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Ali Barthwell is a writer who has been recapping reality TV shows—The Bachelor and Real Housewives among them—since 2015. She is an Emmy-winning writer for Last Week Tonight With John Oliver. Her work has been featured on The AV Club and Chicago Magazine.

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    The Bachelorette Recap: I Gaucho Under My SkinWhere is Aaron Rodgers!?
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    The Bachelorette Recap: Cry for Me, ArgentinaWe get into the deep neurosis of JoJo.
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    The Bachelorette Recap: Death to TyrantsThe CHAD is gone. Who will step up to grab the next eight-and-a-half minutes of fame?
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    Grace and Frankie Season Finale Recap: Best Friends ForeverFrankie’s latest billion-dollar idea: vibrators for women of a certain age.
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    Grace and Frankie Recap: The Party to End All Parties“The Party” is a resonant and touching story, but why is it plopped down in the middle of this show?
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    Grace and Frankie Recap: Drunk MelonFrankie is right: Watermelon is “basically celery in a Lilly Pulitzer dress.”
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    Grace and Frankie Recap: Lube FightOh, Frankie, know thyself better.
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    The Bachelorette Recap: Don’t Poke the BearAlex is a whiny little brat. The CHAD is insecure. Let’s do this!
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    The Bachelorette Recap: The CHAD Is LooseOnce the Callous Hardwired All-important Device is loose, there’s nothing we can do.
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    Grace and Frankie Recap: The Birth MotherOh Grace, you sweet, parrot-shirted dreamboat.
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    The Bachelorette Recap: The Rise of ChadChad is Donald Trump.
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    Grace and Frankie Recap: Paraben There, Done ThatJ’accuse, Grace! J’accuse!
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    The Bachelorette Season Premiere Recap: JoJo’s MojoIt’s time to meet the contesticles.
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    Grace and Frankie Recap: The FalloutIf you live with Frankie, you’re bound to wake up to a few unpleasant surprises.
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    Empire Season Finale Recap: Two Weddings and No FuneralDang, Empire. You got me this time.
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    Grace and Frankie Recap: A Change of a DressWhen Grace asks for a martini, she wants a dry martini.
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    Grace and Frankie Recap: Old Friends, New HipsA question for the ages: Can you really own a Pomeranian?
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    Empire Recap: The Big NightThey’ve finally done it. This is the perfect Empire episode.
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    Grace and Frankie Recap: Secrets Are CancerIt’s no surprise Robert had a heart attack. The man survives on paella and string cheese.
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    Grace and Frankie Recap: The Return of Yam LubeGrace has rigid and impossible standards? Now I’ve heard everything!
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    Grace and Frankie Recap: Full-Body Exhale“They’re getting all this stuff for their wedding and we get nothing.”
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    Grace and Frankie Season Premiere Recap: Don’t Enable HimFrankie should be everyone’s emotional role model.
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    Empire Recap: American Horror StoryThe time has come for the question we didn’t dare ask: Has Empire righted itself?
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    Empire Recap: The Ballad of Boo Boo KittyWhen Lucious hears bad news, he always jumps to murder.
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    Empire Recap: Dwight Walker’s RevengeWhen Empire just strips everything down, it really shines.
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    The Real Housewives of Potomac Reunion Recap: The End Is HereHow did we get this far without more delightful malapropisms from Charrisse?
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    Empire Recap: Happy Birthday, CookieOh no, the Hakeem face is still in the opening credits.
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    RHOP Recap: ‘Internet Is for Haters and Porn’It’s like Shakespeare said: Brevity is the soul of shade.
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    Empire Recap: Hakeem & CleopatraEverything on this show is a Shakespearean metaphor or a thinly veiled dick allusion.
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    The Real Housewives of Potomac Finale Recap: Come to Jesus LunchSee you at the reunion!
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    Empire Recap: Cookie Lyon Paper CompanyWe’re really leaning into this Godfather thing, huh?
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    The Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: Go Pet a PandaRobyn and Juan are the actual cutest. I want to double-date with them.
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    The Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: Light-Skinned ProblemsGizelle is trying to be a paltry imitation of Iman.
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    The Bachelor Recap: Can I Walk You OutOatmeal becomes a real boy.
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    The Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: An Ashley MomentIt’s day 49 of the never-ending Girls’ Trip!
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    The Bachelor Recap: 28 Women and a ChickenBring out the Oatmeal! Make him answer for his crimes!
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    The Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: The Bougie Woman’s Weekend GuideGizelle is the Monet of shade.
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    The Bachelor Recap: Fantasy Suite, Rinse, RepeatSomeone tell me if I accidentally bought a Time Turner from the Harry Potter universe?
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    The Bachelor Recap: Tell Me It’s Real (This Feeling That I Feel)Does Oatmeal even like any of these women?
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    The Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: The D-WordMichael has “I married a younger woman so I have to seem wild and crazy” disease.
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    The Bachelor Recap: Warsaw, the Gem of North-Central IndianaForget Mexico! Forget Vegas! Forget literally every other city and country on Earth!
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    RHOP Recap: Happy Birthday, Thirsty!Katie is the one true holder of the thirst.
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    The Bachelor Recap: Baywatch of PigsOatmeal takes the ladytestants to a Lord of the Flies waking nightmare.
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    The Bachelor Recap: Snatchin’ RosesLet’s try to get through this together, America. We must forge on.
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    The Bachelor Recap: Viva Las PuppetsThe lady-testants hang out with a ventriloquist in Las Vegas.
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    The Bachelor Recap: Ball-Handling SkillsOlivia stares directly into Ben’s eyes to peer into his soul. His soul is just country-music videos playing on a loop.
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    The Bachelor Recap: Slow Times at Bachelor HighAhhh, nothing creepy about tasking grown women to act like high-schoolers to win the affection of a grown man.
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    The Bachelor Premiere Recap: What’s Ben’s Thing?This is a recipe for an amazing season: a Bachelor who thinks he’s unworthy of every woman in the room.
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    Empire Recap: Is You Is or Is You Ain’t?Um, Jamal. You know you can be bisexual, right?
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    Empire Recap: Crackhouse Walking TourCookie and Candace are all business in Philadelphia.
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