PCJ Pop #51
Oct 20, 2026 · 3 min · 4 segments
In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. Shauna is popping the 2016 book My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady…
Oct 20, 2026 · 3 min · 4 segments
In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. Shauna is popping the 2016 book My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady…
He writes a lot of kind of tongue-in-cheek horror novels.
And anybody who knows me knows that's my favorite genre.
I love reading horror.
It is from 2016.
I need one of those.
dude i know right shit why do you think i introduced you as my bestie at the top of the episode So, the story takes place in 1988 during the height of Satanic Panic.
High school sophomores Abby Rivers and Gretchen Langs have been best friends since the fourth grade.
After an evening of skinny dipping in the woods goes wrong, somebody gets possessed and changes drastically.
And their lifelong friendship is put to the test.
Ooh.
Like...
Something I really like and is very interesting about Grady Hendrix is he's a male author and he writes young women so well.
And I like looked into it and it's because he like interviews people and talks to them like he really wants to like dive into what it's like.
And it's I cried reading the opening of this book when it just kind of establishes their friendship in the late 1980s of them just going to sleepovers and braiding each other's hair and watching movies and sneaking out and prank calling boys.
And it like really establishes so well how much these girls love each other before shit hits the fan so that you really care about it when it does.
Yeah.
When shit goes sideways and, you know, the aforementioned exorcism needs to take place.
You really care because you're like, oh, my God, are they going to be OK? I want them to still be friends.
There is a TV series or a movie.
He writes a lot of kind of tongue-in-cheek horror novels.
And anybody who knows me knows that's my favorite genre.
I love reading horror.
It is from 2016.
I need one of those.
dude i know right shit why do you think i introduced you as my bestie at the top of the episode So, the story takes place in 1988 during the height of Satanic Panic.
High school sophomores Abby Rivers and Gretchen Langs have been best friends since the fourth grade.
After an evening of skinny dipping in the woods goes wrong, somebody gets possessed and changes drastically.
And their lifelong friendship is put to the test.
Ooh.
Like...
Something I really like and is very interesting about Grady Hendrix is he's a male author and he writes young women so well.
And I like looked into it and it's because he like interviews people and talks to them like he really wants to like dive into what it's like.
And it's I cried reading the opening of this book when it just kind of establishes their friendship in the late 1980s of them just going to sleepovers and braiding each other's hair and watching movies and sneaking out and prank calling boys.
And it like really establishes so well how much these girls love each other before shit hits the fan so that you really care about it when it does.
Yeah.
When shit goes sideways and, you know, the aforementioned exorcism needs to take place.
You really care because you're like, oh, my God, are they going to be OK? I want them to still be friends.
There is a TV series or a movie.
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