It's a very Aughtsterion holiday, as the fifth season of the pod debuts with Eli Roth's latest (and possibly best??) effort: Thanksgiving. Based on the trailer for a fake movie of the same name that rolled in between Grindhouse movies back in 2007, this Thanksgiving, as some anonymous internet commenter described it, like if someone made a 2000s re…

As a special nod to the waning hours of PRIDE month, Jordan and Sam have made the time for a very special episode. It's not horror, but it is the second entry in a softcore comedy franchise called Eating Out, and this time you're getting the Sloppy Seconds. From 2006, this sequel reaches for the stars and becomes one of the — now keep an open mind …

Is it gonna work out for the dipshit in the mask this time? Sam and Jordan are skeptical!! In part 2 of the Aughts pod special coverage of Scream VI, your co hosts venture into the subway, the kill palace, and Gale's Upper West Side apartment as their friends traverse Manhattan to vanquish a killer. Or! Killers! It's time to celebrate Tara throwing…

It's an Aughtsterion Christmas in March. One year after the Scream franchise returned with its 5th installment — which your hosts were full supporters of by the end — chapter 6 has arrived to officially mark the beginning of the Radio Silence era of the franchise. Yes, nü Scream was directed by the duo of Gillette and Bettinelli-Olpin, but the need…

Congratulations, graduates! You've made it to the end of Aughtsterion season 4, but before you all fan out to pursue your dreams — and before we reconvene for season 5 — Sam and Jordan have some awards to hand out. Who was the best actress of this class? What was the best picture? Which villain had the best Moment, and does anyone care about the ac…

In the second half of the Baughts team's talk about M3GAN, Sam, Margot and Jordan finally get to the main event of this conversation. Which is: Why is M3gan so... gay?? It's a comprehensive answer, but the Cliff's Notes answer is, well, everything. Your co-hosts also get into the evergreen favorite topic of friendship love stories, why our robot go…

The Botcast and Aughtsterion have teamed up for one of 2023's most critical new releases: M3GAN. Sitting dead center in the bullseye of Margot, Jordan and Sam's interests, this Akela Cooper-penned movie about a robot companion who takes her mandate of protection a little too far demands analysis that only two scholars of the 2000s and robot cinema …

It is the week of Christmas, and as both a pro-horror and pro-holiday podcast, Aughtsterion has convened to celebrate a new double-genre classic. Sam and Jordan liked the new movie Violent Night so much that they had to record a Seasons Greetings episode about it. From Dead Snow director Tommy Wirkola and the up and coming action factory 87North (s…

After a mid-ish season hiatus, Sam and Jordan returned with a most esteemed guest. The film scholar, programmer, journalist, appreciator, and all around all star Anna Bogutskaya joins the Aughts pod to talk about a most special little jewel: Lucky McKee's May. This is the second McKee joint your co-hosts have covered, and he remains an era MVP, pro…

If you've come this far, it means you're ready to crawl into the scary sewer and join Sam and Jordan for part two of their conversation about Halloween Ends — the the Jason Goes To Hell of Michael Myers movies, the erotic thriller of the decades old franchise, the movie where marching band kids are villains and the new main character guy and The Sh…

It's been a topical year for the Aughts pod, with so many new releases being filed — either directly or tangentially — alongside hits from the millennium era. And this time, Sam and Jordan go to Haddonfield for Halloween Ends. We were told in the abhorrent Halloween Kills that "Evil dies tonight!" That wasn't even true, but could it be now that... …

You've heard the case for how Britney Spears set the stage for Jason X to be born, and now your co-hosts are ready to dive into the movie itself. Part 1 was all about the rise of the remix, and now Part 2 is where we get to dig into the specifics the zaddy zombie with a machete, the Fembot icon KM-14, the final girl who deserved at last two more fr…

On this week's episode of the Aughts pod, Jordan and Sam are crossing over with the Botcast. Robot cinema specialist Margot Carlson joins Team 2000s to unpack one of the decade's early misfits, a movie with an egregious Rotten Tomatoes rating that dares to ask: What if Jason... got an upgrade? Jason X is the intersection of robot cinema and party h…

It's been a great year for horror generally, and it has been an amazing year for aughts horror surging back into the box office. We got a fifth Scream that managed to stand up with almost 30 years of the franchise before it and keep the Ghostface death squad kicking, and now we've been given the case for dusting off old IP. It's the prequel to end …

Coming hot on the heels of one of the 2000's most teachable moments, 2009's Friday the 13th, comes its midnight twin, a case for sleaze, an answer to the question, "Ok, Jordan. If the trash bits in Jason '09 are bad then what trash bits are good???" And your co-hosts are here to tell you: Piranha 3DD from 2012 is the movie you seek! Alexandre Aja's…

In an era filled with cautionary tales, the Aughts pod looks to celebrate what was good about that time. But in the case of this episode, your co-hosts are making a rare break from form to focus on a movie that took all the wrong lessons from the 2000s and ended up as Jordan's nadir of the remake machine. This is the anti-Aughtsterion movie. This i…

