<![CDATA[Hellenic Highlights]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/hellenic-highlights If you enjoy watching Greek shows as much as Eva and I do, join them every Wednesday as they chat about their favorite series, one at a time, along with a bit of fun gossip.

We would love to hear from you at hellenic.highlights@gmail.com.

]]> RSS.com 2026.609.160344 Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:27:26 GMT en b97894d0-671d-5e91-af77-a85afb1db256 https://media.rss.com/hellenic-highlights/podcast_cover_20260525_040532_2d23c9e5f529c40af84659e192e6333c.jpg Hellenic Highlights https://rss.com/podcasts/hellenic-highlights yes Eva and Cindy Eva and Cindy Eva and Cindy false episodic podcast Massachusetts, USA false <![CDATA[An Aristocratic Life]]> In season 2, episodes 1 and 2, Madam Sousou builds her new life. new home, new, additional servants, new clothes. However, she refuses to compromise who she is, no matter how much Katakouzinos pushes her to learn proper manners and speech.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/hellenic-highlights/2908156 1899df44-4aa9-402b-af34-ca7a688e3251 964 full 2 2 8 8 Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:00:39 GMT false <![CDATA[The Lecture and The Wedding]]> Madam Sousou has been instructing Marie's brother-in-law in proper etiquette, and George and Katina get married. In the meantime, Madam Sousou's marriage continues to unravel.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/hellenic-highlights/2864847 f4ec7c5b-5b50-4b33-9500-b235dc1cd282 943 full 1 1 6 6 Thu, 28 May 2026 03:41:13 GMT false <![CDATA[Bean Soup, Art and Weddings]]> In episodes 9 and 10 Panagiotaki is in the mood for some Fasolas, Madam Sousou returns the abstract painting to everyone's relief, and the neighbors ask Madam Sousou for advice.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/hellenic-highlights/2845195 8648b4a0-8a1e-4a4d-b6e9-94f08b911971 934 full 1 1 5 5 Thu, 21 May 2026 03:18:29 GMT false false <![CDATA[Madam Sousou and Reality]]> In episodes 7 and 8 Madam Sousou struggles to reconcile her belief she is a wealthy aristocrat with the reality she lives in a ftochokomio, as she calls it, a poor neighborhood.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/hellenic-highlights/2825313 7e8a7263-22dc-49ed-8b97-be19facdbbcf 919 full 1 1 4 4 Fri, 15 May 2026 13:57:01 GMT false false <![CDATA[The Engagement]]> Eva and Cindy discuss episodes 7 and 8 of Madam Sousou. In episode 5 Madam Sousou is interviewed by "reporters" for an upper class publication. In episode 6 George the barber asks for Katina's hand.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/hellenic-highlights/2801032 c55d1bf0-06ef-4f34-9199-73362220aba4 915 full 1 1 3 3 Thu, 07 May 2026 00:56:41 GMT false false <![CDATA[The Reception]]> Cindy and Eva discuss episodes 3 and 4 of Madam Sousou as she, her husband and her maid prepare to receive guests from the neighborhood to the Thexiosi (reception). Unfortunately, the reception does not go as planned!

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/hellenic-highlights/2781687 94c400f5-4f57-4d60-9238-7d1253e5a0e9 912 full 1 1 2 2 Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:47:21 GMT false false <![CDATA[Madam Sousou Episodes 1 and 2]]> In this episode Eva and Cindy explain how Madam Sousou behaves like an aristocrat despite living in a very modest neighborhood. Her loving, practical husband and unimpressed neighbors highlight this gap. The first two episodes establish Madam Sousou as a compelling character who really believes in the persona she has created.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/hellenic-highlights/2759661 064910bb-befd-48e2-89f1-6c058f1220e5 906 full 1 1 1 1 Thu, 23 Apr 2026 02:14:49 GMT false <![CDATA[The Inheritance and The Divorce]]> In episodes 13 and 14, Madam Sousou learns she has inherited a fortune from her brother. She asks the devastated Panagioti for a divorce so that she can marry the shady Katakouzinos.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/hellenic-highlights/2888559 23e5dfbb-0e83-49e9-96f4-027eeeec8346 946 full Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:37:00 GMT false <![CDATA[Trailer]]> Welcome to Hellenic Highlights your weekly look into Greek television past and present.

In this brief trailer Cindy and Eva introduce the show and themselves. Season one spotlights the beloved 1980s Greek serial Madam Sousou.

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