Rich Text
78 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsClaire Fallon and Emma Gray obsessively analyze our cultural obsessions, from fashion trends to books to the buzziest scripted TV shows.
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Scandoval For Dummies
May 08, 2023 12:15 - 16 minutes - 14.7 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.com Note: Because of all of the clips and photos, if you’re receiving this in your inbox, you will have to click “view entire message” at the bottom of the email to see the full post! For “Vanderpump Rules” fans, “Scandoval” was the culmination of a years-long commitment to the dramatic ups and downs of a group of Los Angeles strivers. For everyone else, it…
Does 'The Lizzie McGuire Movie' Hold Up?
May 01, 2023 12:10 - 1 hour - 71.6 MBTwenty years ago, Hilary Duff cemented her status as a Disney Channel icon by starring in the first-ever Disney series movie spin-off released in theaters: “The Lizzie McGuire Movie.” As in the show, Duff played the perpetually lip-glossed, glossy-haired middle-school outcast, Lizzie McGuire, who manages to get bullied by being nicer and conventionally hotter than anyone you went to junior high with. The concept of the movie: Lizzie heads to Rome for a post-graduation class trip, only to cat...
'Love Is Blind' 4 Reunion: A Live(ish) Disaster
April 18, 2023 21:11 - 13 minutes - 12.6 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.com Spoiler warning: The “Love Is Blind” season 4 reunion will be discussed in this post and in great detail in the podcast! You’ve been warned! Also, we attempted to be as up to date as possible on all of the tea trickling out post-reunion, but of course we had to take time to edit this episode, and in the intervening hours, Ja…
'Love Is Blind' 4, Finale: Wedding Chaos
April 14, 2023 11:31 - 11 minutes - 10.5 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.com Spoiler warning: The “Love Is Blind” season 4 finale will be discussed in this post and in great detail in the podcast. There will be spoilers! Be prepared! When Alanis memorably sang, “It’s like raaayyy-ee-aaainnnn on your wedding day,” she was trying to illustrate the concept of irony. She was mistaken, of course. Rain on y…
'Love Is Blind' 4, Part 3: Pre-Wedding Panic
April 10, 2023 11:15 - 14 minutes - 13.2 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.com It’s a big week for “Love Is Blind.” At this point in the season, things always start to either really come together or totally fall apart. And in episodes 9-11 of season 4, we got both. On one end of the should-they-get-married spectrum is Brett and Tiffany, who continue to be THE Golden Couple of the season. It’s hard to sa…
'Love Is Blind' 4, Part 2: Reality Hits
April 03, 2023 12:33 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.com The pods and sunny Mexico are in the rearview mirror, so it’s time for our four surviving couples to move into Seattle townhouses and start hashing out chore wheels. This is where the rubber meets the road. It’s the first opportunity the couples have to see if they can stand each other not just through a wall or at a lavish resort, but while managing th…
'Love Is Blind' 4, Part 1: Seattle Is For Lovers
March 27, 2023 12:31 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.com NOTE: When we started recapping this week, we thought it was a 4-episode drop, and then we realized it was actually a 5-episode drop! So we recap all 5 episodes in this podcast, but we recapped the last episode in a separate taping. (Also, be warned: This made the recap pod way longer than anticipated.) Thanks for bearing wi…
The Most Unhinged Show On TV
March 20, 2023 12:30 - 13 minutes - 12.3 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.com In the final moments of “Sex/Life” season one, desperate Connecticut housewife and former New York sex-haver Billie (Sarah Shahi) is finally ready to act on years of yearning and months of journaling about the one that got away. She’s been trying to make things work with her handsome, loving, and loaded husband Cooper, and to put …
Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Joe Goldberg
March 13, 2023 12:46 - 7 minutes - 8.6 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.com Warning: This podcast contains many, many spoilers for “You” season 4, part 2. It also contains discussion of events in the show that pertain to suicide. ANOTHER WARNING: DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU HAVE NOT WATCHED “YOU” SEASON 4.
'Love Trip: Paris' And 'Meet Me In Paris' Repackage The Fantasy Of French Romance
February 27, 2023 13:30 - 12 minutes - 11.2 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.com Ahhh, Paris. The City of Lights, the City of Love, the City of American Women Starved For Romance. In the American cultural imagination, the French capital has long been idealized as the most romantic, chic, charming destination in the world — the perfect place, as “The Bachelor” might put it, to fall in love. On the…
'Your Place Or Mine' Should Be So Much Better
February 20, 2023 13:31 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.com “Your Place Or Mine” has all the markers of a great romantic comedy: The friends to lovers trope! A script from “27 Dresses” screenwriter / “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” showrunner Aline Brosh McKenna! Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher, both of whom have aged like fine wine! A wild cast of supporting characters played by legends …
'You' Hops Across The Pond
February 13, 2023 13:25 - 13 minutes - 12.7 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claireandemma.substack.com Last season of the Netflix thriller “You” ended in an almost absurdly climactic way: Joe Goldberg, the main character and arch-villain of the series, killed his murderous wife Love Quinn, burned down their house, faked his own death, and left his baby son with a couple who would make better guardians. He then took off to Paris to find his new love object, Marienne, who had fled there with her daughter to...
