This Ends at Prom
by Pod People Productions
This Ends at Prom is a weekly podcast analyzing the staying power of womanhood featured in coming-of-age and teen girl movies from the queer, feminist cisgender and transgender perspectives of wives BJ Colangelo and Harmony Colangelo.
Episodes
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Beetlejuice (1988)
"My whole life is a dark room, one big dark room." Teenage goth girls obsessed with the afterlife rarely get to star in a movie, and despite the presence of the titular ghost with the most, BEETLEJUICE is the story of Lydia Deetz and her incredible bangs. Being uprooted isn't fun for anyone, but...
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Ms. 45 (45th Anniversary)
"Sister." 45 years ago, a teenage girl named Zoë Lund was cast in the titular role of Abel Ferrara's MS .45. Considered one of the premier films in the rape-revenge subgenre, MS .45 is a righteous rallying cry for anyone who has ever been wronged, and a reminder to us all that we don't have to…
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The Last Kiss (2026)
"Remember, you are safe; you are capable." FINAL DESTINATION meets ... every movie ever covered on the pod? The Wives Colangelo saw a cute new teen slasher fantasy flick, and we want you to watch it this Halloween season. Yoko Okumura's THE LAST KISS with Mckenna Grace and Arkira Chantaratananond...
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The Slumber Party Massacre (1982)
"Eating makes me feel best when I feel bad, and boy do I feel bad." Over 40 years ago, Rita Mae Brown and Amy Holden Jones crafted a slasher classic that completely deconstructed the male gaze and gendered relationship with the horror genre with a low-budget B-movie that took years for people to...
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Urban Legend (1998)
"Don't you want to be an urban legend, Nat? All your friends are now." It's the most wonderful time of the year! The Wives Colangelo are kicking off the season of scares with a teen horror classic that critics hated at the time, but real ones have recognized as one of the best of the post-SCREAM...
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Sky High (2005)
"In the end, my girlfriend became my arch-enemy, my arch-enemy became my best friend, and my best friend became my girlfriend. But, hey, it's high school." Have you ever noticed the parallels between the archetypal superhero origin stories and the average coming-of-age teen movie tropes? This…
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Your Name (10th Anniversary)
"Wherever you are in the world, I swear I'll find you again." Body swap movies are so much more than just clones of FREAKY FRIDAY, and the 2016 anime film YOUR NAME is arguably the best body swap movie in existence. This week, The Wives Colangelo explore what it means for two teenagers to body…
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Save the Last Dance (25th Anniversary)
"We spend more time defending our relationship than actually having one." As chosen by the Patreon Prom Party, this month The Wives Colangelo are stepping up, turning out, and tackling SAVE THE LAST DANCE. A movie remembered more for its memes than its messaging, it's time to have an…
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The Blue Lagoon (1980)
"God. He can't find us any better than Santa Claus." How do we discuss a movie like THE BLUE LAGOON, which was so impactful to a generation of young people, when we are plagued with knowing too much about the depravity of humans? Well, we’re sure going to try. Sometimes a teen girl movie deserves...
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off (40th Anniversary)
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." This Ends at Prom is six years old, and The Wives Colangelo are celebrating with the last John Hughes teen movie they've yet to cover, FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF. A teen movie so beloved it's in the...
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Uptown Girls (2003)
"Act your age, not your shoe size." As chosen by the Patreon supporters, The Wives Colangelo are learning how to grow up, have fun, and process trauma by spinning around in teacups until they puke with UPTOWN GIRLS. Critics didn't understand this film at the time, but legions of fans have turned…
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Wet Hot American Summer (25th Anniversary)
"Well guys, we've made it to the end of the summer in one piece, except for a few campers who are lepers." 25 years ago, one of the greatest summer camp comedies was unleashed on the world, and a generation has been quoting it ever since. It's time for The Wives Colangelo to dive into WET HOT...
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The Sadie Hawkins Dance Teen Boy Movie Takeover!
