Friends Keep Secrets<\/a>, then the show \u2014 the first acquisition for #inspo podcaster Jay Shetty\u2019s production company \u2014 is a must-watch in the most derogatory sense of the word. Friends Keep Secrets is figuring out its deal, both in its setup and its execution. Burd and Batalucco have essentially ruined their home by placing cameras everywhere so Friends Keep Secrets can always be capturing whoever is wherever. That means if Gomez wants to lie on the floor during their conversation, she can lie on the floor and we\u2019ll still see her. And the title, Friends Keep Secrets? It\u2019s unclear what that means. There aren\u2019t any big secrets being revealed. The juiciest bit of gossip is when the group goads Gomez into perusing her Instagram DMs for a message from \u2026 who? Well, we have no idea. Someone slid in at one point and sent her a message, but the show won\u2019t tell us who it is. Context clues don\u2019t indicate much either, so it seems as though friends keep secrets after all.<\/p>\nThe attempts at feigned casualness make for an awkward frisson. Gomez is ostensibly too famous to be doing this, something everyone in the room seems to know, yet that doesn\u2019t stop them from behaving insanely. A semi-exhaustive list of stuff that happens in this episode: Gomez and Blanco smooch (both on the lips, repeatedly, and the aforementioned toes), Blanco sits on the floor, Gomez sits on the floor, Gomez stops the conversation until Blanco cracks her back, they all eat pickles, the pickles almost make Burd gag, Blanco asks Gomez about being bipolar, Blanco appears with a basketball for no reason, Blanco and Burd bond over how girls \u201cdribble basketballs\u201d in a weird way, Batalucco admits she couldn\u2019t see anything at Blanco and Gomez\u2019s wedding because she was sitting behind a pole (later Batalucco says she would take a bullet to the head for everyone in that room), Gomez describes a painting she once received from Swift as Blanco\u2019s toes hover in the shot, and then eventually the whole thing ends in the girls arm wrestling and then the boys arm wrestling, to say nothing of when Gomez says she wants four kids because of The Family Stone.<\/p>\n
Ostensibly a test run for future interviews, this episode sets up an interesting dynamic between the two couples, in part because one of these people is both way more famous and way more aware of how they have to come off in a public setting. While Gomez bemoans how complicated it is to balance authenticity with a kind of self-censorship, Burd \u2014 unbothered that it will do something to his reputation \u2014 can simply posit his grand theory on how to make women come. There is clear, obvious intimacy between Burd and Blanco, longtime friends, and while Batalucco can hang, there\u2019s something Brittany Mahomes\u2013ian about her appearance alongside Gomez. These two have clearly spent a fair amount of time together, but they don\u2019t exactly have the kind of intimacy their partners have.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no real metric by which we can yet judge Friends Keep Secrets. Is it informative? Um, kind of, but in a TMI type of way. Is it funny? Again maybe, but not necessarily on purpose. Does Blanco announce he has a question by going \u201cI have a question!\u201d loudly until someone pays attention to him? Well, certainly. That\u2019s how you do an interview (journalist\u2019s POV). Friends Keep Secrets will have more guests down the line, including but not limited to Ed Sheeran, Lizzo, and Paul Rudd. Will everyone have to take their shoes off? We\u2019ll just have to watch and find out.<\/p>\n
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