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Adolescence, Fourth Wing and what ‘really’ counts as cheating

Mar 20, 2025 · 1 hr 19 min · 95.1 MB
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Adolescence on Netflix has fast become the most talked about TV show of 2025, with Stephen Graham’s new drama igniting much-needed conversations around corrosive social media misogyny and violence against girls. We get into it all from our review to the reception. First, though, a chat about polyamory, non-monogamy and what constitutes ‘cheating’ in light of Ne Yo’s polycule reveal and the fallout from Danny Jones and Maura Higgins’s Brit Awards kiss. And also this week: we debrief on publishing phenomenons Fourth Wing now that we’re both Rebecca Yarros converts, share a listener update on the Let Them theory and return yet again to crisis PR. 


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Reviews/ recs:

  • Still Bad, Lizzo 
  • The Dynamics Of This Relationship Will Expand Your Definition Of Black Love, Huffington Post
  • Mel Robbins and Plagiarism, Sage Justice, Substack
  • Let Them: Words for the Healing Soul by Cassie Phillips  
  • Flack, BBC iPlayer 
  • Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros 
  • Rebecca Yarros on Navigating Fame and What to Expect From ‘Onyx Storm’, Elle
  • Rebecca Yarros Talks ‘Onyx Storm’, Variety
  • Adolescence, Netflix 
  • Netflix drama Adolescence has lessons for us all about alienated young men, Observer 
  • Ctrl Hate Delete by Cecile Simmons 


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