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On the heels of the "Love Is Blind" Boston reunion, the cast has dumped a whole bunch of metaphorical tea overboard.
Despite producing one of the most dramatic reunions in "Love Is Blind" history and zero successful couples, this cast cannot be stopped. They are on podcasts, putting out Instagram reels, and canoodling at public watch parties months after breaking up. In fact, the volume of news and gossip was so high that we simply had to hop on the mic over here ASAP to discuss it all.
Michaella and Sarah appeared in a joint, two-hour episode of The Viall Files, so we dug into that interview. In it, Sarah discusses her marriage to John, detailing the ways in which he slowly broke her down, betrayed her trust, failed to show up as an equal partner, and ultimately emotionally abused her. (Although she still has trouble labeling the pattern of behavior as such.) Michaella offers clarity on why she was so mad at Matt the beekeeper during the reunion, and reflects on her tumultuous time with Rob.
We also dove into the ways that both Wilnie and Aneha felt mischaracterized by the edit, which feels particularly alarming when you consider that they were the only two women of color featured on the season, and even more disturbing information that has come to light about our resident Bible-thumping misogynist, Scott.
But it's not all doom and gloom! We also got to chat about some more lighthearted news, like Benita hard-launching her man on her platform, engagements we didn't get to see on the season (the Bee Man got engaged!), and Reddit reports about potential reunions between Jax and Stew, as well as Blake and Erika. Perhaps true, or at least temporary, love will be emerging from the depths of "Love Is Blind" hell after all.
(If you want to listen to or watch our "Love Is Blind" recaps, you can head over to our other show, Love To See It!)
Sources:
'Love Is Blind' Erika and Blake Spotted Out Together Ahead Of Fiery Reunion, TMZ
Love Is Blind’s Erika & Blake Reveal What REALLY Happened After the Show & Where They Stand Now!, He Said G Said
‘Flawed and very peculiar’: John’s ex from before Love Is Blind speaks out, The Tab
Going Deeper w/ Sarah & Michaella: Love Is Blind Boston, The Viall Files
Love Is Blind’s Scott speaks out to apologise to Sarah and says he ‘doesn’t condone’ John, The Tab
Storytime With Rikki Instagram
‘Love Is Blind’ Season 11’s Diana Reveals She Got Engaged in the Pods, TV Insider
Aneha Calls Out ‘Love Is Blind’ Reunion Editing for Being “Egregiously Awful,” “Rude,” and “Disrespectful," Cosmopolitan
Benita Seemingly Admits She Joined ‘Love Is Blind’ for “Clout” After Getting Engaged to a Mystery Man, Cosmopolitan
‘Love Is Blind’ Star Wilson Monteiro Spills on the Reunion, LA Mag
LIB Reunion w/ Wilnie, Adam Conover Talks Dating, RHOSLC & Sofia Franklyn Drama, The Viall Files
Morrey Talks Love Is Blind, Joey Graziadei Returns, & DWTS Crazy Elimination, The Viall Files
Love Is Blind’s Michaella Breaks Down Rob’s Behavior, Off-Camera Drama & that EXPLOSIVE Reunion!, What's The Reality?

After a decade of election night despair, we really, really needed this. On Tuesday, November 3, after two years of unchecked MAGA cruelty and destruction, Democrats delivered a trouncing to the Republican party unlike anything we had seen in our lifetimes. It wasn't a blue wave; it was a blue tsunami, a blue cataclysm, a blue existential threat. Dems flipped the House, as expected, but also the Senate – both by larger margins than even the most optimistic projections. Democrats won gubernatorial races across the country. State legislatures flipped. And the staggering wins went beyond traditional swing states and into deep red territory. Texas is now as blue as their state flower, and Democrat Scott Colom is on the brink of flipping a Senate seat in Mississippi.
Obviously, there was nothing else we wanted to talk about this week. We wanted to talk about the joy and relief of an Election Night that didn't make us sick to our stomachs, the return of millennial optimism, the diversity of this new class of Democratic politicians, the freshness and energy of their campaigns, and the mass disillusionment with MAGA politics among the electorate – even groups, like young men, who we feared were lost. So we did. We reveled in it, baby.
For the second half of the episode, we were joined by a special guest to offer more of a political insider's perspective on this election cycle. Greg Krieg is a progressive political consultant, and a former journalist who covered the left for CNN. (He is also Claire's husband.) We asked him some of our burning questions about takeaways from this blue wave, whether rumors of realignment are premature, and how to capitalize on this moment.