Ask Us Anything 1: Working Girls
September 30, 2022 13:15 - 1 hour - 92.3 MBThis is the free edition of Rich Text, a newsletter about cultural obsessions from your Internet BFFs Emma and Claire. If you like what you see and hear, consider becoming a paid subscriber. Part 2 of this series will be released for paid subscribers on Monday. Rich Text is a reader-supported project — no ads or sponsors! We asked you, our beloved audience, for questions a few days ago thinking that *maybe* we’d get enough to cobble together one podcast episode. But, as always, our communi...
The Truth About Marriage, with Heather Havrilesky
April 11, 2022 12:54 - 52 minutesThis is the free edition of Rich Text, a newsletter about cultural obsessions from your Internet BFFs Emma and Claire. If you like what you see and hear, consider becoming a paid subscriber. Rich Text is a reader-supported project — no ads or sponsors! Coming soon: A subscribers-only episode about Netflix’s batshit new reality dating show “The Ultimatum.” In the final episodes of the NBC sitcom “The Good Place,” our intrepid ensemble of Bad Place fugitives finally arrive at the real Good Pl...
Happy New Year! And A Thank You.
January 01, 2022 15:30 - 30 minutesThis is the free edition of Rich Text, a newsletter about cultural obsessions from your Internet BFFs Emma and Claire. If you like what you see and hear, consider becoming a paid subscriber. Rich Text is a reader-supported project — no ads or sponsors! We soft launched Rich Text one year ago. It was supposed to be a hobby, an experiment, an attempt to rediscover joy in writing after a demoralizing year of Covid scares, lockdowns, and (for Claire) new motherhood. Instead, in the 12 months si...
Carefree Black Girls
October 18, 2021 17:34 - 1 hourOn Rich Text Book Club this week, we’re talking about “Carefree Black Girls,” a new book from culture critic Zeba Blay, who also happens to be (full disclosure) our friend and old HuffPost colleague! In 2013, Zeba tweeted a post with the hashtag #carefreeblackgirl. She was an early popularizer of the term, which reached toward a conception of Black girlhood that could be joyful, relaxed, at ease in the world — carefree in a way that white girls were often shown as being. Almost a decade lat...
When A Black Woman And A White Woman Co-Write A Novel About Race
October 04, 2021 14:31 - 50 minutesThis is the free edition of Rich Text, a newsletter about cultural obsessions from your Internet BFFs Emma and Claire. If you like what you see and hear, consider becoming a paid subscriber. Rich Text is a reader-supported project — no ads or sponsors! In Christine Pride and Jo Piazza’s new novel, We Are Not Like Them (out tomorrow at your finest book purveyors), lifelong friends Riley and Jen find their bond being tested in the most profound way possible. Riley, a Black TV news reporter re...
Bridging The Motherhood Divide Pt. 3: The Egg-Freezing Boom
August 19, 2021 14:29 - 1 hourThis is the free edition of Rich Text, a newsletter by Claire Fallon and Emma Gray. Rich Text is a space for the indulgent and the incisive, for witty and wistful explorations of the cultural, the personal, and the political in both written and audio formats. If you like what you see and hear, consider becoming a paid subscriber. Rich Text is a reader-supported project — no ads or sponsors! When the pandemic began, there was talk of a baby boom. More than a year later, that never materializ...
Ambitious Girls
July 28, 2021 13:15 - 1 hourThis is the free edition of Rich Text, a newsletter by Claire Fallon and Emma Gray. Rich Text is a space for the indulgent and the incisive, for witty and wistful explorations of the cultural, the personal, and the political in both written and audio formats. If you like what you see and hear, consider becoming a paid subscriber. Rich Text is a reader-supported project — no ads or sponsors! Welcome to our third Rich Text book club! We have officially reached trend status, y’all. For this ...
