Rational Romantics

Join Cass and Kami, an entertainment journalist from Take It From Here Media discuss the exciting announcement about Off Campus Season Two with the release date! They chat about Season One, predict what's coming in Season Two, and deep dive everything from "Call Dean" to Hunter and Summer and so much more!And Cass chats about the huge Heated Rivalry update that confirmed Seasons 2 and 3 and reports on a Christmas movie releasing next year!

Join Cass as she answers listener questions all about Bridgerton, Heated Rivalry, Off Campus, Yaga, and more! From favorite Bridgerton couples to speculating about what's next in the HR world to recommending smut books, this episode is full of everything you want to know!

Join Cass as she deep dives the second half of the Heated Rivalry Season 1 Annotated Scripts with all the details from writer and showrunner Jacob Tierney! From Rose to the on-ice kiss, we're all coming back to the cottage!

Heated Rivalry's Season 1 annotated scripts have released, and it's time to break them all down! Jacob Tierney's book "I'll Believe in Anything" takes us behind the scenes and behind the lines to deep dive this incredible series. Cass discusses all of the notes, edits, editions, deleted scenes, improvs, and so much more! In fact, there is so much to discuss that we can only cover half the book in this one episode! Chatting episodes one, two, and three, we zoom in on the first meeting, first time, first fight, and so much more! If you love Heated Rivalry, this is the book and the podcast for you.

Breaking news Bridger-fans! Netflix and Shondaland have announced a new spinoff series based on Violet and Edmund's love story. Cass reacts to the thrilling next chapter of this story, predicts what we might see from this story as well as when it will come to our screens, and predicts some returning cast who may be joining. She also deep-dives the novella "Violet in Bloom" by Julia Quinn that covers Violet and Edmund's story and will be at least some of the basis for this new spinoff. Coming early this week in celebration of such thrilling news, this is an episode you don't want to miss!

Join Cass for the final episode of the "When He Was Wicked" read along in preparation for Bridgerton Season Five! This ending brings romance, catharsis, and a bit of controversy, too. Fitting for this fantastic book. You'll laugh, cry (at least Cass does), and swoon for the grand finale of Michael and Francesca's epic love story.

The penultimate episode of this read-along, it's time to deep dive some of the most intense, sexy, and controversial chapters in this book. Join Cass as she explores the unique character perspectives, difficult choices, spicy moments, and often misread passages in these pages. As well as shares some exciting details about what scenes the Bridgerton leads are most excited to film from these pages. Plus! She breaks down our first official Franchaela sighting since the announcement back in March. There's just so much to discuss!

Join Cass as she continues her deep-dive of Julia Quinn's "When He Was Wicked," the subject for Bridgerton Season 5. Things are heating up for Frannie and Michael after they share an intimate moment. Colin Bridgerton makes quite the heroic and iconic appearance. And we finally make it up to the goreous, Scottish setting the book is famous for. It also really starts to earn it's reputation as the sexiest of the Bridgerton books. Don't miss the fourth part of this six-part series!

Episode three of the Bridgerton book six read-along, Cass deep dives and discusses through some of the fan-favorite chapters as Michael and Francesca get closer to something they both want so deeply. From all the Bridgerton ladies sighing over Michael -- and speculating on how that might go in the series, to the heartbreaking philosophy underlying Michael's perspective on the world, these chapters and this episode have it all. Join Cass for random digressions on Gen Z realities, character-centric explorations, and thematic wonder, all in an hour!

Cass deep dives the next four chapters of When He Was Wicked by Julia Quinn, Bridgerton Book 6 and the source material for Season 5. If you're a new reader or someone who has read it five times before, this is the podcast for you if you want to deep dive every nuance of character and theme. This section also marks the start of Season 5, the first section of the book already put onscreen in S4. So now, we can predict what might come and how it will play out for Franchaela.