Piercing Pop Culture

The Virginian Vault: Farewell to Honesty (s3e27)

It’s Thursday again. You know what that means! Our next installment in The Virginian Vault. This week, we’re turning our attention to “A Farewell to Honesty” (s3e27). This is an episode that’s really bringing the working-actor goodness we love so well in Piercing Pop Culture. While Douglas Henderson is really taking up space in Kim’s brain with some fascinating (and “new to her”) work, we’d be shirking our responsibilities if we didn’t call out perennial Kim favorite Richard Carlson, Kathleen Crowley, William Boyett, and Burt Mustin. There’s ALOT of actors at play in this crowded episode. There’s alot to discuss.

Curator's Notes: A Piercing Pop Culture Look-Ahead

I’m sitting down for a bit of a shorter, informal piece this week. Today, we’re taking a peek into the Curator’s Notes for a look into what’s coming down the path here at Piercing Pop Culture. My ideas, my experiment,s and some of the pieces currently percolating in my brain. Stay tuned!

After the Late Show: William Smith, Hawaii Five-O and the Layers We Missed

Friends, I disrespected William Smith for a long, long time. I didn’t know enough. I didn’t understand him. I certainly didn’t give him enough credit. I’ve been watching the final season of Hawaii Five-O this week, and I wanted to sit down to talk more about William Smith. He’s an actor who I spent most of 2025 catching up with, and there’s a complexity to him I knew nothing about. We know the bruising star persona, but there’s more there. I’m ready to learn more about William Smith.

The (Archival) Virginian Vault: Another's Footsteps (s2e24)

Kids I've been deep-diving into The Virginian for the better part of a year, so there are plenty of episodes I've watched before beginning to regularly talk about them this month. I'll be stepping into the archive every so often to talk about some episodes I wrote about before starting the podcast. These were initially published on Piercing Cinema dot com, but some of the episodes are too good to miss.  This week, we're talking about Another's Footsteps along with Paul Petersen, my always and forever love of James Drury, and my (then!) struggle to understand John Agar.  Then I watched The Brain from Planet Arous, but that's another podcast.

After the Late Show: A Russ Meyer Week

In a new installment of After the Late Show, I’m sitting down after a week of Russ Meyer first-time watches. On the film docket this week? Supervixens, Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens, Motopsycho!, and Up!. I talk about some of my thoughts after viewing, as well as my varied viewing history with Russ Meyer, as I work towards completing his filmography… at some point in the future. Dolly Read is a Queen, and I will hear nothing more about it.