Heated Rivalry and the state of romance on TV

Heated Rivalry has taken the culture by a storm. What does what we're raptly watching tell us about ourselves and where we are as a culture? This week on Just Asking, we get to the bottom of it. We take the temperature of romance on television in 2026 with our guests Mel Woods, a senior editor at Xtra Magazine, and Cassandra Morann, a romance writer and host of the Rational Romantics podcast.