Pop Filter
Episodes
S1E77 - DTF St. Louis
20 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes Another episode? So soon? Our heroes are really spoiling you. You might say that they are DTF (Downloading To your Feed)! This week, our...
S1E76 - Project Hail Mary and Small Prophets
20 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes Pop Filter has detected an alien life-form on board their craft. It's little, rock-like alien Nicky Coghlan. Listen as Lorraine and Will...
S1E75 - Inside The Manosphere and Inside America's Next Top Model
14 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes Episode Notes Our heroes return in a relatively timely fashion to discuss Toxic Masculinity and Toxic Femininity. Will is a clear repres...
S1E74 - Heated Rivalry
14 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes It's been a while but our heroes have returned. This time it's Lorraine representing the Canada side and Will skating in from Russia wit...
S1E73 - Sean Combs The Reckoning & 2025 Round Up
01 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes Hello Old Acquaintances. Lorraine and Will want you to know you should never be forgot. Our heroes are on deck on January the first, sta...
S1E72 - Stranger Things 5 Chapter 1 & The Alabama Solution
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes This week, Lorraine and Will dust off their Wrangler jeans and their Nikes to go back to the 80's and fit right in with the kids from St...
S1E71 - Frankenstein & Pluribus
23 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes Much like Victor Frankenstein, Lorraine and Will have cobbled together another episode from random bits they found lying about the place...
S1E70 - Lily Allen's West End Girl & The Chair Company
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes Our heroes return. We all know Lorraine and Will enjoy a good gossip so could anything be more appropriate for their return than Lily Al...
S1E69 - A Complete Unknown, Nosferatu and Marilyn Manson Unmasked
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes In what might be their last hurrah for a while, our heroes present a rogues gallery to send them off. This week they have Bob Dylan, Nos...
S1E68 - Better Man and Babygirl
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes This week our heroes are talking about men and girls. Men in the form of Robbie Williams and his monkey-centric biopic (with a soft 'o' ...
S1E67 - Best of 2024
26 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes Well, it's that time of year again and our heroes at Pop Filter are celebrating their most productive year of podcasting ever. What bet...
S1E66 - Boybands Forever & Here
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes It's the penultimate Pop Filter of 2024 and this week we have a recurring favourite feature of Will and Lorraine's; Boy Bands. Seems lik...
S1E65 - Gladiator II and Small Things Like These
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes This week Will and Lorraine are in their togas and laurels casting their thumbs up or down to see which of this weeks gladiators will tr...
S1E64 - The Apprentice & Heretic
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes This episode is going to be bigly. This week, Lorraine and Will are looking at Donald Trump's supervillain origin story, The Apprentice....
S1E63 - Nobody Wants This & The New Sound by Geordie Greep
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes Our heroes have done a 180 on the Monsters theme from last week and have now turned their attention to a more romantic prospect which is...
S1E62 - The Substance, Monsters & Ellen: For Your Approval
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes Our heroes return with another of their loosely themed shows. This time the theme is (arguably) monsters. First up is Frankensteinesque ...
S1E61 - Wise Guy & Speak No Evil
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes This week, our heroes Lorraine and Will, try to get inside the mind of the man that gave us The Sopranos and some wonderfully and encour...
S1E60 - It Ends With Us & Trap
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes This week our heroes take on a frustrating brace of films. First up is weirdly-wardrobed Blake Lively and her film, It Ends With Us. Spo...
S1E59 - Alien: Romulus & Kneecap
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes In Space Nobody Can Hear You Podcast. This week, Lorraine and Will are trying to get to a sunnier planet just as their Summer holidays ...
S1E58 - Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam and Simone Biles Rising
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes This week finds Lorraine, Will and three non-descript second-row band members pretending to harmonise, singing a soppy ballad to a group...
S1E57 - Longlegs and The Murderous Scissor Sisters
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes If you let Lorraine Harton and Will in now, it could be niiiiice. Our heroes return with a murder special. First up is Silence of The ...
S1E56 - The Bear Season 3 and I Am Celine Dion
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes Will can barely contain his excitement as his old pal, Lorraine Harton, returns from her explorations in The East, where she was in sear...
S1E55 - Reservation Dogs & Drake Vs Kendrick
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes Will Holds down the fort for another show as Lorraine is currently en route to Tokyo from Kyoto. Or maybe the other way around. There ar...
S1E54 - Inside No. 9 & Moon Safari by Air 25th Anniversary
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes This week, Lorraine is off helping the Japanese authorities with some podcasting issues they're having, so Will has turned to his old Po...
