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Once again, Alan Cumming and his collection of capes and tartans have assembled a band of merry C-list celebrities in a Highland castle, where they are participating in a lavishly produced parlor game of murder and betrayal: “The Traitors.” We became hooked in season 2, and season 3 brought in some of our dream cast members — Chrishell Stause, Gabby Windey, Dorinda Medley — alongside legendary con...

Given the success of “Selling Sunset” and “Selling The O.C.,” it was only a matter of time before the franchise spun off all the way to New York City. Enter “Selling The City.” The newest real estate mogul reality show centers on an all-women team of Douglas Elliman agents in New York City, lead by super-agent Eleanora Srugo. Regular readers of the New York Post might know her as a big Eric Adams...

“The Ultimatum: Marry Or Move On” is less of a reality dating show, and more of a cautionary tale for straight people. A messy, unhinged, gripping one. For the uninitiated here’s the premise: There are six long-term couples. One person in each couple has issued an ultimatum — they need to get married, or break up. The couples split, find a “trial marriage partner” from the group to match up with a...

This week, we discuss two of the great homemaking influencers: Ballerina Farm (an unassuming tradwife Instagram icon), and Martha Stewart (a ruthless perfectionist and corporate mogul). In the midst of their recent moments in the cultural conversation — thanks to some high-profile interviews and a Netflix documentary, respectively — we were struck by how much overlap there is between these two wom...

Lindsay Lohan isn’t just a zany rom-com leading lady! She’s a (semi) serious rom-com leading lady. After “Falling for Christmas” (extremely unhinged) and “Irish Wish” (extremely AI-generated), Lohan apparently wanted to work on a film that was slightly more grounded. Enter “Our Little Secret.” “Our Little Secret” follows exes Avery (Lohan) and Logan (Ian Harding), as they find themselves in an awk...

We imagine the pitch for “Hot Frosty” was simple: Olaf from “Frozen,” but he fucks. This Netflix holiday rom-com is here to remind us that Christmas may take place during the cold season, but it can still be *hot*. “Hot Frosty” follows widow-slash-diner owner Kathy (Lacey Chabert) as she accidentally brings a notably chiseled snowman (Dustin Milligan) to life with a magical red scarf. Is she his m...

We don’t have any answers, but we do have a lot of feelings. We tried to express them in a cogent way, but full warning that we maybe were only partially successful. Claire would also like all of you to know that she’s angry and doing punditry. Please feel free to ignore her (or both of us!) if that’s not where you’re at right now. We love you all. We are so very grateful for this little community...

Warning: This post and episode contain spoilers for the “Love Is Blind” season 7 reunion! This “Love Is Blind” DC reunion had it all, if “it all” refers to every one of Nick and Vanessa Lachey’s well-documented inadequacies as hosts: corny dad jokes that Nick’s punch-up writer clearly prepared well in advance, missed lines of questioning and failures to follow up on important points, muddled back-...

Warning: This post and episode contain spoilers for the “Love Is Blind” season 7 finale! The first 15 minutes of the “Love Is Blind” season 7 finale was riveting and wrenching. The following hour was largely boring, with sides of sweetness and dramatic irony. This is one of those finales that should have jumped straight into a reunion. (Not that we think the Lacheys are equipped to handle it.) And...

The psychologist John Gottman has posited that there are four horsemen that portended doom in a relationship: contempt, criticism, defensiveness and stonewalling. If this theory didn’t already exist, it could have been developed simply by watching this season of “Love Is Blind,” in which contempt and criticism have infected several of the relationships root and branch. Any amateur shrink could loo...

At this point, it feels like it happens every season. You think you know who the villains are… and then more episodes come out and the TikToks start rolling in. Move on over, Leo. Stephen and Tyler (sob!) are ready to take your place. In this week’s batch of “Love Is Blind” episodes, our couples finish out their time in Cabo and head back to our nation’s capital. Once they’re back in DC, we watch...

Our nation’s preeminent insta-marriage reality show has taken its talents to the capital for season seven! It’s “Love Is Blind,” DC edition, and this mammoth first drop (six episodes, some close to 75 minutes long) showcases that special DMV flavor. Cast members work at think tanks and ponder whether they would have spoken to each other if they’d met “on the Hill.” One recites a love poem that rhy...

There are a lot of things to love about the new Netflix show “Nobody Wants This.” Unfortunately, its depiction of Jewish women isn’t one of them. When news first broke that a rom-com show was in the works starring Adam Brody as a hot L.A. rabbi who falls for an agnostic, blonde sex/relationships podcaster played by Kristen Bell, we were ecstatic. We are rom-com devotees who have crushed on Seth Co...

After four years and four seasons of television, Emily Cooper has finally been in Paris for an entire year. That’s right: despite seasonal hopscotch, some misleading pregnancy timelines, and a general sense among the show’s audience, characters, and seemingly even writers that our plucky young marketing phenom has been in Paris for ever , it’s really only been about 12 months in “Emily in Paris” t...

The 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 a...

Last 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...

Spoiler 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 couple of the season. In each six of the U....

Spoiler Alert: This podcast and post contain spoilers for the final drop of “Love Is Blind UK” episodes. Turns out that Claire is a goddamn “Love Is Blind UK” oracle, because *almost* all of her wedding-related predictions from last week came true. She sees the future, and we must give credit where credit is due. And yet, even if the outcomes were foreseen, the finale episodes of LIB UK’s inaugura...

Spoiler Alert: This podcast and post contain spoilers for the second batch of “Love Is Blind UK” episodes. 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 w...

SPOILER ALERT: THIS PODCAST AND POST CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR THE FIRST BATCH OF “LOVE IS BLIND UK” EPISODES. They’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...

It 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-dis...

“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! ) I was a self-enforced “Love Island” ascetic. I avoided the show at all costs, didn’t want to understand how it worked, and didn’t even want to be tempted to watch it. I mean, there are just SO MANY EPISODES each season! How could I possibly keep up? Turns out… I can...

“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. And because the season arrived in one bingeable drop, we started to hear the critical response well before we found time to finish it ourselves. And th...

Having a newsletter and podcast where you lay snapshots of your life bare is a funny thing. We share snippets of our lives with each other and with you, our dear community. And though the relationship is technically one-sided, we feel the embrace of love and encouragement from our readers and listeners every time we offer up a piece of ourselves. Two Fridays ago, on June 28, I (Emma) got engaged t...

Watching 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 wate...