Have you ever wondered what life is like over on the This Ends at Prom Patreon? Well, since one of The Wives Colangelo is currently recovering from extensive oral surgery and can't exactly speak, we thought you might want to find out for yourself. Enjoy a two-hour compilation of three of our...
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Real Women Have Curves (2002) with Emily Baeza!
"Pretty dresses aren't just for skinny girls." The long-awaited episode of REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES is finally here, and The Wives Colangelo are joined by the Movie Mija herself, Emily Baeza. Let's talk about familial obligation, generational body issues, growing up Latina, and dissect the…
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Summer of '69 (2025)
"I found my sexual fairy godmother in a strip club." Women-led teen sex comedies are nearly non-existent, which is why The Wives Colangelo are gleefully celebrating Jillian Bell's raunchy coming-of-age flick, SUMMER OF '69. Let's talk about fairy godstrippers, hiding your identity behind a…
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Reality Bites (1994)
"How can we repair all the damage we inherited?" Reality Bites defined the coming-of-age experience for Gen-X post-grads in the 1990s and remains a beloved, seminal classic to this day. So, how does it hold up for Millennials in 2026? The Wives Colangelo are bursting with fruit flavor, dissecting...
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Aquamarine (20 Years Later)
"We are not fictional! We're just discreet!" One of the all-time great millennial sleepover movies turns 20 this year, so The Wives Colangelo are getting ready for the Last Splash with AQUAMARINE. An adorable coming-of-age classic that had a generation wishing they could wear starfish as…
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Supergirl (1984)
"You can. On girl!" With a new Supergirl movie in theaters, The Wives Colangelo are going back to her big-screen debut in SUPERGIRL (1984), starring Helen Slater and Faye Dunaway. Joining the show this week is comics expert and arguably the smartest voice on all things Supergirl, the incomparable...
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Forbidden Fruits (2026)
"You know I don't believe in hierarchy in female relationships." What happens when you toss THE CRAFT, MEAN GIRLS, HEATHERS, JAWBREAKER, JENNIFER'S BODY, and ... FINAL DESTINATION in a blender? Well, you get FORBIDDEN FRUITS! This week, The Wives Colangelo are talking about one of their favorite...
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I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
"This isn't the Midnight Realm, Maddy. It's just the suburbs." After two years of begging, The Wives Colangelo (mostly Harmony) are finally discussing I SAW THE TV GLOW. While the movie is responsible for countless individuals recognizing the truth about themselves (yay!), the culture that...
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The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995)
"I don't want to shock you or anything, but I really want to hold your hand right now." As chosen by the This Ends at Prom Patreon supporters, this week The Wives Colangelo are having a charming time talking about THE INCREDIBLY TRUE ADVENTURE OF TWO GIRLS IN LOVE. Things are going to get really...
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Waiting... (2005)
"She broke the cardinal rule: Don't f*ck with people that handle your food." It's Harmony's birthday, so The Wives Colangelo are breaking the rules and talking about a coming-of-age film that wasn't marketed toward teen girls, but certainly resonated with anyone, regardless of gender, who came of...
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Annie (1982)
"I didn't want to be just another orphan, Mr. Warbucks. I wanted to believe I was special." MAY-usical Month 2026 is coming to an end with a movie chosen by our Patreon supporters, ANNIE (1982). This week, The Wives Colangelo are dissecting everyone's favorite red-headed orphan, dissecting the...
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MTV's 2GE+HER (2000)
"There are five basic types in every successful boy band." It's BJ Colangelo's birthday episode, and this year she's celebrating by losing her mind about her favorite not-real, real boy band, MTV's 2GE+HER. The Wives Colangelo are breaking down boy band archetypes, talking about what makes satire...
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Starstruck (1982)
"I want a band. I want amplifiers. I want, I want, I want." It's Jackie Mullins' world, and we're merely the audience waiting for her to rock it. Before Gillian Armstrong gave us LITTLE WOMEN in the 1990s, she gave us a blue-collar music film about a teenage girl with big dreams to be a star. One...
