You Should See The Other Guy

Episode 44! We talk about the 1999 Julia Roberts / Hugh Grant rom-com ‘Notting Hill’ and ponder the fate of the celebrity post-COVID, the arc of Hugh Grant’s career, and ultimately the political failings of both Britain and the United States. (Don’t worry. We keep it as light as possible ... under the circumstances.)

Writer, director, and actor Otoja Abit joins us for a special bonus episode to discuss his film ‘A New York Christmas Wedding’ — and to disclose the current location of the Azrael ornament.

We send off 2020 with a Nicolas Cage-style bang in this, our 43rd full episode of ‘You Should See The Other Guy.’ After a special emergency message from Jenn’s partner warning us not to go through with the podcast, Jenn, Sadie, and Samantha accept our current timeline and discuss the 2000 holiday fantasy rom-com ‘The Family Man’ — and then get lost talking about superhero movies for a while. But w...

Merry Christmas, listeners! Writer, artist, and made-for-TV Christmas movie expert Elizabeth Simins (Patreon.com/ElizSimins) joins us to break down the twists and turns, the highs and lows of ‘A New York Christmas Wedding.’ Also: Samantha fights off a chimpanzee virus, Jenn yearns for an ornament, and Sadie finally meets a rom-com she can’t predict. And reminder, dear listeners, that you can now g...

Where to even begin with this one, y’all? First of all, you can now support us at Patreon.com/YSSTOG. And then it’s onto our 41st episode, featuring returning guest Kayla Myers (Programmer, Indie Memphis). We’re talking the 2005 indie melodrama ‘The Family Stone,’ featuring Diane Keaton, Craig T. Nelson, DerMOT Mulroney, Carrie Bradshaw, and Luke Wilson. We queer it up by reimagining Rachel McAdam...

Is Harper actually the best character in ‘Happiest Season’? Should she have been the protagonist? Special guest Emily VanDerWerff (Vox.com, Arden Podcast) sits down with a lonely Samantha to revisit the already discoursed-to-death lesbian Christmas rom-com for another hour and a half. We lay out a case for Harper, swap coming out stories, and worry about the state of art more generally. And then s...

Polish your granite countertops and your oven ranges! Christmas is coming early this year, or at least this week’s episode is coming early! It’s our 40th! And we’re talking about the Nancy Meyers original The Holiday (2006) starring Cameron Diaz, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, and Jack Black. We discuss which pairing we like more, propose some longshot “other guys,” and debate whether or not this film is...

In this 39th episode of ‘You Should See The Other Guy,’ comedian DeAnne Smith (Netflix’s ‘Comedians of the World,’ @DeAnne_Smith) joins Jenn, Sadie, and Samantha to discuss the zeitgeisty queer Christmas rom-com ‘Happiest Season’ starring Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Davis, and Aubrey Plaza. Look, you can probably guess how we all feel about Harper and her collection of relationship red flags. (Not...

Put a heaping helping of caviar garnish on your plate with a side of Cranberries sauce, because we’re covering ‘You’ve Got Mail’ on a special Thanksgiving edition of ‘You Should See The Other Guy.’ Jenn, Sadie, and Samantha are joined by Jenn and Samantha’s partners (Justin and Corey respectively) to discuss Nora Ephron’s pre-Y2K rom-com classic, to sing the praises of Parker Posey, and to wax poe...

In this 37th episode of ‘You Should See The Other Guy,’ Jenn, Sadie, and Samantha discuss the 2010 ‘Scarlet Letter’ adaptation ‘Easy A,’ starring Emma Stone and company. In addition to making our queer case for some other girls, Jenn does her best Emma Stone impersonation. We also somehow reference the bartender from ‘The Shining’ and Emily Blunt’s family tree before stumbling onto the idea of Sta...

Why are we covering ‘Legends of the Fall’ on this podcast? Why would we put ourselves through a 2 hour and 12 minute Oscar-baiting historical epic featuring a long-haired Brad Pitt? Because our guest, international male model Joseph Culp (IG: model_joseph_culp) picked it, that’s why. Joe helps Jenn, Samantha, and Sadie sift through the three brothers in this 36th episode of ‘You Should See The Oth...

We tried to be thoughtful on this 35th episode of ‘You Should See The Other Guy,’ but we just ended up being pensive instead. That’s right, we’re covering the endlessly quotable 1999 teen movie masterpiece ‘10 Things I Hate About You’ to distract ourselves from the nightmare that is American electoral politics. Julia Stiles! Heath Ledger! JoGoLe! It’s a great cast. Your faithful co-hosts Jenn, Sad...

Look, ‘The Mummy’ is one of the greatest films ever made in one of the greatest years in film: 1999. Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, and John Hannah, all bring the heat (in a desert, no less!) but maybe Evie should have gone for sexy bald Imhotep instead? That’s the basic premise of this, the 34th episode of ‘You Should See The Other Guy.’ And yet in true tangential fashion we somehow end up talking...

Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich! It’s the 33rd episode of ‘You Should See The Other Guy,’ and October continues to unfold in all of its splendid spookiness. We’re talking the 2013 zombie rom-com (zom-rom-com?) ‘Warm Bodies’ starring Nicholaus Hoult as a zombie named ‘R’ and Teresa Palmer as a woman named Julie who is also the daughter of the film’s most important character: A MAN BY THE NAME OF COLO...

In this 32nd episode of ‘You Should See The Other Guy,’ Sadie, Samantha, and the eponymous Jennifer get all up in their queer, bisexual feelings about the 2009 horror comedy ‘Jennifer’s Body.’ Should “Needy” (Amanda Seyfried) have joined Jennifer (Megan Fox) in succubus-dom? Should she have opted for emo kid Colin instead of her boyfriend Chip? Maybe! But mostly, we process our complex emotions ab...

We’re back! Samantha looked at a rock and got a hairless cat so the editing is a little more loosey-goosey and raw than usual, but Jenn and Sadie are back, too, to discuss ‘The Philadelphia Story’ (1940) in which C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) comes up with a ridiculous scheme to get back into his ex-wife Tracy Lord’s (Katherine Hepburn’s) life. Also in the mix: a struggling Spy magazine writer na...

‘You Should See The Other Guy’ enters its dirty thirties with an extended look at a Nora Ephron classic: ‘Sleepless in Seattle’ (1993), in which a Baltimore Sun reporter named Annie (Meg Ryan) goes to Seattle to stalk a single father / widower named Sam (Tom Hanks) all the while ignoring her own incredibly hot fiance Walter (Bill Pullman). Jenn, Sadie, and Samantha dive deep into the movie, constr...

This is the 29th episode of ‘You Should See The Other Guy.’ Jenn, Sadie, and Samantha host it. We’re talking about ‘An Ideal Husband’ (1999). This is the part where I usually tell you who’s in it and what’s it about, but instead I can tell you that we address the following questions: 1) How would Oscar Wilde feel about the Coneheads? 2) What are “clapper drugs”? 3) Is Oscar Wilde responsible for T...

In this 28th episode of ‘You Should See The Other Guy,’ Samantha makes a bold but impossible promise, Sadie ties everything back to ‘Leap Year,’ and Jenn waxes poetic about the texture of a man’s sweater. That’s right: We’re talking about the 2020 Netflix rom-com ‘Love, Guaranteed,’ in which lawyer Susan Whitaker (Rachel Leigh Cook) helps ex-baseball player Nick Evans (Damon Wayans, Jr.) sue a dat...

In this 27th episode of ‘You Should See The Other Guy,’ your intrepid co-hosts alternate between declaring war on God and war on Marvel. Which will generate more controversy? Who can say? The movie at hand: ‘Keeping the Faith,’ a year 2000 rom-com in which a priest (Ed Norton) and a rabbi (Ben Stiller) compete for the same girl (Jenna Elfman). Will Sadie be able to look past her attraction to Ben...

It’s Vicar time, y’all! Before there was Bieber there was Beebe. Join us in Florence for this 26th episode of ‘You Should See The Other Guy’ in which the wonderful artist Liz Layton (https://www.liztheprophetess.com/) joins us to consider the 1985 romance film ‘A Room With A View.’ Do we think bookish aristocrat / fancy Squidward Cecil (Daniel Day-Lewis) will be a better partner for Lucy Honeychur...

In this 25th episode of ‘You Should See The Other Guy,’ Jenn, Sadie, and Samantha discuss the beloved but perhaps overshadowed 1995 rom-com ‘While You Were Sleeping,’ in which Sandra Bullock’s Lucy pretends to be engaged to a man in a coma (Peter Gallagher) but falls in love with his brother Jack (Bill Pullman) instead. We take several detours to CinemaCats.com, consider once again wonder how 2000...

On this very special bonus episode of ‘You Should See The Other Guy,’ your intrepid co-hosts are joined by the authors of the rom-com newsletter ‘The Only Girls Who Don’t Fall At Your Feet,’ which you can (and should) sign up for at theonlygirls.substack.com. Topics include: ‘The Kissing Booth 2’ (of course), why bad rom-coms are still worth talking about, and a certain “dog hotel” movie that Sama...

Your intrepid co-hosts thought that ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’ (1997) for would be a fairly easygoing trip down memory lane. They weren’t prepared for all the questions it raised on this, the 24th episode of ‘You Should See The Other Guy.’ Questions like: Why is Julia Roberts playing a 27-year-old who acts as though she has the life experience of a 45-year-old? To whence does Cameron Diaz abscond...

For episode 23 of ‘You Should See The Other Guy,’ we brought back a special guest: the soft-spoken, bitingly funny, and keenly observant Abby Monteil. She helps us break down the Hulu time travel rom-com ‘Palm Springs’ (2020). There are various “other guys” to consider for both nihilistic goofball Nyles (Andy Samberg) and the rock-bottom-hitting Sarah (Cristin Millioti), and yet somehow we end up...