Sidebar: Love is Blind DC, Reality TV History, and Julia Turshen's Recipes: This Week's Picks

Reality TV Obsessions, Cookbook Recommendations, and Must-Watch Shows This Week

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Weekly Entertainment Picks: Must-Watch Shows, Essential Reads, and Top Podcasts

This is my weekly roundup of links and recommendations. If we talked IRL, I’d likely derail our entire conversation with “Sidebar, have you read | watched | listened | deep dived on this?”

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Love is Blind DC. I. . . I am not fully ready to speak on this at this time. What I will say is that I have not had less faith in our government than watching some of its workers try to find love. Taylor and Garrett are gems, but the rest make me clutch my pearls and my bottle of Tums acid chews. I want to support veterans, but some of these men are the living embodiment of Taylor Swift’s “I did something bad.” “They got their pitchforks and proof, their receipts and reasons” could easily describe casual viewers of this season once they’ve googled some of these men and realize they are presenting themselves on screen as fan fic versions of themselves, designed only to charm.