What the corpus says about The Sex Lives of College Girls (2021)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Sex Lives of College Girls (2021) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about The Sex Lives of College Girls (2021) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 1:02:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Mean Girls ↔ The Sex Lives of College Girls · backstory · Rapp's earlier show is where her feud with millennial women allegedly started, per the hosts' gossip. · "I think those are the millennial women in question, who she doesn't like."
[The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 0:52:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mean Girls ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read) · lineage · The new film reuses the original's iconic lines and jokes nearly verbatim, which Sean found a little flat because no joke lands when you know it is coming. · "they really do it verbatim, like, and so that's weird with a joke."
[The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 0:54:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mean Girls ↔ Transformers · lineage · Since the host does not give Transformers and Spider-Man grief for echoing earlier versions, he will not give it to Mean Girls. · "I guess if I'm not going to give Transformers and Spider-Man shit about that."
[The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 0:54:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Mean Girls ↔ A Star Is Born · lineage · The speaker is fine with a new auteur remaking a beloved thing every 20 years, as with Star Is Born / Star Wars-style retellings, here giving the social-media generation its own Mean Girls. · "every 20 years another Otour comes along and is like, I've got a take on this."
[The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 0:54:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Mean Girls ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read) · craft · The musical sands the edges off the Plastics and replaces bite with empowerment, a generational update on the original's Tina Fey punchline comedy. · "the edges are sanded off the plastics. And most of the jokes don't have the same bite."
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with The Sex Lives of College Girls (2021); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Sex Lives of College Girls (2021) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.