It took me a while to get used to Karina’s voice and delivery, but now I appreciate the research and deep dives so much that I don’t mind. Please keep the show going! Is the hiatus permanent? Surely not. Such content is hard to find.

Having been with this podcast since day one, I do feel a sense of ownership and pride in how it and its author has grown from strength to strength over the years. I give my credentials as a professional journalist, editor, and author (who also studied film at USC and has many family members in “the industry”) only to give fuel to my compliments! Katrina’s balanced and nuanced – not to mention captivating - style of storytelling is crucial creating a vital historical record to these incredible stories that could have otherwise been easily lost in the transitory sands of contemporary culture. THANK YOU for your depth of effort and thoroughness of subject. I wish you even more success in the future– you deserve it! 👍🏽

It’s no surprise that this show is on it’s 20th season at the time of this review. One of, if not the best show about 20th century Hollywood movies and the overall Hollywood scene, from the 1920’s onwards. An intelligent, articulate 21st century view of a past world—-but this is making it sound as if it’s no fun. It is!!!! Thank you, Karina Longworth and friends.

I tried listening to the Frank Capra podcast. I had a really hard time with the voice because of nasality and over pronunciation of words. The sarcasm didn’t help. I felt like a lot of political statements were made that just didn’t add anything because it’s very hard to compare the times of Capra with anything that is going on today. Except maybe the antisemitism which is still hard to grasp.

In depth in the right ways, bringing the right blend of stories, history and insight into film. I’m two seasons in and it’s been a real pleasure.

My favorite podcast ever. Karina Longworth speaks like an enchanted haunted house of sorts, about the yesterday of motion picture history. Accompanied by music, the acting and an intelligence in its writing that makes me wish I could retain everything I hear. This is not a podcast you just put on in the background for the sake of company while you do other things. This is a ‘stop everything’, relax and listen. Fans of hollywood history and lore look no more

I’ve listened to these episodes so many times—this podcast is my ultimate comfort listen. It’s so chock full of information and detail so it definitely stands up to relistening. Karina’s delivery is calming to me as well. If you like history, you will enjoy this show.

This is the best show on film in Podcast world, I really hope she comes back soon.

Incredibly well researched, entertaining and informative. I’ve come to love Longworth’s affected host voice as much as I love the show. One request: Please stop using amateur actors to read lines from famous people. The reads are often cringingly bad, and Longworth does it so much better.

The T situation is too much. Otherwise it’s great. But I can’t.

I have now listened to all of the available episodes on the YMRT podcast. Every one was packed full of information, originally presented in terms of POV, and very entertaining. I especially like Karina Longworth’s idiosyncratic pronunciation of ordinary words. My favorite episode was about character actress Hattie McDaniel. Longworth not only made her come to life by revealing the unique facts surrounding her life, but also made me sad about the way in which McDaniel was treated by the film industry and the NAACP. I highly recommend this podcast and hope more episodes are added soon.

I just started this I would love to be a subscriber but I’m not sure I can handle the slow speaking narrator. I can speed it up but it’s a little off . The audio is so low I have to turn it up then get blasted on the commercial … maybe it gets better in later seasons

You Must Remember This is a wonderful podcast about Old Hollywood history; I’m happy that I’m subscribed to it. The podcast is very well detailed, well researched, and not too long. However, there are many movie spoilers and Longworth’s accent imitating said star is not needed. An overdone, Crawford like accent.

having enjoyed earlier seasons in the past, i was excited to dive into some newer eps, but unfortunately karina’s over-enunciation and elongation of words has become quite extreme and terribly distracting… i feel conflicted because i think she is an excellent researcher and writer, but these tics make the podcast hard to enjoy listening to.

Great podcast

This podcast is a treasure for movie lovers. There is so much here for every genre. She does great research and also gives us her insights and opinions. Some of them are wacky (the Sinatra Trilogy album?!?) but always interesting. I always learn something new.

You Must Remember This is my go to podcast—-there are hundreds of episodes to choose from, and it’s always informing. I especially love the way Karina connects the historical and cultural context, particularly regarding gender and politics, to whatever topic is being discussed. Thanks so much for all your work, Karina and team!

The personal opinions and political party preferences of the host should be left out from the stories. Enjoy very much listening to it sans host’s own opinion about the characters and her interjections of where she stands in politics, ,let the listener form opinions. It is also annoying to hear the pronunciation of the S by Miss Longworth. In the earlier episodes, it wasn’t so dramatic but the latest episodes are too dramatic to the point where it is really annoying.

I found this podcast by accident and started from the very first season. I am now towards the end of season 3. I love the content. Everything I’ve heard so far is so good and very entertaining. I’m still listening even though I truly am having an issue with Karina’s enunciation of some of her words. The letter T in particular. I decided to look at the reviews and found I wasn’t alone and apparently it’s going to get worse. In the early episodes Karina pronounced words with T’s as D’s. Example: (written = wridden). Oh my gosh this drives me crazy! But now, according to current reviews, she has gone the other way. She is now over-pronouncing. I honestly think she needs someone else to read her material. She has done a great job with the research and I will listen as long as I can. But I swear, sometimes I just shout out the correct pronunciation every time I hear her do it wrong! It’s just so distracting!

