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  • Saying Farewell To 'And Just Like That...'
    2025/09/08
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    The Women sat at their iced-coffee-covered desks, staring into the vast beyond of their computer screens. They couldn’t help but wonder… what did they just watch for the better part of 12 hours, on and off for the last handful of months?

    The answer is, of course, the final season of “And Just Like That…” The “Sex and the City” sequel…

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    13 分
  • 'Love Is Blind UK' S2 Reunion: Let Us Eat Cake
    2025/09/01
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    The “Love Is Blind” season 2 reunion landed on Sunday afternoon, and it landed with the force and spectacle of a grand piano pushed out of a tenth-story window. The proverbial ink had barely dried on our glowing recap of last week’s finale — the 10/10 perfect couples, the happy surprise of Billy and Ashleigh — when all our starry visions of marital bliss were extinguished. Well, not all. (There are one or two decent men left in the United Kingdom.) This reunion brought us shocking update after unsurprising-but-still-somehow-shocking update, some Emma Willis tears, and a performance of “you’re a liar” in two-part harmony.

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    14 分
  • 'Love Is Blind UK' S2 Finale: Four Weddings & A Drag Show
    2025/08/30
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    The two-part “Love Is Blind UK” finale dropped this week, and despite the usual dull spots — wedding dress and suit shopping scenes that could have been a mood board, by-the-book stag and hen do activities, all the standard trimmings of a wedding day — we were rapt. This season ended as all the best seasons do: Some drama, …

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    12 分
  • 'Are You My First?' Embraces The Virginity Fetish
    2025/08/25
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    “Are You My First?”, a reality dating show that dropped on Hulu last week, was clearly designed to be provocative. Well before it premiered, it drew controversy for its choice of hosts: reality and podcast personality Kaitlyn Bristowe shares the honor with Colton Underwood, a public figure most famous for being a virgin when he starr…

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    16 分
  • 'Love Is Blind UK' S2 E5-8: The Drama Heats Up
    2025/08/21
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    Last episode, we were wondering whether this season of “Love Is Blind UK” would be able to recapture the glory of the first. It all just seemed a little… dull. This week, we’re eating our words. We have besties! We have enemies! We have a genuinely riveting Pod Squad mixer!

    In episodes 5-8, we watch the five engaged couples …

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    13 分
  • 'Love Is Blind UK' S2 Takes Us Back Across The Pond
    2025/08/15
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    If anyone tries to tell you that reality television isn’t full of culture, tell them to watch the first drop of “Love Is Blind UK” season 2. Not only does it provide an American audience with a crash course in a wide array of British accents and terminology, but viewers can also learn about the grift of “human design” — and perhaps most importantly, “sp…

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    11 分
  • The 'Love Island' Universe Is In Pieces
    2025/08/08
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    “Love Island” and “Love Island: Beyond the Villa” may have wrapped their latest seasons, but if anything the drama has only gotten more explosive — and unsettling — off-camera. In this episode, we discuss how the JaNa and Kenny breakup unfolded and dig into the rumored reason for the breakup, based on public statements by JaNa and her friends. We also get into the perils of insincere men on reality dating shows, and how racism and misogynoir put Black women in particularly vulnerable positions when dating on TV. (In this conversation, we reference Taryn Finley’s excellent Refinery29 essay, “JaNa Craig’s Split Proves A Pattern & It’s Black Women Who Pay The Price." We also discuss the Huda and Louis relationship, the apparent rift it has caused among the “Love Island” and “Too Hot to Handle” crews, and the warped incentives of sudden fame and dating on TV.

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    16 分
  • 'The Hunting Wives' Is A Sexy Soap For Our Hypocritical Political Moment
    2025/08/02
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    “The Hunting Wives” is one of those rare shows where nothing makes much sense, but it still somehow works. Thanks to her very middling husband, coastal liberal Sophie O’Neill (Brittany Snow) gets dropped into the gun-toting world of East Texas socialites, led by Queen Bee Margo Banks (Malin Åkerman). Longing glances are exc…

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    13 分