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Presenting Office Ladies: Work Friendship

Explore episode Jun 19, 2026

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Best Friendship Movies: Thelma & Louise, Muriel's Wedding, and Pride and Prejudice

At 37:20 · chapter starts 37:10

Angela reveals that Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants — which she and Jenna saw together on a BFF date — is on the top friendship movie lists and is celebrating its 20th anniversary, prompting a suggestion of an outdoor screening together. Jenna names Thelma & Louise as the first film that showed her female friendship portrayed powerfully, and Muriel's Wedding as her all-time favorite. Angela's pick is Pride and Prejudice, and she plays a clip of director Joe Wright describing how Emma Thompson improvised the Charlotte Lucas 'Don't judge me, Lizzie' speech while walking on Hampstead Heath. Producers Cassie and Sam add their own picks — Bottoms and In Bruges respectively — and Angela confesses she has never seen Pride and Prejudice, prompting a mock-serious demand from Angela that Jenna watch it properly, not distracted like she watched Lord of the Rings.

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