I m such a fan of Karina ! Each season represents a complex thesis and as such makes a great return listen, she’s a treasure !

So informative and interesting. In the Indecent Proposal episode, Karina Longworth perfectly describes the cause of the issues we’re being forced to endure yet again in 2025. She lays out her research in an honest, often refreshingly blunt and humorous way. So many misconceptions have been addressed and rectified in the podcast. Her knowledge as a Hollywood historian and a movie aficionado is nearly impossible to match.

This is a fantastic podcast and I still love it. And I don’t have a problem with Karina’s narration. But the accents. It seems like there were fewer of them in the past? If we need more accents, I recommend going back to the early days when actor friends would help in this department.

Interesting subject matter but the host speaks like a robot. Her voice and over enunciation is too distracting and I can’t focus on the content.

The content is always well researched, fascinating and engaging. I know a terrific amount about classic films and Hollywood and I always learn several somethings in every episode. Listening, however, is a battle. The host’s delivery is distracting, with a bizarre, stilted affectation that overemphasizes internal and final consonants and prolongs the end of words. This seems to have developed over the life of the podcast. This season’s flashback episodes featured a more conversational delivery, into which the host slipped occasionally during season 20 as well. Please please PLEASE trust the quality of your research and writing. Please let that come through by presenting it simply and naturally, without giving equal weight to every single letter and syllable.

i did three but could no longer tolerate host's annoying voice horrible while the host's voice is annoying and weak for broadcast the pod is great for film buffs

I listened from the beginning and then my hyper fixation took me away from podcasts for several years. Now that I’m back I’m binging all the seasons I missed. I love Karina’s voice, she really does her research, and every season tells a fascinating story. Highly recommend “Dead Blondes”

Hmmm...I was there from the beginning with this podcast. It was truly great. But these last couple of years have really been lacking. Her take seems to be "all white men are bad...". The most diasppointing episode is John Huston. At most she gave a cursory glance at his early work (The Maltese Falcon and African Queen, why i do not know) and decided to just focus on his later bad movies. Ugh...and please stop with these unquestionably terrible impressions of (in this particular case) John Huston. Karina Longworth no longer seems interested in the history of Hollywood but angry at it!

…which of course means that it takes a lot of discernment and hard work to create — and perseverance to sustain. The hosts of the What Went Wrong podcast recommended this one, and boy am I glad I decided to check it out. It is far and away my new favorite. Each season is a treasure trove of THE MOST interesting stories of twentieth-century Hollywood. I hope you keep going for a longer time, Karina. I’m quite obsessed.

Since I enjoy classic Hollywood podcasts, I naturally wanted to see what this was about. However, I listened to a couple of episodes before I gave it up. The narrator enjoys blending fact with fiction as much as the Hollywood studios did back in the day. And some of the sources used are questionable to say the least. The way she imitates subjects is cringeworthy. And why the subtle digs about peoples’ looks and sex appeal? I’ll find another podcast.

I love the material but the presentation is a turnoff. I listened to the “live is a crime podcast” where the presentation was so much better. The Fritz lang episode was really hard to listen to with the bad accent. Also how can you do all this research and pronounce the names wrong. Joel mecreah?

but I still check in from time to time. Mashup of Jane Margolis from Breaking Bad and Aubrey Plaza with a podcast. Been here since she started and at first I got that she embodied the hard boiled puritan millennial persona but it has definitely worn thin. It’s tough but she does give a break from the “morning zoo” school of podcasting where every three words get punctuated by forced laughter while “reviewing”Schindlers List. Still, she seems obsessed with right wingers hiding behind every tree, which ruins a good analysis of nearly 100 year old movies/stars. Nonetheless when the topic is within my interest I can’t help but give a try once or twice a year. Then I take it out of rotation again. Hate to admit but after 20 years or so, serious (non- hysterical) podcasts are deader than Charles Foster Kane. Give her this much, she does stand alone with the “straight edged no nonsense female” brand. Unfortunately her success has spawned a whole generation of soundalikes who who also SPPEEAKK PREECISSELYY INN THEEE SAMME MANNNNERRRR.

Just found this podcast from a YouTube comment sections. Started with Pretty Woman movie cuz I love that movie. I really like the material and script but she almost purrs the last part of simple words that drives me crazy. She was either a cat or snake in her past life. The purrs and hissing at the end of sentences makes it so hard to focus. Without that I would rate 5 stars. I know everyone has their way of speaking but it sounds really forced.

A wonderful mix of history and criticism. Karina and everyone else that puts this together does a fantastic job. The Polly Platt season absolutely wrecked me. Also the narration and voices are good - keep doing it your way!

