In this episode, Navi talks about her two new favorite books the Villain Effect and the One, how audiences are complicit in the systemic misogyny and racism in franchises like the Bachelor and Love Island, how these are the key factors in how producers determine who stays on the show and who is sent home, and the negative outcomes that our toxic parasocial relationships have on the participants of these shows long after they leave our screens. 

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