Welcome To The OC, Bitches! I’m breaking a rule here, in that this podcast isn’t even out yet, but it’s too exciting to not include. Fans of
The O.C. – that is to say, all millennials – will be ecstatic to hear that two of the show’s iconic stars, Rachel Bilson and Melinda Clarke, have launched their own rewatching podcast titled
Welcome To The OC, Bitches! The show will reportedly consist of more than 100 episodes, as the stars work through the series, and will reportedly feature a variety of guests, such as star Peter Gallagher and creator Josh Schwartz. The main event, however, will be Bilson and Clarke’s own behind-the-scenes intel and their irresistible rapport. Save this to your phone now in anticipation for its April 27 release.
The Sink is not the kind of podcast that will have you guffawing immediately – in fact, you may be confused by this parody of sleep-inducing meditation shows. But once you get acclimated to its surreal conceit – the process of dredging up “what’s stuck in your tubes” and remedying the “bad smell” in your brain – Natasha Hodgson’s comedy-horror show is full of brilliantly unsettling laughs.
Hannah J Davies, Guardian deputy TV editor
Nicole Byer of Why Won’t You Date Me? Photograph: Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP
Nicole runs the gamut from incredibly filthy and raunchy to deeply heartfelt in the conversations she has with her guests about therapy, the daily struggles of maintaining a relationship, grief, the realities of existing in a body that society sees as Other (fat, Black, POC, trans, etc). There’s no dating lately because of Covid, but it seems like the podcast is even better because the tangents run all over. One thing is for certain: it’s always so damn