Wow I’m so glad I came across this show. It’s so intriguing and your voice is so unique! The Song of the South & Flashback: Marilyn Monroe The End are my favorite episodes to date. Thank you for what you do!

Yikes. There’s not many rules in podcasting, but speaking is bare minimum. This “fake” voice is an absolutely bizarre choice.

I just listened to about a half hour sample episode on the Cautionary Tales podcast. The material is right in my wheelhouse. The script was great but I kept getting distracted by the very stilted, artificial sounding narration. I found myself constantly backtracking a few seconds because I kept focusing what was so wrong with the narration but also wanting to know which actress Hitch was SAing this time and who was enabling him. At first I wondered if it was an early generation computer voice but then I noticed the bad accents on the bad impressions on the quotes. (The Hitchcock accent kept changing!) Then I realized it’s just the ONE thing the podcaster is just not good at here. The research and knowledge is terrific. The scripts are well done. I think this would be a podcast I’d be immediately bingeing if it had a good narrator. As it is, the half hour I listened to makes me want to rewatch Hitchcock films and maybe research more about Hitchcock on my own. But on this podcast, I’m going to just skip to the next Cautionary Tales episode next time I’m in my car. And that’s a shame because it’s almost a really good podcast.

I am from Los Angeles and grew up going to art films and reading Raymond Chandler. So much about LA fascinates me. It is kind of a chuckle that pseudo-intellectuals criticize this amazing historian and scholar about this great work. it's Karina's show; rock on Karina-can't wait for more!

One of my favorite podcasts because it’s always fun and interesting - this one won’t put you to sleep 😊

Not just the same old “Hollywood mythology”. Love the depth personal and societal perspectives , which makes her research cross into historical and cultural territory that feels fresh, relevant and critical for us to look at if we are not to repeat the patterns that have had tragic repercussions for our country and for the world. Thank you for dedication to presenting quality content. Your passion is palpable. I’m riveted. The Manson series was difficult to stay with, but an important story to tell.

When I first found this podcast, there was so much material that I jumped around to various topics that interested me, but now I just select a season and let it roll. Whatever subject Karina discusses is thoughtfully and intricately played against the culture of the times and Hollywood.

I’ve been a fan of this podcast for years, but the whole series was nearly soiled for me by Karina Longworth’s disasterous decision to attempt an embarrassing, fingers-on-a-blackboard, unrealistic foreign accents for any non Americanthat seemed designed to delight racists and irritate anyone else. A terrible shame.

I love the Hollywood land podcast so after a referral from the host today, I gave this podcast to try. I love the content and the subjects, but after a couple political remarks about Republicans, I am no longer going to listen. I just don’t understand why this host has to make remarks like “Shapeshifting Republicans”. Also, her voice is a little irritating, but I was willing to overlook that until politics came into the picture. It didn’t have any bearing on the subject or the content it was unnecessary. I think we all need a break from all the political rhetoric and I thought I had found it in this podcast. I was wrong.

Update - she does accents for the show on Hitchcock. Was an offense to humanity. Her voice is worse than a free AI. It’s a little improved playing at 1.25x. Sometime people need to accept their own shortcomings. Good research- please have someone else read it.

Overall good information. Just exhausting when podcasters insert their personal politics in to biographical or documentary content.

The author/reader’s voice is hard to get past, but for half the country it will be her politics that kills it for you. Why she felt the need to inject it is beyond me, especially since she doesn’t seem to know much about it.

People seem to complain about karina's vocal fry (normal--she's not a broadcaster or radio personality, folks!), her imitations (I love 'em, particularly the one of Grace Kelly) and her pronunciations (Im pretty sure that this is a choice, not an error). So what do I care about? Thesis quality, exhaustively researched and exquisitely written and told stories about one of the most fascinating places in the 20th century populated with some of the most interesting people in the world. These are stories that make me, an amateur classic film buff, see my favorite movies in a new way. I discover new-to-me artists like jean seberg and rediscover old ones like Jane Fonda. Karina Longworth, I hope you do this show for 30 years!!

Karina’s research and reporting are great. But her forceful enunciation and faux accents are so distracting it takes away from the subject matter. It’s difficult to ignore and makes the reporting deeply unpleasant.

Interesting podcast… Vocal fry in every sentence is annoying. Couldn’t finish an episode. Episodah….ah..ah..ah…ah..ah..ah..ah..ah..ah..ah..ah.. I’ve never been so grateful for consonants at the end of a sentence. Except the “t’s” - so overemphasized there’s an “sss” sound at the end. The British accent is awful- and I’m American, so my standards are low. Interesting, but not worth the anxiety.

From a fan of old Hollywood, and an academic your age, I can't imagine a better podcast. Thank you ❤️

Can’t listen to her anymore. Weird word enunciation along with horrible accents for quotes (example: Alfred Hitchcock’s English one). Ugh. Get a new reader! It might be a good script. I didn’t last long enough on my first listen to know.