Hey there, longest, shortest time listener. Be honest. Do you like listening to stories about

parenthood and reproductive health? Do you like when they're bold and complicated and funny and

poignant all at the same time? Of course you do. That's why you listen to the show, and it's part of what makes you special.

So I want to invite you to join our special club. It's called LST Plus, and when you join, you get all kinds of cool stuff.

You get to be part of our community where you can bond with other listeners.

You get to suggest story ideas for future episodes. You get access to a whole other show

with super awesome college kids talking about sex, dating, and relationships. And you get to hang out

with me and reproductive health experts and past guests and ask them questions. Membership is just

50 bucks a year or seven bucks a month. And if you want to

give more, you can. We've relaunched independently. So when you join the club, you're helping this

show to simply exist. Sign up is easy. Just go to longest shortest time.com slash club. See you there. See you there. On Friday nights in my house, we order in and watch TV.

Me, my husband, and our daughter, who's 15.

Last fall, we binged the third and final season of the summer I Turned Pretty.

When it was over, we were all like, boo, that's a terrible ending.

But my daughter says, a lot of kids she knows loved it.

They thought it was so romantic.

Which kind of freaks me out, because I don't just think the end of the summer I turn pretty is disappointing.

I think it's dangerous.

I wanted to talk about this on the show with someone, someone who knows TV and knows teens.

I'm Kristen Mineser. I'm a pop culture critic, and I'm a co-host of The Nightly, which is a bedtime podcast for pop culture lovers.

Kristen was on our recent episode, TV to spark conversations with adolescent kids, where she talked about the TV she loves to watch with the young people in her life.

nieces, nephews, honorary nieces and nephews.

...