Trust your eyes, true believers, we built in a reprieve from the worst book ever written! What's more, it's one where we mix things up and discuss things Naomi and Joel actually like!
We've done a lot of belly-aching about bad media so we put together some lists of good romantic media we've actually enjoyed in the last few years. Major spoilers ahead for a lot of these properties, but it's our contention that a lot of this media is enjoyable for the experience, not just the plot beats. We discuss the article Everyone is Beautiful and No One is Horny, the romance present in MCU films, the romance novel Hook, Line, and Sinker, Ewan McGregor's 2010 romcom Beginners, the George Clooney/Julia Roberts romcom Ticket to Paradise as well as their relationship in the Ocean's trilogy, the manga series Fullmetal Alchemist, the romcom You People, the Maniac tv series, the breakup romcom Someone Great, the tv series Bojack Horseman, the long-distance romcom Your Place or Mine, the sorta-like-a-romcom film Nacho Libre, and the comic series Sex Criminals. This is part one of a multi-part series; we have a lot of ground to cover in future installments.
Naomi also reveals a shocking secret 2/3 of the way through: if you're following Guy-family drama closely, you don't want to miss this.
This month we made a donation to a trans rights org supporting trans individuals fleeing states where their existence is being outlawed. There are a lot of groups doing good work like this: take a look at your community.
