This week we’re revisiting one of our most popular episodes on a topic that still feels like a taboo despite its clear universality, with the help of lots of deeply honest and moving DMs from the huns. A friendship ‘breakup’ is an experience more than 80% of women have been through and it can be even more gut-wrenching than ending a romantic relationship. Yet in our society that prioritises romantic over platonic love, there’s no social script for dealing with it. We cover everything from ghostings and estrangement to boundaries and therapy-speak, as well as how politics, exes and different life stages can lead to rifts and resentment. If you’ve been through something similar, then hopefully this ep will help you feel less alone!

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Recs

• Bad Friend, Michelle Elman
• Bride Wars
• We Need to Talk about Our Ex Best Friends, Elle
• Bad Friend, Tiffany Watt Smith
• The Lingering Wounds of Friendship Breakups, Elle
• The White Lotus S3 E8, HBO
• Will Our Friendship Survive Your Baby, New York Magazine

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This week we’re diving into Jia Tolentino’s viral essay on the new age of cosmetic enhancement, from how algorithms are changing our faces to whether Botox really helps women get ahead at work – and why our own feelings on tweakments have recently radically changed. Also on the show: Olivia Wilde’s brilliant new film The Invite, where she and Seth Rogen play a miserable middle-class married couple, Apple’s sci-fi dystopia Silo, dispatches from the newborn trenches, and the latest doc exploring the ethics of reality TV, The Love Island Curse. Enjoy huns!

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Recs/ reviews:

• On whether having a baby ruins your life or not, Sam Parker, Substack
• Silo, AppleTV
• The Invite, in cinemas
• The Drama, available to rent
• Half Man, iPlayer
• The Curse of Love Island, Prime Video
• Our incredible September book club pick Where Are the Kings, by Donal Ryan – pre-order your copy here
• Our Plastic Surgery Nightmare, The New Yorker
• How 'The Botox Psyop' Broke Our Brains in the Name of Beauty, Diabolical Lies

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We are so excited to be reunited and resuming normal service this week with a very overdue pop culture catch up! First up: reviews of Christopher Nolan's much talked-about Hollywood epic The Odyssey and "perimenopausal" crime caper Ride or Die starring Hannah Waddingham, before we dive into the fascinating new Katie Price docu-series. Plus: the new data showing that nine out of 10 of Britain's best-selling novels feature a murdered woman, and the Chris Martin-curated World Cup halftime show, from its bizarre performances to Madonna and Justin Bieber's reported feud. Enjoy huns and don’t forget to put Wednesday 2nd September in your diaries for our next book club at The Hoxton Holborn!

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Recs/ reviews:

• The Odyssey, in cinemas
• Sex, beds and grisly executions: what Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey changed, invented – and left out, Guardian
• Chastity, nodding and enormous pores: will women also love Nolan’s Odyssey?, Guardian
• Obsession, in cinemas
• Ride or Die, Amazon Prime
• ‘An overnight success after 25 years? Delicious’: Ted Lasso’s Hannah Waddingham on sexism, stunts and stardom at 51, Guardian
• Lucky, Prime Video
• Katie Price: Nothing to Hide, NOWTV/ Sky
• Nine out of 10 bestselling novels in UK have one thing in common: a woman is murdered, Guardian
• 9 of Britain's 10 Bestselling Novels Begin With a Dead Woman. I Asked Authors, Literary Experts and a Criminal Behavioural Analyst Why, Marie Claire
• Hawk, Netflix

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