Watching TV The Y2k Way And The Upcoming Releases We're Excited For Better Words podcast

Watching TV the Y2k way and the upcoming releases we're excited for

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Oh, hello! We're back and trying a new format. In short: we burnt out and lost the love for making the podcast (although we loved speaking to authors).

While we've not been recording podcasts, we have been sharing monthly recommendations on Substack. You can take a look (and subscribe!) here.

In this episode, we're chatting about:

Watching some classic 2000s TV and the joy of not binging
A preview of books we're excited for coming out in the last months of 2025
Our favourite read of the year so far

But for your convenience, here's everything we mentioned in this episode:

Veronica Mars (TV)
Supernatural (TV)
Charmed (TV)
The Summer I Turned Pretty (TV)
The Traitors UK (TV)
Married at First Sight Australia (TV)
The Americans (TV)
Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
Babel by R.F Kuang
Yellowface by Rebecca Kuang
Uncharmed and Rewitched by Lucy Jane Wood
The Love Of Our Lives by Emma Steel (listen to our interview)
Paper Heart by Cecila Ahern (listen to our interview)
Sad Girl Hours by Anna Zoe Quirk (listen to our interview)
The Killer Question by Janice Hallett (listen to our interview)
When Gavin Met Stacey and Everything in Between by James Corden and Ruth Jones
Cat: On The Road to Findout by Yusuf/Cat Stevens
Wings by Paul McCartney
The Mushroom Tapes by Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein
If you missed the 'Mushroom murder' you can catch up with this episode of Just the Gist
The Gingerbread Bakery by Laurie Gilmore
Gravity Let Me Go by Trent Dalton
Chosen Family by Madeleine Gray (listen to our interview)
This House of Grief by Helen Garner (which was picked for Dua Lipa's book club)
One Golden Summer by Carly Fortune
Consider Yourself Kissed by Jessica Stanley

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