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High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008)
"Once a Wildcat, always a Wildcat!" We're all in this together this MAY-usical month, and we're saying farewell to our friends at East High with HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3: SENIOR YEAR. The rare instance of a made-for-TV movie getting a theatrical sequel, The Wives Colangelo are here to talk about the...
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The Last Song (2010)
"Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers." If Nicholas Sparks has no haters, BJ Colangelo is dead. This week, The Wives Colangelo are diving into Miley Cyrus' first major post-Hannah Montana role in the romantic drama, The Last Song. Discussions include Liam Hemsworth's strange...
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Wild Things (1998)
"People aren't always what they appear to be. Don't forget that." Denise Richards. Neve Campbell. Matt Dillon. Kevin Bacon. Daphne Rubin-Vega. Theresa Russell. and... Bill Murray in a neck brace. Somehow, by some cruel trick of the universe, Harmony Colangelo had not seen WILD THINGS until now....
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Fighting with My Family (2019)
"I am a freak from Norwich, England! And I have dreamt of this since I was 13 years old! And it's not just mine. It belongs to my family!" We're taking you all on the road to WrestleMania, whether you like it or not! The story of Saraya "Paige" Knight is one of wrestling's most fascinating, and…
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Amélie (2001) w/ Liz Gotauco
"You mean she would rather imagine herself relating to an absent person than build relationships with those around her?" If you were a quirky film girlie in the 2000s, chances are, you resonated very deeply with a young French woman named Amélie. This week, The Wives Colangelo are joined by the...
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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005)
"I feel like our lives changed because they had to." As chosen by our Patreon supporters, The Wives Colangelo are kicking off April with a story of summer, sisterhood, and magical pants. Let's talk about four different stories about coming-of-age, the blessing of well-rounded characters, and…
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A Very Brady Sequel (1996) w/ Chelsey Weber-Smith
"That's funny, I've never heard of George Glass at our sküle." Didn't The Wives Colangelo JUST cover The Brady Bunch Movie? And they're already doing A Very Brady Sequel? YEAH, SO WHAT? WANNA FIGHT ABOUT IT?! After catching Brady Fever, This Ends at Prom is jumping from the Jan Brady movie to the...
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023)
"We all do things we're not proud of to survive." Sequel Month is getting the prequel treatment as The Wives Colangelo return to Panem for THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES. This week's episode might be a bit of a heavier one, considering, well, everything, but to fight fascism,...
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Return to Oz (1985)
"I have always valued my lifelessness." We love a sequel that goes completely bugnuts off the rails compared to its original, and RETURN TO OZ has enough kindertrauma to do the trick. Somehow, Harmony missed this classic twisted fantasy that altered the brain chemistry of multiple generations…
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Scream 4 (2011)
"I don't need friends. I need fans." Sequel month 2026 is kicking off with a title chosen by the Patreon supporters, SCREAM 4. This week, The Wives Colangelo are heading back to Woodsboro to dissect the second generation of Ghostface victims and speculate why so many people despise this entry...
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Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (2024)
"We have a company to save. / I'm right on top of that, Rose." Did you know that they recently remade DON'T TELL MOM THE BABYSITTER'S DEAD? Did you know that it is shockingly wonderful? This week, The Wives Colangelo are tackling a remake of one of BJ's all-time-favorite movies, and a movie that...
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Say Anything... (1989) w/ Alex Steed
"I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen." Cameron Crowe's directorial debut is a film solidified in pop culture history thanks to the singular image of John Cusack holding a boom box above his head, but SAY ANYTHING... has a lot more than a Peter Gabriel song to say. This week, The Wives...
