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GRIEF AND MEDIA is a podcast and newsletter exploring the intersection of grief, relationships, media, and pop culture. Hosted by Alex Piscatelli, this podcast deep dives into pieces of media and pop culture that discuss grief and death.
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💌 on The Five-Star Weekend, saving my mom’s text messages, and a toxic ex situationship (opens the original)
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Welcome to the Grief Support Group 🪩💌🍒. This is the show where I examine how pop culture helps us cope with love, life, death, and grief. On today’s episode, I discuss the Peacock show The Five-Star Weekend and how it portrays different types of grief, wanting to archive my mom’s old texts, fall movies ( Resident Evil was WILD), how the act of forgetting is a beautiful thing, and more. I also answer the following advice questions: ★ My old neighbor stopped talking to me two months ago. I heard f
Spider-Man, Obsession, Backrooms, and the depiction of loneliness on screen (opens the original)
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Welcome to the Grief Support Group 🪩💌🍒. This is the show where I examine how pop culture helps us cope with love, life, death, and grief. On today’s episode, I was joined by Jack Molmud, who you may also recognize as husband of GRIEF AND MEDIA! We did a ~thematic analysis~ on the movies we saw this summer (is this what y’all talk about when your partners drive you to Caltrain too?) and noticed a pattern: All of this summer’s box office hits commented on and depicted loneliness in some way. And l
💌 on teaching, Saturn returns (turns out they’re real), and a summer spent at the movies (opens the original)
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Welcome to the Grief Support Group 🪩💌🍒. This is the show where I examine how pop culture helps us cope with love, life, death, and grief. We are back for a new season!!!! You may notice an ~official~ podcast name change. This episode serves as a re-introduction to the podcast in which I discuss what I’ve been up to, how turning 30 made me realize I don’t actually want to wear crop tops to work, the movies of the summer ranked, and more. I meant to talk for 15 minutes, but it turned into 41 minut
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