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Pop Filter
by Lorraine Harton Wil McDermott
Hosts Lorraine Harton and Wil McDermott pick apart whatever pop culture flotsam and/or jetsam that catches their eyes!
Episodes
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S1E82 - The Odyssey and Katie Price: Nothing To Hide
Episode Notes It's most appropriate that this weeks main offering is a review of The Odyssey because Will has been on quite the odyssey himself. He has returned from Australia having been beset by many obstacles. There was a ten euro coffee in Dubai airport, a pizza-eating possum in Sydney, a…
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S1E81 - Obsession & The Invite
Episode Notes This week, our heroes go on quite the rollercoaster of horror and comedy and sex and obsession. I know, it sounds just like one of Will's Saturday nights but this is the range of topics and genres found between the two films being reviewed in this episode. First up, it's massive...
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S1E80 - Alice & Steve
Episode Notes This week, Lorraine & Will examine the adventures of Disney Plus TV show characters, Alice & Steve, and how they deal with the idea of Steve dating Alice's daughter. Can you tell a funny story about the betrayal of a lifelong friendship and still have engaging and sympatheric...
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S1E79 - Kylie - Netflix 3 Part Documentary
Episode Notes This week our heroes just Can't Get Kylie Out of Their Heads. So much so, in fact, they are left Spinning Around. That's enough Kylie song title word play. Netflix's 3 part Kylie documentary is this weeks subject. Lorraine, a lifelong fan, and Will, old enough to remember a…
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S1E78 - 60 Minutes Australia - Grooming A Monster
Episode Notes Not many laughs in this weeks episode as our heroes taking on the tricky subject of Michael Jackson. 60 Minutes Australia recently aired an episode on Michael Jackson and the many allegations, both old and new, on the late singer. Lorraine and Will discuss his undeniable talent, the...
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S1E77 - DTF St. Louis
Episode Notes Another episode? So soon? Our heroes are really spoiling you. You might say that they are DTF (Downloading To your Feed)! This week, our champions delve into the murky world of suburban swinging and app-based adultery with HBO's newest offering DTF St. Louis. Old PF favourite David...
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S1E76 - Project Hail Mary and Small Prophets
Episode Notes Pop Filter has detected an alien life-form on board their craft. It's little, rock-like alien Nicky Coghlan. Listen as Lorraine and Will try to understand him so they can get on with the weekly business of saving the planet. Nicky joins our heros from RTE where he is the head of...
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S1E75 - Inside The Manosphere and Inside America's Next Top Model
Episode Notes Episode Notes Our heroes return in a relatively timely fashion to discuss Toxic Masculinity and Toxic Femininity. Will is a clear representation of all that is wrong with modern men and the less said about Lorraine and her own particular brand of toxic femininity, the better! Of...
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S1E74 - Heated Rivalry
Episode Notes It's been a while but our heroes have returned. This time it's Lorraine representing the Canada side and Will skating in from Russia with his big round bum, just in time for Valentine's Day! That's right, our hosts are tackling gay hockey romantasy juggernaut, Heated Rivalry. It's…
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S1E73 - Sean Combs The Reckoning & 2025 Round Up
Episode Notes Hello Old Acquaintances. Lorraine and Will want you to know you should never be forgot. Our heroes are on deck on January the first, starting as they mean to go on with a shiny new episode. This week, they dive into the murkiest of waters (or is it a pool full of baby oil) with...
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S1E72 - Stranger Things 5 Chapter 1 & The Alabama Solution
Episode Notes This week, Lorraine and Will dust off their Wrangler jeans and their Nikes to go back to the 80's and fit right in with the kids from Stranger Things. Won't be a problem for Will as he's the only one of our heroes to properly remember the 80's and the mullet he sported for most of…
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S1E71 - Frankenstein & Pluribus
Episode Notes Much like Victor Frankenstein, Lorraine and Will have cobbled together another episode from random bits they found lying about the place. Hopefully they raised this episode as much more loving parents than Victor Frankenstein turned out to be. This week our heroes tackle the latest...
