Welcome back to our (arbitrarily named) Season 4 of the pod! We missed you all! In this ep, we recap all the shows… no really, all of them: Deal or No Deal Island Season 1; The Circle Season 6; Lovers & Liars Season 1; Summer House Season 8; The Valley Season 1; Top Chef Season 21; The Bachelor Season 28; The Golden Bachelor Season 1; The Challenge All Stars Season 4; Farmer Wants a Wife Season 2; Vanderpump Rules Season 11; Race to Survive: New Zealand; The Amazing Race Season 36. We told you-–ALL OF THEM! We also talk about the musical, Cats. Happy Summer Schooling! xoxo

• Episode Bibliography:
• Lovers & Liars available to stream on CW
• Good podcast episode with Sam Sanders about the contract process for Love is Blind
• 166 word contract (first reality tv contract in 1971)
• Katie Heaney’s article about Something About Her
• Christina’s docuseries rec: Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God
• New Yorker article: Is Love is Blind a Toxic Workplace
• Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum
  

Spoiler Warnings:

• Discussed in the following order: Deal or No Deal Island Season 1; The Circle Season 6; Lovers & Liars Season 1; Summer House Season 8; The Valley Season 1; Top Chef Season 21; The Bachelor Season 28; The Golden Bachelor Season 1; The Challenge All Stars Season 4; Farmer Wants a Wife Season 2; Vanderpump Rules Season 11; Race to Survive: New Zealand; The Amazing Race Season 36

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