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Warm Bodies (2013)
"There's a lot of ways to get to know a person. Eating her dead boyfriend's brains is one of the more unorthodox methods, but..." HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY, PROM PARTY! Love is in the air, and The Wives Colangelo are celebrating by talking about a Romeo & Juliet story where Romeo is a zombie and…
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Smart House (1999) w/ Ross Benes
"The more I've learned about your world outside my walls, the more I've realized how dangerous and unpredictable it is." Long before AI was being shoehorned into every aspect of our existence, the Disney Channel was warning a generation about the dangers of technological dependency with the…
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My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
"Try laughing, then whatever scares you will go away." Few films capture the magic of girlhood quite like MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO, one of the few films that actually prioritizes the perspective of children rather than an "all-ages" affair. This week, The Wives Colangelo are recontextualizing their...
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The Runaways (2010)
"Well, what were you thinking? Publicize the music! Not your crotch!" The Runaways completely changed what was possible for women in rock music, and the stories of Cherie Currie and Joan Jett are the stuff of legend. This week, The Wives Colangelo are taking the 2010 biopic about the band…
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Drop Dead Fred (30th Anniversary)
"It takes more than a fire truck to stop Drop Dead Fred." Some of us aren't lucky enough to have an imaginary friend like DROP DEAD FRED, but plenty of people are fortunate enough not to need him. In honor of the film's 35th anniversary, we're dissecting a quarter-life crisis nervous breakdown...
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Let the Right One In (2008)
Content Warning: LET THE RIGHT ONE IN features troubling topics that may be difficult for some listeners. Please do your due diligence and check for potential triggers. "I'm twelve. But I've been twelve for a long time." In 2008, one of the greatest vampire films in cinema history was released…
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Life-Size (2000)
"Do you know I'm anatomically correct?" While everyone is celebrating entering their "new year, new me" era, This Ends at Prom is kicking off 2026 with the long-awaited discussion of LIFE-SIZE. The movie that strut in plastic heels before Barbie could rollerblade down Venice Beach, The Wives...
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Little Women (2019)
“I’m so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for. I'm so sick of it." The best way to spend the holidays is curled up next to a warm fire and waxing poetic about the March sisters and LITTLE WOMEN. This year, The Wives Colangelo are dissecting Greta Gerwig's adaptation of...
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Saint Frances (2020) w/ Amelia Emberwing!
"That's what I like about you. I never know what you'll say next." Alex Thompson and Kelly O'Sullivan's SAINT FRANCES was one of the best films released during quarantine, and no one has been a bigger champion of it than writer, editor, critic, and host Amelia Emberwing. The Wives Colangelo are...
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Desperately Seeking Susan (40th Anniversary)
"That's what I like about you. I never know what you'll say next." 40 years ago, Madonna transcended into pop star superstardom and helped turn a quarter-life crisis film into a coming-of-age classic that helped define teen fashion for a decade. Many women are shaped by the women who came before...
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Battle Royale (25th Anniversary)
"So today's lesson is, you kill each other off till there's only one left. Nothing's against the rules." 25 years ago, Kinji Fukasaku brought the infamous novel BATTLE ROYALE to life, and essentially invented a new subgenre of dystopian teen cinema. In honor of the film's anniversary, The Wives...
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Sweethearts (2024)
"I... have a girlfriend. She lives in Ohio." The first fall break after leaving your hometown and going off to college is one of the weirdest adjustment periods in a young person's life, and it's weird that SWEETHEARTS is one of the only movies to talk about it! This week The Wives Colangelo are...
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Seventeen Again (2000) w/ Aaron Perine
"I am gonna do what I wanna do! And you know what? I don't need your permission to do it!" What if your grandparents magically turned back into teenagers, and they were so hot that it caused chaos in your high school? And what if you look exactly like your grandma did at your age, so this magical...
About this show
This Ends at Prom is a weekly podcast analyzing the staying power of womanhood featured in coming-of-age and teen girl movies from the queer, feminist cisgender and transgender perspectives of wives BJ Colangelo and Harmony Colangelo.
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