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S1E70 - Lily Allen's West End Girl & The Chair Company
Episode Notes Our heroes return. We all know Lorraine and Will enjoy a good gossip so could anything be more appropriate for their return than Lily Allen's West End Girl? This revenge album is also a return from a hiatus and shows Lily to be in tip-top musical (if not personal) form, just like…
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S1E69 - A Complete Unknown, Nosferatu and Marilyn Manson Unmasked
Episode Notes In what might be their last hurrah for a while, our heroes present a rogues gallery to send them off. This week they have Bob Dylan, Nosferatu, and what could be described as what you might get if Bob Dylan and Nosferatu were to somehow reproduce: Marilyn Manson. First up it's...
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S1E68 - Better Man and Babygirl
Episode Notes This week our heroes are talking about men and girls. Men in the form of Robbie Williams and his monkey-centric biopic (with a soft 'o' for Lorraine) and then kink-shaming drama, Babygirl, starring Nicole Kidman. Better Man has already come up short at the American box office but…
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S1E67 - Best of 2024
Episode Notes Well, it's that time of year again and our heroes at Pop Filter are celebrating their most productive year of podcasting ever. What better way to celebrate than with a big tub of Heroes and a recap of Lorraine and Will's pop culture highlights of the year. They even sneak one last...
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S1E66 - Boybands Forever & Here
Episode Notes It's the penultimate Pop Filter of 2024 and this week we have a recurring favourite feature of Will and Lorraine's; Boy Bands. Seems like they've talked about them a lot! Well, this might be the daddy of all documentaries. Boybands Forever is a 3 part BBC series that will drag you...
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S1E65 - Gladiator II and Small Things Like These
Episode Notes This week Will and Lorraine are in their togas and laurels casting their thumbs up or down to see which of this weeks gladiators will triumph. In one corner we have jacked-up fighting machine Paul Mescal who has already kicked the shit out of a bunch of freaky-looking monkeys. In…
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S1E64 - The Apprentice & Heretic
Episode Notes This episode is going to be bigly. This week, Lorraine and Will are looking at Donald Trump's supervillain origin story, The Apprentice. They learn how The Donald started as a meek (but rich) rent collector in Hell's Kitchen, New York and set off on his inevitable path towards the...
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S1E63 - Nobody Wants This & The New Sound by Geordie Greep
Episode Notes Our heroes have done a 180 on the Monsters theme from last week and have now turned their attention to a more romantic prospect which is new Netflix comedy drama, Nobody Wants This? Watch Adam Brody and Kristin Bell navigate love and religion in this tale of a too-good-to-be-true…
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S1E62 - The Substance, Monsters & Ellen: For Your Approval
Episode Notes Our heroes return with another of their loosely themed shows. This time the theme is (arguably) monsters. First up is Frankensteinesque body-horror fairy tale, The Substance. Will had to go see this one on his own as Lorraine was feeling squeamish. Not to worry, Will braved the...
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S1E61 - Wise Guy & Speak No Evil
Episode Notes This week, our heroes Lorraine and Will, try to get inside the mind of the man that gave us The Sopranos and some wonderfully and encouragingly bad student films, David Chase. They're looking at the new HBO documentary from Alex Gibney, Wise Guy. Fuhgeddaboutit! Except don't. It's...
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S1E60 - It Ends With Us & Trap
Episode Notes This week our heroes take on a frustrating brace of films. First up is weirdly-wardrobed Blake Lively and her film, It Ends With Us. Spoiler Alert: It Ends With Some Very Low Ratings might be a better name. Lorraine spills the tea on the social media backlash towards Lively, and…
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S1E59 - Alien: Romulus & Kneecap
Episode Notes In Space Nobody Can Hear You Podcast. This week, Lorraine and Will are trying to get to a sunnier planet just as their Summer holidays come to an end. If they could just get there without one of those pesky facehuggers ruining their plans, that'd be sweet. Before they head off, they...