We hope you enjoy – and, more importantly, that you're all enjoying this week. Hope is fuel; may it drive us forward. xo
Reading List
"After the Midterms, Millennial Optimism Makes Sense Again," by Kaitlyn Greenidge, Harper's Bazaar
"Is This What Hope Feels Like?" by Andrea González-Ramírez, The Cut
"The ‘Blue Wave’ Is Really a Black Tsunami," by Brittany Packnett Cunningham, The Cut
"Even Where MAGA Won, MAGA Lost," by Adam Serwer, The Atlantic
"Donald Trump’s Repudiation, America’s Revenge," by Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker
"Susan Collins Was Doomed by Her Moderation," by Rebecca Traister, Intelligencer
"Not In My Wildest Dreams Did I See A Texas This Blue," by Kelsey McKinney, Defector
"Republicans Redistricted Themselves Out of Congress," by Madeleine Carlisle and Russell Berman, The Atlantic
"‘I Have Seen the Enemy, and It Is Us’: Inside Team Trump’s Historic Collapse," by Shane Goldmacher, Jonathan Swan & Maggie Haberman, New York Times
"What the midterms mean for 2028," Astead Herndon, Vox
"Arizona, Nebraska voters approve transgender athlete bans," by Bianca Quilantan, Politico
"Washington Lawyers Up," by Ruth Marcus, The New Yorker
"Midterms Analysis: A Blue Wave Just Crashed on Trump," by Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker
"What Drove the Historic Blue Wave in the 2026 Midterms?" by Andrea Alexander, Rutgers Today
"What a blue wave could actually do," by Caitlin Dewey, Vox 
"How Democrats Are Reclaiming the Politics of Populism," by Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker

This week we're doing a bit of a grab bag episode, because we simply couldn't contain ourselves to just one topic. We are but simple ladies, who want to talk shit about both artificial intelligence and Netflix rom-com TV shows. Because one thing nobody wants, other than out-of-touch, uber-wealthy tech moguls? To outsource the most basic labor of human connection to the robots.
First, we dive into the deeply unsettling New York Times profile of former Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer. She is in the process of launching Dazzle, an A.I. assistant for the gals, described as "an A.I. wife, an emotional labor bot that can plan a birthday party and knows when it’s Crazy Socks Day or Crazy Hat Day at the kids’ school." Mayer spoke to reporter Alexandra Alter about her storied career in the tech industry, presumably to promote Dazzle. However, what she really ended up doing was illuminating just how disconnected from the needs of actual working parents -- and humans writ large -- the people building A.I. tools truly are.
Afterwards, we chat about season 3 of "Nobody Wants This," Netflix's hot rabbi rom-com. Blessedly, the series attempts to break new ground this season, both in terms of creating more of an ensemble show and in moving the plot forward. We no longer have to watch Rabbi Noah (Adam Brody) quit his job again because of how much he loves Joanne (Kristen Bell)! Instead, she's finally converting. (Under the tutelage of Rabbi Eden, played by a stellar Sarah Silverman.) And yet, three seasons in, we are officially over Joanne, and by extension, Noah. (Are we just triggered by watching podcasters become magically successful without any prep work, technical acumen or substantive thoughts to share? Perhaps.)
However, on the plus side we found ourselves deeply charmed by the supporting characters who have moved into the center of this show: Joanne's sister Morgan (Justine Lupe), Noah's brother Sasha (Timothy Simons), and Sasha's estranged wife Esther (Jackie Tohn). Everybody would like more of them. Hope you enjoy! Xo
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Billy Evans said that he would whisk the eggs himself. In fact, he didn't even say so; after watching his partner, Elizabeth Holmes, limply stirring them with a fork, his agitation growing every second, he simply grabbed the bowl out of her hands and commenced a more vigorous beating. This scene, a centerpiece of the first third of "You Can See Everything," turns the camera on co-director Nathan Fielder as he reacts with confusion to Evans' egg power move. Why take over the whisking? Holmes, the disgraced founder of blood-testing startup Theranos, meekly explains that he doesn't think she uses enough force. This moment turns out to be a portrait in miniature of the dynamic between Holmes and Evans – a beatific but limp woman, overpowered by a domineering man. Or is that exactly what Holmes wants us to see?
