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I'm back from a long break and what a phenomenal show and movie to come back to. I've certainly had a lot of experience with frenemies in my life, and participated in perplexing, frustrating romances where I bickered, bantered and got annoyed regularly, yet couldn't stay away. These stories embody that frenemies to lovers trope perfectly, so if you crave delayed gratification, casual betrayals and slow burning, combustible intimacy that fixes it all in your romance, start streaming ASAP.

CW: this episode is quite explicit

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I hesitate to post this trailer because as usual, it doesn't begin to capture the tone and incendiary hotness of this fantastic series.

The hockey romance series that started it all.

Excellent interview with Connor Storrie & Hudson Williams with Carly Lane of Collider (a past guest on this show).

"...it’s kind of crazy to have to learn how to skate, play hockey, speak Russian and do the accent and you don’t even know until a week before." If you are as shocked as I am that Connor Storrie did not actually grow up as a hockey playing Russian, here's an interview that explains how it all came about.

To survive, they'll have to team up. Why yes, this does make the wedding season sound like a contact sport.

How was I not aware of Emmy-nominated Maya Erskine?

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I don't often read or watch sci-fi stories, but add in a romance and I'm there. I have a specific kink for stories about human-robot love, android love, any kind of machinery that takes on human characteristics and can hug. Forbidden Planet is my jam, I, Robot and RoboCop freak me out a bit, but movies that ask questions about our essential humanity by transferring our ideal characteristics – and our flaws and romantic blunders – onto machines are some of my favorite types of romances.

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"In here, we can create a world just for us." Plus, there's a beautiful house, a dog and lots of ice cream.

My episode about Love in Unexpected Places.

If you haven't seen the movie Her, it's well worth adding to your watchlist.

Forbidden Planet and other sci-fi movies from the 1950s are always good for robot action, though there's no hanky-panky with faithful servant Robby the Robot. Now Klaatu is one of the sexiest robots ever.

A Barnes & Noble round up of stories about Love and Robots.

Reddit to the rescue: recs for romances about AI or robots that serve humans and learn to love. Smut and kinky robot sex optional.

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(Life continues to kick my behind, so I'll be releasing episodes every few weeks or so through the rest of the year. Follow me on your favorite podcast app so you don't miss a thing. As always, thanks for listening!)

Season 2 of Nobody Wants This was just released on Netflix, and it's different show runners, but equally heartwarming, sexy, touching and hilarious – if not more so. I'm only a third of the way through the latest season, but had to pop in and say: it's 100% fresh, so don't miss it.

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First comes love, then comes life.

Episode descriptions, in case you need to catch up.

"I didn't know I wrote a romcom...I thought I wrote Fleabag." Fascinating interview with Nobody Wants This creator/screenwriter Erin Foster at the American Film Institute.

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