Sep 21, 2026 · 35 min · 12 segments
We’re breaking down Ali Hazelwood’s STEM‑soaked rom‑com phenomenon *The Love Hypothesis* just days before the movie hits screens. In this episode, we dive into why Olive and Adam’s fake‑dating…
We wanted to give it a read before the movie comes out on the 23rd of September.
What is
PhD candidate Olive Smith fake dates Stanford's most notoriously brutal professor, Dr. Adam Carlson, to convince her best friend that she's moved on.
When a major career opportunity in real chemistry throws their fake relationship into chaos, Olive has to figure out if the physics between them are
purely theoretical or the real thing.
Book tropes, because we must go through them for this pod.
We've got, well, firstly, fake dating.
That's the major one.
It is a third person POV.
Which I don't know this,
but you do.
I
didn't though.
Like it didn't actually bother me.
I did.
So I think that's the trick for my brain.
Yeah.
Then when I switched
to reading it, I had already been so engrossed with the book that it didn't bother me.
It didn't bother you.
So that was interesting.
So I think I might do that for third person moving forward.
We wanted to give it a read before the movie comes out on the 23rd of September.
What is
PhD candidate Olive Smith fake dates Stanford's most notoriously brutal professor, Dr. Adam Carlson, to convince her best friend that she's moved on.
When a major career opportunity in real chemistry throws their fake relationship into chaos, Olive has to figure out if the physics between them are
purely theoretical or the real thing.
Book tropes, because we must go through them for this pod.
We've got, well, firstly, fake dating.
That's the major one.
It is a third person POV.
Which I don't know this,
but you do.
I
didn't though.
Like it didn't actually bother me.
I did.
So I think that's the trick for my brain.
Yeah.
Then when I switched
to reading it, I had already been so engrossed with the book that it didn't bother me.
It didn't bother you.
So that was interesting.
So I think I might do that for third person moving forward.
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