Did You Do Your Homework? | A Pop Culture Podcast

All three of your DYDYH network regulars are here to share their best of lists for 2023!

Our previous episode is lost to the editing gods, but we're here on the last day of 2023 to give to you our Christmas episode! Maren and Martha celebrate the season with the Amazon Freevee original EXMAS (2023, dir. Jonah Feingold) starring the wonderful Leighton Meester and the totally fine Robbie Amell. Who wins when exes go head to head on Christmas? In this case, kind of everyone!

And we're just living in it, baby! The only way to adequately discuss the grandmaster of animation is with a double-stuffed episode, and to help us out we're joined by our friends at Catching Up David! The crossover event of the season goes over the career of Hayao Miyazaki, how his works have shaped and affected us, and how we feel about his newest, The Boy & the Heron. Movies specifically discussed in detail (there will be spoilers): Laputa: The Castle in the Sky (1986) My Neighbor Totoro (1988) Spirited Away (2001) The Wind Rises (2013) Our next episode will be our best of 2023! See you all in the new year...

Does what it says on the tin - we're digging into the works of one of America's most distinctive filmmakers, Wes Anderson.

Happy Love YA Day! We're discussing an episode I would have sworn was a Netflix original but somehow actually got a theatrical release! Probably because Priyanka Chopra Jones is so great. On this episode: Love, Again (2023, dir. Jim Strouse)

As promised, our spoiler-filled discussion of the Mike Flanagan adaptation, Fall of the House of Usher! Spoilers for the series up through episode 7.

Pete and Martha are extremely excited about the upcoming FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER, so they're dedicating a whole episode to the father of gothic horror, Edgar Allan Poe. Coming up next: an examination of the king of Americana, Wes Anderson!

It's here! One of Martha's highly anticipated movies of the year. Does the 2023 Amazon adaptation Red, White and Royal Blue (dir. Matthew López) live up to expectations? What is Uma Thurman up to as the president? What even IS a rom com? For next time: Love Again (2023, dir. Jim Strouse)

It's a DYDYH/Love YA crossover! Maren and Martha have referenced Richard Linklater's BEFORE movies about 800 times, so we decided it was time to do a deep dive. Pete, Martha and Maren get together to share their experiences and relationships to this trilogy, and how that may have evolved the same way that Jesse and Celine have. For next time: a Poe extravaganza! We're getting ready for Mike Flanagan's FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER, and to prepare, we're reading the source material and watching the Vincent Price adaptation from 1960. Additional topics of discussion may also include The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Mask of the Red Death.

We've got a brand new one for you! Maren and Martha dig into the 2023 Netflix adaptation Happiness for Beginners (dir. Vicky Wight). Listen to find out how we feel about Ellie Kemper's foray into being a (semi) dramatic lead, her chemistry (??) with co-star Luke Grimes, and all the Patagonia advertising you could ask for.

You may be wondering, haven't our very good friends Pete and Martha discussed summer blockbusters before? And the answer is yes, but it's been a while, and now Martha has actually seen JAWS and is ready to talk about it. Call this our Barbenheimer episode!

Netflix continues to be top dog in adapting charming YA books into questionably awkward movies! Today, Maren and Martha are looking at the 2022 adaptation, Love & Gelato (dir. Brandon Camp).

It's the middle of summer, so we're going to camp! Pete and Martha talk about summer camp, what the appeal is, and why it's become a mainstay of American pop culture. Homework for the episode: Friday the 13th (1980, dir. Sean Cunningham) and Wet Hot American Summer (2001, dir. David Wain).

Maren and Martha are here to give due to the 2022 BROS (dir. Nicholas Stoller) and the comedic voice of Billy Eichner. We discuss what makes a rom com, what makes a romance (the answer may surprise you!), and ruminate on who is allowed to be raunchy in Hollywood these days.

Pete's on vacation and Martha started a new job, so we're posting a rerun for you: Episode 99, Sea Shanties! Remember when those were a thing? Next episode: we're going back to summer camp! The homework for the episode will be Friday the 13th (1980, dir. Sean S. Cunningham) and Wet Hot American Summer (2001, dir. )David Wain

Martha and Maren are joined by a very special guest today: you may know him from Did You Do Your Homework, it's Pete! We're here to talk all about the 2022 Netflix original DO REVENGE (dir. Jennifer Kaytin Robinson). Hear us talk about this candy colored teen revenge flick, and all the other teen revenge flicks we thought of while watching it.

François Truffaut famously said in an interview with Gene Siskel that "I don't think I've really seen an antiwar film. Every film about war ends up being pro-war." What does it mean for a film to be "anti-war?" Is it true that to enshrine something to film is to ennoble it? We dig into the idea of anti-war cinema with the new adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front (2022, dir. Edward Berger) and the perennial classic Apocalypse Now (1979, dir. Francis Ford Coppola).

Martha and Maren check out the brand spanking new RYE LANE (2023, dir. Raine Allen-Miller). Check out their thoughts on these two crazy kids! For next time: the Netflix original DO REVENGER (2022, dir. Jennifer Kaytin Robinson)

Sometimes our work lives impact our fun lives! That is certainly the case, as a "request" from Martha's boss triggers a rabbit hole about how we fear - and love - robots and AI in all their creepy forms. Homework for the episode: A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001, dir. Steven Spielberg) and M3GAN (2023, dir. Gerard Johnstone)

We're returning to our roots - a good old fashioned streaming original based on a YA novel. And it's a fun one! Martha and Maren take a look at the 2022 Netflix original, Hello, Goodbye and Everything In Between (dir. Michael Lewen) based on the book of the same name by Jennifer E. Smith. For next time: the 2023 Hulu original Rye Lane (dir. Raine Allen-Miller)