Reality Life with Kate Casey

Kate discusses what to watch this week including Love is Blind UK (Netflix), The Dynasty: UConn Huskies (Apple TV+), 9/11 Reunited  (National Geographic), and Freefall: A Reckoning for Boeing (Netflix).        Reality Life with Kate Casey  Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this   Vanity Fair Article: https:...

Jo Piazza is the bestselling author of Everyone Is Lying to You , The Sicilian Inheritance , and her newest novel, The Parisian Heist , and the host of the Under the Influence podcast. Kate and Jo open by tracing the origins of trad wife culture on social media, discussing Nara Smith's recent rejection of the tradwife label on Call Her Daddy , and whether a new wave of trad wife horror novels sign...

Kate is joined by Real Housewives scholar, author, and Vulture recapper Brian Moylan for a Bravo deep dive into Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip: Roaring 20th, Bravo’s cross-country celebration of 20 years of Housewives. They also get into Real Housewives of Orange County and The Valley reunion.        Reality Life with Kate Casey  Summer Reading List: https://kate...

Nearly a year after Brian Thompson's murder shocked the country and ignited a national conversation about the American healthcare system, the case against Luigi Mangione is heading to trial. In this episode, Kate sits down with ABC News Legal Analyst Brian Buckmire to break down the case, from the shooting and the manhunt that followed, to the charges Mangione now faces and what's ahead as jury se...

Alessandro Angulo Brandestini is the director behind Netflix's The Accidental Twins , a documentary that follows two sets of identical twin brothers in Colombia who were accidentally switched at birth and did not learn the truth until they were adults. He discusses how he found this story, the process of retelling it on screen, and his career as a filmmaker.     They also discuss hi...

Somebody Knows Something is a true crime series that asks whether the internet's obsession with unsolved cases, Reddit threads, true crime social media, armchair detectives, can actually help crack cases that have gone cold.     Kara Chamberlain and executive producer Ari Mark join the show to talk about it. Kara, who hosts the series, brings a deeply personal understanding of viole...

Kate discusses what to watch this week including Somebody Knows Something (Freeform), Mourinho (Netflix), The Valley Reunion (Bravo), and The Accidental Twins (Netflix).        Reality Life with Kate Casey  Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this   Vanity Fair Article: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/story/mar...

Sarah Fraser, host of The Sarah Fraser Show , discusses her journey in broadcasting, how she met her husband, and why sharing deeply personal experiences—including her fertility journey and caring for her mother—has created a powerful connection with listeners. She also reflects on why podcasting has become the most fulfilling chapter of both her personal life and professional career.   ...

The new season of Hulu's acclaimed true crime anthology Betrayal returns with Betrayal: Dirty Secrets, a three-part docuseries that examines the devastating consequences of deception inside one family—and within law enforcement.     At the center of the story is Karoline Borega, who believed she was married to a devoted husband and respected Colorado Springs police officer, Joel Ker...

The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On follows six couples at a crossroads: one partner is ready for marriage, while the other isn't. After issuing an ultimatum, each person dates other participants, enters a three-week trial marriage with a new partner, then reunites with their original partner before deciding whether to get engaged, walk away together, or end the relationship for good.   &nbs...

The trial of Lindsay Clancy has reignited difficult questions about postpartum mental illness, criminal responsibility, and where medicine and the law intersect. To examine the case from two legal perspectives, Kate speaks with two attorneys whose expertise approaches the case from different angles.     Jenifer Marks is a former family law attorney and legal consultant. Marks discus...

In this episode, Kate digs into House of Stassi , Hulu's new reality series following former Vanderpump Rules star Stassi Schroeder as she builds a life and career beyond the show that made her famous. Kate traces the show's origins, breaks down the cast and how they orbit Stassi's world, and unpacks what the series reveals, and what it leaves unanswered, about fame, family, and the blurry line be...

Kate discusses what to watch this week including The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip: Roaring 20th (Bravo), Double Lives of Suburban Wives (TLC), Inside the Trustor Scandal (Netflix), Real Housewives of Atlanta Reunion (Bravo), and Age Inappropriate (We TV).        Reality Life with Kate Casey  Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-sto...

