In the final mediasode of the year, the girlies recap December’s media and unveil their faves of 2025. Digressions include Nicki Minaj and Erika Kirk’s haunted collab, porn-length sex scenes right in front of your salad, and the concept of Minnesota.

BOOKS

The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje

The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy

The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison

Heartwood by Amity Gaige

MOVIES

Robby Hoffman: Wake Up

Fargo

Sentimental Value

I Hate Myself :)

Insomnia

The Chronology of Water

Oh, Hi!

The Grinch

TV SHOWS

Pluribus

The Beast in Me

Heated Rivalry

Sean Combs: The Reckoning

The Lowdown

The Sopranos

ARTICLES

Why Does AI Write Like That? by Sam Kriss

How the Phone Ban Saved High School by Anya Kamenetz

Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world by Sirin Kale and Lucy Osborne

JULIA’s BEST OF THE YEAR

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje

My Mom Jane

An Update on Our Family

Pluribus

Lux

ELIZA’S BEST OF THE YEAR

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Reading the Waves by Lida Yuknavitch

Sentimental Value

Born to Be Viral: The Real Lives of Kidfluencers

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