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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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15:19

'The Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives' Is Our Latest...

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2024/09/16

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comThe minute the beat drops on Sam Smith and Kim Petras’ “Unholy” during the opening scenes for Hulu’s “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,” you know you’re gonna be in for a god damn ride. The camera is trained on social media star Taylor Frankie Paul, a mother of two in her late 20s who is all hair extensions and highlights. She’s also the closest thing this series has to a protagonist. A producer asks a question

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14:02

'Selling Sunset' S8 Is Meta AF

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2024/09/09

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comLast season of “Selling Sunset” saw Chrishell Stause victorious, the undisputed queen of the Oppenheim Group and, more importantly, of the reality show about it. In season 8, her power can go unstated, but it’s felt; she and her clique run the school (complimentary). But as their stars are rising, and other agents jockey for similar clout, the narratives on the show seem to be driven less and less by real estate

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15:34

The 'LIB: UK' Reunion Crushed Our Golden Dreams

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2024/08/29

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comSpoiler Alert: This podcast and post contain spoilers for the “Love Is Blind UK” reunion.The “Love Is Blind UK” reunion show dropped Monday, and we were ready. While we were eager for updates on all of our troubled but mostly lovable duos, there was one from whom we expected to hear nothing noteworthy: Sabrina and Steven Smith, the standard-issue golden…

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17:06

'Love Is Blind UK' Finale: Stags And Hens Head To The...

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2024/08/23

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comSpoiler Alert: This podcast and post contain spoilers for the final drop of “Love Is Blind UK” episodes.In this episode, we discuss the stag and hen dos, the most beautiful wedding venue we’ve ever seen on a “Love Is Blind” show, and, of course, who got married and who got jilted at the altar.

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13:51

'Love Is Blind UK' Cracks On In London

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2024/08/19

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comSpoiler Alert: This podcast and post contain spoilers for the second batch of “Love Is Blind UK” episodes, 5-9.The certified hotties of the inaugural season of “Love Is Blind UK” are officially out of the honeymoon phase. Literally. Our six (!!!) couples leave Corfu and head back to London in this batch of episodes, where they move into some immaculately-designed riverfront apartments (seriously, we would like to

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17:00

'Love Is Blind' UK Has Us Locked In

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2024/08/12

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comThey’ve got the pods. They’ve got the golden goblets. They’ve got a Nick-and-Vanessa-Lachey-esque married couple with English accents (Emma and Matt Willis, to be specific). And they’ve got a host of singles from across the U.K., mostly in their late twenties to thirties, who are ready to bare their hearts through a luminous opaque glass wall in hopes of finding a spouse. “Love Is Blind UK” is here, and it’s got

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13:40

Tradwives And Childless Cat Ladies

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2024/08/05

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comIt feels like we’ve been preparing for this one for years. We’ve talked about nap dresses and mom bodies. We’ve talked about the fear of losing your selfhood in motherhood. We’ve talked about egg-freezing and IVF. We’ve talked about the way that parenthood and non-parenthood are treated on both the left and the right. And now it’s time for all of these threads to merge together into a mega-discourse, thanks to

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11:22

How 'Love Island USA' Became The Show Of The Summer

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2024/07/29

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comNote: We recorded this episode last Wednesday, so some of the post-show updates we discuss may have evolved!“Love Island USA” did its big one this season. (Like so much of “Love Island” lingo… if you know you know. Soul Ties is craaaaaazy!)Emma was curious what was behind the show becoming such a mainstream phenomenon now, six seasons in. So she recruited “Love Island” aficianado and the author of the superb

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12:45

'The Bear' Season 3 Is Infuriating

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2024/07/15

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.com“The Bear,” everyone’s favorite drama-with-just-enough-jokes-to-get-awards-nominations-as-a-comedy, which follows a tortured-genius chef who heads back to Chicago to take over his brother’s Italian beef sandwich shop, has released its third season. In this podcast, we discuss what happened (and didn’t) this season, the critical backlash, our own initial reactions to season 3, how the repetitiveness and stagnation

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14:35

Emma Got Engaged!

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2024/07/08

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comEmma and Adam are engaged! Claire interviews Emma all about the proposal, and then they both discuss the feelings on surprise proposals, traditional wedding traditions and how their feelings about marriage interact with their feminist values. (Bonus: Claire talks about her proposal story!)

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13:21

Pay The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders!

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2024/07/01

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comWatching Netflix’s new Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders docuseries, “America’s Sweethearts,” is like diving under the water to check out what a swan’s feet are doing as she glides elegantly across a glassy pond. The frantic but hidden exertion underneath, all in service of creating an apparently effortless movement forward, becomes suddenly, jarringly visible once you peer under the surface of the water. That’s the

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15:14

Brats, Moms, And The Rest Of Us

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2024/06/24

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comReading the comments on The Cut’s Instagram page is not for the faint of heart. Things tend to get weird and heated and even more weird, but sometimes they also get interesting, like they did after writer Shannon Keating wrote an essay about her confused ambivalence about having children. The piece ran with the e…

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'Bridgerton' Is In Its Gossip Girlboss Era

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2024/06/17

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comDearest gentle readers, the end of Polin season is upon us at last, bringing with it relief from weepy eyes and gasping breaths. Colin and Penelope’s love story climaxes in several senses during these final four episodes: with a declaration of love, with a long-awaited sex scene featuring a mirror, with his discovery of Penelope’s nom de plume, and with his eventual acceptance of her full self. Oh, and they get

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On 'Summer House,' 'VPR' + 'The Valley,' We Watched...

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2024/06/07

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comBravo shows tend to be their most interesting and most depressing when we’re watching something dissolve, whether that’s a longterm relationship or the remaining space between reality TV cast members and their audience. “The Valley,” “Summer House” and “Vanderpump Rules” all ended their seasons with something fundamental shatt…

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'Anyone But You' Is Not The Mid-Budget Rom-Com...

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2024/05/24

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comThe great rom-com stars make it look easy. Meg Ryan, Julia Roberts, Drew Barrymore: When they fall in love on-screen, their charm pulls us in and the transparency of their emotions enables us to feel every moment of yearning and every thrill just as their characters do. But a rom-com lead can also, we recently discovered, turn in such a limp performance that it makes the sheer difficulty of being a rom-com lead

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'Bridgerton' S3 Is Sexy, Uneven, And Really Working...

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2024/05/17

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comDearest gentle reader… In the words of our dear gossip-monger Lady Whistledown, “Diamonds are not the only gems that sparkle.” On this season of “Bridgerton,” we are given an emerald, in the form of a no-longer-citrus-clad Penelope Featherington. The former wallflower is in full bloom, catching the eyes of both naturalist Lo…

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'Selling The OC' S3 Is An All-Villain Affair

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2024/05/10

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.com“Selling the O.C.” has always distinguished itself from its older, cooler sister “Selling Sunset” by being slightly worse in almost every respect: the fashion, the characters, the politics, the drama. In season 3, that continues. The “Love Island”-inspired, Shein-designed outfits, the flatly unpleasant people, the thinly veiled bigotries, and the warmed-over storylines make for an uninspiring season. Still worse,

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16:38

'VPR,' 'Summer House,' & 'The Valley'

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2024/05/03

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comAre we in the golden age of friend-group Bravo shows? After doing a major binge of established shows “Summer House,” “Vanderpump Rules,” and new addition “The Valley,” we think that answer is a resounding yes. So naturally, we had to get of back on the Rich Text pod to do a little state of the Bravo union.All three of the aforementioned shows track th…

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'The Tortured Poets Department' Is Taylor Swift's...

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2024/04/26

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comTaylor Swift’s 11th original studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” was released last week into a world feverishly gripped by anticipation for a Taylor Swift album. Some were primed to adore her latest work, which Swifties broadly expected to be a thorough excavation of her relationship with her ex-partner of six years, actor Joe Alwyn; others were primed to mock and flame it. We, two rather casual Swift

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15:22

What's The Deal With Our Collective Marriage Anxiety?

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2024/04/19

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.comIt was sometime last year that it started to feel like Big Conversations about marriage and divorce were *everywhere.* David Brooks was lecturing young people to “obsess less about your career and to think a lot more about marriage” because marriage rates have been falling. Emily Gould was contemplating leaving her husband and then not over on The Cut. …

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