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This Ends at Prom
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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."…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Pregnancy Pact (2010)
"So this is what it feels like to be Jamie Lynn Spears." There are two types of people in this world: People who love Lifetime Original Movies and people named…
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The Brady Bunch Movie, 30 Years Later
"Put on your Sunday best, kids. We're going to Sears!" The Brady Bunch is one of those fascinating TV relics that helped shape American culture for decades, so…
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show: 50th Anniversary w/ Chelsey Weber-Smith
"Don't dream it. Be it." 50 years ago, a midnight movie was unleashed on the American masses that changed the lives of outsider teenagers forever. The Wives…
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The Ugly Stepsister (2025)
"That's the whole point. I'm going to marry the Prince." THE UGLY STEPSISTER is Emilie Blichfeldt's first feature, and it is unfathomable that a first-time…
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Hausu (1977)
"The girls will wake up ... when they are hungry." Is Hausu secretly the most honest coming-of-age teen girl horror movie ever made? This week, The Wives…
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Bit (2019)
"We're made to be monsters, so let's be monsters. Let's be gods." BIT is the intersectional, trans-inclusive, vampire girl gang movie of your dreams, and The…
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Pearl (2022)
"Please, Lord, make me the biggest star the world has ever known so that I may get far, far away from this place. Amen." The Wives Colangelo are kicking off…
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Can't Hardly Wait (1998) w/ Niko Stratis!
"Fate! There is such a thing as fate, but it only takes you so far. Then it's up to you to make it happen." Everyone loves that one last house party after high…
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Dirty Girl (2010)
"If it's a man's world, God wouldn't have made me." This week, The Wives Colangelo are championing the young women who were ever called a "bad influence" and…
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What a Girl Wants (2003)
"Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you are born to stand out?" This week, The Wives Colangelo are hopping the pond and showing up to merry ol' England…