Rom-Com Rescue
A Couples Therapist and a Dating Coach Walk Into a Podcast…
Love rom-coms but find yourself screaming at the screen? So do we. Rom-Com Rescue is the podcast where couples therapist Dr. Isabelle Morley and healthy dating educator Kira Sabin break down your favorite romantic comedies—the good, the bad, and the wildly unrealistic.
We’re here to celebrate the heart-fluttering moments, call out red and green flags, and offer real-life dating and relationship wisdom along the way.
Is that grand gesture actually love-bombing? Is the broody love interest just emotionally unavailable? Should they really have ended up together—or was the best friend the right choice all along? We’re unpacking it all with humor, heart, and a little tough love....because we believe you can create your own happily ever after.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 63 minutes
- Episodes
- 39
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner: The Real Love Lessons Behind Dirty Dancing (1987)
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Welcome to Rom-Com Rescue—where we break down the best (and most questionable) love lessons from your favorite romantic comedies.
Our 80s Series (Big Hair, Bigger Feeli…
Fake Dating, Suede Disasters, and the Patrick Dempsey Glow-Up: Can’t Buy Me Love (1987)
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In this episode of RomCom Rescue, we rewind to the 1987 teen rom-com classic Can’t Buy Me Love, starring a baby-faced Patrick Dempsey and the effortlessly iconic Amand…
Boomboxes, Blind Spots, and Bad Dads: A Deep Dive into Say Anything (1989)
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We're kicking off our totally tubular '80s summer rewind series with the cult classic Say Anything (1989), starring Ione Skye and John Cusack. Kira’s teenage heart is …
Engaged to a Stranger in a Coma? Sure. Let’s Talk About While You Were Sleeping - 30 Year Anniversary
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Unrequited crushes. Questionable fiancés. Holiday hospital champagne. And one very comatose Peter Gallagher.
This week, we’re celebrating the 30th anniversary of the 19…
Falling for Famous? Notting Hill & the Myth of Movie Love
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Bookstore Meet Cutes, Paparazzi Swarms & the (Infamous) ‘I’m Just a Girl’ Speech: This Week, We’re Rescuing ‘Notting Hill’!
Break out your travel books and awkward Brit…
Best & Worst Rom-Coms of the Year: Our 1-Year Podcast Anniversary
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Woohoo! It’s been one whole year of the Rom-Com Rescue podcast.
A year of movies, missteps, magic, and yes—more than a few rants about enemies-to-lovers.
In this speci…
Boundaries in Rom-Coms: The Good, The Bad, & The Uncomfortable
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We all say we know what boundaries are… but let’s be real: most of us weren’t taught how to actually set them—especially in relationships.
In this episode of RomCom Res…
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002): Family Pressure, Self-Worth, and Choosing Your Own Path
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Intrusive family members, making out in cars, fake pottery classes, and Windex...
That's right! This week we are breaking down 2002 classic rom com, My Big Fat Greek We…
Picture This (2025) - 5 Reasons Pia's Not Ready for a Relationship
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Over the top Indian wedding, fortune telling, terrible blind dates, and no passport photos. EVER!
That's right, this week on the Romcom Rescue Podcast, we are breaking…
Set It Up (2018): What it teaches us about, Ambition, Avoidance, and Emotional Maturity
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Neurotic bosses, parent trapping, New York pizza, and yet!
That's right, this week we are breaking down 2018 rom-com "Set It Up" with Zoey Deutch and Glenn Powell....a…
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
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Penguin PJs, constant self-inflicted awkward situations, Hot teachers, and, thank god, Hugh Grant.
This week we are breaking down 2025 rom-com, Bridget Jones: Mad About…
You're Cordially Invited
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Wedding saboteurs, codependent relationships, awkward karaoke, and chaos monkeys!
Chaos monkeys!
That's right. Woo woo! This week we are breaking down 2025 romcom You'…
Merry Gentlemen (Crossover Episode with Little Miss Recap)
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Crossover Episode with Little Miss Recap!!
Struggling small town nightclubs, hot townie male dancers, so many costume changes, and the Jingle Belles?
That's right, we ar…
The Holiday
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House swapping, hot drunk Englishman, personal movie trailers, and Mr. Napkinhead!
That's right, we are watching the 2006 rom-com series THE HOLIDAY, with Kate Winslet,…
Our Little Secret
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Childhood friendships, weed gummies, drunken proposals, and difficult in laws. That's right, we are watching the 2024 Christmas Rom-com, Our Little Secret with Lindsay…
Hot Frosty
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Middle school dances, streaking, breaking and entering, a denim sleeveless jumpsuit, and Craig Robinson. That's right! We are watching 2024 Rom-Com Hot Frosty. With …
My Lady Jane
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Strong heroines, evil cousins, history rewrites, and ethians? That's right, we are watching the 2024 rom com series My Lady Jane with Emily Bader and Edward Blumel.
Str…
Nobody Wants This
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Agnostic sex podcasters, Hot Rabbis, highly opinionated families, and the Matzah Ballers! That's right. We are watching the 2024 Rom-com Series. "Nobody Wants This" wi…
Love at First Sight
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Missed flights, broken seatbelts, Shakespeare themed memorials, and statistics? That's right, we are watching 2023 rom com Love at First Sight with Haley Lu Richardson…
I Want You Back
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Drunken Karaoke, middle school productions of Little Shop of Horrors. and the Sadness Sisters. That's right! We're watching 2022 Rom Com "I Want You Back" with Charli…