Episodes

  • ‘Too Much’ Is The Right Amount, Plus A Little More
    Jul 25 2025
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    Titling your new Netflix rom-com series “Too Much” is the sort of move that comes off as either a provocation or an easy set-up. It’s as if co-creator Lena Dunham is inviting critics to assess whether her show and her heroine are, indeed, too much. And given the decade-plus of fevered discourse around her last semi-autobiogr…

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    15 mins
  • We Finally Saw 'Materialists'...
    Jul 18 2025
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    Pedro Pascal + Dakota Johnson + Chris Evans + love triangle + New York City + an exploration of modern dating should = pure joy. Unfortunately, the math behind Celine Song’s sophomore feature, “Materialists,” simply doesn’t add up.

    You know things aren’t going great when you watch a movie and can’t stop mentally cataloguing each …

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    12 mins
  • Reunion Recap Special: 'Ultimatum: Queer Love' & 'Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives'
    Jul 11 2025
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    Let’s talk reunions, y’all! We’re back from our summer vacations, rested and ready to reunite for all the reunion specials we missed during our OOO week: “The Ultimatum: Queer Love” and “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.” Hosts Joanna Garcia Swisher and Nick Viall took their best swings at the Andy Cohen crown, with varying results, but each reunion offered at least a few juicy moments.

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    1 hr and 36 mins
  • 'The Ultimatum: Queer Love' S2 Finale Delivered Romance & Heartbreak
    Jul 3 2025
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    “The Ultimatum: Queer Love” finale had it all: Proposals! Confrontations! A dramatic breakup! This season was a true emotional rollercoaster, in all of the best ways. We got to see some real growth from both couples as well as individuals, while others couples are to untangling hard truths right up to the end. (Yes, we ARE talking about you, Mel and Marie.)

    We taped this episode ahead because of our insane schedules, so this podcast will only include discussion of episodes 8 and 9 of “Queer Love” S2. A separate podcast about the (honestly quite juicy) reunion will be coming soon.

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    14 mins
  • 'The Ultimatum: Queer Love' S2 Is Here, Queer, And Messy AF
    Jun 27 2025
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    Just in time for the end of Pride Month, “The Ultimatum: Queer Love” has returned to our screens. And after watching the first seven episodes of season 2, we couldn’t help but wonder… why does the straight version even exist when “Queer Love” is so far superior?

    The new season follows six couples who have reached a crossroads in th…

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    13 mins
  • 'The Valley' Shows Us Who Jax Really Is
    Jun 13 2025
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    If one can say anything uplifting about season 2 of “The Valley,” it’s probably that the show is, at least, providing video documentation of Jax Taylor’s misdeeds — and his slimy attempts to throw blame for his horrific behavior on everyone around him, his ex-wife Brittany Cartwright in particular.

    In this latest batch of episodes, Jax steps up his harassment of Britt. He continues to rage-text her, reaches out to their mutual friends and family to try to convince them he’s truly changed and needs Britt’s sympathy and care, watches her from the family home’s interior surveillance cameras, apparently fakes (or at least exaggerates) a medical emergency, dumps his disastrous financial problems on her, and continues to imply (under the guise of taking full accountability) that Britt is responsible for his bad behavior. After all, she should have held him accountable before! She should have left him! He wishes she had! Oh, if only someone had forced him to be less of a piece of s**t!

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    16 mins
  • 'And Just Like That...' S3 Is Empty, Schlocky, And So Much Fun To Discuss
    Jun 7 2025
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    Carrie Bradshaw is swanning about in tulle in her massive Gramercy Park townhouse. Her boyfriend is in Virginia, her jewelry designer millennial neighbor is now living in her old uptown apartment, and her friends are busy f*****g nuns and stalking elite college counselors.

    Naturally, that means it’s time for her to sit down and write a novel. About women…

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    10 mins
  • 'Summer House' And The Freedom Finale
    May 30 2025
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    What would Jesse Solomon do (if you were a hot model in his proximity)? Evidence from the lanky “Summer House” star, during his sophomore season on the show, suggests that he would shower you with flattery and over-the-top declarations of romantic feelings, press forward with a committed relationship, get his toe sucked during a 37-…

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    14 mins