'Sex/Life' Doesn't Elucidate Much About Sex Or Life
July 15, 2021 15:59 - 1 hourThis is the free edition of Rich Text, a newsletter by Claire Fallon and Emma Gray. Rich Text is a space for the indulgent and the incisive, for witty and wistful explorations of the cultural, the personal, and the political in both written and audio formats. If you like what you see and hear, consider becoming a paid subscriber. Rich Text is a reader-supported project — no ads or sponsors! We’ll admit it: we weren’t exactly champing at the bit to watch “Sex/Life,” the new lightly pornograp...
Bridging the Motherhood Divide Pt. 2: Mom Fashion & The Nap Dress
July 09, 2021 16:05 - 1 hourHappy Friday! Last week we dug into the divide that seems to spring up between women with and without kids, especially in our own millennial milieu. We loved opening up to each other and all of you about the resentments and pressures and societal structures that conspire to sort moms from non-moms, and how we try to foster friendship and community across those lines in our own lives. We got so many wonderful messages about this episode, and we want to build off of it and address many of th...
Audio Chat: Bridging The Motherhood Divide
July 01, 2021 15:34 - 1 hourThis is the free edition of Rich Text, a newsletter by Claire Fallon and Emma Gray. Rich Text is a space for the indulgent and the incisive, for witty and wistful explorations of the cultural, the personal, and the political in both written and audio formats. If you like what you see and hear, consider becoming a paid subscriber. Rich Text is a reader-supported project — no ads or sponsors! Last year, it seemed like everyone was predicting a pandemic baby boom; this year, it turned out to b...
Kelsey McKinney On 'God Spare The Girls' And Evangelicalism On 'The Bachelor'
June 11, 2021 17:00 - 1 hourThis is the free edition of Rich Text, a newsletter by Claire Fallon and Emma Gray. Rich Text is a space for the indulgent and the incisive, for witty and wistful explorations of the cultural, the personal, and the political in both written and audio formats. If you like what you see and hear, consider becoming a paid subscriber. Rich Text is a reader-supported project — no ads or sponsors! Welcome to another book club episode of Rich Text. Our second! Three times will make it official, rig...
Audio Chat: 'Mare Of Easttown' Gave Us All The Mixed Feels
June 02, 2021 13:15 - 1 hourThis is the free edition of Rich Text, a newsletter by Claire Fallon and Emma Gray. Rich Text is a space for the indulgent and the incisive, for witty and wistful explorations of the cultural, the personal, and the political in both written and audio formats. If you like what you see and hear, consider becoming a paid subscriber. Rich Text is a reader-supported project — no ads or sponsors! Be warned: This chat contains ALL THE SPOILERS. Who murdered the durder? We finally found out on Su...
Audio Chat: Olivia Rodrigo, 'Cruel Summer,' And Peter And Kelley's Podcast Feud
May 28, 2021 17:05 - 1 hourThis is the free edition of Rich Text, a newsletter by Claire Fallon and Emma Gray. Rich Text is a space for the indulgent and the incisive, for witty and wistful explorations of the cultural, the personal, and the political in both written and audio formats. If you like what you see and hear, consider becoming a paid subscriber. Rich Text is a reader-supported project — no ads or sponsors! It’s been a minute since we’ve podcasted, so this week we’re trying something a little bit different....
Audio Chat: 'A Special Place For Women' Is The Satirical Feminist Thriller We Needed
May 06, 2021 13:49 - 1 hour*Apologies for the occasional interruptions in this episode. We were contending with door knocking, phone calls and very loud package deliveries.* Imagine, if you will, a very safe and special place for women. It’s candy-hued and tastefully lit; it’s a space of female community and mutual empowerment. Most of all, it’s secret, exclusive, guarded. If a cis man ever tries to enter, he will be met with force. It’s The Wing meets Skull and Bones, and behind the gates, New York’s most elite wome...
Audio Chat: Colton Underwood Is Gay. Now What?
April 16, 2021 12:07 - 1 hourOn Wednesday morning, Colton Underwood sat down with Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts to make a big announcement: He is gay. “I’ve ran from myself for a long time. I’ve hated myself for a long time. I’m gay and I came to terms with that earlier this year," he told Roberts. The interview packed a lot into less than 15 minutes. Underwood discussed the ways in which growing up in the Catholic Church and in the uber-macho world of professional football impacted his desire to avoid reckonin...
Audio Chat: 'The Bachelor' Season 25 Finale
March 16, 2021 19:37 - 1 hourSpecial thanks to Sara Patterson for producing and editing this Rich Text audio chat. If you need an amazing audio producer, hire her! This week on Rich Text we dive into the finale of Matt James season of “The Bachelor.” As you can imagine, we had *a lot* of thoughts on the bleak conclusion of a season that was meant to signal historic change for the franchise. After you listen, check out our essay about the finale and After The Final Rose special on Cosmopolitan.com! Want more Rich T...