KPop Demon Hunters (2025) w/ Laura Sirikul
This Ends at Prom
Brennan Klein
4.8 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
“That’s the funny thing about hope. Nobody else gets to decide if you feel it. That choice belongs to you.”
We're goin' up, up, up! It's our moment! You know together we're glowin'! KPOP DEMON HUNTERS has quickly become a phenomenon, and we are loving every second of it. This week, The Wives Colangelo are doing a deep dive into the world of K-pop with film journalist, culture critic, host, and K-pop superfan, Laura Sirikul! Why is everyone so obsessed with this movie? What makes this animated film one of the best of the year? Will "Golden" rightfully earn an Oscar nomination? Will Harmony finally become a K-pop fan?! Let's get into it!
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Interviews Referenced
Laura interviews Arden Cho for Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurasirikul/2025/08/28/kpop-demon-hunters-reignited-arden-chos-love-for-acting-again/
Laura interviews EJAE for Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurasirikul/2025/07/01/kpop-demon-hunters-songwriter-reveals-music-and-song-inspirations/
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Social Media Plugs
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Instagram @lsirik
Twitter @lsirikul
Bluesky @lsirikul.bsky.social
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Logo Design: Haley Doodles @HaleyDoodleDo
Theme Song: The Sonder Bombs 'Title': https://thesonderbombs.bandcamp.com/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and salutations, and welcome to This Ends at Prom. |
| 0:05.0 | A coming-of-age podcast highlighting cinema about or marketed towards teen girls. |
| 0:10.3 | I'm one of your hosts, BJ Colangelo, and I'm joined by my wife. |
| 0:14.6 | Harmony Colangelo, a trans woman who grew up watching none of these movies. |
| 0:18.9 | Is today's movie a Queen Bee? |
| 0:20.9 | Or are we killing the teen dream? |
| 0:23.2 | Get in loser. |
| 0:24.4 | We're analyzing the movies. |
| 0:25.7 | People make fun of us for loving. |
| 0:28.3 | I don't want to be your merch, girl. |
| 0:31.8 | I want to be your goddamn idol. |
| 0:35.2 | And I don't want to have to work twice as hard |
| 0:38.5 | for the same motherfucking title |
| 0:41.6 | but I |
| 0:43.5 | realize |
| 0:46.0 | that I |
| 0:50.3 | probably won't |
| 0:52.8 | be so lucky. |
| 1:00.0 | Prom party, at the time at the time that we are recording this episode, K-pop |
| 1:09.5 | Demon Hunters not only won the box office after being |
| 1:13.7 | streamed, I don't know, hundreds of millions of times, but is also now the literal most watched |
| 1:21.0 | Netflix original movie in the platform's history. In like what, a month? Yes, less than a month. Yeah. And also, |
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