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Emma Gray & Claire Fallon

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

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14:22

'Love Is Blind' 4, Part 3: Pre-Wedding Panic

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2023/04/10

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comIt’s a big week for “Love Is Blind.” At this point in the season, things always start to either really come together or totally fall apart. And in episodes 9-11 of season 4, we got both.On one end of the should-they-get-married spectrum is Brett and Tiffany, who continue to be THE Golden Couple of the season. It’s hard to sa…

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11:21

'Love Is Blind' 4, Part 2: Reality Hits

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2023/04/03

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comThe pods and sunny Mexico are in the rearview mirror, so it’s time for our four surviving couples to move into Seattle townhouses and start hashing out chore wheels. This is where the rubber meets the road. It’s the first opportunity the couples have to see if they can stand each other not just through a wall or at a lavish resort, but while managing th…

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13:17

'Love Is Blind' 4, Part 1: Seattle Is For Lovers

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2023/03/27

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comNOTE: When we started recapping this week, we thought it was a 4-episode drop, and then we realized it was actually a 5-episode drop! So we recap all 5 episodes in this podcast, but we recapped the last episode in a separate taping. (Also, be warned: This made the recap pod way longer than anticipated.) Thanks for bearing wi…

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13:25

The Most Unhinged Show On TV

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2023/03/20

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comIn the final moments of “Sex/Life” season one, desperate Connecticut housewife and former New York sex-haver Billie (Sarah Shahi) is finally ready to act on years of yearning and months of journaling about the one that got away. She’s been trying to make things work with her handsome, loving, and loaded husband Cooper, and to put …

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7:31

Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Joe Goldberg

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2023/03/13

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comWarning: This podcast contains many, many spoilers for “You” season 4, part 2. It also contains discussion of events in the show that pertain to suicide.ANOTHER WARNING: DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU HAVE NOT WATCHED “YOU” SEASON 4.

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12:16

'Love Trip: Paris' And 'Meet Me In Paris' Repackage...

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2023/02/27

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comAhhh, Paris. The City of Lights, the City of Love, the City of American Women Starved For Romance. In the American cultural imagination, the French capital has long been idealized as the most romantic, chic, charming destination in the world — the perfect place, as “The Bachelor” might put it, to fall in love. On the…

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11:20

'Your Place Or Mine' Should Be So Much Better

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2023/02/20

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.com“Your Place Or Mine” has all the markers of a great romantic comedy: The friends to lovers trope! A script from “27 Dresses” screenwriter / “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” showrunner Aline Brosh McKenna! Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher, both of whom have aged like fine wine! A wild cast of supporting characters played by legends …

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13:53

'You' Hops Across The Pond

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2023/02/13

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comLast season of the Netflix thriller “You” ended in an almost absurdly climactic way: Joe Goldberg, the main character and arch-villain of the series, killed his murderous wife Love Quinn, burned down their house, faked his own death, and left his baby son with a couple who would make better guardians. He then took off to Paris to find his new love object, Marienne, who had fled there with her daughter to escape

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67:11

Ask Us Anything 1: Working Girls

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2022/09/30

This is the free edition of Rich Text, a newsletter about cultural obsessions from your Internet BFFs Emma and Claire. If you like what you see and hear, consider becoming a paid subscriber. Part 2 of this series will be released for paid subscribers on Monday. Rich Text is a reader-supported project — no ads or sponsors! We asked you, our beloved audience, for questions a few days ago thinking that *maybe* we’d get enough to cobble together one podcast episode. But, as always, our community went

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52:19

The Truth About Marriage, with Heather Havrilesky

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2022/04/11

This is the free edition of Rich Text, a newsletter about cultural obsessions from your Internet BFFs Emma and Claire. If you like what you see and hear, consider becoming a paid subscriber. Rich Text is a reader-supported project — no ads or sponsors! Coming soon: A subscribers-only episode about Netflix’s batshit new reality dating show “The Ultimatum.”In the final episodes of the NBC sitcom “The Good Place,” our intrepid ensemble of Bad Place fugitives finally arrive at the real Good Place: an

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30:31

Happy New Year! And A Thank You.