"You Can See Everything," directed by absurdist comedian Fielder ("The Rehearsal," "Nathan for You") and wunderkind documentarian Lance Oppenheim ("Some Kind of Heaven," "Primetime"), takes a new angle on the heavily covered, investigated, adapted, and discussed Theranos scandal. The facts of the case are clear enough that Holmes was prosecuted and ultimately convicted on four counts of conspiracy and wire fraud. When Fielder and Oppenheim first pick up cameras in the home where she lived with Evans and their two small children, it is just over a month before she will be reporting to prison to serve an 11-year sentence. What remains less clear is, well... what kind of person is she? Why did she do it, and why did she then invite a famous auteur of discomfort to lurk in the corner of every room during her final days of family togetherness?
As Fielder and Oppenheim zoom in closer and closer to Holmes, trying to understand her and make sense of whether they're being manipulated, their cameras can't capture everything. One starts to wonder if they, and we, are getting too close to see what needs to be seen. In this episode, we discuss how this narrowing of the aperture – the tight closeups, the debates about individual words – fuels Holmes' self-mythologizing and misdirection. Then we get into her angelic mama rebrand and how her troubling relationship with Evans seemingly allows her to present a facade of pure feminine virtue while harnessing the power of his unbridled masculine ambition and abrasiveness. We also talk about Fielder's – and Evans' – theory that she simply thinks differently than other people. And of course, we opine on how the human soul is ultimately unknowable! (How could we not?)
Spoilers abound, so please proceed with caution. Hope you enjoy! xo
Reading List
"The Elizabeth Holmes Documentary, Through the Eyes of the Reporter Who Exposed Her," by John Carreyrou, NYT
"I was a Theranos whistleblower. In ‘You Can See Everything,’ Elizabeth Holmes is still lying," by Tyler Shultz, Stat News
"Nathan Fielder Tells Us Everything," by Katie Drummond, Wired
"Lance Oppenheim Is Going Places," by Alex Barasch, Vulture
"Nathan Fielder Has Made the Movie of the Year," by Alison Willmore, Vulture
"The Vertiginous Revelations of "You Can See Everything,'" by Richard Brody, The New Yorker
"‘You Can See Everything’ Review: The Slippery Mind of Elizabeth Holmes," by Manohla Dargis, NYT
"You Can’t Know Everything," by John Ganz, Unpopular Front
"You Can Never See Everything," by Sami Sage, Sami Sage Says
"Good Art Is Worth Waiting For," by Kelsey McKinney, Defector
"Go Ahead, Pity Elizabeth Holmes," by Ryu Spaeth, Intelligencer
"You Can See Everything Is Unexpectedly Heartbreaking," by Laura Marsh, The New Republic
"Nathan Fielder & Lance Oppenheim Talk ‘You Can See Everything,’ Elizabeth Holmes & A Surreal Doc About Observation, Perception & Performance," by Rodrigo Perez, The Playlist
"Nathan Fielder Speaks Out on Living With Elizabeth Holmes While Filming ‘You Can See Everything’ Doc: ‘She Seems So Genuine’ but ‘I Know She’s a Liar’," by Jordan Moreau, Variety
"The Story of Billy Evans and 'Theranos 2.0'," by Christopher Hooks, Wired
"Elizabeth Holmes’ Partner Breaks Silence on Explosive Documentary," by Eboni Boykin-Patterson, Daily Beast

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Turns out that Taylor Frankie Paul's cursed, likely-forever-buried, season of "The Bachelorette" is the content gift that keeps on giving.
Earlier this week, Paul's final guy, ocean lifeguard / model / aspiring musician Doug Mason joined Charity Lawson and Rachel Recchia on Bachelor Happy Hour for a two-part interview. And oh boy... was it a rich text. (Pun intended.) We listened to both parts of the podcast so that you don't have to, and we hopped on the mic to discuss the (somewhat lukewarm) revelations about Doug's time filming "The Bachelorette," the swift disintegration -- or as he puts it, "searing" -- of his engagement to Taylor, his feelings on children and dogs (you can't lie to either), and his feelings about the Dakota comparisons (he's not a fan).
We also dissected what Doug's AI-generated youth pastor vibe makes us feel. On the one hand, he's unquestionably a victim in this situation. The man went on a reality TV show, caught feelings, got engaged, got cheated on, got dumped, got mocked on a different reality show, and then footage of his own journey never even aired. He hasn't done anything wrong as far as we can see! And yet... there's something distinctly off about his affect. He says so many sentences in this interview that truly convey nothing at all. There is something unsettling about listening to a person speak for 90 minutes and coming away understanding so little about them other than the fact that they have a close relationship with the Lord and believe themselves to be deeply empathetic.
But perhaps we should just take a page out of Doug's book and enjoy the ride. As he says: “Hello! Life is fun! Why is it so heavy? Let’s have a good time.”
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