Sweet Valley Diaries

Super Thriller #3: NO PLACE TO HIDE w/guest readers Jack Shepherd and Tanner Greenring

8 Simple Rules for Dating My Fake Ghost Grandniece

SURPRISE! Did we spook ya? Marissa is joined by fellow 80s/90s juvenile lit series aficionados and podcasters Jack Shepherd and Tanner Greenring of the Baby-Sitters Club Club. The meddling twins are back, and so is Nicholas Morrow! This one has it all: possible ghosts, jealous painters, mayoral races, Ronoma County...prepare to be thrilled, yet again!

Listen to Marissa on BSCC's "Sweet Sweet Valley Boys" Interlude

Vandelay Industries supercut

DoesTheDogDie.com

Jet Li’s THE ONE (2001)

Babysitters Club Club Podcast Feed

BSCC Little Sister Patreon Show

Some music from this episode courtesy of Purple Planet.

Extra Drama #54: Twin Powers and Trigger Warnings

What a fun world

Do twins really have super communication powers? Does goofy drama make scary stuff easier to swallow? Have "mentally unstable" villains kept us from tackling our own mental health issues? TWO-BOY WEEKEND is the gift that keeps on giving...us more questions to ponder! Teya Patt returns, of course.

Super Thriller #1: DOUBLE JEOPARDY with guest reader Don Flaxbart [Podcast]

Hey, the Twins solve murders now!

Hiatus, schmiatus -- back by popular demand, it's Don Flaxbart. (Also featuring Marissa.) Listen as father and daughter discuss the heavy implications of Jessica's scheming -- even heavier than usual this time! -- as she helps nearly ruin one young man's life and another's journalism career. But don't worry, it's all okay in the end. Oh, except for the murdered girl. But anyway, back to junior year!

 

See also:

Libel vs. Slander

Original recap

Music in this episode from Purple Planet and Filmstro

Extra Drama #41: GUILTY PARTY: The Molly Hecht Story [Podcast bonus episode]

She host wanted to throw a party. She never meant for anyone to die.

Marissa and her guest, expert in melodramatic Lifetime Original movies Megan Tripp, brainstorm the LOM version of Molly Hecht’s ON THE EDGE/OUTCAST saga.

Listen to more Lifetime movie talk on Megan's Not Another Bad Movie Podcast

Book #41: OUTCAST w/guest reader Megan Tripp [Season 5 Podcast Premiere!]

Molly, shmolly. WHERE IS JAN?

Season 5 Premiere! We’re back, baby! And all our Sweet Valley Friends are back too. Except…you know…Regina. Who better to focus on in the aftermath of a beloved character’s untimely death than the background player everyone is holding responsible for said death? Lifetime Original Movie podcaster/enthusiast Megan Tripp joins Marissa for a particularly Lifetime Original episode of our teen soap pulp.

NOT ANOTHER BAD MOVIE PODCAST

 

 

Book #40: ON THE EDGE Season 4 Finale w/guest readers Dr. Anjali and Gregory JM Kasunich (Podcast Episode)

At last, a Very Special Episode

Lessons literature/life taught Marissa and guests Anjali and Greg Kasunich this week:

• Don’t do cocaine
• Don’t gossip
• As a society, let’s take a guilt Pprsche. 
• Check rich people’s mailboxes for car keys.  
• Seriously, don’t even think about going near anyone who knows about cocaine 

 

Links to boost your mood:

Dirge Without Music, Edna St. Vincent Millay

Sophie Strauss, Gone music video (d. Gregory JM Kasunich)

Dr. Anjali Kasunich, ND

 

 

Book #24: MEMORIES [Podcast]

Thanks to Betsy Martin, my eggs are cold.

Steven is in a love triangle with Cara and a ghost. Elizabeth is hoping to replace Todd with a doppelgänger. Jessica is trying to get Winston to take her to The Caravan. In short, all three of the Wakefield siblings are back on their bullshit, and Katie LaDue returns to discuss it all.

Sweet Valley Diaries Podcast Episode #15: PROMISES

Cancer, death, secrets, Luke Skywalker, alcoholism, teen drug use, threesomes at Miller's Point...and that's just Chapter One! Marissa is joined by guest Kali Baker-Johnson to unpack what PROMISES to be the greatest SVH book yet...or at the very least, Jessica's worst.

 

 

Download Issue #1 of ZAHRA: THE SHADOW FLAME

Sweet Valley High TV Theme Song, "Kind of an ear worm!" raves Kali.

Music in this episode courtesy of:

Jocelyn Scofield (as ever) and www.purpleplanet.com. Theme song is by Marissa Flaxbart.

If you'd like to read the original, 2006 blog post on PROMISES, click here. 

Podcast Bonus Episode! Extra Drama #13: Tactlessness & Corrupted Super Powers

(Listen to the main KIDNAPPED!  episode first!)

 

Marissa and guest Mischa Stanton eavesdrop on an upsetting conversation between Jessica Wakefield and Cara Walker, then travel in their mental time machines back to the days before cell phone ubiquity. 

 

Sweet Valley Diaries Podcast Ep #12: WHEN LOVE DIES

 

This is what it sounds like...when love dies.

Sweet Valley High goes full soap opera and Marissa talks through the pain with teen television drama aficionado Katie LaDue. Oh, and file this one under "Very Special Episodes" because the topic of facing one's own mortality made us accidentally get a little real. Oops!

Further reading:

Does Chloroform Really Knock People Out Like It Does in the Movies?

Marissa's initial take on WHEN LOVE DIES (from 2006).