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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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11:12

'Love Is Blind UK' S2 Takes Us Back Across The Pond

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2025/08/15

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comIf anyone tries to tell you that reality television isn’t full of culture, tell them to watch the first drop of “Love Is Blind UK” season 2. Not only does it provide an American audience with a crash course in a wide array of British accents and terminology, but viewers can also learn about the grift of “human design” — and perhaps most importantly, “sp…

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15:47

The 'Love Island' Universe Is In Pieces

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2025/08/08

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.com“Love Island” and “Love Island: Beyond the Villa” may have wrapped their latest seasons, but if anything the drama has only gotten more explosive — and unsettling — off-camera. In this episode, we discuss how the JaNa and Kenny breakup unfolded and dig into the rumored reason for the breakup, based on public statements by JaNa and her friends. We also get into the perils of insincere men on reality dating shows,

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13:13

'The Hunting Wives' Is A Sexy Soap For Our...

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2025/08/02

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.com“The Hunting Wives” is one of those rare shows where nothing makes much sense, but it still somehow works. Thanks to her very middling husband, coastal liberal Sophie O’Neill (Brittany Snow) gets dropped into the gun-toting world of East Texas socialites, led by Queen Bee Margo Banks (Malin Åkerman). Longing glances are exc…

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15:00

‘Too Much’ Is The Right Amount, Plus A Little More

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2025/07/25

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comTitling 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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12:28

We Finally Saw 'Materialists'...

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2025/07/18

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comPedro 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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Reunion Recap Special: 'Ultimatum: Queer Love' &...

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2025/07/11

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comLet’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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'The Ultimatum: Queer Love' S2 Finale Delivered...

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2025/07/03

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.com“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

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'The Ultimatum: Queer Love' S2 Is Here, Queer, And...

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2025/06/27

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comJust 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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15:41

'The Valley' Shows Us Who Jax Really Is

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2025/06/13

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comIf 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

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9:46

'And Just Like That...' S3 Is Empty, Schlocky, And So...

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2025/06/07

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comCarrie 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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14:11

'Summer House' And The Freedom Finale

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2025/05/30

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comWhat 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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The 'Mormon Wives' Are Back To Battle For The Soul Of...

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2025/05/23

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comWhat is MomTok? A business? A friend group? A sisterhood? A vehicle for TV drama? A tool for dismantling the patriarchal forces undergirding the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? In season 2 of “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,” the ladies of MomTok are back — and they have very different answers to that big question.In this episode, we get into as much of the season’s drama as we can, including

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15:09

The Pronatalists Are Coming

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2025/05/16

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comThe technofuturists want it. The evangelicals want it. The creepy manosphere dudes want it. The current iteration of the American right wing may be an odd and sometimes contradictory coalition, but there’s at least one thing they all unite around: More babies.

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11:46

'The Valley' Proves You Should Never Trust A Boys Chat

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2025/05/12

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comWe’re back with another chat about “The Valley,” one of the darkest and most compelling reality shows on TV. And our main takeaway from episodes 2-4? Ban the boys chat.A whole lot happens during this stretch of episodes, all of which we get into on this week’s subscriber podcas…

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How We Learned To 'Wear Whatever The F [We] Want'

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2025/05/02

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comWhen “What Not To Wear,” a fashion makeover show starring stylists Clinton Kelly and Stacy London, first aired on TLC in 2003, the two of us were in the midst of our high school years — smack dab in the middle of style self-discovery and anxiety. If anyone yearned for clear-cut style guidelines, it was us.Clint and…

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19:32

'You' Unmasks Its Villain

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2025/04/25

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comAfter four seasons cutting a bloody trail across the United States and Europe, Joe Goldberg has come home. The fifth and final season of Netflix thriller “You” finds the bookish serial killer (played by Penn Badgley) back in New York, married to his latest love, and surrounded by every comfort money can buy. His wife Kate is a billionai…

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'The Valley' S2 Is A Study In Male Rage

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2025/04/17

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.com“The Valley” is ostensibly a show about the lives of a group of friends and frenemies in their mid-30s to mid-40s as they navigate babies, divorces, and messy social situations. However, what it’s actually about is the harrowing nature of legally tying yourself to a toxic, dangerous man!In this episode, we dig into “The Valley” season 2 premiere, including Jax’s alarming patterns of behavior, the continuation of

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18:45

'White Lotus' S3 Left Us Unsatisfied

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2025/04/10

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comOur favorite rich-people-being-shitty-in-paradise prestige scripted TV show, “The White Lotus” just wrapped up season 3, and we have to be honest: Much like Laurie (Carrie Coon), or Timothy Ratliff (Jason Isaacs), we didn’t have our best vacation ever.In this episode, we dug into the whole season — our frustrations with it, our favorite parts, our problems with how the show explores masculinity and its pitfalls,

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Paige DeSorbo & Craig Conover's Breakup Has Culture...

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2025/04/04

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comWhen the end of “Bravo” stars Paige DeSorbo and Craig Conover’s three-year long relationship became public in December, it seemed like everything was going to be handled amicably. "I have so much love and respect for Craig. I think he is one of the best people I have ever met in my entire life," Paige said on her podcast, Giggly Squad.But then things started going downhill.In this episode, we dive into the

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11:43

'Severance' S2 Is Getting Too Real

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2025/03/22

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comThe only people who anticipated the completion of “Cold Harbor” as eagerly as Jame Eagan and the Lumon Board were, well, the entire audience of Apple TV+ hit “Severance.” And we had been waiting a long, long time. Season 2 was famously delayed and delayed, arriving almost three full years after season 1, and the second season too…

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