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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] Welcome To The Netflix Holiday Cinematic...

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2021/12/20

A glamorous romance author tries to buy a Scottish castle from a grumpy duke. Not one, but two L.A. writers travel to the frosty East to spend Christmas with a prospective lover’s family, only to encounter a himbo who throws a spanner in the works. A foxy noblewoman joins forces with her childhood sweetheart, now a private security expert, to recover a stolen Vatican relic — and her relationship with the identical cousin whose throne she tried to steal.This is what Christmas in the Netflix

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[PREVIEW] 'And Just Like That'... SATC Is Back

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2021/12/14

And just like that, we watched “And Just Like That…”! In this subscribers-only pod, we discuss the return of sad Carrie, problematic Miranda, and boring Charlotte — and, sadly, of “she-lives-somewhere-else-now” Samantha. (This time, she isn’t going to get tired of waiting for Smith under a mountain of sushi and decide to move back to New York.) The pod is, obviously, chock-full of spoilers for the first two episodes, so read no further if you don’t want to find out what happened.………WHY DIDN’T CARRIE

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[PREVIEW] 'Sex And The City' Revisited: Season 1

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2021/12/06

As 2021 winds to a miserable conclusion — a couple highlights: a new Covid variant, Supreme Court hearings over a case that could overturn Roe v. Wade, the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse — we found our thoughts turning inexorably back to a simpler time (in the sense that we were, personally, ten years old). After a long day of catching up on the latest soul-crushing news and trying to find toddler-sized N95 masks, we craved the sweet escape of Cosmopolitans and Manolo Blahnik strappy sandals. And

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[PREVIEW] RHOSLC Part 2: Arrests And Cults And Sister...

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2021/11/29

Pour us a shotski of Vida and fry us an egg: we’re back in Salt Lake City, babies! When we last convened here in the frozen realm of the newest “Real Housewives” franchise, Claire was just getting the lay of the land as we discussed the first two episodes of the second season. We toured rented 7-bedroom ski chalets; we heard about who (Jen) had liked mean tweets about whose (Meredith’s) child; we joined Jen Shah and Heather Gay in an ice palace for a cozy truce. Table-setting, really.Nine episodes

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[PREVIEW] 'Love Life' Should Make Us Happier Than It...

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2021/11/22

Season 1 of “Love Life,” starring Anna Kendrick as the unlucky-in-love Darby, left both of us underwhelmed. Though it was very watchable, and undeniably spoke to our passion for love stories, it was also weirdly lugubrious for a happily-ever-after tale. The chapter structure felt a bit choppy. The British (why??) narrator overexplained Darby’s emotional journey, and lent an odd whiff of pomposity to the whole proceeding. So when season 2 rolled around, we might have given it a pass — except that

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[PREVIEW] 'Maid' And The Endless Work Of Being Poor

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2021/11/16

By the end of the Netflix series “Maid,” Alex Russell (Margaret Qualley) is an expert at having the rug pulled out from under her. (And an expert at cleaning it neatly as she’s thrown to the floor.) A single mom who left an abusive relationship with the father of her toddler, Maddy (Rylea Nevaeh Whittet), Alex dreams of going to college in Missoula, Montana and becoming a writer. Instead she’s cleaning houses for Value Maids, scrubbing stovetops and toilets and baseboards for rock-bottom wages while

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[PREVIEW] The Blunt Force Trauma Of 'Squid Game'

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2021/11/08

This is the “Squid Game” recap you’ve been waiting for: the perspective of two women so squeamish they probably missed, at a conservative estimate, 15% of this ultraviolent show because they were covering the screen with their hands and whispering “no no no no no no no noooooo whyyyy.” But whatever! The violent parts aren’t important, right? The important thing is that we know what this show is about: capitalism, wealth inequality, the myth of meritocracy, ugly Americans, and nice cops who restore

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[PREVIEW] 'You' Is Full Of Bloody Gender-Role Play

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2021/11/01

We’ve been obsessed with — fixated on, really — “You” since it premiered on Lifetime in 2018. Three years and three seasons later, the thriller has taken Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley), the sensitive, intellectual stalker/murderer at the center of the show, from a single bookseller in New York City to a married dad in the (fictional) tony NorCal suburb of Madre Linda. It’s been a journey littered with one true loves, heartbreaks, betrayals, hope, and, of course, heaps of dead bodies. Now that Joe has

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[PREVIEW] We're All Famous Here: Live Episode With...

