PATREON PREVIEW: "Wuthering Heights" & "Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model"

February 24, 2026·48 min·3 clips

Bobby argues the Kate Bush song is the definitive Wuthering Heights adaptation, and the Charli XCX album proves it.

The cold open starts in practical mode: spring is coming, travel is back on the calendar, and patience for complicated wellness has apparently left the room. Groons gets treated as the easier routine. The pitch is snack pack simple, with gummies replacing the million different supplement jars the host says came before. Then, anyway, the real preview shows up. The adaptation stretch runs on irritation with a movie that keeps throwing out loaded images and then wandering away from them. A woman hanging gets the raised eyebrow. The guest wants the adaptation to return to that idea, because the stray details sound more interesting than the movie around them. The complaint is not prudishness. It is that fingers in jello, a snail on a window, and skin as wallpaper grossness seem to be there for sensation and little else. The book already has a through line. If an adaptation drops that structure, the guest argues, it needs something sturdier than moody fragments. The better version arrives fast: start with the second generation, trace the curse backward, and make Kathy's ghost feel like an engine instead of love story trim. That is the serious critique, briefly. Then the room remembers the book has a grave digging moment where the creepiness is the point, not a vibe to sand down. The documentary changes the taste in the room. It leaves the speaker disgusted, but not bored, because certain bits still work. Tyra Banks and ice cream become the closing texture. One line about making ice cream before Tyra Banks lands hard enough that the hosts keep circling it, warm toward the absurd details even while making faces. The final beat is Patreon housekeeping: bonus episodes, Discord, commentary tracks, and the audio only version, before the preview signs off with the familiar fame hungry sting.

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A funny, irritated Patreon preview turns Wuthering Heights misfires and America's Next Top Model disgust into sharp pop-culture grousing.

Who? Weekly's Patreon preview lands hardest when it is picking apart Wuthering Heights, less as a tidy recap than as a cranky, useful autopsy of an adaptation that seems to mistake stray gross-out details for a point.

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You walked away from the Wuthering Heights adaptation confused and annoyed -- these hosts know exactly why.

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