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  1. overnights
    The Bachelorette Recap: Let Me Tick, BroSome of the men unionize, others cross the picket line (pulling Jenn aside to chat).
  2. close read
    Don’t Come for the Housewives, HoneyThe Traitors’ oversimplified gamers-vs.-non-gamers divide overlooks what the best Bravo stars to ever do it are capable of on an individual level.
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    The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip: Ex-Wives Club RecapThe Ex-Wives get into some interesting debates.
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    The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Season-Finale RecapThe finale of one of the most outrageous Housewives seasons on record, and it’s just … this?
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    The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Recap: I Am Richer Than All of YouLisa screams at everyone and, wait a second, are those real tears?!
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    The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Recap: Why Don’t You Own a House?A truly legendary off-camera meltdown reminds us that SLC is capable of making perfect television.
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    The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Recap: Storming Outs and Storming BacksIn a SLC first, the women show signs of … actual friendship?
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    The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Recap: We’re Walking a Razor’s EdgeThe housewives “bond” as we head towards a “jaw-dropping bombshell.”
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    The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Recap: Note to Younger SelfJen maybe shouldn’t have started a bus fight with Lisa with a federal investigation hanging over her head. Food for thought!
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    The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Recap: Liars Are Sitting at the TableOnly on SLC can Mormon-defector goss, cult-leader allegations, and a wild luncheon feel kind of flat compared with the early-season drama.
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    The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Recap: Really Bad With MoneyJen doesn’t understand why everyone has abandoned her when she’s so clearly innocent. (Sure!)
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    The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Recap: He Felt BamboozledMary and the amazing list of “truths.”
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    The Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip Recap: That Friendship Has SailedThe efficiency with which these women craft and then squash drama on this trip is impressive.
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    The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Recap: I Am Utterly RevoltedJen’s story isn’t adding up.
  15. overnights
    The Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip Recap: Create the Drama With Your EyesIt is thrilling to see wives who have not already been weathered away by decades of Ramona’s behavior come in fresh.
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    The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City RecapWe were promised legal drama, and we sort of get it.
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    The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Recap: Henry, I Feel SickSLC has finally caught up to Jen’s great escape.
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    The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Recap: I Just Blessed It, It’s BlessedJen scream-cries about being set up and screwed over, and it’s a wild ride.
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    The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Recap: You’re Not My MomBelieve it or not, Jennie’s not into the sister-wife thing.
  20. overnights
    The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Recap: Welcome to Our PlaygroundAn RHOSLC filler episode is still a delightfully unhinged good time.
  21. overnights
    The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Recap: I’m Sorry If You Saw My GiGiWhen Lisa thinks of gin, she thinks of new beginnings.
  22. overnights
    The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Recap: Likes HurtA fight over rich-lady pettiness at a casino event benefitting an LGBTQ+ nonprofit? Yes, please.
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    The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Recap: Fishing in the Ice for FishMeredith has receipts. Jen has excuses. But, more interestingly, Jennie has game.
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    The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City: Do You Get Your Beaver Knitted?We’re denied the federal criminal activity and potential cult inner workings content we expected, but at least Jen and Heather make up.
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    The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Season-Premiere RecapThe return of SLC is perfect television.
  26. sexy beasts & where to find them
    Sure, They’re Sexy, But Are They Beasts?Does the new Netflix dating show know what a beast actually is? Let the highly scientific taxonomic exercise commence!
  27. overnights
    The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Finale Recap: Own It and Move OnIt’s a finale so packed with Jen apologies that Mary deigns to leave her house in order to soak it all in.
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    The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Recap: Oh, Come On ShahThis feels like a bottle episode where everyone is trapped in the claustrophobic cycle of Jen’s logic.
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    The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Recap: CEO of FunAs the much-hyped Vegas trip unfolds, the wives retreat to their warring factions.
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    The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Recap: Mean Girl GamesThe springs are hot, but Jen’s temper is hotter.
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    The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Recap: Who’s Afraid of Jen Shah?Jen is a study in how it’s possible to do too much even on Bravo.
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    The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Recap: Suited and BootedThis entire slog of an episode is worth it just to watch Lisa squirm.
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    The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Recap: Under the Mormon ThumbThe women are getting vulnerable this week.
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    The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Recap: The Sundance QueenThe most wonderful time of the year is swinging into SLC, but first, against everyone’s wishes, we must yet again do the Mary and Jen thing.
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    The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Recap: Sinners!This Jen-Mary feud keeps getting deeper and more insidious and seems destined to rage until the end of time.
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    The Real Housewives of SLC Recap: Physically, a Dream, Emotionally, Total MessMary hosts an “intimate get-together” as only she can. Let the airing of grievances commence!
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    The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Recap: Take Me To ChurchWe finally get some more intel on that whole grandpa-husband situation thanks to Meredith, who apparently loves mess even more than we do
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    The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Recap: Bring It to the Bunny HillThe pot must be stirred with a different spoon this week, so the producers tell Heather to set up a ski trip.
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    The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Premiere Recap: Good Time GirlsSLC has rounded up its most holy and housewife-ian, and they came to play.
  40. overnights
    Love Island Season Finale Recap: Coronation CelebrationAre Justine and Caleb just showing off at this point? Yes. Do we care? No.
  41. overnights
    Love Island Recap: I Love You Say It BackParental “visits,” robot babies, and dates all around — we’re approaching the finish line, people.
  42. the real housewives of potomac
    A Literary Analysis of Gizelle Bryant’s Award-Winning NovelLet’s review some of the best literary devices in My Word, the recipient of the African American Literary Award for Best Fiction.
  43. overnights
    Love Island Recap: Date GuyLaurel’s been trying to connect with Carrington for two and a half weeks, and Lakeyn managed to do it in 17 minutes.
  44. overnights
    Love Island Recap: Musical BedsThe rest of these jokers can keep running around in increasingly toxic circles, but we all know Cely and Justine will prevail.
  45. overnights
    Love Island Recap: 60 Abs’ Worth of MenHey, production didn’t build an entirely separate rooftop “villa” a half-mile down the road for nothing. Meet your ten new islanders!
  46. overnights
    Love Island Recap: Big PersonalitiesMackenzie is ready to verbally destroy anyone who would dare call her girls anything less than gorgeous, kind, or funny.
  47. overnights
    Love Island Recap: A Disinfected Rooftop We’re Calling an IslandThe U.S. series’s ill-advised Las Vegas quarantine edition is off to a very horny, very sweaty start.
  48. reality tv
    The Bachelor: Listen to Your Heart Is a Treasure Trove of Loud Male AccessoriesA closer look at the bros who untangled their amulets, slid on their thumb rings, and came to play.
  49. reality tv
    Everything Terrace House Taught Me About Spending Way Too Much Time IndoorsHow to master philosophical dinner chats, awkward hand-holding, and most importantly, the art of staying inside all day.
  50. nerd alert
    Wait, Is The Bachelor Actually a Monomyth?Just hear me out.
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