In Retrospect with Susie Banikarim and Jessica Bennett

    Is there a cultural moment from your past that looks different in retrospect? Maybe it’s a scandalous tabloid story seared into your teenage brain or a political punchline that just feels wrong now. It might be a very specific red swimsuit that inspired a decade of plastic surgery (see: “Baywatch”) or the inescapable smell of an entire generation of prepubescent boys (Axe body spray, anyone?). Each week on IN RETROSPECT, Emmy-winning journalist Susie Banikarim and New York Times editor Jessica Bennett revisit a pop culture moment from the 80s and 90s that shaped them — to try to understand what it taugh...

  • Update: Why the Menendez Brothers May Go Free

  • Madonna and the Making of a Cultural Icon (Pt 2)

  • Madonna And The MTV Moment (Pt 1)

  • What is ‘Girl Culture’?

  • How the Menendez Brothers Became Social Media Stars

  • Jessica Simpson, Monica Lewinsky, and Other Adventures in Journalism

  • Vanessa Williams v Miss America: ‘I Won’t Let That Man Destroy Me’ (Pt 2)

  • Vanessa Williams v Miss America: The Rise and Fall of the First Black Winner (Pt 1)

  • Growing Up with Sally Field's 'Not Without My Daughter'

  • The Rutgers Women Fight Back (Pt 2)

  • Rutgers Women’s Basketball & the Racist Radio Host (Pt 1)

  • Can Lip Gloss Teach Us About Friendship?

  • What ‘Sassy’ Magazine Meant To 90s Teens

  • ‘Generation Catalano’ and Your Other Suggestions

  • The Hidden History of the MILF

  • When Is A Woman ‘Past Her Prime’?

  • What ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Taught Us About Ambition

  • Gay & Horny Teens on Screen with Emma Seligman

  • From ‘Mean Girls’ to ‘Glee,’ a Lesbian Joke Evolves (Pt 2)

  • How ‘Golden Girls’ Spawned an Enduring Lesbian Joke (Pt 1)

  • We’re Back!

  • Sex in the 90s with Emily Nagoski (Bonus episode!)

  • Countdown To Christmas!

  • Why Didn’t She Scream?

  • How the ‘Most Hated Woman in America’ Moves On (Pt 2)

  • The Vilification of Robin Givens (Pt 1)

  • When the ‘Good Girls’ Revolted

  • The Marriage Myth (Pt 2): Who Needs ‘Mr. Right,’ Anyway?

  • The Marriage Myth (Pt 1): When Newsweek Struck Panic in Single Women Everywhere

  • The Secret Politics of High Heels

  • We Regret To Inform You

  • ‘Long Island Lolita’ (Pt 2): Amy Fisher Tries to Move On

  • ‘Long Island Lolita’ (Pt 1): Amy Fisher Becomes a Trope

  • The Book of Britney Spears

  • Smells Like Teen Puberty

  • Hot for Teacher (Pt 2): Mary Kay Letourneau Enters the Chat

  • Hot for Teacher (Pt 1): Dawson’s Creek’s Weird ‘Romance’

  • The Word We Won’t Use on This Show

  • Oprah’s Little Red Wagon

  • Pamela Anderson & That Iconic Red Swimsuit

  • Meet Your Hosts (Hi!)

  • A Soap Opera Romance That Started With An Assault

  • Introducing: In Retrospect

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