Pearl (2022)
This Ends at Prom
Brennan Klein
4.8 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2025
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
"Please, Lord, make me the biggest star the world has ever known so that I may get far, far away from this place. Amen."
The Wives Colangelo are kicking off the Halloween season by discussing a young woman who will not accept a life she does not deserve, the titular PEARL. Discussions include the liberating excitement of seeing an adult film for the first time, the weird ways repression can manifest (like that scarecrow), how hard it is to accept when strict parents have a point, and the soul-crushing reality of your best not being enough. It's okay, Pearl, you'll always be a star to us!
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MONTHLY SPOTLIGHT
Help Barbara Fight for Her Future After ICE Detention: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-barbara-fight-for-her-future-after-ice-detention
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BJ's Interviews for Pearl:
West, Mia Goth, & David Corenswet: https://www.slashfilm.com/1009401/mia-goth-david-corenswet-and-ti-west-want-you-to-care-about-the-tragic-motivations-of-pearl-exclusive-interview/
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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. |
| 0:05.2 | A coming of age podcast highlighting cinema about or marketed towards teen girls. |
| 0:10.2 | 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. |
| 0:18.8 | Is today's movie a Queen Bee? |
| 0:20.8 | Or are we killing the teen dream? |
| 0:23.2 | Get in loser. |
| 0:24.3 | 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. |
| 0:34.7 | And I don't want to have to work twice as hard for the same motherfucking title but I |
| 0:42.3 | realize that I probably won't be so lucky. |
| 1:00.0 | Legend has it. On quiet afternoons when the sun is shining bright. |
| 1:20.4 | If you happen upon that Texas farmhouse, that's actually New Zealand, you can see Pearl still standing there. |
| 1:31.2 | Lemonade in hand, welcoming Howard home from the war through that excruciating smile, tears running down her face. |
| 1:34.1 | I didn't realize we were doing ghost stories. |
| 1:36.6 | We're telling campfire tales. |
| 1:38.6 | I thought this was a slasher, technically. |
| 1:49.7 | Prom party, it is the most wonderful time of the year. We are talking about horror movies for the entire month. |
| 1:51.1 | More than we normally do, yeah. |
| 1:56.1 | Yeah, more than we. We got five weeks this year. The calendar gods have smiled upon us. And I think, you know, I don't want to get, I don't want to get it, put the horse before the carriage. |
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