HeyJaredGenXElle: Raised on Reruns
GenXElle: Raised on Reruns is a nostalgia-forward podcast for the generation raised on after-school specials, family dramas, variety shows, and sitcom living roomsHosted by lifelong TV kid Elle, each episode revisits the shows and characters that shaped us as kids, what we…
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Designing Women: Don’t Mess With My People (opens the original)
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Designing Women could make me laugh until I cried, and then turn around and say something I’d remember for nearly forty years. In this episode, I’m going back to Sugarbaker & Associates: Julia’s legendary speeches, Suzanne’s bravado and vulnerability, Mary Jo’s quiet courage, Charlene’s wide-open heart, and the wonderfully strange family that formed around them, including Anthony and, of course, Bernice. We’ll revisit “ They Shoot Fat Women, Don’t They?” , “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georg
The Facts of Life: Growing Up Together (opens the original)
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The Facts of Life isn't a show I rediscovered. I never really left it. For nine seasons, Blair, Jo, Natalie and Tootie grew up in front of us, arguing, laughing, screwing up, forgiving each other and somehow becoming family along the way. And for a lot of Gen X girls, they showed us something television hadn't really given us before: girls our own age whose friendships mattered as much as anything else in their lives. In this episode, I go back to Eastland, the casting change that saved the show
Kate & Allie: Who's Your Kate? (opens the original)
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I started rewatching Kate & Allie for this episode and somehow...I never stopped. Four seasons later, I'm still watching. As a kid, I connected with the kids. My parents were separated and getting divorced, and there was something about that crowded New York brownstone that felt safe. The adults showed up. The kids got to be kids. Problems happened, but somehow you knew everything was going to be okay. Watching it now, I understand the appeal in a completely different way. Kate & Allie lets my n
Cagney & Lacey: Better Together (opens the original)
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When I rewatched Cagney & Lacey, I expected to make an episode about two women breaking barriers in a man's profession. Instead, I found myself thinking about partnership. Christine Cagney and Mary Beth Lacey couldn't have been more different. One was single. One was married with children. One trusted instinct. One trusted procedure. Television usually asks us to decide who's right. Cagney & Lacey never did. In this episode, I revisit one of television's most groundbreaking dramas, the casting c
Maude: The Woman Who Stood Out (opens the original)
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I was seven, sitting too close to the TV, when I first watched Maude argue with someone and not back down. I didn't know what feminism was. I didn't know why my parents exchanged a look when she said what she said. I just knew she was someone I wasn't going to forget Rewatching Maude more than fifty years later, I rediscovered a show about the people who shape us before we're old enough to know it. Maude wasn't subtle. She was loud in rooms that wanted her quiet, and something about that landed
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