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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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[PREVIEW] 'Love Is Blind' 3: In The End, It's The...

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2022/11/10

“Love Is Blind” came to a crashing conclusion on Wednesday, with a dramatic finale and a still-more dramatic reunion. Some people said no, some people said yes; some couples showed up to the reunion looking relaxed and happy while others showed up with more of a “blink twice if you need help” vibe. Accusations were made about clementines and lies. Deleted footage was aired out. The Cole and Zanab storyline, in particular, has polarized the audience, with each garnering floods of passionate defenders

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[PREVIEW] 'Love Is Blind' 3: These Couples Can't Quit...

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2022/11/03

It’s the (not quite) end of the road for the couples of “Love Is Blind” season 3. Episodes 8, 9 and 10 follow our five couples through the last 10 days leading up to their weddings. It’s always fascinating to watch how the Love Is Blind relationships often find an equilibrium at this point. The couples have been together for a month. They know what they love about their partners and what annoys the crap out of them. They know how to push each other’s buttons, and they have been confronted by the

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[PREVIEW] 'Tell Me Lies' Is A Hookup-Culture Horror...

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2022/10/31

Happy Halloween, beloveds! Gather round the campfire, because we sure have a spooky story for you: a tale of a sweet, naive college freshman who stumbles into an entanglement with the wrong man. A man with a dark past and a penchant for seduction. A man so addicted to fucking around, he’s driving his life straight into a ditch.In short, we both ripped through Hulu’s sordid series “Tell Me Lies,” based on the 2018 novel by Carola Lovering, which wrapped up this week with a shocking finale that

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[PREVIEW] 'Love Is Blind' 3: The Couples Head Home To...

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2022/10/27

Toto, we’re not in Malibu anymore!That’s right y’all, it’s time for our 5 (moderately) happy, newly-engaged couples to head back to Dallas, move into their show-appointed neutrally-decorated apartments, and commence the grueling labor of coupledom. This week’s batch of episodes was so meaty that we found it difficult to discuss them in a concise and coherent manner. Some scenes felt like they needed entire podcast episodes, like the knotty conversation that Bartise and Nancy have about abortion

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[PREVIEW] 'Love Is Blind' Season 3 (Dallas Edition)...

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2022/10/19

We love a pod love pod here at Rich Text, so we were ready as hell for season 3 of “Love Is Blind” to kick off this week and we’re already back on our bullshit (making pods about pods). Season 3: Dallas edition, which is dropping just a month after the season 2 “Love Is Blind: After the Altar” special and associated divorce announcements proved the Chicago experiment a bust, hopes to restore our faith in blind speed dating. Can Vanessa Lachey and her statement sleeves (and, less importantly, her

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[PREVIEW] 'Catherine Called Birdy' And Coming-Of-Age...

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2022/10/10

If you are a geriatric or middle-aged millennial woman who loved Scholastic book fairs, you probably have core memories of “Catherine Called Birdy.” The 1994 historical fiction Y.A. novel by Karen Cushman was certainly formative for both of us.The book follows spirited 14-year-old Birdy, the daughter of a country knight in 1290 England. Her father has decided that it is time to marry her off to the highest bidder, and the novel takes us into Birdy’s diary as she quietly and overtly rages against the

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[PREVIEW] Ask Us Anything 2: Love and Friendship

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2022/10/03

We’re back with more answers to more questions! Last week, we published a free episode with our responses to some of the wonderful questions you all sent us about work and work-adjacent topics. Today, in our usual subscribers-only episode, we’re answering some of the more personal and personal-adjacent questions. How do you make friends in your thirties? How do you stay friends when some of you are having kids, and some of you aren’t? What does feminist parenting look like when you have a son? How

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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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[PREVIEW] Ranking Enemies & Friends On 'Love Is...

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2022/09/19

Planning a family reunion can be stressful, because there are so many ways it can go wrong. Someone gets too drunk. Someone gossips loudly about something they shouldn’t. A few key family members simply opt out altogether which gives everyone even more to gossip about! You know the kind of family we’re talking about… the one where everyone dates everyone else, and then some of them get engaged sight unseen, and then eventually all of them break up? That kind of family. A reality television

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[PREVIEW] Double Feature: 'Love in the Villa' &...

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2022/09/12

As Netflix has turned its hand to mass-producing romantic comedies, there have been some truly delightful successes — movies that capture the sweetness, humor, brightness and sizzle of a ‘90s or ‘00s classic (“Always Be My Maybe,” “Set It Up,” and “Wedding Season” are among our favorites). But many of the platform’s romcoms are aiming more for the Hallmark Channel audience than the cinematic release one, and of those, the movies tend to fall into two categories: oddly melancholy, and intensely zany

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[PREVIEW] 'Selling The O.C.' Lacks Style And Substance

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2022/08/29

“Selling the O.C.” almost has it all. It has the Oppenheim twins. Brittany Snow’s hot husband. Double-digit listings with infinity pools. Acres of cleavage sheathed in bandage dresses. But it does lack a few key things — a protagonist, for example. Deliriously fun fashion. Any overt mention of the MAGA energy dripping from several of its main cast members. A clear and compelling narrative arc behind the chaotic and superficial drama that drives the season.Naturally, as soon as we could get our

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[PREVIEW] 'Wedding Season' Does What Good Netflix...