Caitlin Rea Clark, the daughter of a New York socialite and stepdaughter of a Wall Street financier who first joined the show on Episode 964's Saturday Series to talk about her larger-than-life parents, returns to share her own experience with postpartum depression — from the crushing anxiety and shame she hid from everyone around her to the difference proper treatment made the second time around....

Joe Berlinger is the acclaimed documentary filmmaker and executive producer behind Conversations with a Killer and Paradise Lost , and he joins the show to talk about his latest project, Netflix's The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare . The series dives deep into the investigation and case against Bryan Kohberger, charting the digital breadcrumbs, forensic evidence, and painstaking police work that...

Kate speaks with Gretchen Palek, executive producer of Netflix's true-crime docuseries Worst Neighbor Ever, which examines four shocking real-life cases where ordinary neighborhood disputes spiraled into harassment, violence, fraud, and murder. Gretchen explains how the series evolved from the successful Worst Roommate Ever and Worst Ex Ever franchises, what makes these stories uniquely unsettling...

Richard Marquise led the FBI's investigation into the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, one of the deadliest acts of terrorism in modern history and the largest international criminal investigation ever conducted. In this re-air of our conversation, Richard takes us inside the decades-long hunt for answers: the evidence recovered from Scottish fields, the international coopera...

Ramiel Petros and Nicholas Freeman join Kate to talk about their documentary The Last Guest of the Holloway Motel , the story of former Norwich City footballer Tony Powell — a 1970s soccer star who vanished from public life for over 40 years and was later found managing a run-down West Hollywood motel. What started as a short film about a disappearing building on Santa Monica Boulevard turned into...

Kate discusses what to watch this week including The Last Guest of the Holloway Motel (Apple TV), The Bombing of Pan Am 103 (Netflix), and The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare (Netflix).        Reality Life with Kate Casey  Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this   Vanity Fair Article: https://www.vanityfair.com/...

Kate Doerge is a certified grief coach and co-founder of Penny's Flight Foundation. Her book Reimagining Grief: A New Path to Finding Healing, Strength, and Joy after Loss is a raw, deeply personal guide born out of losing her father, her mother, and her sixteen-year-old daughter, Penny, all within six years; Kate opens up about who her parents and daughter really were, how she rebuilt her life th...

She spent 88 days in jail for a rape plot that was never real, and the man who reported her to police was the same deputy U.S. marshal she used to be engaged to. Kate breaks down the true story behind Netflix's A Toxic Love Story : the faked pregnancy, the forged cancer diagnosis, the Craigslist rape-fantasy ads, and the staged 911 call that sent Michelle Hadley to prison for a crime her ex-fiancé...

Sophia Maddox and Alexandra Orton, co-directors of Hulu's My Grandfather Charles Manson , a documentary following Sophia's discovery through a DNA test that her unknown grandfather was Charles Manson, and her journey through Manson family members, unreleased records, and audio recordings to uncover the truth, all while it strains her relationship with her father, who bears a striking resemblance t...

Chris DeRosa, co-host of the Fixing Famous People podcast, joins Kate to break down Netflix's wildly addictive reality series The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On , the dating experiment that asks couples on the brink of marriage to separate, date other people, and enter "trial marriages" before deciding whether to get engaged or walk away for good. Kate and Chris unpack the season's biggest twists, th...

Chris DeRosa, co-host of the Fixing Famous People podcast, joins Kate to break down Netflix's wildly addictive reality series The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On , the dating experiment that asks couples on the brink of marriage to separate, date other people, and enter "trial marriages" before deciding whether to get engaged or walk away for good.        Reality Life with Kat...

Kate discusses what to watch this week including My Grandfather Charles Manson (Hulu), A Toxic Love Story (Netflix), People Magazine Investigates: The Cult of the Soulful Journey (ID), and Real Housewives of London (Bravo).        Reality Life with Kate Casey  Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this   Vanity Fair...