Episode 33 – Mean Girls (2004)
It's 2004. Teen movies exploded as a genre in the 1980s and have continued largely unabated since. With Mean Girls, comedian Tina Fey helps bring forth a teen movie that resonates with its viewers, both reflecting high school girl culture and critiquing it. The plot follows previously homeschooled Cady Heron's involvement in the popular girl clique "The Plastics," her slow transformation into a Plastic herself, and the fallout that follows.
What Mean Girls offers casual movie fans who have always meant to watch classic movies: an honest look at mean girl culture; rumors, gossip, and a Burn Book; laughs alongside the moral fall and recovery of Cady Heron; and possible flashbacks to your public school career.
Let's Finally Watch This
A podcast for casual movie fans who have always meant to watch classic movies. Hosts Nick Hayden and Timothy Deal guide you through film history as they highlight one movie from each decade for the last century, exploring how each film sits in its time period, why it's well-known, and whether it's actually worth your time. We're finally getting around to movies we've always heard about. Why don't you join us?
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