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S1E58 - Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam and Simone Biles Rising
Episode Notes This week finds Lorraine, Will and three non-descript second-row band members pretending to harmonise, singing a soppy ballad to a group of kids in a school gym before being bundled into a van for two more shows that day. Our heroes review new Netflix documentary, Dirty Pop, and…
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S1E57 - Longlegs and The Murderous Scissor Sisters
Episode Notes If you let Lorraine Harton and Will in now, it could be niiiiice. Our heroes return with a murder special. First up is Silence of The Lambs wannabe, Longlegs, where Nicolas Cage says the Devil made him do that stupid song he does. Can Lorraine Harton or Will make any sense of the…
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S1E56 - The Bear Season 3 and I Am Celine Dion
Episode Notes Will can barely contain his excitement as his old pal, Lorraine Harton, returns from her explorations in The East, where she was in search of exotic spices and the finest silks. This week our reunited duo take on a firm favourite as Disney+ returns The Bear to our screens. 8…
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S1E55 - Reservation Dogs & Drake Vs Kendrick
Episode Notes Will Holds down the fort for another show as Lorraine is currently en route to Tokyo from Kyoto. Or maybe the other way around. There aren't many places where you can from one city to another where both cities are anagrams of each other. Stepping into the breech this week is their…
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S1E54 - Inside No. 9 & Moon Safari by Air 25th Anniversary
Episode Notes This week, Lorraine is off helping the Japanese authorities with some podcasting issues they're having, so Will has turned to his old Podcast pal, Nicky Coghlan. Will and Nicky started making a podcast 15 years ago. Everyone has a podcast now but not 15 years ago they didn't! Will…
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S1E53 - Bodkin & Billie Eilish "Hit Me Hard & Soft"
Episode Notes After three (kind of)themed shows 'Fallout' and 'The Fall Guy', Pop Filthers week of rudeness with Challengers and Ashley Madison, and then the Anne Hathaway bonanza, this weeks theme is....the letter B. Our pals, Lorraine and Will, talk about Irish Twin Peaks wannabe show, Bodkin,...
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S1E52 - Mother's Instinct & The Idea of You
Episode Notes Are you a Hathahater or a Fan Hathaway? Either way, our trusted heroes have a show for you. Anne Hathaway is back with a pair of films of varying quality (within each film as well as when compared to each other). First up it's Hitchcockian grief-drama, Mother's Instinct. Can…
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S1E51 - Challengers & Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies & Scandal
Episode Notes This week Pop Filter HQ is now Pop FILTHER as our heroes look at the erotic tennis world of mixed thruples with new sports drama, Challengers. Love-All? It's more like Lust-All! After that it's the latest in a relatively short string of documentaries on the hacking of marriage...
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S1E50 - Fallout & The Fall Guy
Episode Notes It's Fall Preview time at Pop Filter HQ as our heroes deliver not one, but two, items for review that have the word 'Fall' in their titles. That's where the concept ends. Don't go looking for hidden meanings. This idea is a mile wide and a millimetre deep. Can Lorraine successfully...
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S1E49 - The Greatest Love Story Never Told and Cold Sea by Oisín Leech
Episode Notes This week our heroes test themselves by reviewing a thing that they don't like as much as they'd like to. Not much of a challenge, to be fair, but what if they told you they were reviewing Jennifer Lopez's new documentary, The Greatest Love Story NEVER Told? How would you feel about...
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S1E48 - Back to Black and Late Night With The Devil
Episode Notes This week our heroes go over to the dark side. First off, they wrestle alongside Amy Winehouse with her demons in the new biopic, Back to Black. Then it's on to much more traditional demons in the form of late-night talk show horror film, Late Night With The Devil, where the main...
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S1E47 - Baby Reindeer and Beyonce's Cowboy Carter
Episode Notes Our heroes return for a triumphant second episode on Near FM (90.3FM/nearfm.ie) secure in the knowledge that last weeks episode was a huge hit or nobody with the power to cancel the show was listening. Either way, episode two is 'GO!' This week, the team tackle Netflix psychodrama,...
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S1E46 - Civil War and Roadhouse
Episode Notes We have a message for you.... from yer farder!!! It'll make sense once you've heard the episode. Exciting times in Pop Filter HQ. Our heroes have struck a deal with Near FM ( www.nearfm.ie ) to host the show. From now on, you can hear the episode between 7 and 8 by listening live on...
