Good For Nothing? Why We’ve All Had Enough Of Wicked
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
As we're all subjected to another Wicked press tour for the second instalment of the blockbuster, the question on everyone's lips is whether the Wicked press tour ever stopped in the first place? Greeted with another series of emotional interviews, reaction tweets and harrowing body discourse, it felt urgent to dissect what precisely is dampening the furore this time around.
This week, hosts (and Wicked haters) Ione and Gina take their magnifying class to the discourse surrounding Wicked: For Good. Have we all become desensitised to memeing eating disorders, is the palpable fatigue from the stars getting in the way of our enjoyment or does it just boil down to the fact that the film itself just isn't very, well, good?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Gina. Hi, Ioni. Hi everyone. I'm Gina, the senior editor, Polyester. And I'm Iioni, the founding editor-in-chief of Polyester, and this is the Polyester podcast, a feminist pop culture podcast dissecting the discourse on a weekly basis. Please make sure to like, rate, subscribe and review. And if you haven't yet, make sure to subscribe to our membership platform for exclusive |
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| 0:35.5 | in our description do we have any reviews, I or need? |
| 0:38.7 | We do. Five stars from Four Nile in the US of A, my favourite podcast. I've been listening to |
| 0:45.0 | this podcast for around six-ish months now and I'm absolutely obsessed. At the time I discovered the |
| 0:50.1 | polyester podcast, I was in a space where I felt was lacking feminist media. So finding this |
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| 1:03.1 | podcast. It's a huge breath of fresh air as someone who is constantly surrounded by conservative |
| 1:07.8 | media these days. Thank you so much. Thank you. I also want to note this is our like second to last review. So if you haven't done one, yeah? Get the reviews in, girls. Please. Also, I think the platform we use has an updated for ages. But anyway, that's by the bye. We'll do it anyway. Yeah. On Spotify, we have Liz. This is on the T-app episode from the summer Liz says Heartbreaking I'm mainly hearing about the party now when I was catching up all August always love you lovely ladies and your beautiful minds reminds me of chats with my friends with some extra information as one friend put it peer-reviewed banter the type of pod i've been wanting my mates to make with me love you |
| 1:46.1 | have a great week besties kiss-kiss which is so cute and great for you because we're having another party |
| 1:50.9 | and it also love you too the tickets will probably be announced maybe today today smile keep you |
| 1:57.7 | you used to the ground and your fingers on the button because they'll fly out |
| 2:01.0 | yeah there's only a few and if you remember you get to come for free anyway lily says this is on |
| 2:07.9 | last week's episode another great episode couldn't help but think of howard from the halifax ads closing |
| 2:12.8 | this all down after gina's plea howard we need you I don't even know who that is. So today... |
| 2:17.6 | You do? |
| 2:18.3 | No. |
| 2:19.2 | He's not the go-compair man, is he? |
| 2:21.1 | No, he's from the 90s, and he's like a small with round glasses on and looked like a mole. No, I dare. I must be too young. I don't think you're too young. We're at the same age. No, we're not. we are you're 32 |
| 2:31.6 | soon |
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