On the Aughtsterion podcast your co-hosts specialize in celebrating the unheralded heroes of the 2000s — the era's secret Final Girl MVP, Katie Cassidy; the best monologue you've never heard in The Quiet; one of the only substantially meaningful cinematic gender swaps of all time in The Hitcher. And in this very special episode of season 4, Sam and…

If you're going to talk about treasures of the 2000s, you simply can't stop the conversation before discussing The Ruins. The Aughts pod has easy work to do with titles like House of Wax and The Hitcher, since there's a higher level of buy in from the start. But the archivists' work is done with titles that didn't have the weight of classic reputat…

Welcome back, Aughtsterion fans! It's been months and months since Sam and Jordan brought their boundless passion for Millennium-era genre films with new episodes, but they are making up for the delay with a big hitter for the season 4 premiere. Your co-hosts are joined by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Emerald Fennell, whose movie Promising Yo…

In a rare moment for the Aughts pod, Sam and Jordan are of two different minds in this episode all about the new movie X. "But X...?" you're wondering. "How is this Aughtsterion material?" Well, the short answer is: Their pod their rules! But the longer one is, Ti West was part of the great indie surge of the late 2000s, making him a legacy charact…

It's that time again, Aughts fans! It's time to celebrate Sam's birthday with the franchise he is making an American slasher tradition: My Super Psycho Sweet 16. In what's become an annual event for Aughtsterion, your co-hosts have gathered for the Pisces treat of talking about the best horror franchise you haven't been watching religiously, starri…

Fire up that siren, Aughts fans, because Scream 6 is a go! Sam, Jordan, and the millions of others who drove the film to box office success have been clamoring for more since seeing the fifth film, and now that the good word is out, your co-hosts have some feelings they wanted to process about this welcome sequel news. Feelings like: It's ok if Sid…

Alas, the time has come, the time to say goodbye to our friends on Dylan Island. I Know What You Did Last Summer the series became a beloved part of the Aughts pod, and Sam and Jordan will miss all their friends — especially Margot — as they gaze off the bluff and out over the ocean of Not Renewed Television Shows. In the end, this show delivered, …

As Sam and Jordan move into their second hour of conversation about new Scream, the excitement level rises as they relive how the film really hits its stride in the back half. We get to see new franchise all stars like Jasmin Savoy Brown and Melissa Barrera shine, we get to see villains run amuck, and we get to see Sidney and Gale take no shit whil…

By definition, Aughtsterion doesn't make it a point to cover new movies, but it would be a dereliction of purpose for Sam and Jordan to not sit down and hash out their every little thought about the latest in the franchise that really started this whole podcast: Scream. Your co-hosts hit the theater together to watch part 5 (at least in Jordan's vi…

Yellowjackets may not be an Aughts era show based on the year it debuted, but it sure is an Aughts era show since it's half set in 1996! Sam and Jordan are simply obsessed with the season 1 finale of the breakout series, and have to process their feelings over Jackie and Shauna and best friend breakups and the most shocking horror of all. They're p…

For the final Aughtsmas episode of the pod, Sam and Jordan are talking about the hit movie based on the success of a movie that came out almost a decade before it: the Love Actually inspired holiday rom-com New Year's Eve from 2011. This movie is like the second layer of carbon paper on a document with attached copies. This movie is like a 2007 Tay…

Love Actually is many things — a millennial Christmas classic, a problematic fave, a time capsule that glamorizes abuse of power in the workplace as romantic, an R-rated rom com, a surprisingly queer positive (well, considering the context...) string of love stories, etc. — and while Sam and Jordan couldn't possibly cover everything there is to tal…

For your second annual Aughtsterion Christmas Mix, Sam and Jordan are switching gears big time from last year's compilation. They're not going on a Lohan Holiday. They're not doing the Christmas Macarena. They're turning almost all the way down and getting indie and emo. Have you heard the bells on Christmas day yet? Have you ever spent a melanchol…

It's been a minute, but don't worry: Sam and Jordan are still watching I Know What You Did Last Summer, and they are still getting their lives from it. Episode 7 is massive, with a shocking death, a shocking time jump, a shocking confession, and a shocking lack of interest by anyone in where Dylan disappeared to when he left Margot's! There's also …

Aughtsmas might have started with the shiny studio fare of the 2000s, but now Sam and Jordan are taking it back to an unsung hero of the 1990s: Mimi Rogers as the scent savant Melody Parris in The Christmas List. She is the most normal woman to ever have a Christmas, and she's an icon! Your co-hosts are talking about how no matter what, Melody is j…

Happy Aughtsmas, everyone! For this mini season, Sam and Jordan are diverging into Sam's passion for holiday movies and spotlighting some of the millennium era's most crucial Christmas titles. And they're kicking off the month with one of Jordan's all time favorite comedies: Just Friends. Straight from the Halcyon days of the Ryan Reynolds romantic…

We did it, Aughts fam. Another season in the books, and that means it's time for Sam and Jordan to take stock of the most recent slate of films and honor the best of the best. The picks on offer here are all timers, hall of famers, the 1% of the 1%. Can anyone challenge Leah Pipes for title of best supporting actress? Can anyone take the crown and …