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2022/08/22

Nothing scratches that romcom itch for us better than a slightly absurd but well-executed comedy about two hotties who are just pretending to date… or are they? And while “Marry Me” fell completely flat, and “I Want You Back” was delightful but sizzle-free, Netflix has a new movie that truly delivers on the promise of a fake relationship romance: “Wedding Season.” The premise, in brief: microfinancier Asha and startup guy Ravi are set up by their pushy parents, who long for each of their children to

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[PREVIEW] 'Persuasion' Is A Hot, Modern Mess

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2022/08/15

True Jane-heads know that “Persuasion,” though not one of her flashiest, best-known works, is nevertheless among her finest. Like “Pride and Prejudice,” it takes as its subject the question of how minds and judgments are changed through new information or perspective. But where Lizzy Bennet is a young, bold, headstrong woman who has never made a mistake worth losing sleep over before, Anne Elliot has lived through the first blush of her youth and has had the opportunity to live with regrets about

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[PREVIEW] The 'FBoy Island' Finale Blew Our Minds

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2022/08/08

Where all else falter, “FBoy Island” delivers. Season 2 started strong, with three impeccably cast leads — all of them charming, beautiful, and completely up to the task of handling male shenanigans — sorting through an outrageous cast of peacocking fboys and soft-spoken nice guys. The last two episodes, from the Mansplain to the final decision night, stuck the landing. They stuck the landing so well that it’s hard not to wonder how much producers shaped the narrative we see. Without spoiling the

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[PREVIEW] 'FBoy Island' Is Our Mental Vacation Of Choice

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2022/08/01

Ah, to be washed up once more on the shores of “FBoy Island”: what a perfect summer escape. The frothy tropical dating show, hosted by Nikki Glaser and dreamed up by former “Bachelor” producer Elan Gale, whisks us away to a mysterious, sun-drenched island populated by three women looking for love, 13 fuckboys in need of reform, and 13 nice guys (self-proclaimed). We recapped season 1 for Love to See It last summer, and it sparked so much joy. Season 2 brings new twists, new heights of comic fantasy,

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[PREVIEW] 'The One That Got Away' Has Brigadoon Energy

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2022/07/18

Opinions vary, but personally, we believe there’s room for a lot more high-concept fantasy in reality dating. More eerie entrances, more mystical moments, more —let’s just go with it — smoke machines. Why can’t a reality series inject a bit more “Brigadoon” into our “Bachelor”? This is what we crave, and it’s what “The One That Got Away” delivers. Since leaving “The Bachelor,” producer Elan Gale has been trying his hand at more experimental dating shows (see: “FBoy Island,” also gloriously back this

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[PREVIEW] 'The Summer I Turned Pretty' Is Wish...

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2022/07/05

Quick reminder: We’re having a virtual live show with Moment House on Sunday, July 10! We’ll be recapping the premiere episode of Kaitlyn and Britt’s (briefly) two-Bachelorette season. Plus, there will be exclusive merch, and we’ll be using the tipping function on Moment House to raise money for The Brigid Alliance, a fantastic organization that provides people with the money and support they need to travel for abortion care. Get tickets here.After “To All the Boys I Loved Before” stole our hearts

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[PREVIEW] Teal Swan, Warren Jeffs, and the Gender...

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2022/06/27

Content warning: In this podcast, we discuss some very difficult topics — notably, suicide/suicidal ideation, sexual assault and child sexual abuse. Please listen with care.On Friday, the Supreme Court released its opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. In it, the court overturned Roe v. Wade, denying the existence of a constitutional right to an abortion. The majority opinion, authored by Justice Samuel Alito, was substantially unchanged from the draft opinion leaked last month,

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[PREVIEW] Double-Feature: 'Fire Island' and 'A...

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2022/06/13

This week we come to you with two summer romance offerings: a must-watch movie and a we-watched-it-so-you-don’t-have-to movie. Hulu’s “Fire Island,” written by and starring Joel Kim Booster, is a groundbreaking, thoughtful, funny, and tender modernization of “Pride and Prejudice” set in Fire Island Pines, a legendary gay resort town. Centering on the friendship between two gay Asian-American men, Noah (Booster) and Howie (Bowen Yang) and the romances that they each fall into during their week in

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[PREVIEW] 'Conversations With Friends' Has Questions...

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2022/06/06

“Normal People” was the first Sally Rooney streaming series to enrapture the viewing public, with Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones bringing sensitive jock Connell and snooty social outcast Marianne to life onscreen. But “Conversations With Friends” is the original Rooney, the debut novel that launched the Irish writer to such massive fame and acclaim that her public persona now primarily revolves around her discomfort with being so famous and acclaimed. This spring, the team that adapted “Normal

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