against each other. They attempt to mirror XCX's vulnerability …
A dichotomy: Charli XCX and Taylor Swift
SORRY ABOUT THE SOUND. IT WILL NOT HAPPEN AGAIN
A fridge? Swift. A freezer? Charli. Salt? Swift. Pepper? Charli. Kamala? Charli. Hilary? Swift. Need we go on?
In this two part series we compare and co…
2010 Youtubers
This week Ksenia and Eve dive into one of the most influential cultural movements of our time: YOUTUBE of the 2010s. We consider how it shaped how we interact with celebrities now, the idea of an inf…
The Royal Ballet
Despite some fans’ unfortunate determination to turn Ms Swift from Taylor to Gaylor, this week’s episode is the most wholesome yet: from the shores of Saudi Arabia (we promise, it’s all nice and posi…
Julia Fox and being bourgeois-brained
Our new ‘bad parasocial’ segment reveals that parasocial relationships sometimes go too far… 8000 cards too far. But Eve’s admiration for Julia Fox goes just far enough: we touch on autofiction, the …
Patti Smith & more
Eve introduces Ksenia to the most prominent medieval peasant of our times, we discuss boarding school trauma, and Ksenia waxes lyrical about the godmother of punk herself, Patti Smith: tune in for 70…
Katherine Ryan and Ruby Redstone
Call me Mother!
Our first ever episode! We introduce the podcast, explain in detail what ‘parasocial’ means to us, and our fangirling over fashion historian Ruby Redstone and TV/comedy darling Kather…