The RomCom Effect

Lena and Katie try to stretch out the summer by revisiting 500 Days of Summer with guest, Andrew Young (Quick and Funny Musicals). They talk "doing love-things", whether the manic pixie dream girl trope applies, and how tv beats talking on the phone.

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Lena and Katie get silly this week with guest Katie Gault (Fuller House) doing accents and impressions while discussing TV romcoms, meet cutes over DM, and the Hanks/Ryan classic, Joe vs. the Volcano.

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Lena and Katie travel back to modern times to talk love languages, weight criticism, and books vs. movies on this ep about Bridget Jones’s Diary with guest Mariah Berlanga Shevchuk.

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Lena and Katie don't let the interruption of sirens and car alarms keep them from discussing their sexiest romcom yet, 1941 classic The Lady Eve. They discuss crop tops, smart people falling in love with dummies, and guest David Donnella shares one of the best real life meet-cutes ever.

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Lena and Katie get sidetracked by hot celeb goss, Pride and Prejudice, and get in a heated disagreement over Matthew McConaughey's glasses in this week's episode on The Wedding Planner with special guest Caitlin Gilbert. 

You can follow Caitlin on Twitter: @caitlingilbs and listen to her podcast Vanderpumped!

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Lena and Katie are just two girls standing in front of their first guest (Alex Bernard) asking him to discuss the most delightful, ridiculous, and surprisingly gut-wrenching moments of British classic, Notting Hill.

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Katie and Lena are back with a double feature of What Men Want and What Women Want. They talk physical comedy, using the power of reading minds for matchmaking, and why the sequel was much needed in this franchise. 

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Katie and Lena are back with the 2003 staple "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" starring Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey. They chat about the perceived do's and don't's of dating, the cool-girl archetype, and Lena shares a personal romcom moment gone off script.

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In the first episode of The Rom Com Effect, Lena and Katie dive into one of the greats, "You've Got Mail." The classic movie brings up some of life's big issues: capitalism, power in personal and professional relationships, and of course whether or not protagonists should kiss at the end of the movie. What can we say, we're eloquent, shit!

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