The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023)
This Ends at Prom
Brennan Klein
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
"We all do things we're not proud of to survive."
Sequel Month is getting the prequel treatment as The Wives Colangelo return to Panem for THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES. This week's episode might be a bit of a heavier one, considering, well, everything, but to fight fascism, you have to know how it operates. Fortunately, the dystopian prequel does a pretty bang-up job at showcasing how leaders like Coriolanus Snow come to power, why you should never trust state-controlled media, and how the seeds of resistance take so long to come to harvest. Happy Hunger Games, and may the odds, as always, be ever in your favor.
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Article Mentioned
In ‘The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes,’ Lucy Gray Is a Different Kind of Hero in Katniss’ World
(https://www.teenvogue.com/story/the-ballad-of-songbirds-and-snakes-lucy-gray-katniss-hunger-games)
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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. |
| 0:10.3 | 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. |
| 0:25.8 | People make fun of us for loving. |
| 0:28.5 | I don't want to be your merch, girl. |
| 0:31.8 | I want to be your goddamn idol. |
| 0:35.3 | And I don't want to have to work twice as hard for the same motherfucking title |
| 0:41.3 | but I realize that I probably won't be so lucky. |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:00.0 | I hate that we need to talk about a movie, and I don't even have an effie trinket to distract me from |
| 1:12.8 | the horrors. No, you get lucky Flickerman who is so much more callous about being evil. |
| 1:20.2 | Listen, he's a magician. We should never trust him. I'm seeing too much behind the scenes stuff |
| 1:24.6 | of the Flickerman family to know, like, Caesar, at least I only saw |
| 1:28.6 | like his big tooth grin versus Lucky. I'm like, oh, God, I'm seeing when he's not on the |
| 1:32.9 | air. I don't like it. Oh, yeah. And that just like the summation of this movie, I'm seeing too |
| 1:36.9 | much of what's not on the air. Oh, yeah. We're seeing what's going on behind the scenes and |
| 1:41.6 | sausage is getting made, man. It's a fucking nightmare. |
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