Writer and teacher Suki Lanh (www.unitedstatesofsuki.com) joins Sam and Shelby to talk about The Big Sick (2017). Do we spend a lot of time on how cute Suki and her husband’s love...
What do you do when the characters got together happily in the first movie? According to To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You, you briefly turn your movie into a...
We’ve finally arrived at the thrilling (read: anti-climatic) conclusion with 2012’s The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2. Sam and Shelby can’t seem to stop talking about the moral implications of a...
Sam and Shelby add themselves to the long list of people expressing their opinions about Bella’s sex life as they discuss The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1. There’s a wolf-feud! There’s...
Sam and Shelby are wolfily bounding right over that halfway point of the Twilight series with The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010). Love triangle? Never met her. We’re talking bad wigs, wet werewolves,...
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) just about DEMANDS that Sam and Shelby continue talking about abusive relationships and creative responsibility, now with the added spice of werewolves with real abs, vampires...
It’s Red Flag City as Sam and Shelby dive into the first installment of their five-episode Twilight Saga extravaganza. Twilight (2008) offers plenty of opportunity to discuss abusive relationships, artistic responsibility, and...
The gorgeous and talented Sam Perpignand (aka Salt n Sprinkles) joins Shelby and Sam to talk about Love & Basketball, Sanaa Lathan’s arms, and the questionable existence of Timothee Chalamet.
Special guest Alex Feliciano calls in all the way from Costa Rica to talk with Shelby and Sam about one of her childhood favorites, Dance with Me (1998). We chat about the...
Sam and Shelby spend some time worshipping Issa Rae and the rest of the time talking about The Lovebirds, a Netflix romp so full of jokes that Sam made a callback list.
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About The Rom Complex
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Which came first, the romantic comedy or our messed up ways of thinking about love and relationships? Each week Sam Frontera and Shelby Schwieterman break down the romcom tropes that make their hearts…
sing and the ones that need to be tuned up. Listen to them talk about how these movies affected their relationships–for better and for worse.