CherryPicks, the entertainment and media website founded by Miranda Bailey and Rebecca Odes in 2018, premiered the second season of their original podcast, CHERRYPOP on May 4, 2021. Meg McCarthy returns as the host with new episodes dropping every Tuesday. This season includes a stellar line up of Hollywood stars, cultural tastemakers and social media influencers talking about sex and the difficult discussions surrounding sexuality on screen.
The premiere episode, presented by Baby Phat Beauty features award-winning actress, Amandla Stenberg from (The Hate U Give). Together Meg and Amandla discuss sexuality, the importance of detaching from the current cultural toxic language about women and LBGTQ+ characters and ending the censorship of female identifying, and queer pleasure in media."There's just not enough conversation around how sex should feel for young femmes." says Amandla Stenberg in the episode.
CherryPicks was founded by Miranda Bailey and co-founded by Rebecca Odes in 2018 when they realized that aggregator sites like Rotten Tomatoes heavily favored the voices of straight, white male critics. Keeping in mind that women consume more than half of the world’s media, the site was created to champion reviews and original stories exclusively from female-identifying and non-binary writers.
The co-founders also created a unique score called the CherryScore, which is an average of reviews from female and non binary critics that allows their audience to quickly decide on what to watch and what to skip.
The rating system also allows films and television series to receive grades on a scale, rather than being labeled a success or failure. The site boasts top critics such as NPR’s Ann Powers and Claudia Puig, and has amassed fans in The New York Times’ Jodi Cantor and Oscar-winning actor and producer Reese Witherspoon.
Additional episodes feature an impressive line up of talent, with interviews including musician Herizen Guardiola (“American Gods”), Tess Holliday, a model and tastemaker known for her work as a fashion industry
o (Author and Co-Founder of August), Lolo Spencer (“Sex Life of College Girls”), Cam (Country Music star), Sherry Cola (“Good Trouble”), Richa Moorjani (“Never Have I Ever”), Tala Ashe (“DC’s Legends of Tomorrow”), writer/ director and lead actress of Starz’s “The Girlfriend Experience” Season 3 and the cast & creators of Starz’s “Run The World.”
Past guests of CherryPop’s inaugural season launched in the Fall of 2020, included TV star and author Garcelle Beauvais, “Woke” and “Home Economics”, actress and comedian Sasheer Zamata, and "Stranger Things" and "Yes, God, Yes" actress Natalia Dyer.CherryPop can be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. New episodes drop every Tuesday.
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