#2: Rippling Torsos and Rihanna

In this week’s episode, we discuss Rihanna’s new video with guest June Eric-Udorie, reveal our love for Magic Mike XXL and work out why Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice totally works on YouTube.

The Links

On Rihanna:

June’s piece is here.

(Helen Lewis and Margaret Corvid have also written excellent things on BBHMM that are worth checking out.)

Sunny Singh’s piece is here.

Doreen St Felix’s piece is here.

On Magic Mike:

Watch the trailer now, thank us later:

Anne Helen Petersen at Buzzfeed has explored the film’s expression of female desire here.

Alison Wilmore, Buzzfeed's film critic, has written about the film's fanservice and how smart it is.

And here are two pieces about the both films’ relationship with the female gaze.

On the Lizzie Bennet Diaries:

As a taster, here’s episode one:

The full web series is available in this playlist here. Or if you don’t have time for all of that, Caroline’s made a highlights version which you can see here.

For next week, Caroline is reading Rookie – and you can too, here.

Our theme music is “Guatemala - Panama March” (by Heftone Banjo Orchestra), licensed under Creative Commons.