Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr Podcast
1) Mailbag 46: Skam Follow-Up & Dec Book Club Announcement
Oh my gosh, we get it: YOU LIKE SKAM!We have *never* gotten as much listener mail as we did for episodes 1-2 of Skam S01, so thank you to listeners Reuben, Earl, Charlotte, Anne, and Alex, who touch o...Show More
2) Dark Harvest
Brenna and Joe kick off scary season with Norman Partridge's 2007 Stoker award winning novel Dark Harvest and David Slade's 2023 adaptation.The book isn't exactly YA (and intriguingly features a secon...Show More
3) Last Swim (2024)
Brenna and Joe unofficially wrap up summer with Sasha Nathani's feature directorial debut Last Swim (2024). The UK film is about Ziba (Deba Hakmat), a girl with an undisclosed terminal disease, who pl...Show More
4) Skam S01 (2015): Episodes 1 - 2
At the urging of past guest Alex Heeney, Joe and Brenna finally check out Skam, the "Norweigan Skins" that began airing in 2015.In the first two episodes, we under why the show translates to "Shame" a...Show More
5) Mailbag 45: Weeding The Library
Brenna and Joe respond to listener mail from Shaun (about Book Weeding), Andrew (about Harry Potter references in Felix Ever After), and Tea, Books & Chocolate (about a great Douglas Copeland quote).W...Show More
6) A Good Girl's Guide To Murder
Brenna and Joe dig into the death of Andie Bell with a look at Holly Jackson's A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (2019) and S01 of the BBC3/Netflix series.There's plenty to like in this well-constructed m...Show More
7) Book Club: Clap When You Land (2020)
Book Club is back in session for the last time this summer as Brenna and Joe dig into Elizabeth Acevedo's novel in verse, Clap When You Land (2020).We're joined by listeners Tea, Books & Chocolate, as...Show More
8) Skins Series 2: Episodes 9 & 10
Brenna and Joe are back to wrap up Series two of Skins and...it's a lot of mixed emotions!On one hand, we think 2.10 "Final Goodbyes" is a pretty solid finish for these characters, while 2.09 "Cassie"...Show More
9) Dìdi (2024)
It's been a while since we've had a feel good coming of age dramaedy, so Joe has brought Brenna writer/director Sean Yang's Dìdi (2024).Obviously Brenna has big feels about mother Chungsing (Joan Chen...Show More
10) Skins Series 2: Episodes 7 & 8
Brenna and Joe are barrelling towards the finale of Skins Series 02, but first we need to cross off the back-door pilot for Series 03 with 2.07 "Effie" and (finally!) a Jal-centric episode with 2.08.I...Show More