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S1E45 - The Iron Claw, All Of Us Stangers, One Day
Episode Notes So good they recorded it twice! Our heroes return with a vengeance after the debacle of one of them losing the SD card containing their first recording of this episode. Will insists there is no need for anyone to know who lost the card. This time, our favourite podcasting duo tackle...
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S1E44 - Robbie Williams, Britney Spears & Wagatha Christie
Episode Notes This week's show is like an old issue of Heat magazine come back from beyond the grave. Lorraine and Will tackle some 90's icons in the form of Robbie Williams and his Netflix documentary series, Britney Spears long awaited autobiography and footballers wives camp docuseries…
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S1E43 - Beckham
This week, our heroes are involved in a classic relegation battle to keep the podcast in the Premiership. With star-player, Lorraine, already eyeing a lucrative move to Freedom FM UTD and Will looking to play out his twilight playing years with a spell in Saudi Arabia, this is a make or break…
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S1E42 - The Deepest Breath & Kaputt by Destroyer
Episode Notes This week, Lorraine and Will get their wetsuits on and head into the Abyss with deep-sea documentary, The Deepest Breath. They get into spoiler territory but it's clearly announced in the episode and the time stamps are below. After that, they give their thoughts on smooth,...
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S1E41 - Barbie & Oppenheimer
Episode Notes This latest episode shows our heroes in full compliance with Podcast Law and delivering an episode where they discuss the phenomenon of Barbenheimer. This law states that every pop culture podcast must review both Barbie and Oppenheimer and Lorraine and Will, being law-abiding...
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S1E40 - And Just Like That Season 2 & The Idol
Episode Notes Today our heroes, Lorraine and Will celebrate Episode 40 of the show and in that spirit they celebrate with two pieces of pop culture that they struggle to say much good about! This week, thanks to Pop Filter superfan, Reese Martin Will and Lorraine are including timestamps in case...
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S1E39 - Ramblings 4 - Being an adult
Episode Notes Ramblings Episode 4, wherein our heroes wrestle with being grown-ups and discuss the various ways they have had to disguise the fact that they don't always know what they're doing and whether they truly deserve the label 'adult'. Find out more at https://pop-filter.pinecast.co This...
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S1E38 - Married At First Sight Australia
With head-spinning speed, Lorraine and Will return with a new episode. This one isn't, on the surface, their usual high-brow fare. This episode is all about Aussie reality-show nightmare fever-dream, Married At First Sight. Listen to Will and Lorraine talk about how much they hate Harrison and…
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S1E37 - Selective Outrage, Outed & Finding Michael
Episode Notes This week, Lorraine emerges victorious when she offloads two pre-recorded intros onto Will. In a desperate act of self-sabotage, Will submits two of his shoddiest efforts to date with a triumphant 'That'll learn her!' This weeks show features Chris Rock's return to stand-up now that...
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S1E36 - The Last Of Us and Tar
Episode Notes This week, our heroes tackle the world of classical music-based cancel culture and because they are a couple of fungiis (fun guys) they also take on mushroom-based zombie show, The Last Of Us. Will is a musician without training who Lorraine rightly suspects is suspicious of...
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S1E35 - Bono 'Surrender', Barbarian & The Crown
Episode Notes This week, the unimaginable happens to Will: U2 have taken some of his money. And he's ok with that. Lorraine and Will tackle Bono's epic, rambling autobiographical audiobook 'Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story' and gain a new appreciation of their countries most famous son. Then it's…
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S1E34 - Ramblings 3
Episode Notes In today's episode, Lorraine and Will return to their occasional feature; Ramblings. This is where they step away from pop culture and muse on things more sociological. Maybe. They don't really know. Today, they are tackling the topic of the lies we tell to children. Will chewing…
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S1E33 - The Rehearsal & The Most Hated Man On The Internet
Episode Notes In this episode our heroes take on, and defeat, The Most Hated Man On The Internet. Netflix's new 3 episode documentary on the loathsome Hunter Moore and his revenge porn website incites new levels of rage in Will and Lorraine towards all purveyors of toxic masculinity. The pair of...
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Hosts Lorraine Harton and Wil McDermott pick apart whatever pop culture flotsam and/or jetsam that catches their eyes!
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