S1E53 - Bodkin & Billie Eilish "Hit Me Hard & Soft"
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes After three (kind of)themed shows 'Fallout' and 'The Fall Guy', Pop Filthers week of rudeness with Challengers and Ashley Madison, and t...
S1E52 - Mother's Instinct & The Idea of You
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes Are you a Hathahater or a Fan Hathaway? Either way, our trusted heroes have a show for you. Anne Hathaway is back with a pair of films ...
S1E51 - Challengers & Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies & Scandal
25 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes This week Pop Filter HQ is now Pop FILTHER as our heroes look at the erotic tennis world of mixed thruples with new sports drama, Challe...
S1E50 - Fallout & The Fall Guy
16 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes It's Fall Preview time at Pop Filter HQ as our heroes deliver not one, but two, items for review that have the word 'Fall' in their titl...
S1E49 - The Greatest Love Story Never Told and Cold Sea by Oisín Leech
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes This week our heroes test themselves by reviewing a thing that they don't like as much as they'd like to. Not much of a challenge, to be...
S1E48 - Back to Black and Late Night With The Devil
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes This week our heroes go over to the dark side. First off, they wrestle alongside Amy Winehouse with her demons in the new biopic, Back t...
S1E47 - Baby Reindeer and Beyonce's Cowboy Carter
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes Our heroes return for a triumphant second episode on Near FM (90.3FM/nearfm.ie) secure in the knowledge that last weeks episode was a hu...
S1E46 - Civil War and Roadhouse
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes We have a message for you.... from yer farder!!! It'll make sense once you've heard the episode. Exciting times in Pop Filter HQ. Our he...
S1E45 - The Iron Claw, All Of Us Stangers, One Day
16 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes So good they recorded it twice! Our heroes return with a vengeance after the debacle of one of them losing the SD card containing their ...
S1E44 - Robbie Williams, Britney Spears & Wagatha Christie
09 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes This week's show is like an old issue of Heat magazine come back from beyond the grave. Lorraine and Will tackle some 90's icons in the ...
S1E43 - Beckham
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, our heroes are involved in a classic relegation battle to keep the podcast in the Premiership. With star-player, Lorraine, already eyeing a...
S1E42 - The Deepest Breath & Kaputt by Destroyer
03 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes This week, Lorraine and Will get their wetsuits on and head into the Abyss with deep-sea documentary, The Deepest Breath. They get into...
S1E41 - Barbie & Oppenheimer
19 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes This latest episode shows our heroes in full compliance with Podcast Law and delivering an episode where they discuss the phenomenon of ...
S1E40 - And Just Like That Season 2 & The Idol
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes Today our heroes, Lorraine and Will celebrate Episode 40 of the show and in that spirit they celebrate with two pieces of pop culture th...
S1E39 - Ramblings 4 - Being an adult
24 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes Ramblings Episode 4, wherein our heroes wrestle with being grown-ups and discuss the various ways they have had to disguise the fact tha...
S1E38 - Married At First Sight Australia
16 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With head-spinning speed, Lorraine and Will return with a new episode. This one isn't, on the surface, their usual high-brow fare. This episode is al...
S1E37 - Selective Outrage, Outed & Finding Michael
01 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes This week, Lorraine emerges victorious when she offloads two pre-recorded intros onto Will. In a desperate act of self-sabotage, Will su...
S1E36 - The Last Of Us and Tar
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes This week, our heroes tackle the world of classical music-based cancel culture and because they are a couple of fungiis (fun guys) they ...
S1E35 - Bono 'Surrender', Barbarian & The Crown
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes This week, the unimaginable happens to Will: U2 have taken some of his money. And he's ok with that. Lorraine and Will tackle Bono's epi...
S1E34 - Ramblings 3
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes In today's episode, Lorraine and Will return to their occasional feature; Ramblings. This is where they step away from pop culture and m...
S1E33 - The Rehearsal & The Most Hated Man On The Internet
14 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes In this episode our heroes take on, and defeat, The Most Hated Man On The Internet. Netflix's new 3 episode documentary on the loathsome...
S1E32 - Conversations With Friends and O Emperor's 'Jason'
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes This week, Will and Lorraine are joined in conversation by our friend, Con Colbert, to have a friendly conversation about Conversations ...
S1E31 - Star Wars for the first time & Romy & Michelle
18 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes In a new feature called The Culture Gap, Lorraine and Will help each other out by recommending significant pop culture texts that the ot...
