‘Sleepless in Seattle’ Is The First Great Parasocial Love Story w/ Alex Sujong Laughlin

Love to See It with Emma and Claire

Claire Fallon, Emma Gray

Tv & Film

4.4 • 5.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

Before online dating and social media, there were radio therapy shows. This week, we’re diving into Sleepless in Seattle, one of the first great parasocial love stories! Joining us to break it down is friend of the pod and Normal Gossip producer, Alex Sujong Laughlin!

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0:00.0	I'm
0:02.0	Thanks, I don't need help
0:07.0	Just watch me love myself
0:11.0	That's all I want
0:13.0	Got what I want
0:15.0	That's all I want
0:18.0	I'm not sorry
0:20.0	I'm Claire Fallon And I'm Emma Gray and this is love to see it an obsessively detailed podcast about the romance we see on screen from reality dating shows like The Bachelor to classic rom-coms and other pop culture that makes us laugh, cry, and curse the patriarchy.
0:38.0	We can't live with these stories and we can't live without them, but we can break down every juicy
0:44.2	detail and unpack all the weird messages on-screen romance sends us about love, sex, and dating.
0:52.4	Stop, drop, roll.
1:00.7	Love and dating. Welcome to Love to See It, a podcast about how it is actually not easier to be killed by terrorists than it is to get married over the age of 40.
1:08.6	There's practically a whole book about how that statistic is not true.
1:12.2	Yeah, but no one actually finished that book, Emma.
1:15.3	No, we won't actually be recapping that book, Susan Faludi's backlash today,
1:19.5	but we will be diving into the 1993 rom-com, Sleepless in Seattle.
1:25.2	I am so excited.
1:26.3	And here to join us on this journey is friend of the pod
1:29.3	and normal gossip producer Alex Sujong Loflin. Alex, thank you for being here.
1:35.3	Thank you so much for having me. I am thrilled to talk about this movie. It's one of my favorites.
1:41.3	So let's dive in. Alex, you mentioned that this is one of your favorites.
1:46.2	What is your relationship to romantic movies in general?
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