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Claire Fallon and Emma Gray obsessively analyze our cultural obsessions, from fashion trends to books to the buzziest TV shows. patreon.com/claireandemma

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12:03

[PREVIEW] Reality TV Men Are Melting Down About...

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2026/04/17

During the season 3 premiere of "The Valley," there is a scene that lit us up with rage. Kristen Doute's fiancé Luke Broderick is having a heart-to-heart with fellow castmate Jesse Lally about his relationship. “Our relationship is completely lacking intimacy, which is tough,” he says. “[Kristen] shuts down every advance. At what point do you stop trying?” On its face this seems like a normal thing to express frustration to your friend about... until you realize that Luke is whining about not

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[PREVIEW] Lindy West, Belle Burden, And The Stories...

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2026/04/10

"We tell ourselves stories in order to live," Joan Didion famously wrote at the outset of her 1979 essay collection "The White Album." This was always descriptive, rather than self-congratulating. It's not that our souls are fed by art, but that we need to convince ourselves that our lives are more than random chaos. In order to continue on, in order to give meaning to lives filled with pain and drudgery and confusion, we must edit and construct. We must, as the girlies say, romanticize our lives

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5:00

[PREVIEW] 'Love Story': Why JFK Jr. & Carolyn...

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2026/04/02

It became clear that "Love Story," the FX-Hulu limited series about JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, had broken through in a major way when Curbed ran an article titled "Kennedy Cosplay Is Eating The City." Young women were flocking to C.O. Bigelow, the pharmacy where Bessette shopped for her headbands, in droves. Panna II, where the fictional Kennedy and Bessette went on their first date (likely apocryphal) was being discovered by a new generation of New Yorkers and tourists. The same thing was

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13:33

[PREVIEW] 'Age Of Attraction' Makes A Very Bad Case...

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2026/03/27

We watched Netflix's latest experiment in romance, the age-blind dating show "Age of Attraction," with a blend of boredom and horror that eventually shaded into a spicier blend of horror and fascination. The show's finale dropped this week, and we are finally ready to weigh in. So let's go!"Age of Attraction" brings together a group of mixed-age singles to explore relationships without learning each other's ages, in the interest of showing that age is just a number, that we shouldn't put each other

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10:41

[PREVIEW] The New Taylor Frankie Paul Allegations &...

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2026/03/19

Season 4 of "Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" is a dark one, but its darkest moments arrive in the second half of the season. Most of them involve star Taylor Frankie Paul, whose toxic cycle with her ex Dakota Mortensen is fully reignited as the season progresses, even as she's gearing up to star on "The Bachelorette." By the end of episode 10, it's abundantly clear that Taylor is in no way prepared to cut off Dakota, responding with coy ambivalence when he asks her to save him a rose. And she's in no

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13:23

[PREVIEW] 'The Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives' S4 E1-5:...

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2026/03/13

There are few moments more off-putting in season 4 of "The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" than when Jessi Draper's husband, Jordan Ngatikaura, earnestly tells the camera that "DadTok is a lot funnier than MomTok." But in a way, it also sets the tone of the season. "SLOMW" is now a reality show about Mormon (and lapsed Mormon) mom content creators who have become bonafide celebrities. And that celebrity status is kind of upending everything in their lives – most prominently, their patriarchal family

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[PREVIEW] Emma Has Some Big News...

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2026/03/05

And she's finally ready to talk about it. So, let's get into it in the way we know best – a podcast chat. 😉If you haven't already linked your subscriber Rich Text feed to your podcast-listening app of choice, instructions are here.Now that it's just our Rich Text besties here...As anyone who has been following us for awhile knows, I (Emma) have spent years stewing in my own feelings of maternal ambivalence. Adam and I truly value the lives that we've built as 38-year-olds without children. I deeply

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9:16

Why Rich Text Is Moving To Patreon

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2026/03/03

If you’re a Substack subscriber, go check your email for a gift link to access Rich Text! (If it's not there, it will be within an hour or so.) Everyone else, welcome! A little over five years ago, we started Rich Text on Substack because we needed a change. We had been at HuffPost for a decade, from the peak of its heyday to its somewhat ignominious acquisition by BuzzFeed. We had cycled through different positions as writers and editors, and we had survived round after round of layoffs. We had

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10:00

[PREVIEW] Smutty Historical Romance Has Taken Over

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2026/03/02

The bosoms, they are heaving. The corsets, they have been unlaced. With the release of Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights,” a film that offers such a stickily horny and romanticized take on Emily Brontë’s tale of emotional trauma and Gothic horrors that multiple critics glossed it as “fan fiction,” it seems that the cultural triumph of the spicy historical romance has been made complete. The arrival of “Bridgerton” season 4 part 2 (the sexy half!) just a couple of weeks later only underlines this

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15:57

'Tell Me Lies' Finale & Grappling With 'ANTM'

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2026/02/20

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comIn 2009 on “Tell Me Lies,” Lucy’s life is crashing and burning right into the ground. In 2009 in the real world, Tyra Banks was teaching young women how to “smize” on the hit show “America’s Next Top Model.” This week, we dive into both versions of the late aughts — fictional and reality.Timestamps for easy listening:0:00 — The “Tell Me Lies” series finale43:12 — The twisted legacy of “America’s Next Top

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71:58

Who Gets To Be A Good Mom?