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2021/10/26

Last week, we held a live panel discussion at SaksWorks with the always eloquent Sharleen Joynt of “Dear Shandy” about navigating the parasocial waters we swim in — specifically as podcasters and as reality TV commentators (and, in Sharleen’s case, as a one-time participant on “The Bachelor”), but also as people who live in a society that is increasingly structured by parasocial, rather than social, relationships. We talked about John Mulaney and how he disappointed us by getting a divorce and also

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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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[PREVIEW] On Bad Friends And Bad Art

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2021/10/11

The question of the bad art friend keeps reemerging, under new auspices and nomenclature — most recently, last week, thanks to a transfixing investigation by Robert Kolker in the New York Times Magazine, which plumbed the sordid depths of a long-running legal conflict between writers Dawn Dorland and Sonya Larson. The site of the battle is an acclaimed work of short fiction by Larson; the grievance is that, Dorland argues, Larson not only based the story on Dorland’s own experience of making an

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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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[PREVIEW] 'The Circle' Part 3: 'The Circle' Is Complete

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2021/10/01

What’s up #CircleFam? The big finale of “The Circle” season 3 — which we would describe as “50% filler, but perfectly pleasant to watch” — dropped on Wednesday, so now we’re dropping our subscriber-only recap of the last five episodes. Writer Mychal Denzel Smith joined us to unpack the events of the final third of the season, and to weigh in on the elements of a good catfish, emoji selection, and the eternal question: Is he a strategic genius, or is he just a tall white guy?This batch of episodes

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[PREVIEW] 'RHOSLC' Season 2 Is Like The Hunger Games...

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2021/09/27

It’s Monday morning! My coffee is hot, but not as hot as my takes on “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.” (I invite you to picture me twirling in a silver cocktail dress as I deliver this line, winking glamorously.)I firmly believe that my life is only big enough for one extended cinematic universe, and The Bachelor franchise is happily devouring all of that space. We haven’t even done a cast bios episode for Michelle’s season yet and the women from [INSERT MYSTERY BACHELOR HERE]’s season have

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[PREVIEW] 'The Circle' Part 2: The Game Is On

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2021/09/20

Hello lovely subscribers! Welcome to another Monday recap podcast to tide us all over before BIP airs on Tuesday. Today, we’re diving into the week 2 drop of “The Circle.” And this is the week that things really start to get interesting. Alliances are forming! Twists are coming out of nowhere! Catfishes are being hunted! Sexy selfies are being sent from bed! Weirdly culturally appropriative costumes are being delivered to the doors of the players!There’s a whole lot to unpack. Hope you enjoy

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[PREVIEW] The Lord Is The Ultimate Upline: 'LuLaRich'...

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2021/09/17

After Emma and I watched “LuLaRich,” the new Amazon Prime series about the mostly imploded multilevel marketing company LuLaRoe and its oddball founders, DeAnne and Mark Stidham, all we wanted to do was talk about it. Ali Barthwell, the Emmy-nominated “Last Week Tonight” writer and Vulture recapper, felt the same way. So we did a podcast for our beloved angel subscribers about it! We talked about everything pyramid-shaped (Christianity, racism, capitalism — oh, oops, the foundational principles of

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[PREVIEW] 'The Circle' Is Back And More Cutthroat...

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2021/09/13

“Bachelor in Paradise” has moved to Tuesdays for the rest of the season, so let’s make Monday special: Let’s talk about “The Circle.” Season 3 of the reality show, in which contestants compete to become the most popular player in a closed social media platform called The Circle, began dropping episodes this week. In this week’s recap, we discuss the first batch of four episodes — meeting the new contestants (from Crazy Kai to Mama Michelle), watching flirtations develop and strategies take shape,

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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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[PREVIEW] 'Love Is Blind: After The Altar' Was A Hot...

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2021/08/07

You asked for it, so we are here to deliver: A recap of the delightful insanity that was the three bonus episodes of “Love Is Blind” that Netflix dropped like a beautiful gift within a burgeoning Covid storm. Join us on this journey as we catch up with The Hamiltons, The Barnetts, Jessica, LC, Diamond, Carlton… and the specter of Mark. We hope you enjoy this subscribers-only pod! Happy weekending! ShareWe’ve been watching…I have been rewatching “Sex and the City” from season 1 for the first time in

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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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