Podcast

2nd Showing

Comedy, Film Reviews, TV & Film

Two sisters. Two coasts. One shared history of television super-fandom. Connor and Jordan Riley are re-watching the formative media of their youth — back with big brains and even bigger mouths.

Episodes
56
Releases
Every two weeks
Typical length
2 hr
On air since
2023
Latest episode
1 week ago

Episodes

56 episodes, newest first

  1. 5.01 Susie QT

    Season 5, Episode 1

    Show notes

    Connor and Jordan get ghosted in the most literal sense, unpacking unfinished real estate business, corporeal kisses, and the afterlife’s questionably malleable travel parameters in Disney Channel’s 1996 supernatural romance, Susie Q.

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    2 hr 1 min
  2. 4.13 Over Easy (From the Vault)

    Season 4, Episode 13

    Show notes

    Surprise! Here's a special bonus episode from us to you, after a long hiatus. Recorded almost a year ago, we are supremely stoked present a bonus final movie review from our 4th season, finally released from the vault. Stay tuned for a new season - but in the mean time, enjoy this deeply millenial cringe installment: 2010's Easy A.

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    2 hr 11 min
  3. 4.12 Dreamz with a Z

    Season 4, Episode 12

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    Connor and Jordan discuss the cultural nostalgia of early oughts competition shows, the inherent bond between two likely psychopaths, and the universal appeal of Jennifer Collidge in 2006's flop, American Dreamz.

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    1 hr 27 min
  4. 4.11 Sydney Slut Strands

    Season 4, Episode 11

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    Connor and Jordan give Greek life the old college try with lectures on diet culture, the class divide, and nonconsensual library kissing in the 2007 Snow White adaptation starring Amanda Bynes, Sydney White.

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    2 hr 6 min
  5. 4.10 Gay Son or Saved! Daughter

    Season 4, Episode 10

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    Connor and Jordan are born-again Mandy Moore fans, enjoying the ungodly mental gymnastics, moral panics, and mullets that make up Mandy Moore's best performance yet in Saved!

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    1 hr 50 min
  6. 4.09 Miss Baltimore Bynes

    Season 4, Episode 9

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    Connor and Jordan can't stop the beat when they break down the dudes, dancing, and do's in the pod's first ever musical; Hairspray (2007) featuring Amanda Bynes.

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    1 hr 49 min
  7. Still Showing: The 50th Episode

    Season 4, Episode 8

    Show notes

    Connor and Jordan celebrate 50 episodes of 2nd Showing by rehashing controversial takes, reading audience comments, and ranking the classics from the first four seasons. Here's to 50 more!

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    1 hr 27 min
  8. 4.07 My Eurotrip With The President's Daughter

    Season 4, Episode 7

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    Connor and Jordan go backpacking through the Eurotrip of your dreams, meeting bald misogynists, bohemian bungeejumpers, and one very sexy secret service agent as they discuss Chasing Liberty, starring Mandy Moore.

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    2 hr 11 min
  9. 4.06 She's the Movie

    Season 4, Episode 6

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    Connor and Jordan enroll in Illyria Preparatory School for some gender-bending shenanigans, including brawling debutantes, tampon-treated nosebleeds, and Channing Tatum's cheese preferences in Amanda Bynes' teen soccer comedy based on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, She's the Man.

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    2 hr 1 min
  10. 4.05 The How to Deal Spiel

    Season 4, Episode 5

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    Connor and Jordan learn the value of love (even if it's just for a little while) as they discover how to deal with dead boyfriends, DJ dads, and "just friends" who don't dance in the 2003 film adaptation based off of Sarah Dessen's books, How to Deal, starring Mandy Moore.

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    2 hr 3 min
  11. 4.04 What A Girl Wants Is a Dad

    Season 4, Episode 4

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    Connor and Jordan cross the pond once again to discuss the merits of chandeliers as party topics, rich boys as parking attendants, and Kelly Preston as the villain in the teen rom-com What A Girl Wants, starring Amanda Bynes.

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    1 hr 51 min
  12. 4.03 That Walk You Can't Forget

    Season 4, Episode 3

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    Connor and Jordan take a walk down memory lane with Mr. If He Wanted To He Would, jumping into a discussion of ugly sweaters, alt-right pipelines, and Jamie's other boyfriend in Mandy Moore's 2003 tearjerker, A Walk To Remember.

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    2 hr
  13. 4.02 Biffle

    Season 4, Episode 2

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    Connor and Jordan post up in the prop closet to discuss free cokes, Frankie Muniz, and the wave of familiar faces in their first Amanda Bynes feature, Big Fat Liar.

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    1 hr 36 min
  14. 4.01 Moore Than a Princess

    Season 4, Episode 1

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    Mandy Mania begins with the first episode of season 4! Princess lessons are in session when Connor and Jordan dissect deadbeat dads, dates with Michael Moscovitz, and the Stupid Cupid dance routine in Mandy Moore's first feature film, The Princess Diaries.

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    1 hr 59 min
  15. 3.14 Done and Dunst

    Season 3, Episode 14

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    That's a wrap on season 3! Connor and Jordan unpack the Kirsten Dunst lore, her early work as well as her more recent turns, and her most notable fashion and popular culture moments in the season 3 Finale of Days of Dunst.

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    1 hr 19 min
  16. 3.13 The Teen Queen

    Season 3, Episode 13

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    Connor and Jordan draw the Days of Dunst to a close in a daze of pastel Monolos, impotent men, and the downfall of the French monarchy. Let them eat cake as they watch Sofia Coppola's ode to the ultimate teen queen, Marie Antionette, starring Kristin Dunst.

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    1 hr 35 min
  17. 3.12 Etown and Down

    Season 3, Episode 12

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    Connor and Jordan ring in the New Year with the one we've been waiting for. Filmed on location in their Kentucky hometown, Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown (2005) is cracking open an Ale 8, rooting for the Cardinals and correcting your pronunciation of "Louisville".

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    2 hr 41 min
  18. 3.11 Winning Wimbledon

    Season 3, Episode 11

    Show notes

    Connor and Jordan are serving up a well-matched discussion on Kirsten Dunst's backhand, Austin Nichol's sweatband, and Paul Bettany's sex appeal in the tennis movie that walked so that Challengers could run - 2001's unsung sports rom-com Wimbledon (2004).

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    2 hr 4 min
  19. 3.10 Sucks 2 Be Spidey

    Season 3, Episode 10

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    Connor and Jordan throw out their spidey suits, reject rugged individualism, and get caught in the web of Sam Raimi's inspiring superhero classic, Spider-Man 2, starring Kirsten Dunst.

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    2 hr 21 min
  20. 3.09 The Amazing Mary-Jane

    Season 3, Episode 9

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    Connor and Jordan find that there's so much to tell when talking about upside-down kisses, Macy Gray parades, and manic weapons manufacturers in their first Marvel movie, Spiderman (2002), starring Kirsten Dunst as Mary-Jane Watson.

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    2 hr 42 min