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2026/02/09

A decade or so ago, it seemed like the coolest kind of mom to be was a bad one. They blew off PTA meetings, were fueled by rosé, and wrote irreverent blogs about their children’s tantrums and diaper blowouts. They rejected the sentimentalized idea of motherhood as a sacred calling in service of which a woman must relinquish her independence, her sexuality, her anger, her very identity. Smash cut to 2026, and the mothers of America seem to be locked in a constant, frenzied battle about who can

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11:48

'Bridgerton' S4 Is A Class-Conscious Cinderella Story

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2026/02/03

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comThe central theme of this season of Netflix romance series “Bridgerton” comes into sharp focus the end of the first episode.After charming rakish second son Benedict Bridgerton at his mother’s masquerade ball with her witty banter and sense of wonder, our masked heroine rushes home. We see her remove her formal glove, shoes and mask. Suddenly, she is staring into the humble mirror in her bedchamber, her full face

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15:48

The White House Baby Boom & 'Tell Me Lies' S3

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2026/01/29

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comThis week, we’re diving into two topics that, somehow, both involve evil Stephens who want women to have their babies for nefarious reasons: the recent wave of high-profile, propagandistic pregnancy announcements in the Trump White House, and the current season of the dark teen soap “Tell Me Lies.” First, we get into the MAGA baby boom. Over the past mo…

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'Wine-Mom Gangs' Run Amok & 'LIB Germany' S2's Happy...

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2026/01/22

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comOn this week’s episode of the Rich Text podcast, we’re tackling two totally disparate topics: the rage-fueled war on liberal white women and the end of “Love Is Blind Germany” season 2. Because, as we alway say… women contain multitudes.First, we dive into the right-wing ire being directed at white women who are ch…

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'Toxic' Celeb Mom Groups, A Rant About The Golden...

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2026/01/15

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comYou know we had to come back and finish discussing the first drop from “Love Is Blind Germany” season 2, and we are doing that today! But first, we needed to unburden ourselves about a couple other Cultural Conversations: the Golden Globe Awards adding a Be…

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'People We Meet On Vacation' Is A Standard Netflix...

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2026/01/12

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comWe have long been fans of the Emily Henry romance-novel universe. So when we heard that “People We Meet On Vacation” would be getting the movie treatment, we were unquestionably excited. “People We Meet On Vacation,” which was published in novel form in 2021 and dropped on Netflix in movie form on Jan. 9, follows polar oppos…

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'LIB Germany' S2 E1-4: Epistolary Dumping

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2026/01/09

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comIn 2026, the sun never sets on the “Love Is Blind” empire. With two US seasons a year, plus endlessly proliferating international spinoffs, there’s a new set of pod daters clamoring for our attention every time the last reunion has begun to fade from memory. And this month, we’re headed to Deutschland! “Love Is Blind Germany” season 2 has landed, and if…

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10:10

Reflecting On 2025 As We Enter 2026

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2026/01/01

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.com2025 felt more like a lifetime than a year. Personally and globally, a lot happened in the last 12 months — much of it filled with darkness and despair, but also punctuated by bits of joy and light. To round out 2025 and welcome in 2026, we decided to sit down and tape a bit of a reflection. We discussed our highlights (Emma’s wedding…

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'Heated Rivalry' Shoots And Scores Big With Its...

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2025/12/26

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comWhen I got screener access to the season finale of “Heated Rivalry,” aptly titled “The Cottage,” I knew that the holiday break simply couldn’t stand in the way of a conversation about the back half of the super-gay hockey show that has become a solid 75 percent of my personality. Unfortunately, Claire had to do things, like… spend time with family… and her children… and celebrate Christmas (fine, fine, fine), but

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16:59

'Emily In Paris' S5 & The 'All's Fair' Finale

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2025/12/19

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comHappy holidays, y’all! Here are the presents you didn’t ask for: two staggeringly bad seasons of scripted TV. First, “Emily in Paris” is back, and this time she’s Emily in Rome, Emily Back in Paris, Emily in an American Embassy, Emily in Venice, and Emily Back in Paris Forever This Time. Emily is madly in love with …

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