Does 'The Materialists' Hate Matchmakers?

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Sexuality, Relationships, Comedy, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Jared and Jordana are back with another movie review episode of The Materialists, directed by Celine Song and starring Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, and Pedro Pascal. Spoiler alert!! J&J break down the film’s portrayal of matchmaking as cold and transactional, and ask whether Song set out to take down the matchmaking industry altogether. From red flag roommate situations to Coke-and-beer drink orders, J&J debate every messy decision and chaotic romance. Is it a rom-com, a satire, or something much darker? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to the Friday Feels episode of the UL podcast.
0:06.1	I'm Jordana Abraham.
0:07.4	And I am Jared Fried.
0:08.8	It is so good to be back here with you, Jordana.
0:11.4	It's a very special Friday feels because it's movie week here.
0:15.7	It is.
0:16.2	And we are not just doing an old rom-com that we know and love.
0:19.8	We're doing a new, I won't call it a rom-com because we know and love. We're doing a new...
0:21.9	I won't call it a rom-com because we can get into that.
0:24.5	But we're doing a new movie about modern dating.
0:27.7	We wanted to discuss materialists.
0:29.5	Yes.
0:30.1	Which we've had so many DMs and messages and tweets and whatever.
0:34.8	And TikTok's asking us to get into the materials.
0:37.4	For good reason. it is a modern
0:39.4	movie a modern dating movie indeed by by any account so this is consider this the spoiler alert
0:48.0	we're going to get into the movie if you haven't see it you can go rent it it's on demand right now
0:53.2	I think you can go find it and search it I think it's's probably on Amazon or Apple TV. You can rent it or buy it there. You don't want to go to the movies like Jared and I did. We went to the theater for you guys. We went to the theater, which, what did you think about going to the movie theater? So I went last night with Mike and my friend Liza, the three of us.
1:15.1	And we went, the only place it was playing near me was like a senior center.
1:16.0	Come on. So it was the three of us.
1:17.5	And then like...
1:17.9	Like an old folks home?
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