S1E30 - And Just Like That & Licorice Pizza
23 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes It's a week of time travelling to the 70s for Will and the 90s for Lorraine as they relive elements of their childhood by reviewing Paul...
S1E29 - Get Back
19 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes The long and winding road has brought our first and only guest back to our door. We welcome our old pal, Dave Curran, back to the show. ...
S1E28 - Lamb and 2020 by Richard Dawson
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes This week, Lorraine and Will review a wooly tale from the A24 stable called Lamb. Can they resist a string of sheep puns or is this some...
S1E27 - Ramblings 2 - Received Wisdom
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes This week our heroes endeavour to blow your mind by offering you the red pill from The Matrix. Or is it the blue one? The one that makes...
S1E26 - The Green Knight, The Witness and Donda
25 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes Episode 26 of Pop Filter finds our heroes on an Arthurian quest even though one of them doesn't know it's an Arthurian one at all. Lorr...
S1E25 - Woodstock 99, Zola and Tove Styrke
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes This week, our heroes discuss the new Woodstock 99 documentary and get annoyed by toxic masculinity and terrible music. It's been many a...
S1E24 - 24 - Pop Filter Ramblings - Words and Phrases.
05 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes Today marks the launch of a different kind of podcast from Lorraine and Will. This time they are off rambling on a specific non pop-cult...
S1E23 - This Way Up, Pieces of Britney, Songs In The Key Of Life
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes Lorraine and Will here... just calling to say we love you. Y'know...like Stevie Wonder would. This week we are giving our rambling thoug...
S1E22 - West Cork, Murder At The Cottage, A Murder In West Cork
10 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes One subject, three different takes. It's rare enough that you get different documentaries on the same topic at the same time but here we...
S1E21 - Sinead O'Connor - Rememberings, Friends Reunion, Metro Area by Metro Area
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes This week, Lorraine and Will cast their ears over Sinead O'Connors audiobook autobiography (or is it a memoir?), Rememberings. Mad stori...
S1E20 - The Midnight Library, Frank of Ireland and Luxury Problems
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes This week, our heroes discuss 3 separate items from 3 separate mediums! Exciting. We discuss Matt Haig's latest novel, The Midnight Libr...
S1E19 - Seaspiracy, Promising Young Woman & A Ghost Is Born
19 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes First up, Lorraine and Will talk about the Netflix documentary, Seaspiracy, or to be more accurate, the filmmakers' abject failure to us...
S1E18 - Allen V Farrow
26 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes This week Lorraine and Will cast their astute legal eyes over Allen V Farrow, the new 4 part HBO documentary about the sexual abuse char...
S1E17 - It's A Sin, Derren Brown's Bootcamp For The Brain
12 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes This week, Lorraine and Will review Channel 4's 80's-set weepfest, It's A Sin. This is followed by a discussion about Derren Brown's new...
S1E16 - The Ripper, The Nobody Zone & Aphex Twin
18 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lorraine and Will are back for a new year of (hopefully more frequent) podcasts. This weeks episode is all killer and no filler as they review true cr...
S1E15 - Normal People, Cocteau Twins, DEVS
30 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes In our heroes' biggest episode yet, they tackle the heady cocktail of first-love drama Normal People, dream-pop peddlers Cocteau Twins 1...
S1E14 - Episode 14 - Lockdown
16 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes Wil and Lorraine are both in lockdown as the Coronavirus continues to dominate all around us. Technology bridges the gap and we present...
S1E13 - Love Is Blind
20 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes This time we discuss Netflix series Love Is Blind. We also discuss Uncut Gems, a Netflix movie starring Adam Sandler. Lorraine gives u...
S1E12 - Cheer and Don't F*ck With Cats
02 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes This week Lorraine and Wil discuss Netflix hits Cheer and Don't F*ck With Cats. Listen to us struggle for broadcast friendly versions o...
S1E11 - The Crown & The FIeld
12 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes Lorraine and Wil discuss Season 3 of The Crown and Lorraine makes Wil listen to the album Yesterday & Today by Swedish two-chord mer...
S1E10 - 10 - Unbelievable
20 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes This episode sees us discuss Netflix show 'Unbelievable' and Lorraine gives her thoughts on one of Wil's favourite records; 1990's Bell...
S1E9 - Malcolm Gladwell's 'How To Talk To Strangers'
10 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Midsommar and I Love You, Now Die
28 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes Lorraine and Wil discuss the new HBO documentary I Love You, Now Die and finish the show with a spoiler-heavy discussion of Ari Aster's ...
The Special Netflix Comedy Special Special
22 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas