The Rom Complex

You know we love a dance movie, and we get exactly what we want from Best of the Best (2026). We also discuss how damaging mothers can be, how cool tigers are, and how many actors are simply from Britain.

Remember to wear your goggles in the lab as we get ready to discuss The Love Hypothesis (2026). We chat about how mean attractive people are allowed to be, the subtleties of manipulation, and that hotel room scene.

Nicki and Sandy are back for Practical Magic 2 (2026), and this time they're joined by Lee Pace! We discuss the nature of sequels, undoing all of a story's hard work, and what women's faces are allowed to look like.

Do Us Part (2026) takes "wedding crasher" a bit further than you might be used to--the female lead is trying to be a full-on marriage crasher. We discuss the rationality of this plan along with secure brides, overstepping best friends, and our preferred wedding antics.

Does One Night Only (2026) manage to weave a satisfying romantic tale through the high-concept world of "The Purge but for sex"? We discuss our answers to this question along with Mister Dua Lipa, the importance of casting, and brand name medicine jingles.

I Want Your Sex (2026) might not have a lot of rom, but the com about rom is the bomb. I'm sorry, I was having fun with it. We discuss the new film from Gregg Araki along with our time machine plans, playfulness in storytelling, and our Seth Rogen support group.

Summer Sparks (2026) is a Hallmark-style romcom brought to us by Roku. America truly is a melting pot. Along with the plot, we also manage to discuss how to ask someone out, whether or not a wife is alive, and what elements are required to make a situation a Parent Trap.

A beloved Netflix series wraps up with Heartstopper Forever (2026). We see where all our favorite characters end up, and along the way we discuss character growth, people-pleasing, and our fade-to-black preferences,

We've recovered from last week's wacky premise to bring you a simple movie about a boy looking for a girl and finding 300+ girls. It's this year's Finding Emily (2026), and we're so excited to discuss our new actor-crush Spike Fearn, as well as proper email etiquette, ethics in psychological studies, and boys being brothers.

40 Dates and 40 Nights (2026) asks the question, "Would you do something inconvenient if your Grandma agrees to pay your rent?" The answer is a resounding yes. We discuss dating stamina, aunts vs. grandmas, and the amazing impact of proximity when it comes to romance.

Pro tip: grab a box of tissues before you watch this one. Voicemails for Isabelle (2026) is a tearjerker in all the right ways. Through our tears, we discuss cellular privacy, relationship podcasters, and how you can tell when a filmmaker truly loves the genre.

A huge thank you to every single one of you who have listened to and supported us as we've made our way to 300 episodes. We couldn't be more grateful for our listeners, supporters, and Patrons to make this all possible. Ahem. Enough sappy stuff. Back to the serious matter of secretly-dating step-siblings in Your Fault: London (2026).

My Fault: London (2025) has all the tropes we've come to expect from the New Adult genre--fistfights, car chases, main character in distress--with an added step-sibling twist. We also discuss bad valets, the lawyer from Fleabag, and Tokyo Drift.

The creatively-titled Office Romance (2026) shows us what happens when a strict HR no-dating policy comes face-to-face with a handshake from a glowing Jennifer Lopez. We also chat about restricted raunch, self-insert fanfiction, and the powerhouse performance from Betty Gilpin.

Can a comedy be both light and dark? Lightly dark? That's what we get in 2025's Oh, Hi!, a romance featuring a nice weekend getaway that turns into something else entirely. We chat about movie morals, light bondage, and remembering to pretend to forget. (A sheepish welcome back to anyone who listened when I accidentally uploaded this episode last week.)

Our apologies (and also congratulations?) to anyone who listened to next week's episode before we replaced it with the correct file! In Tuner (2025), we face the classic story of a piano tuner turned safe cracker who may or may not find love along the way. It happens all the time! We also discuss bobbleheads, unexpected blessings, and curses disguised as watches.

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It's travel season (isn't that every season?) and we're headed to Italia for the views, the food, the wine, and the fun little rom-com You, Me & Tuscany (2026). Find out if Sam thinks Regé-Jean Page's face can fit believably in a contemporary setting!

The real drama of The Drama (2026) is that no characters spend the entire movie telling Zendaya how beautiful she is. We discuss this divisive new film along with empathy, the ability to change, and an outsider's perspective on the US.

We know you're not getting enough Dakota Johnson in your life, so we're covering 2025's Splitsville to try to make up the deficit. But be warned, this film is aware of how UNromantic it is.

Love Me, Love Me (2026) has it all--love triangles, motorcycles, underground teen fighting rings--you name it! But is it any good? Well, I think we're going to need a more complex scale to nail that one down.

It's got drama, it's got Colleen Hoover's unique brand of storytelling, and it's got Tyriq Withers's baby-blues--it's the new romance Reminders of Him (2026). We talk through the whole movie until we have only one question left: is that a freaking pigeon?

We do not know how to ride a motorcycle, but we're still ready to rev your engines as we discuss the darkly funny romance Pillion. We also chat about tiny glasses, figuring out your boundaries, and the things we'd do if Alexander Skarsgård asked us.

Tubi has brought us a high school rom-com with surprising depth of feeling in Kissing is the Easy Part (2026). We chat about the stories we inherit from our parents, the attractiveness of nice nerds, and why you simply should not agree to underhanded deals with physicists.

We're joined by writer/director/actor/friend Susan Kemp to discuss one of her favorite romances, All the Real Girls (2003). We chat about the realities of young love, blooming late, and how sometimes an actor is just a guy. See more of Susan on Instagram and Youtube @susiekemp.