Hosted by Rachel Rippetoe and Mallika Mitra · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 12 episodes
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On Finale Girls, writers Rachel and Mallika zero in on the end of TV shows — or at least, the end of seasons. A finale can be a thesis statement, a jaw-dropping twist, a cathartic goodbye or a total flop. With this lens, we examine storytelling, TV's evolution as a medium and our own relationship to the shows we love (and hate).
Rachel Rippetoe and Mallika Mitra hosts Finale Girls, a tv show with 12 episodes published.
This episode contains spoilers for The West Wing. The West Wing premiered in 1999 on NBC and ran until 2005. It was created Aaron Sorkin, who the girls love to dunk on (but they're nice to him in this ep!). The show foll
This episode contains spoiler alerts for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (SVU). SVU premiered in 1999 as the first spinoff of the original Law and Order franchise, which aired from 1990 to 2010 and then returned in 202
This episode contains spoiler alerts for DTF St. Louis, The Better Sister and the 2003 film Mystic River . DTF St. Louis , which premiered in March on HBO, is a dark comedy starring Jason Bateman and David Harbour as fri
This episode contains spoiler alerts for Gilmore Girls. Gilmore Girls premiered on the WB in October 2000 and ran for seven seasons, concluding in 2007 on the CW network. The beloved series followed single-mother-and-dau
The Pitt aired in January 2025 on HBO, bringing us to a Pittsburgh emergency room where health care professionals are savings lives, doing risky procedures that truly no one should be doing in an emergency room and grapp
***This episode contains spoilers for Euphoria (seasons one and two) and Love Story: John F Kennedy Jr & Carolyn Bessette . -- Euphoria aired on HBO in June 2019 . Starring Zendaya as Rue Bennett, a 17-year-old strugglin
***This episode contains spoilers for Search Party and L ove Story: John F Kennedy Jr & Carolyn Bessette, plus a minor spoiler for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. -- Search Party is dark comedy series that aired on TBS in 201
***This episode contains spoilers for Succession and Traitors (season four). -- In 2018, HBO premiered Succession, introducing us to the Roy family who control Waystar Royco, one of the largest and most powerful media co
***This episode contains spoilers for Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Traitors U.S. (season 4, episode 7). -- In 1997, the world was introduced to Buffy the Vampire Slayer , a supernatural horror comedy about a teenage girl
***This episode contains spoilers for The OC and Traitors U.S. (season 4, episode 6). There's also a tiny spoiler for One Tree Hill season 3, episode 22. -- In 2003, Fox aired The OC , altering the teen drama genre forev
***This episode contains spoilers for Stranger Things, Heated Rivalry, Fleabag and The Traitors U.S. (season 4, episode 5) In 2016, Netflix quietly premiered Stranger Things, a show set in Hawkins, Indiana in the 1980s.
Welcome to Finale Girls, a new podcast all about TV we love (and hate) from writers Rachel Rippetoe and Mallika Mitra. In every episode, we'll discuss what we're currently watching and the latest TV news. Then we'll zero
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