Two recs:
I like Criminal a lot and this last one was pretty cool about an old mystery/puzzle in a children's book from the 70s.
https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-169-masquerade-7-16-21/And this is a short series rather than a single episode so I'm sort of breaking the rules, but Revisionist History recently did a take on the Little Mermaid (and sort of fairy tales in general) and I really thought it was fun and thought-provoking. The first two at least. The last one, where they redid the storyline to be better was cheesy, even though it had a lot of famous people doing the voices.
The two takeaways I found the most interesting from the latter were 1) that Disney fairy tales, where they were changed from Grimm and Andersen fairy tales to make happy endings and make sure the good and evil people each got their just rewards, are even worse than we probably knew. It turns out, children don't take away from this that they ought to be good and maybe good things will come to them, but that they have *already* had bad things happen in their little lives and because bad things only happen to bad people that means that they might also be bad people. Mind blown, but also totally true to what I remember from watching these.
And 2) our punitive cancel culture is reflected (or was encouraged by???) these terrible fairy tales, including Grimm, Andersen AND Disney. When someone gets punished, there is no redemption. There is no rehabilitation possible. There is only total destruction. From Ursula in the Little Mermaid to the Wolf in the Three Pigs (I did not remember that not only did they trap and incapacitate him, but they then boil and eat him) and even the parable of the grasshopper and ants where the grasshopper (hardly evil) dies and never has a chance to learn from his ways and get better. Would our society be open to being more rehabilitative and less punitive if the fairy tales we heard from childhood were also that way?