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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.
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Signup to Generate a PitchWhich 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.
The Rom Complex is hosted by Sam Frontera and Shelby Schwieterman. The show has published 317 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "313. Sense and Sensibility (2026)" (29 October 2026, 55 minutes), "312. The Spirit of Halloween (2026)" (22 October 2026, 54 minutes), and "311. Best of the Best (2026)" (15 October 2026, 54 minutes).
The Rom Complex publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 54 minutes across 317 episodes.
Booking probability for The Rom Complex is 37%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Rom Complex requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Rom Complex's contact route on record: verified email.
Sam Frontera and Shelby Schwieterman hosts The Rom Complex, a tv podcast with 317 episodes published.
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We love an Austen adaptation, and Sense and Sensibility (2026) delivers with cute banter, gorgeous shots, and costumes that might make you say "I've made a ruffled collar like that in Dressmaker!"
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Hallmark brings us this week's watch with The Spirit of Halloween (2026), which takes the Christmas Carol format and applies it to, well, Halloween. It's a good format! We also discuss overlooking the tall firefighter...
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You know we love a dance movie, and we get exactly what we want from Best of the Best (2026). We also discuss how damaging mothers can be, how cool tigers are, and how many actors are simply from Britain.
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Nicki and Sandy are back for Practical Magic 2 (2026), and this time they're joined by Lee Pace! We discuss the nature of sequels, undoing all of a story's hard work, and what women's faces are allowed to look like.
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Does One Night Only (2026) manage to weave a satisfying romantic tale through the high-concept world of "The Purge but for sex"? We discuss our answers to this question along with Mister Dua Lipa, the importance of...
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I Want Your Sex (2026) might not have a lot of rom, but the com about rom is the bomb. I'm sorry, I was having fun with it. We discuss the new film from Gregg Araki along with our time machine plans, playfulness in...
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Summer Sparks (2026) is a Hallmark-style romcom brought to us by Roku. America truly is a melting pot. Along with the plot, we also manage to discuss how to ask someone out, whether or not a wife is alive, and what...
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A beloved Netflix series wraps up with Heartstopper Forever (2026). We see where all our favorite characters end up, and along the way we discuss character growth, people-pleasing, and our fade-to-black preferences,
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We've recovered from last week's wacky premise to bring you a simple movie about a boy looking for a girl and finding 300+ girls. It's this year's Finding Emily (2026), and we're so excited to discuss our new...
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40 Dates and 40 Nights (2026) asks the question, "Would you do something inconvenient if your Grandma agrees to pay your rent?" The answer is a resounding yes. We discuss dating stamina, aunts vs. grandmas, and the...
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Pro tip: grab a box of tissues before you watch this one. Voicemails for Isabelle (2026) is a tearjerker in all the right ways. Through our tears, we discuss cellular privacy, relationship podcasters, and how you can...
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A huge thank you to every single one of you who have listened to and supported us as we've made our way to 300 episodes. We couldn't be more grateful for our listeners, supporters, and Patrons to make this all possible...
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The creatively-titled Office Romance (2026) shows us what happens when a strict HR no-dating policy comes face-to-face with a handshake from a glowing Jennifer Lopez. We also chat about restricted raunch, self-insert...
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Can a comedy be both light and dark? Lightly dark? That's what we get in 2025's Oh, Hi!, a romance featuring a nice weekend getaway that turns into something else entirely. We chat about movie morals, light bondage, and...
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Our apologies (and also congratulations?) to anyone who listened to next week's episode before we replaced it with the correct file! In Tuner (2025), we face the classic story of a piano tuner turned safe cracker who...
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Head on over to the Patreon at patreon.com/theromcomplex for more mini episodes about Bridgerton and more!
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It's travel season (isn't that every season?) and we're headed to Italia for the views, the food, the wine, and the fun little rom-com You, Me & Tuscany (2026). Find out if Sam thinks Regé-Jean Page's face can fit...
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The real drama of The Drama (2026) is that no characters spend the entire movie telling Zendaya how beautiful she is. We discuss this divisive new film along with empathy, the ability to change, and an outsider's...
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We know you're not getting enough Dakota Johnson in your life, so we're covering 2025's Splitsville to try to make up the deficit. But be warned, this film is aware of how UNromantic it is.
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Love Me, Love Me (2026) has it all--love triangles, motorcycles, underground teen fighting rings--you name it! But is it any good? Well, I think we're going to need a more complex scale to nail that one down.
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