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This essay is a part of a special Vanderpump Rules Avidly cluster, guest co-edited by Olivia Stowell and Jay Shelat. Watching Vanderpump Rules makes me...

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Worst Breakup: The Heartbreak Kid

RomCom Superlatives Elizabeth Alsop -
This essay is part of Avidly's Rom Com Superlatives series It’s midway through Elaine May’s The Heartbreak Kid (1972), and newlywed couple Lenny and Lila...

Most Tender Grief: The Family Stone (2005)

RomCom Superlatives Sophie Corser -
This essay is part of Avidly's Rom Com Superlatives series Diane Keaton looks at her Christmas tree. She’s alone, she’s sad, and she’s wearing a...

Most Fatalistic Christmas: While You Were Sleeping (1995)

RomCom Superlatives Annie Berke -
This essay is part of Avidly's RomCom Superlatives series This essay is about a specific kind of Christmas RomCom: the one where Christmas matters so...

Most Horrifying Happily Ever After: Kate & Leopold (2001)

RomCom Superlatives Monique Laban -
This essay is a part of Avidly's "RomCom Superlative" series “You can’t live a fairy tale,” says market research expert Kate McKay, played by a...

Most Medieval: Return To Me (2000)

RomCom Superlatives Michelle DeGroot -
Return to Me (2000) has a plot so gross I’m almost embarrassed to admit how much I like it: Bob (David Duchovny) falls in...
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