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These days, it seems like every former television star has a podcast that recaps their glory days on a hit show. The genre already feels played out, with each announcement of a new rewatch podcast looking like a shameless money grab or a desperate attempt for the actors to worm their way back into the zeitgeist.
Usually, listening to one of these rewatch podcasts—like Welcome to the OC, Bitches!, Pod Meets World; and even the most successful example of the form, Office Ladies—doesn’t accomplish what should be the bare-minimum goal of one of these endeavors: inspiring me to revisit one of my favorite bygone TV series. Instead, the podcasts make me feel depressed that the actors are clinging to the past, their one-hit-wonder status on full display. That is, until I turned on Girls Next Level.
In Girls Next Level, Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt relive their time on the E! reality series The Girls Next Door, as well as their exciting, fun, trying, and traumatic experiences as Hugh Hefner’s girlfriends.