Lovebug Club: A Rom-Com Rewatch Podcast

🌈 To continue our celebration of Pride Month, we’re watching Love, Simon! In this 2018 rom-com, closeted teen Simon goes to great lengths to keep his blackmailer from revealing his secret to his high school. This story of self-acceptance has everything: 🏳️‍🌈love💞, friendship, drama 🎭, Oreos🍪, and the longest Ferris wheel ride imaginable🎡.  🎥 This movie stars Nick Robinson, Keiynan Lonsdale,...

🌈 Happy Pride Month! To celebrate, we’re watching the queer cult-classic: But I’m a Cheerleader 📣 This 1999 rom-com follows bubbly cheerleader Megan to True Directions, a gay conversion camp. Instead of “becoming straight,” she falls in love with a fellow camper and finds her place in the LGBTQ+ community 🏳️‍🌈💗 🎥 This movie stars Natasha Lyonne, Clea DuVall, RuPaul, Cathy Moriarty, Melanie Ly...

For Mother’s Day, we’re rewatching the rom-com musical Mamma Mia! 20-year-old Sophie is getting married and wants her father to give her away…but her mom’s diary reveals that she has three possible dads! So she invites them all to the wedding! Without telling her mom or her fiance 😲 Chaos ensues in between all of your favorite ABBA songs 🎶 🎥 This movie came out in 2008 and stars Meryl Streep, A...

👗 This week’s episode is about another pair of siblings: Jane and Tess Nichols from “27 Dresses.” Perpetual bridesmaid Jane plans her dream wedding to her dream groom...for her sister! 😱 This story has all of the classic rom-com tropes: unrequited love, sibling rivalry, a bridezilla, and Judy Greer as the bff sidekick!  🎥 This 2008 movie stars Katherine Heigl, James Marsden, Malin Akerman, and...

👯‍♀️ National Siblings Day is April 10th, so we’re rewatching the 1999 rom-com-dram “10 Things I Hate About You" 🎬 Teen sisters Bianca and Kat Stratford have a strict father who won’t let Bianca date until Kat does. Unfortunately, Kat has no interest in dating, until Bianca’s suitor pays the mysterious bad boy to pursue Kat.   🎥  “10 Things I Hate About You” is a modern adaptation of Shake...

👖Continuing with our female friendship theme, we’re watching “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.” This coming-of-age rom-dramedy follows four teenage best friends Carmen, Bridget, Lena, and Tibby, who are about to spend their first summer apart. A magical pair of jeans help the girls keep in touch during their adventures: falling in love in Greece, soccer camp in Mexico, a surprise wedding in...

💐 We’re celebrating Women’s History Month by watching movies that feature female friendships, starting with Bridesmaids! This 2011 film is full of big names in comedy: Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Melissa McCarthy, Rose Byrne, Jon Hamm, Judd Apatow, and Paul Feig.  Annie’s life is falling apart when her childhood friend Lillian asks her to be her maid of honor. Annie leads the bridal party down a...

🎂 It’s Sarah’s birthday episode! We’re rewatching one of her favorite rom-coms, the 2006 cult classic “John Tucker Must Die” featuring an early-aughts all-star cast: Jesse Metcalfe, Brittany Snow, Ashanti, Sophia Bush, Arielle Kebbel, and Penn Badgley.  Teen basketball star (and serial cheater) John Tucker’s ex-girlfriends come together to teach him a lesson: make him fall in love with the new ch...

🍍 Our rom-com recap this week is “50 First Dates,” featuring Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler. This 2004 film is on EVERY classic rom-com list and while we enjoy parts of Lucy and Henry’s love story, there are some problematic tropes that haven’t aged well 👀 Join us as we discuss all the good and bad of “50 First Dates ” 🌺🌴🥥 This film is set in Hawaii, but let's respect the locals that ar...

❤ Special bonus episode for Valentine’s Week! ❤ Today we’re watching the 2018 Netflix film “To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before”, featuring Lana Condor and Noah Centineo. There are SO MANY relationships to talk about in this movie, since Lara Jean’s secret love letters get mysteriously sent to five of her crushes! 🙈 Her quiet high school existence gets flipped upside down when she and popular-boy P...

❤ The Valentine’s Day Premiere is here! We’re taking a look at “The Princess Diaries”, featuring Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews. This classic rom-com (from 21 years ago! 😱) was a staple when we were growing up. Join us as we recap this coming-of-age tale, talk about how this movie influenced our views on romance, and decide whether this film can stand the test of time.  Romance is a secondary st...

Welcome to the Lovebug Club! Hosted by Hadley & Sarah - join us every other Monday as we rewatch our favorite rom-coms (and some not-so-favorite) and break down the messages presented in these love stories. We’ll call out red flags, discuss boundaries, and talk about relationship dynamics, both romantic and platonic. Do you have a rom-com you want us to do an episode on? Head over to instagram...