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2022/01/01

This is the free edition of Rich Text, a newsletter about cultural obsessions from your Internet BFFs Emma and Claire. If you like what you see and hear, consider becoming a paid subscriber. Rich Text is a reader-supported project — no ads or sponsors!We soft launched Rich Text one year ago. It was supposed to be a hobby, an experiment, an attempt to rediscover joy in writing after a demoralizing year of Covid scares, lockdowns, and (for Claire) new motherhood. Instead, in the 12 months since our

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65:36

Carefree Black Girls

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2021/10/18

On Rich Text Book Club this week, we’re talking about “Carefree Black Girls,” a new book from culture critic Zeba Blay, who also happens to be (full disclosure) our friend and old HuffPost colleague!In 2013, Zeba tweeted a post with the hashtag #carefreeblackgirl. She was an early popularizer of the term, which reached toward a conception of Black girlhood that could be joyful, relaxed, at ease in the world — carefree in a way that white girls were often shown as being. Almost a decade later, her

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50:27

When A Black Woman And A White Woman Co-Write A Novel...

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2021/10/04

This is the free edition of Rich Text, a newsletter about cultural obsessions from your Internet BFFs Emma and Claire. If you like what you see and hear, consider becoming a paid subscriber. Rich Text is a reader-supported project — no ads or sponsors!In Christine Pride and Jo Piazza’s new novel, We Are Not Like Them (out tomorrow at your finest book purveyors), lifelong friends Riley and Jen find their bond being tested in the most profound way possible. Riley, a Black TV news reporter recently

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81:46

Bridging The Motherhood Divide Pt. 3: The...

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2021/08/19

This is the free edition of Rich Text, a newsletter by Claire Fallon and Emma Gray. Rich Text is a space for the indulgent and the incisive, for witty and wistful explorations of the cultural, the personal, and the political in both written and audio formats. If you like what you see and hear, consider becoming a paid subscriber. Rich Text is a reader-supported project — no ads or sponsors!When the pandemic began, there was talk of a baby boom. More than a year later, that never materialized. But

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63:51

Ambitious Girls

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2021/07/28

This is the free edition of Rich Text, a newsletter by Claire Fallon and Emma Gray. Rich Text is a space for the indulgent and the incisive, for witty and wistful explorations of the cultural, the personal, and the political in both written and audio formats. If you like what you see and hear, consider becoming a paid subscriber. Rich Text is a reader-supported project — no ads or sponsors!Welcome to our third Rich Text book club! We have officially reached trend status, y’all. For this episode, we

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90:11

'Sex/Life' Doesn't Elucidate Much About Sex Or Life

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2021/07/15

This is the free edition of Rich Text, a newsletter by Claire Fallon and Emma Gray. Rich Text is a space for the indulgent and the incisive, for witty and wistful explorations of the cultural, the personal, and the political in both written and audio formats. If you like what you see and hear, consider becoming a paid subscriber. Rich Text is a reader-supported project — no ads or sponsors!We’ll admit it: we weren’t exactly champing at the bit to watch “Sex/Life,” the new lightly pornographic

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82:33

Bridging the Motherhood Divide Pt. 2: Mom Fashion &...

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2021/07/09

Happy Friday! Last week we dug into the divide that seems to spring up between women with and without kids, especially in our own millennial milieu. We loved opening up to each other and all of you about the resentments and pressures and societal structures that conspire to sort moms from non-moms, and how we try to foster friendship and community across those lines in our own lives. We got so many wonderful messages about this episode, and we want to build off of it and address many of the

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64:24

Audio Chat: Bridging The Motherhood Divide

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2021/07/01

This is the free edition of Rich Text, a newsletter by Claire Fallon and Emma Gray. Rich Text is a space for the indulgent and the incisive, for witty and wistful explorations of the cultural, the personal, and the political in both written and audio formats. If you like what you see and hear, consider becoming a paid subscriber. Rich Text is a reader-supported project — no ads or sponsors!Last year, it seemed like everyone was predicting a pandemic baby boom; this year, it turned out to be a baby

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65:00

Kelsey McKinney On 'God Spare The Girls' And...

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2021/06/11

This is the free edition of Rich Text, a newsletter by Claire Fallon and Emma Gray. Rich Text is a space for the indulgent and the incisive, for witty and wistful explorations of the cultural, the personal, and the political in both written and audio formats. If you like what you see and hear, consider becoming a paid subscriber. Rich Text is a reader-supported project — no ads or sponsors!Welcome to another book club episode of Rich Text. Our second! Three times will make it official, right? Our

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87:03

Audio Chat: 'Mare Of Easttown' Gave Us All The Mixed...

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2021/06/02

This is the free edition of Rich Text, a newsletter by Claire Fallon and Emma Gray. Rich Text is a space for the indulgent and the incisive, for witty and wistful explorations of the cultural, the personal, and the political in both written and audio formats. If you like what you see and hear, consider becoming a paid subscriber. Rich Text is a reader-supported project — no ads or sponsors!Be warned: This chat contains ALL THE SPOILERS. Who murdered the durder? We finally found out on Sunday night,

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