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Do you have complicated feelings about pop culture? Beverley Wang and Hannah Reich are here to help.

Each episode Beverley and Hannah sort through the latest hot takes and Internet discourse to help you understand how pop culture reflects your world.

Want to know which new releases to watch or skip, which long reads to share with your group chat and which podcasts to follow? Stop Everything's got you.

Airs Saturday at 11.30am, repeated Monday at 1.30pm and Friday at 2am.

Do you have complicated feelings about pop culture? Beverley Wang and Hannah Reich are here to help.

Each episode Beverley and Hannah sort through the latest hot takes and Internet discourse to help you understand how pop culture reflects your world.

Want to know which new releases to watch or skip, which long reads to share with your group chat and which podcasts to follow? Stop Everything's got you.

Episodes

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Meghan Sussex and Taylor Swift are selling princess fantasy lives – who’s buying them?

We’re talking about two princesses of pop culture after the release of a new season of With Love, Meghan and Taylor Swift’s engagement photos.

Published: WedWed 3 Sep 2025 at 7:30amwith Hannah Reich and Clare Rawlinson

A woman & a man carrying a basket walk along a beach towards two deck chairs, they look happy and they're talking to each other

Duration: 28 minutes 50 seconds

CHUFFED: Long Story Short and Left-Handed Girl

This week Hannah and Bev are chuffed by the stuff that reminds them of their culture.

Published: 28 Aug 2025Thu 28 Aug 2025 at 9:30pmwith Beverley Wang and Hannah Reich

A cartoon charicature with a teenager sitting on a bed playing a game while the parents stand either side looking irate

Duration: 11 minutes 34 seconds

Everything you need to know about Gwyneth: The Biography

The Stop Everything! celebrity book club is in session for a dissection of Gwyneth: The Biography by author and journalist Amy Odell, who also wrote the New York Times-bestselling biography about Vogue’s Anna Wintour.

Published: 27 Aug 2025Wed 27 Aug 2025 at 7:30amwith Beverley Wang and Hannah Reich

Gwyneth Paltrow smiles in a still image taken from the The Goop Lab promotional trailer.

Duration: 39 minutes 51 seconds

CHUFFED: KPop Demon Hunters, Sheng Wang, Pedro Pascal on NPR

Chuffed is stuffed this week! Hannah and Bev are hosting a potluck feast of recommendations, and everyone's brought something to share — from KPop Demon Hunters to Pedro Pascal and even more real estate reality shows to watch — there's lot of…

Published: 21 Aug 2025Thu 21 Aug 2025 at 9:30pmwith Beverley Wang and Hannah Reich

Duration: 11 minutes 3 seconds

Is TV making therapy less taboo?

We’re looking at the evolution of TV therapists, from The Sopranos’ Dr Jennifer Melfi, HBO’s In Treatment, the oddball crew of Apple TV+’s Shrinking and the sci-fi comedy world of Demascus on Tubi.

Published: 20 Aug 2025Wed 20 Aug 2025 at 7:30amwith Beverley Wang and Hannah Reich

A man and a woman sit together in the dark, they look happy. He looks at her while she looks down at her hands

Duration: 40 minutes 16 seconds

CHUFFED: Las Culturistas and Mariah Carey on Katy Perry

This week Hannah and Bev are chuffed by the glorious mayhem of the Las Culturistas Culture awards and Mariah Carey's reaction to finding out Katy Perry went to space — four months ago.

Published: 14 Aug 2025Thu 14 Aug 2025 at 9:30pmwith Beverley Wang and Hannah Reich

Two men pose together, one wears a red suit, the other in white, they're smiling at the camera

Duration: 12 minutes 23 seconds

What are real estate reality shows actually selling us?

Shows about house hunting, renovating, and buying and selling luxury homes are all over our screens.

Published: 13 Aug 2025Wed 13 Aug 2025 at 7:30amwith Beverley Wang and Hannah Reich

A composit image of cast members from Luxe Listings Sydney, the Oppenheim brothers and Chriselle from Selling Sunset.

Duration: 34 minutes 6 seconds

CHUFFED: Moni and Cannonball

Writer and comedian Jennifer Wong is Stopping Everything with Bev while Hannah is away. This week Jen’s chuffed by Moni, a short SBS series about Moni, a gay Samoan man who returns home to Western Sydney for his sister’s wedding.

Published: 7 Aug 2025Thu 7 Aug 2025 at 9:30pmwith Beverley Wang

Samoan woman in a white dress hugs her son, wearing a suit, from behind. Stands in a church.

Duration: 11 minutes 5 seconds

Falling in love with an AI chatbot

The loneliness epidemic has a new solution: AI chatbots are offering companionship and romantic partnership for many people, and a new podcast by Wondery called Flesh & Code is documenting these stories.

Published: 6 Aug 2025Wed 6 Aug 2025 at 7:30amwith Beverley Wang

A promotional image for Replika AI companions

Duration: 40 minutes 44 seconds

CHUFFED: Netflix’s The Residence and Stanley Tucci

While Hannah's away, comedian and writer Jennifer Wong is Stopping Everything with Bev. This week Jen and Bev are chuffed by murder mystery comedy the Residence (RIP), and Stanley Tucci in his pasta era.

Published: 31 Jul 2025Thu 31 Jul 2025 at 9:30pmwith Beverley Wang

A woman stands in front of a large group of people, she looks curious, the other people look dismayed, scared or worried.

Duration: 11 minutes 9 seconds

Feature Articles

Korean TV is the most-viewed non-US Netflix content. Here are our faves

Korean TV is now the most-viewed non-US content on Netflix. Now Squid Game is finished, try diving into some of these other great K dramas.

A man in a bloody green tracksuit sits handcuffed to a bed

Published: 2 Jul 2025Wed 2 Jul 2025 at 1:57am

Performing, 10,000 pairs of shoes and John Farnham help Céline Dion get through pain in new doco

Céline Dion kept her diagnosis with stiff person syndrome a secret from her fans for years. This new documentary offers an unfiltered glimpse at what her life is like now.

A composite of Celine Dion photos where she's singing, one very young, one with bright red hair, another in a sparkly dress

Published: 25 Jun 2024Tue 25 Jun 2024 at 2:54am

Anne Hathaway's The Idea of You is ripe with steamy romps, but is it any good?

Anne Hathaway's steamy new film explores the age-gap relationship between a single mum and a much younger boy-band heart throb.

A film still of Nicholas Galitzine, 29, and Anne Hathaway, 41, who is smiling brightly. They're boarding a private plane.

Published: 2 May 2024Thu 2 May 2024 at 2:22amby Beverley Wang

When Jennifer Lopez dance-montages her way through three failed marriages, it's breathtaking

Jennifer Lopez reclaims her wild rollercoaster of a love life from our judgmental gaze in new musical This Is Me … Now.

Jennifer Lopez wears a flower garland and carries a bouquet as she walks down an aisle surrounded by dances forming an arch.

Published: 19 Feb 2024Mon 19 Feb 2024 at 3:55amby Beverley Wang

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