“Woman Inherits the Earth” is a mother-daughter podcast primarily about women in film. We will discuss movies directed by women, as well as those in which women characters or the treatment of women is the focus of the story. We may on occasion also examine women in television, both from a creative standpoint - women writers and showrunners - and looking at the stories and characters that showcase women’s lives.
We may talk about production values one minute and stereotypes the next. Many of the issues we will examine are not new to our national dialogue and may involve politics, the workplace, economic and racial disparities, laws, culture, family dynamics, gender roles, and the very nature of how we live our everyday lives. Bias Disclaimer: We bring a feminine, woman-focused, feminist perspective to this discussion.
“Woman Inherits the Earth” is brought to you by the hosts of “Where You Lead,” a podcast about “The Gilmore Girls” that originally aired in 2022-2023 and is still available on Spotify and YouTube (but no new episodes are currently planned).
Woman Inherits the Earth: Children of Men
In this, the Children of Men episode of the pod, Beth and Tess discuss a movie about the bleak far-off future of…2027! Topics include Michael Caine’s performance as a hippie, the music of the dystopia, a lot about how the children are very literally our future, how gender relates to violence, and what do you do in a world without hope?
In this, the Fifth Element episode of the pod, Beth and Tess discuss a movie about the future that’s actually fun, sci-fi stories where humanity gets neither better nor worse but remains obsessed with McDonalds, the vibes and politics of the 90s, Gary Oldman, Chris Tucker, the gender fluidity of Ruby Rhod, and whether a movie has to make any sense at all to be good.
Content warning: some adult language and frank discussion of the sexual content of a film.
A note about spoilers: As much as we’d love to make this a spoiler-free podcast, the truth is, we can’t really get much of a discussion going without completely spoiling the plot of the film we’re talking about. If you don’t want to be spoiled, watch the movie before you listen to us.
Special thanks to aceinet, who recorded our intro and outro song, “Floyd Filtertron DA Shuffle.”
PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/WomanInheritstheEarth
Find Tess at https://www.tessadair.com/
Find Beth on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/stl_writer_beth/ or on Facebook at bethvonbehrenWRITER.
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Woman Inherits the Earth: Jurassic Park
In this, the Jurassic Park episode of the pod, Beth and Tess discuss the origin of our show’s name! Other topics include loving a movie so much you have no choice but to nitpick it, the endless appeal of Jeff Goldblum, Beth’s argument for why Muldoon should have survived, and what Jurassic Park might have to say about the coming AI apocalypse.
Content warning: discussion of movie deaths.
Extra Spoiler Note: This episode contains mild spoilers for all 3 original Jurassic Park movies, the first Jurassic World movie, Schindler’s List, and Alien.
A note about spoilers: As much as we’d love to make this a spoiler-free podcast, the truth is, we can’t really get much of a discussion going without completely spoiling the plot of the film we’re talking about. If you don’t want to be spoiled, watch the movie before you listen to us.
Special thanks to aceinet, who recorded our intro and outro song, “Floyd Filtertron DA Shuffle.”
PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/WomanInheritstheEarth
Find Tess at https://www.tessadair.com/
Find Beth on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/stl_writer_beth/ or on Facebook at bethvonbehrenWRITER.
#feministpodcast #feminism #podcast #moviepodcast
Woman Inherits the Earth: Alien
In this, the Alien episode of the pod, Beth and Tess discuss scifi horror, the gender politics (or lack thereof) of Alien, Beth’s unabiding love of Yaphet Kotto, and what it means to stare into the abyss.
Content warning: discussion of body horror and other horror movie-level violence, and discussion of partial nudity.
Extra Spoiler Note: This episode contains spoilers for Alien, Aliens.
A note about spoilers: As much as we’d love to make this a spoiler-free podcast, the truth is, we can’t really get much of a discussion going without completely spoiling the plot of the film we’re talking about. If you don’t want to be spoiled, watch the movie before you listen to us.
Special thanks to aceinet, who recorded our intro and outro song, “Floyd Filtertron DA Shuffle.”
PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/WomanInheritstheEarth
Find Tess at https://www.tessadair.com/
Find Beth on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/stl_writer_beth/ or on Facebook at bethvonbehrenWRITER.
Woman Inherits the Earth: Terminator 1 & 2
In this, the Terminator episode of the pod, Beth and Tess discuss the feminist legacy, such as it is, of Sarah Connor, what makes a good robot story, Data from Star Trek and the Iron Giant, and finally all possible iterations of a time travel story and whether Terminator’s time travel story makes any sense at all.
Content warning: discussion of action movie violence.
Extra Spoiler Note: This episode contains spoilers for Terminator 1 & 2, but also for The Iron Giant, 12 Monkeys, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and multiple episodes of Star Trek: Voyager, including the finale.
A note about spoilers: As much as we’d love to make this a spoiler-free podcast, the truth is, we can’t really get much of a discussion going without completely spoiling the plot of the film we’re talking about. If you don’t want to be spoiled, watch the movie before you listen to us.
Special thanks to aceinet, who recorded our intro and outro song, “Floyd Filtertron DA Shuffle.”
PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/WomanInheritstheEarth
Find Tess at https://www.tessadair.com/
Find Beth on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/stl_writer_beth/ or on Facebook at bethvonbehrenWRITER.
Woman Inherits the Earth: X-Men
In this, the X-Men episode of the pod, Beth and Tess discuss their deep and abiding love for Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, no less than 3 X-Men/Star Trek connections, a poor use of your Halle Berry, the many layered themes of the X-Men comics, and who has the best comic book hairdo of them all.
Content warning: discussion of action movie violence and misogyny.
A note about spoilers: As much as we’d love to make this a spoiler-free podcast, the truth is, we can’t really get much of a discussion going without completely spoiling the plot of the film we’re talking about. If you don’t want to be spoiled, watch the movie before you listen to us.
Special thanks to aceinet, who recorded our intro and outro song, “Floyd Filtertron DA Shuffle.”
PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/WomanInheritstheEarth
Find Tess at https://www.tessadair.com/
Find Beth on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/stl_writer_beth/ or on Facebook at bethvonbehrenWRITER.
#feministpodcast #feminism #podcast #moviepodcast
Woman Inherits the Earth: Birds of Prey
In this, the Birds of Prey episode of the pod, Beth and Tess discuss the unusual history of Harley Quinn as a character, the visual drama of certain action scenes, tropes and how to subvert them, and of course, the best bacon-and-egg sandwich that money can buy.
Content warning: discussion of action movie violence…and poop.
A note about spoilers: As much as we’d love to make this a spoiler-free podcast, the truth is, we can’t really get much of a discussion going without completely spoiling the plot of the film we’re talking about. If you don’t want to be spoiled, watch the movie before you listen to us.
Special thanks to aceinet, who recorded our intro and outro song, “Floyd Filtertron DA Shuffle.”
Woman Inherits the Earth: Captain Marvel
Quick programming note: due to a technical error, we lost about half of our original recording and had to record a new ending. This has resulted in a bit of repetition and awkwardness, which we’ve done our best to edit around.
In this, the Captain Marvel episode of the pod, Beth and Tess discuss the neverending nature of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the multiple different Captain Marvels of comics, the ever-endearing Samuel L. Jackson, Blockbuster and 90s nostalgia, and the convoluted lore of Captain Marvel.
Content warning: coarse language, minor discussion of violence. This one is actually pretty light, folks!
A note about spoilers: As much as we’d love to make this a spoiler-free podcast, the truth is, we can’t really get much of a discussion going without completely spoiling the plot of the film we’re talking about. If you don’t want to be spoiled, watch the movie before you listen to us.
Special thanks to aceinet, who recorded our intro and outro song, “Floyd Filtertron DA Shuffle.”
PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/WhereYouLead
Find Tess at https://www.tessadair.com/
Find Beth on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/stl_writer_beth/ or on Facebook at bethvonbehrenWRITER.
#feministpodcast #feminism #podcast #moviepodcast
