Rom Comaraderie
Be There in Five
Kate Kennedy
4.8 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2022
⏱️ 152 minutes
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Summary
In stressful times, Kate seeks out romantic comedies, using the genre's poor grasp on reality to escape her own. So this week, we have a rom-com deep dive done on a whim, following a fateful viewing of the critically-unacclaimed film Something Borrowed. In this episode, Kate goes through some of her favorite films, trends, themes, and theories as it relates to the art of the so-bad-it's-good romantic comedy. She explains the boundaries of her questionable taste, then meanders through the high points from 1989-2003 before she runs out of time, and discusses favorite romcom tropes (e.g friends to lovers, supernatural occurrences, writes article/places bet), trends (e.g. phrases as movie titles, everything about weddings), actor/actress combos & swaps, sound bites, grand gestures, etc. At one point there’s a snorkel about Kate’s hot takes on Judd Apatow movies and her dependency on Paul Rudd’s soothing demeanor. Later on, Kate walks through a spreadsheet she created in chronological order to make sure she doesn’t miss any highlights, but she only makes it to 2003, so, see you next week? She will post a spreadsheet link here once it’s done for a list you can refer to and/or check on the @bethereinfive @bethereinfivepodcast account for a link. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Kate Kennedy, your host. |
| 0:14.3 | All things considered this is a pop culture podcast. |
| 0:16.8 | And oftentimes I'm covering things that are more zeitgeisty or influencer related. |
| 0:23.4 | I don't know. |
| 0:24.4 | One thing I shy away from, and I'll explain to you why later in the episode is talking |
| 0:27.9 | about movies. |
| 0:29.6 | And oftentimes I won't take things on because I have trouble kind of skimming the surface |
| 0:33.7 | of broad categories. |
| 0:34.7 | And I feel my movie knowledge is much poorer than my knowledge of other categories. |
| 0:41.1 | But I do have a rom-com and romantic comedy. |
| 0:44.4 | What they do best is they're storylines or tales, they're tropes. |
| 0:50.2 | They're oftentimes such an exaggerated departure from reality. |
| 0:55.9 | It helps me escape my own in a sense. |
| 0:59.9 | I want to criticize them in retrospect for all the ways they don't do justice to women |
| 1:06.1 | and our behavior in all the ways. |
| 1:08.1 | They kind of exaggerate and reduce women. |
| 1:11.4 | And there's an argument for that. |
| 1:14.3 | But as I often say, how do we celebrate and criticize at the same time? |
| 1:21.6 | And today I wanted to do a little more celebration and just exist in a world where you see that |
| 1:27.1 | it's perfectly normal to, I don't know, bang your friends. |
| 1:30.9 | If you don't say because you liked him first, you deserve it. |
| 1:34.4 | This whole discussion is from an Instagram story. |
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