In the Aughts pod coverage of I Know What You Did Last Summer episode 6, Sam and Jordan have come to fight. Why? Because not only does Riley go out, she goes out in the worst possible way. The level of disrespect shown to our little drug dealer with a heart of gold might be unforgivable, but your co-hosts are, simultaneously, over the moon about Ma…

Welcome, listeners, to episode 5 coverage of Dylan Island, more commonly known as I Know What You Did Last Summer the TV show! Our group of little liars is setting out for some adventures in this chapter, including exploring the ruins of the local defunct cult and also sitting through some really lackluster interrogations with local law enforcement…

For the season 2 finale of Aughtsterion, Sam and Jordan are getting you emotionally ready for the arrival of fifth Scream with its lately reappraised precursor, Scream 4. Your co-hosts are covering the finely aged qualities of Wes Craven's final film — including the triple cold open and Jill's proclamation that she doesn't need FRIENDS she needs FA…

Sam and Jordan are four episodes into I Know What You Did Last Summer the show, and they're wondering more and more: Why does Riley exist to tell us about Dylan as she addresses Dylan directly to his face? Is this a secret triplet situation? Who is Alison and Lennon's mother really? And... why Harold?? This is the installment where IKWYDLS goes ful…

In episode 3 of I Know What You Did Last Summer, the bodies are starting to pile up. Our gang of little liars is on edge, and paranoid that the body they thought they left for dead in that cave after graduation last year actually came back to life and is now hunting them all down. Alison continues to be a half assed Lennon at best, but we love her …

The second episode of IKWYDLS on Prime thankfully mellows out on the teen speak and gets more grounded than the raucous party scene of the first, and it's also got some emotionally dense father-daughter time between "Lennon" and her dad. Sam and Jordan are back on the scene to walk through it all with you, from the *many* salt licks Dylan is settin…

This episode of the Aughts pod is a special one, because your co-hosts are discussing a pick that is extra near and dear to Sam's heart. It's time to break ground on the Final Destination franchise, but not with the Devon Sawa original. No, in characteristic fashion we're going to kick it off with FD5 — which happens to be the entry with the highes…

A quintessential millennium era horror title has been revived as a series, and Sam and Jordan have decided they have no choice but to cover it. I Know What You Did Last Summer is now streaming on Prime, and it's ignoring your nostalgia while screaming, "We are modern teens!" This show is a mess, but it's the kind of mess your co-hosts love, and it'…

In some ways, this is a very special episode of Aughtsterion, because it revolves around a movie that is truly a mega-mix of the decade. Sorority Row is the melting pot of everything superficial and calloused about the 2000s, but executed in such a way as to make it deliciously addictive and a hell of a good time. It's cruel, in poor taste, hilario…

Do you ever just start talking about 2009 and realize you've been talking for far longer than one episode of a podcast should allow? As you might imagine, Sam and Jordan find themselves in that position often, which is how you end up with a minisode all about DJ Earworm mega-mixes, Britney Spears chart toppers, and the emergence of Grindr. Your hos…

If you wondered when Sam and Jordan would start covering the Scream franchise, you must have always suspected — as a devout Aughtsterion listener — that the conversation would begin with the least loved entry in the series. Because what are Sam and Jordan about if not a passionate reclamation project? So here it is, horror fans: The Scream 3 episod…

This is the first episode of the Aughts pod to take the conversation international, and your hosts couldn't have a better guest for it. Shudder's Director of Programming, Sam Zimmerman, brings his vast genre knowledge to a discussion of Bustillo and Maury's New French Extremity touchstone: 2007's Inside. Jordan, Sam and Sam dig into the differences…

Grab your best white tank top and get ready to go back in time, because we have a 2000s "period piece" to discuss on this episode of the Aughts pod. Joining your faithful co-hosts this time around are screenwriter Michael Kennedy and artist Nay Bever, which makes this a full scale Attack of the Queerwolf podcast reunion special as the group convene…

Among Sam's many doctorates in 2000s history, one of them is a PhD in Paris Hilton. So, in this first minisode of season 2, he's doing a bit of public service and counting down the heiress of record's 10 best songs. Spanning nearly two decades, Sam is looking beyond her flagship hit "Stars Are Blind" — recently made re-famous by Promising Young Wom…

It's a big moment on the Aughts pod, because Sam and Jordan are tackling one of the crown jewels of the era: Jaume Collet-Serra's 2005 spectacular, House of Wax. This. Movie. Has. Everything. There's a premium-tier soundtrack, lost-to-time elaborate set pieces, audaciously gory kills, white tank tops, the absolute peak of 2000s horror stunt casting…

If you know Sam Wineman at all, you know he's long championed Urban Legends: Final Cut as the superior film in the one-two punch slasher property from the turn of the new millennium. And now, it will finally be entered into the hallowed Aughtsterion library. Higher on concept on the first film but less well know, Final Cut skewers film school, give…

Sam and Jordan are just two episodes into the second season of the Aughts pod, but this one has already been a long time coming. In this installment, your devoted 2000s historians examine the great and power Jennifer's Body through the lens of the era's misogynist boy-run media climate. You might have heard Jordan discuss the movie before (a lot?) …