Sad Girl Syllabus
A commentary on media through the ages by two girls, too sad.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 73 minutes
- Episodes
- 39
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2022
Vibe Check: The Astrology of 2023 with Erin Redwing
Sad Girl Syllabus is back with an end-of-the-year special with astrologer Erin Redwing of Planet IX Astrology. Erin joins us for a conversation about astrology, her spiritual journey, and her predict…
Say 'I want to go to the World's Fair' 3 times fast
The finale of our spooky anniversary season is here! Just in time for Halloween, the Sad Girls are discussing two internet-centered films, Pulse (2006) and We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (2021),…
Men of Candy
As Halloween creeps closer, Bethany and Mary invoke spirits and monsters while discussing folk horror in the Candyman films (1992 & 2021) and The Skeleton Key (2005). Each film approaches the legacy …
Noisy Spirits
This week the Sad Girls scare themselves. Bethany and Mary watched The Ring (2002) and Poltergeist (1982) so you don’t have to! Tune in for our takes on both films, the way they draw on folklore, and…
The Sad Bitch Project
The Sad Bitch Project
In October of 2022, two podcasters disappeared into the woods while recording a podcast…
The Wicker Men
Welcome to the most wonderful time of the year, listeners! We’re celebrating the best way we know how, by talking about horror movies. But not just any kind of horror, we’re delving into folk horror …
Hostile Hostel Holidays
In the last leg of Sad Girls Abroad, Bethany and Mary discuss the turn to horror in the movies Hostel and Midsommar. What’s an American to do when they run into an ancient European cult? The girls di…
Dickie Greenleaf Must D¡e
This week the Sad Girls are watching the genre-defining summer holidaze film The Talented Mr. Ripley. Bethany and Mary discuss all the reasons why this is the best expression of “Americans Abroad,” t…
Dakota Johnson and the Endless European Holiday
The Sad Girls stay in the sun as moods get darker in Luca Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash. Bethany and Mary discuss the film’s rising (sexual) tensions, refugees and xenophobia, and confronting the vill…
The Lost Sad Girls
Something about the hot sun, the endless hours on the beach that makes the European Holiday take a turn… This week Bethany and Mary discuss Elena Ferrante’s “The Lost Daughter,” an iconic beach read …
Call Me by Your Pod
Sad Girl Syllabus is spending their sixth season abroad. Following the trope of Americans abroad in Europe for a summer vacation, the season begins with the sweet and sweaty, and quickly turns into s…
Extra Credit with Compound Butter: Food for Thought
The girls sat down with Jaya and Jessie Nicely, founders of Compound Butter magazine to talk about our favorite subject: food! We ponder the mutual influence of food on culture and culture on food. T…
2 FAST 2 FLAGELLATE
For the final episode of season 5, Bethany and Mary continue to explore the connection between food and spirituality by talking about… not eating. They discuss fasting and asceticism, the phenomenon …
Forbidden Mushrooms
Things get metaphysical as Mary and Bethany discuss ancient food cults, alternative theories about Early Christianity, cannibalism and spirituality, and more.
Books discussed:
A Salad Bar of Cults
In this episode, Sad Girl Syllabus explore the dark side of food and spirituality, namely poison and cults. From the Heaven’s Gate poisoned pudding to the Rajneeshee poisoned salad bars to the dark u…
Girls, Greenjuice, and Goop
The connection between food and spirituality is the topic of the new season of SGS, and the girls kick things off with a conversation about influential lifestyle brand GOOP. Cleanse culture, wellness…
Extra Credit: CottageGirl Boss
In this extra credit episode, Bethany and Mary discuss the new cottagecore bonanza lifestyle store, Six Bells, and its creator Audrey Gelman’s trajectory from The Wing girlboss to cottagecore purveyo…
Girlboss Interlude: The Dropout Pt. 2
Welcome to the finale of Girlboss Interlude! And the finale of Hulu's The Dropout! Watch along with us as we finish our journey with the one girlboss to rule them all, Elizabeth Holmes. And we have s…
Girlboss Interlude: Hustlers
The Sad Girls get into it with Hustlers (2019) starring Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu and based on the true story as reported by the one and only Jessica Pressler in 2015. Bethany and Mary discuss …
Girl Boss Interlude: Inventing Anna pt. 2
The watch-along continues this week with Mary and Bethany commentating on the final episode of Netflix’s and Shondaland’s Inventing Anna. As Anna’s court case wraps up, the girls draw conclusions of …